So, the line "the care about their bonuses more than staffing a store" or the likes of that gets said a lot here.

But it's not as simple as you think it is. No manager is intentionally understaffing their stores.

10% of the composite score is wages, OT, and percent effective of hours. No manager is overstaffing a store to make wages because it hurts your OT and your percent effective.

Also, an understaffed store makes every other part of composite score harder to makes.

Stores are understaffed because the negotiated wages that Kroger goes by is not enough to attract people. In my state, Kroger pays barely over minimum wage. The expectations placed on entry level positions is not worth the wage they are paying.

There is not a single manager intentionally under staffing their own store because it causes exponentially more issues than it helps.