EXPOSED: Wage Theft at One of America’s Largest Employers

"I show up every day but yet they can't pay me."
Kroger workers across the U.S. are suing the company for wage theft. Kroger delayed paychecks, failed to pay overtime, and double charged workers for premiums.
They've let the problems go unresolved for 6 months. And the company could soon control 30% of the grocery industry if their merger with Albertsons is approved.
If you want to learn more about the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger and what it will mean for workers and consumers, check out our video here: • This Mega-Merger Could...
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[@ginaashman8849]

It’s terrible. I was cheated 3 pay periods in a row. Still trying to recover. There is no excuse! They need to prosecuted. It should be illegal!

[@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago]

Wow that's appalling. What was their excuse??? Are you being paid now??

[@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago]

Try to report it.

[@robbieogle8622]

Kroger is evil

[@ryanreedgibson]

It is. Here in Arizona it would be considered "theft of services".

[@cedarhamilton]

Very illegal. You just need a good attorney to prove that it was intentional. It is the theft of thousands of dollars (in most of the places I know of, that is a felony), it is fraud, and it is a breach of contract. I am sure there are plenty of other laws they are breaking as well. These laws must be enforced. If they are not, people will stop being willing to trust enough to work. Trust is what our world is based on. We need trust for work, trade, or any interaction. When trust fails, everything else will fail as well.

[@Josh-99]

When 78% of employees who work at a GROCERY STORE are food insecure, you know you are living in a society in decline.

[@bgregg55]

What we are living in is an aristocracy. And the aristocrats are getting more greedy every day.

[@alohatigers1199]

@@bgregg55 Capitalism

[@Effervescent_Smegma]

That's on those employees. No way I'm ever sticking around in a job that doesn't pay me enough to eat.

[@Josh-99]

@@Effervescent_Smegma It's nice that you have that choice to make. Unfortunately, in America we put money before food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare; if you can't pay, expect to suffer, regardless of your situation. As such, many people need to take whatever job they can get just to have SOME money, because the alternative is for them or their family to suffer and die for lack of basic necessities. In some places, there are few to no alternatives, and chances are that those in desperate situations do not have the resources to just up and move elsewhere. American corporations know this, and so they exploit the most vulnerable and powerless of our citizens.

[@ThisOLmaan]

@@Josh-99 : were powerless cuz we let it happen, people need to start standing up, but that will never happen , cuz to scared of the consequences, so you'll never be heard, What happen in Ukraine, they stood up all together and they where heard despite of folks dying but the stood up something Americans are to scared to do.

[@WanderingExistence]

Just Walmart has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from its employees and gets merely a monetary fine that does not affect their business in any way (sued $224M in 2016 and $102M in 2021)... But if a normal person steals even 100,000th of what Walmart steals then they go to prison and face a much more proportional fine. I say that not necessarily as a justification for shoplifting, but as an acknowledgment that there is a two-tiered justice system for normal people and corporate 'persons'.

[@KokaKolaMusic]

Also shoplifting is fine really

[@WanderingExistence]

​​@@KokaKolaMusicShoplifting from corporate business is moral. Jeff Bezos bought me two cups of Whole Foods soup this week ;)

[@KokaKolaMusic]

​@@WanderingExistence yes. Theft from people is theft. Shoplifting is from corporations

[@SharienGaming]

maybe it is time to grab a walmarts entire inventory and distribute it across poor communities... and maybe that should happen multiple times... until their behaviour improves

[@KokaKolaMusic]

@@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago what kind of apartment needs a CBC? I get those for my job, but I work with vulnerable sector children every day. Why the fuck would randoms need it for a box to live in?

[@devilslayerthesaintofkille1317]

These companies shouldn't be allowed to get away with this, just like politicians.

[@berniesully9173]

Then stop voting Democrats and quit that job and find a new one. People just want something to bitch about

[@Jsfreedom]

Orchestrated robbery

[@KathySemrau-ou1de]

How can Kroger's do this to their employees? Most of their employees are living pay check to pay check. Can you imagine how their employees feel about being underpayed? It feels so bad to work for nothing when you are promised an hourly wage. Yes, it's illegal too.

[@OptimusPrime12190]

*underpaid smh

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

You'd be surprised how much they do to screw over their employees then wonder why turnover is so bad. I got fucking fired for getting COVID-19 in 2021, but I don't have the money to sue them or I would've by now for it. Absolute bullshit company

[@erich6860]

I love how these corporations cannot afford to pay their employees a decent wage or at the very least 40 hours plus healthcare, but they'll come up with billions to buy another company.

[@agent8699]

Off topic and a whole different issue but your point is valid nevertheless.

[@erich6860]

@@agent8699 "whole different issue", not really sure what you mean by that. Wage theft is part of many things corporations do to screw over employees. Then they spend billions buying each other out. Not exactly a different issue.

[@scifirealism5943]

Because it isn't about business affordability, it's about power and control. The truth of our political values lies in the risks we refuse to take, and it is rising worker power, not poverty, that corporations see as the risk they refuse to accept.

[@jimbob9247]

They want a revolving desperate 12 hour part time , disposable army .

[@lizabetx483]

@@agent8699 Not off topic, it is related. If you don't pay the employees their fair wage and benefits that leaves more money for their expansions.

[@cdv130]

Fun fact: wage theft by corporations is WAY larger than any other types of theft.

[@justinm4497]

no, gov theft is worse, but they are in second place.

[@user-gn8eb4ii9p]

Let the newscasters and cops tell you and me that. We can't assume that.

[@tristfall1]

@@justinm4497 what the hell is government theft?

[@nickthompson1812]

@@justinm4497 nobody would complain about gov’t theft (taxes) if our tax money was used for positive purposes instead of $858 billion a year in defense.

[@d.h.dd.h.d.5230]

Our former state's ivy league governor transferred the state pension to Russia just bef the war, FL. The media is not even covering it...Wonder what he'll do if he becomes president? We quit our jobs & moved bk to civilization in the NE.

[@Supreme-sx6tu]

This is criminal, all should be arrested and be forced to work with the employees that's not being paid

[@darreldavis5561]

They are purposely jeopardizing your ability to pay your bills !

[@Zedeezia]

Bingo. Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street are behind most of it. People look at the company not who the main investors are or who is on their boards.

[@Jsfreedom]

Orchestrated

[@rebeccaspratling2865]

​@@Zedeeziaexactly. Klaus Schwab said it himself in his book. When I pointed it out to people they said I was mentally ill lol. They're going to have to learn it the hard way I guess.

[@Zedeezia]

@@rebeccaspratling2865 same here people write it off until its too late. Everyone is played like a fiddle. you should check my "the pyramid", "truth", and "indescribable" playlists. There are a lot of sad truths there but valuable information.

[@SharienGaming]

you know... whats even more shocking to me than the wage theft... is that someone working a full time job has to be on government assistance to survive

[@user-hv6wb5gk8p]

Never forget that you pay more tax so companies like Kroger and Walmart don't have to pay their employees a living wage.

[@JasonSmith-jv7wl]

They also work at a grocery store while also having food insecurity. They can’t afford the products that they are selling. Such bs.

[@danusdragonfly6640]

This is the definition of corporate welfare. Wal-Mart and its owners are the biggest welfare queens in our country! All the while playing like they're relatable to "small town folks".

[@julesniner1766]

Active duty military from E-1 to E-5 (depending on family size) qualify for all types of government assistance. We used WIC & food stamps until my spouse picked up Ssgt. The next year, he was a Commissioned Officer. We lived on help for the first 10 years. Now, both the Commissary and Exchange have to make money. They are a for-profit establishment, thanks to Bush and Rumsfield. We are retired now, and the goods are no longer offered to us at the whole sale price. They purchase them at whole sale, but if they do not make a profit, they can be put on the chopping block.

[@tubesism]

Shouldn’t really be shocking. Outrageous, sure, but this has been going on for decades! Oh but clearly we can’t raise the minimum wage because somehow that would cost the consumer! Meanwhile prices raise anyway and we’re all perfectly fine with our taxes subsidizing walmart’s employees because the big megacorp doesn’t want to pay fair wages!

[@rosstaboss]

When my Kroger manager talked down to me and told me I was lucky to have a job, I walked. They take advantage of people and don’t treat them human at the store I was at

[@jimscott9485]

Finally someone with a brain ! If you do not like working for free and being mistreated get another job . Why would you continue to work there ? Figure up what they owe you have all your documentation in a row and go shopping it is not stealing if its your money . Go through the register so you have documentation what you got and walk out . W hen the cops come and arrest you lawyer up . I would not go hungry in this situation . I would go shopping .

[@MrLoftyDreams]

I find it strange that they are able to run a significant line of credit to procure produce, and finance mergers and acquisitions, but somehow, none of these financial institutions seem interested in knowing whether they can, or do actually pay their bills, thw largest of these being their workforce. This is shocking how a company can effectively force their workers to lend them their wages.

[@stephanjones8424]

Isn't it amazing that their mistakes always seem to benefit themselves? They never accidentally give everyone bonuses.

[@SpielkindFR]

"mistakes"

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Indeed

[@RSKLove]

Sure they do 😂

[@BargerClan]

@@RSKLove I don’t find that funny at all 🤕

[@xoxoxoxoxo7997]

Exactly

[@Agaettis]

Being food insecure while working at a grocery store is insane

[@Chulitatr]

Kroger's food is awful, the meat is irradiated and tastes like leather, produce is rotten OR rots from the inside out AND they price gouge us to the maximum they can.

[@lcam9241]

​@@Chulitatr where are you??? 😒 I'm no huge fan of Kroger but the one in my town is not bad.

[@CRneu]

@@Chulitatr you can make your argument without blatantly lying and making things up.

[@Chulitatr]

@@CRneu My comment is based on my experience at Kroger. And it's true that food is rotting from the inside out from the GMO'S being used excessively. When you buy peaches that spews out foam there's something wrong big time.

[@JohnSmith-xu7ev]

So people are afraid of food?

[@misstekhead]

I worked for Kroger in my teens from 2001 to 2003. Back then it was unionized and it was my first experience ever concerning unions. I was young, healthy, and naive enough that I didn’t understand or make use of things that immensely helped my fellow co-workers and provided for an overall better environment. I’m shocked to find out Kroger is no longer supporting it’s employees. How hard is it to do right by one another? Basic humane ethics shouldn’t be this damn hard.

[@shirinwertime9502]

Despicable actions on the part of Kroger! They must be held accountable and pay back their employees with interest.

[@Steve-cu1ye]

Forgot it the CEO need to go to jail my neighbors have had children pass away from Purdue pharma getting Americans addicted to drugs

[@Hx3ney]

Ever notice when there's a "glitch" it always favors the corporation?

[@rin_reverie]

It probably WAS a glitch, but if said glitch was hurting Kroger’s bottom line it would’ve been fixed within a few days of it being discovered, tops. Since the glitch was hurting their workers, however, they couldn’t care less.

[@vampr20ranger]

Usually that is how America is. It always tends to favor big corporations and lobbyist

[@perrson22]

One of the places i worked at accidentily paid some employees double the transaction was reversed in a few days and if the employees spent that money it was taken out of their next paycheck. We dont get anything even if the glitch favors the employees most of the time

[@MatthewBaran]

Yes because there was a story last year about a guy who was over paid and they wanted it back. I think he's in hiding lol

[@agent8699]

How many people know that there is way to determine exactly, to the penny, how much their paycheck will be. It only requires basic math skills and a little bit of information. SSA, Medicare, federal, state and local tax brackets, union dues if any, special allowances etc, IRA/401K contributions etc, the standard deduction, are all known values. Anyone who doesn't take time to figure this data out is opening themselves up to being ripped off intentionally or not. There are no surprises on your paycheck when both employer and employee do the math on both sides of the issue. It's not hard, but it does take time.

[@johnmckenna1776]

And yet I've never heard of Kroger failing to pay it's CEO or anyone in the management group! I used to work for Ralphs one of Kroger's companies they own, I'm so glad I retired , as I would never want to deal with this form of theft from a huge corporation. Time for the US Congress to investigate these thieves and hold them accountable for their actions!

[@Chulitatr]

Kroger's food is awful, the meat is irradiated and tastes like leather, produce is rotten OR rots from the inside out AND they price gouge us to the maximum they can.

[@johnbash-on-ger]

Psychos punch down, not up.

[@sigridfeliciano5349]

The US Congress is owned by its' corporate donors.

[@anotherrandomtexan25]

You think congress is gunna do anything? They've probably known about it for years already but they already got their cut so they don't give a fuck

[@Mama-Ames]

"Time for Congress to investigate"?!?!? Uh... yeh. Sure. THE GIANTS: Kroger, Amazon, Walmart, Sam's were ALL OPEN & GROWING DURING COVID. CLOSED/ELIMINATED??? Local small business "Mom & Pop"/"Corner Store" Competitors. A L L B Y D E S I G N ! ! ! ! ! Afterall, who are the BIG $$$ DONORS to POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?!?!?🤔 EVIL. PURE EVIL. Please support local small-business when & where you're able. Thank you. God bless you.🙏♥️🇺🇸✌

[@DouglasHall-pb6qo]

Why don't we solve it this way; just don't shop at Kroger until they publicly apologize and admit to this catastrophic blunder.

[@lydiakinnaman3679]

And everyone paid with interest.

[@ramadjones]

Apologies mean nothing. They just need to do better. Pay their employees. And the employees should get backpay with interest. Finally, start treating their employees like they are valued. These are folks who had to work during the pandemic, have to work short staffed, and are underpaid. Give them more. Make people WANT to work there.

[@dsa2591]

As for the insurance payment theft, I urge all Kroger employees to put in a report with your state insurance commissioner. There is a law in my state that says if they raise your premiums, they have to give you 30 days notice, so you can find another policy if you want to. What they are doing is illegal as hell.

[@dorrud]

Im scared of what might come to companies that could grow to be seen as "too big to fail," while also refusing to pay it's employees.

[@MorroWolf]

The workers of America are too big to fail, its time to let them know that they can't force us to work, they can't make money without us, they're offering us a bad deal.

[@screenarts]

They will pay you, just the dollars won't buy anything

[@smallguy2]

@@screenarts company towns v2 electric Boogaloo!

[@kiltedcripple]

Yeah, I think we need to add that as a litmus test for folks running for office. "Do you think any business can be too big to fail," or maybe "if a company makes disastrous business decisions, is it government's job to bail out the employees, the executives or the shareholders?" And those answers need to be disqualifiers. Kind of like "do guns kill people" or "taxes are OK so long they go towards public utility programs, right?" And even "DT lost an honest and fair election, didn't he, and we don't have voter fraud on a mass scale, do we?" You know, some softball questions that if they fuck up, oops, no public office for you kind of things.

[@DellikkilleD]

you quit, its not that complex. stop letting them bully you.

[@mariawesley7583]

When Tonya said, "They don't fix the problem, they make it look like you're the problem", no truer words have been uttered. I worked in the Kroger deli for 5 years and that was management's attitude as they scheduled less and less people, but still expected the same productivity.

[@burningblaze666]

or in some cases, double the productivity. by far the worse company ive ever had the displeasure of being involved with

[@eon6274]

I worked with Kroger when I was about 19. I did night stocking and there was a team of 5 with a supervisor. The supervisor would drink on the job and hide the drinks on the shelves, so we'd constantly find half full twisted lemonades or tiny shots hidden behind things. It didn't bother me until he starting showing incredibly sexist behavior towards the one teenage girl on our team, like nitpicking her personally in front of everyone for minuscule things like a box slightly out of place on her cart. He would stop talking when she came nearby, essentially fostering a culture of us 'guys' are the team and you're not part of it. He refused to let her unload the trucks or pull pallets, despite her having more retail experience than most on the team. He would put her stocking the baking aisle every night. She tried moving teams but he'd follow her around the store and tell her that he was still in charge of her, even yelling at her once when she was stocking frozen - which he wasn't the supervisor of so just a lie to frighten her. I even found out she made $1.50 less than the guys on the team DESPITE having more experience. I tried reporting it to the store manager 3 different times and even reported it online to ethics. Once the investigation started, he was out for everyone trying to figure out who reported him. It was retaliation after retaliation. Before I finally decided to quit, I found out that supervisor was friends with all the other managers and they didn't want to let him go because he had a criminal record from selling cocaine and meth, meaning he'd not be able to easily find another job. That man is still working there to this day. The managers really got each other's backs at the expense of everything else. This isn't even to mention that he'd pressure us to work through our lunch breaks because we couldn't leave until every pallet was done. In the couple years I worked there I only took a handful of lunch breaks. Always hungry while putting food on the shelves. In the years since having left there, I've not stepped foot back into a single Kroger and I never will.

[@deebee533]

Scheduling less and less people and expecting others to do double or triple the productivity is nothing new and not jist kroger. All retail and a lot of businesses do it. I even worked for a major city office setting....they did the same to me and other departments. When 1 person left or retired, They would put off hiring for a year or more. But they had tons of money to create stupid jobs to make the left happy. That did nothing to make the taxpayers lives better in mine or others departments. They still have positions open after not trying to hire anyone at all after 3 years.

[@theoriginalkrabbypatty]

I was pushed out by the union. I got less and less hours until I had non. It was because people could TAKE my hours! Unions are garbage! OBVIOUSLY they’re not helping anyone!

[@jennyholmes693]

Yep we got a raise and my hours were cut not only that but the manager and gm allow things to happen just because a few have been working there over 10yrs and I'm a newer employee bullying, unsanitary conditions and hr will run right back to tell all that was said and done to cover them... and this is on base go figure...

[@jeffreyburris5156]

I prefer shopping at kroger even though their prices are a bit high because the employees are polite, work hard, and the stores are way more clean than WalMart. That said the CEOs at kroger shouldn't receive ANY SALARY until they do right by their employess. How they got the nerve to fork out 24 billion for Albertson's is revolting.

[@coreenaburke5378]

It is your so right but we know how they got the money!

[@darthtaiter]

This just happened on a smaller scale in my town, the mom and pop supermarket got purchased by some out of town grocery concern and driven straight into the ground. It was the largest employer in my tiny little town, now half the people are gone, unemployed and the other half were basically "let go" and hired back at minimum wage. Its heartbreaking.

[@jacobkain1309]

Probably the mom and pop supermarket had healthy stuff

[@TyranusRex721]

I used to work at Kroger for 4 years. They treat their employees like garbage and never support them in any way, shape, or form. Back when the pandemic started, we were forced to work. The hours were longer, but our pay did not go up at all. The only thing we were ever given, as far as I can remember, was a $25 in sore coupon to buy stuff...and that was at the very start of the pandemic. But the people at the top continue to rake in the profits while they choked us at the bottom.

[@darkwing3713]

No one in my family will work for them anymore.

[@JohnSmith-xu7ev]

It wasnt real. And is kroger union like Albertsons? Because you can blame unions for that

[@user-hg1xy2nx4b]

How were you forced into working? How weak are you people. NO PAY, NO WORK.

[@winendesertrose]

Yeah we have Frys here and they are owned by kroger. They cheated their employess a long time ago out of retirement money owed when people were working full time. I rarely go there anymore. My local bashas or safeway is better.

[@JohnSmith-xu7ev]

@@winendesertrose Safeway is owed by Albertsons i believe. And they are merging if the government lets them

[@Flamester43]

The fact that it is never a error against the company shows whats going on.

[@user-gn8eb4ii9p]

If you have problems with them, why is it you not calling the newscasters or calling the cops?

[@silversheep7369]

@@user-gn8eb4ii9p Police and media tend to cater towards their financial supporters, which tend to be the very companies taking advantage of people. You really only get to see this stuff through independent sources. Unfortunately independent sources don't have centuries of wealth behind them, so spreading this video would help making the information more available. Keep in mind, it was the police's duty to capture and return escaped slaves. They don't even have a legal duty to protect you

[@MrRickb75645]

​@@user-gn8eb4ii9p because they're dirty. I was going to work for a welding company in white oak tx. And my friend told me don't do it. He just left there. I said why ? They're hiring and I'm looking for a job. And I'm an x-ray welder. He said man I know the company because EI worked there for years and my uncle owns it. They don't like you , they won't just fire you, they'll beat you up, the have the police arrest you and have you thrown in jail. I've seen it happen. And I was threatened if I said anything . And I'm family. There is a guy in the pen right now . And he is innocent. He didn't do anything but tell them he was tired of their crap , and the lead man whoop his ass and then they called the police in him , and the judge was also paid off , and he is in the pen now. I thought he was full of it. Turned out he was telling the truth. No bs. So I didn't go there. This was his family so we both went to work for another company he was a hard worker and a great guy. He got away from them. By just one day getting off work. And never saying a word. He packed his stuff . Moved out and left never said a word to anybody and never made contact with his family for years. That is how scared of his uncle he was.

[@bobbyfeet2240]

Yep. If there were a clerical mistake that cost them money, they'd be on that and fix it in at most a couple days. But if it's making them money and hurting other people? Eh, we'll get to it eventually.

[@jimbob9247]

Thank you 🎉 and the crowd goes wild

[@roachtoasties]

Some things never change. The first job I had was at a Taco Bell. For a near minimum wage job the company felt they had to not pay us for all our hours, and mess with the timecards to avoid paying overtime.

[@nightwalkerscrypt]

I worked at Fred Meyer owned by Kroger I got lucky and did not get shafted BUT from the moment I was hired I got 40 hr a week for the entire year and half I was with them and suddenly without warning my hours were cut to 23 hours. I was told to expect that to be the new normal. I left and took a 3.50 and hr paycut to a job that gives me 40 hr a week I struggle as much now with food security but I make to much by what the government deems as poverty to get food assistance. Something has got to give!

[@venusvulpis7770]

As a former Kroger employee, I would die before going back to Kroger. I know that's an intense thing to say, but those two years I spent there, I felt trapped, I was being overworked and worn down, the management would make me feel like dirt- I was harassed by someone in a supervisor position and HR did absolutely nothing to help because he was the son of the district director. He followed me into the break room and out of the store harassing me, accusing me of faking my PTSD and the death of my grandmother. Kroger made me think I couldn't get another job and abused the absolute hell out of me and I did not leave until it mentally broke me so severely I could not walk out my door for my shift. My reaction was so severe that I would start sobbing and shaking. Words pale in comparison to what the experience truly was. I know I sound insane for not just leaving. I don't know how to explain how critically they had broken me and my self esteem down. This behavior from Kroger is just... Not surprising to me in the least. They foster a culture of bullying, abuse, and power plays. You're underpaid and overworked. It's nasty.

[@michaelwilliams7292]

no I understand what you mean i worked there for 5 1/2 years and I refused to leave because I thought that this was how work was supposed to be. Yes I would to fight back doing slow downs call my boss's out in front of customers so there was evidence that I did not assault them or that I wasn't crazy, letting my fellow employees know when they are being screwed and what they can and can not do, or even document what they where doin and taking it to the union. Bit as time has gone on I began to see that doing this on my own was getting me nowhere. I could not be everywhere my coworkers just saw me as the angry socialist who meant well but never really did well. I wasn't the union reps I was just a combo clerk (they rarely did anything unless you approached them and even then they would give you bare minimum advise. one even acted like he was the store baron.) and the only reason i existed there was because i was a disabled vet where firing me caused too much hassle better to make me look like the problematic VET with PTSD and anger problems so they look like the saints. It was taxing and only made me feel like i was losing my mind. thanks to my wife's encouragement I got a job at a school and love it. So i understand truly I do.

[@Perfidion]

HR did nothing to help? I am shocked. Shocked I tell you! HR's job is to protect the business from you, not to help you when the business is abusing/exploiting you. Don't go to HR with your workplace issues. HR is not your friend, and in many instances, they will actively work against you.

[@venusvulpis7770]

@@Perfidion This is completely true, unfortunately. The worst part was that I had known this. But I had felt helpless in that situation and I had no idea what else to do or where to go with the problem. I had been pushed into a corner and become desperate. HR can be predatory like that.

[@accuratealloys]

Should have quit on the first day they took advantage of you.

[@venusvulpis7770]

@@accuratealloys How do you expect me to have any form of income? All labor takes advantage of the laborer, most especially under capitalism. Abuse of power comes as no surprise, certainly, and this abuse is in every company, everywhere. Where can I go that I will never be taken advantage of as a laborer?

[@sidehustlevikki1066]

I have never understood how restaurants and grocery stores have a large number of employees who are food insecure. They throw tons of shit away every single day and refuse to give it to their employees to discourage stealing. The world is just sick and cruel.

[@MADGUNSMONSTER]

Agreed

[@nancypetty2288]

If you look back I can't remember the name of the case but there were several cases in the 70s of restaurants and grocery stores that would give old food away or expired food and guess what a greedy lawyer did he decided to get these people together and say that they had got food poisoning and Sue these people so now people are afraid to give this food away

[@enigma9971]

How can you steal what is given to you? Give it away, so they DON'T steal it! What are they thinking?

[@tdenzel101]

​@@nancypetty2288um that lawyer was smarter than you think judging by the story you just told lmfao.

[@m42037]

@@nancypetty2288 Simple way around that if you own big supermarket's is every person in line to take "sell by date" food that maxed is sign a waiver like hospitals make you do so you can't come back and sue them, simple!! If you get sick it's on you not the market's

[@debbiestinnett2987]

This is disgusting. They should be in court. Our elected officials should be fighting this daily until it's resolved. These people don't have massive savings or any savings. It takes every penny to ge squeezed as tight as you can. This is a sin. Call it what it is.

[@ritaroach3491]

Good grief! The store they work at should print them out a check and give them a week's worth of groceries when they don't get their whole check. This is unacceptable.

[@Kalaloo]

It's disgusting that Kroger and other companies do this and yet the idea of "quiet quitting" has been pushed for months to make the common worker look lazy and undeserving.

[@Moosetick2002]

Quiet quitting means completing one's minimum work requirements without going above and beyond or bringing work home after hours. So basically, doing exactly what they pay you do to; nothing more, nothing less.

[@Number6_]

weaponizing laziness and a misplaced work ethic are the tactics of the enslaver.

[@FractalPrism.]

the company wants to get max work for min pay the worker wants max pay for min work neither is evil by default; but the context and reasons for behavior can make it so.

[@misterguy9002]

@FractalPrism Half of what you stated is false. Hard workers want to be compensated. If the giant corporation keeps lazy workers for lazy pay, that’s on them! Please do tell me why it’s fair to over work a hard worker, and pay them as much as the lazy ones???

[@Moosetick2002]

@@misterguy9002 That thinking led to "piecework" becoming popular in the 19th century and many employers finding new ways to take advantage of employees. Its still legal with a lot of caveats. Plus, most large corporations have varible pay where they try to pay their better workers more than new and/or poor performers. Do they get it right 100% of the time, no way. Is that generally their goal, yes.

[@michaelt.wardlespider2496]

Always saddens me to see massive corporations treat their employees with zero respect. A reprehensible situation.

[@snarkdragon]

Can't say I'm ever saddened by it. I am enraged by it. Corporations are 'super predators'. They are soulless, heartless, lacking in any morals or ethics. They must be brought to heel, by force if need be.

[@ethanwilliams1880]

@@snarkdragon Corporations should be eliminated as a business model. Private companies aren't perfect, but at least they don't answer to shareholders who only care about market value. From a tangible assets perspective, corporations are even a drain on society. I doubt we will see this change however, our nations are currently courting even more destructive ideology instead, allowing the problem to compound while they run the world into the ground.

[@user-hg1xy2nx4b]

Do not agree to the terms.

[@user-hg1xy2nx4b]

Bud lite got the message, loud and clear.

[@guppy0536]

you have no idea way employees gets treated

[@robleeg]

I won't ever forget where I came from. Shout Out to All Kroger Employees. I appreciate you all. The store wouldn't run without you. I respect you. I was a produce clerk at Kroger almost 3 years. My pay raise was only $0.10. I praise GOD I was able to obtain a Certified Nursing Assistant License in different States, & my CDL.

[@MrJuvefrank]

Decades ago, Albertson's was cheating its employees out of their overtime. My former employers cheated people out of their pay, but sometimes it takes 7 years to sue and win. If all you get is $4,000 after waiting 7 years, then $4,000 over 7 year's period of time is not very much money. They should make those pinch-penny people pay punitive damages.

[@floepiejane]

If corporations are people, then they should be subject to jail as well. Close them for a defined period appropriate to the crime. Or... Leave them open and give the profits to the workers.

[@theexaustedslime]

Convert them to co-ops.

[@timothyburke6949]

Cigarette and pharmaceutical mass murderers had nobody go to jail. trump lied about covid to protect the revenue of his own businesses and donors and killed thousands, no jail. If people keep taking it and then vote over book burnings and dudes in dresses, they will keep getting screwed. Democrats fight for unions and human rights, just vote blue.

[@julietcunningham852]

You said it, Noel !!!!

[@user-cg6fd4in1d]

That's a great idea.

[@cheesi]

Yknow I wonder if there are any serious proposals for some kind of serious punishment for companies that way, I love the idea and I'd love yo read more about it. Maybe we voukd bring back the death penalty (or keep it, depending where you are) just for them...

[@EvilWeiRamirez]

The people in charge need to go to jail. They are starving people. This is violence against their employees.

[@user-gn8eb4ii9p]

Listen, if that would be the case, cops and newscasters would tell you and me that and they would've fixed the problem.

[@astridgalactic9336]

Late and lack of payment should come with a monetary penalty. One that goes completely to the employee, not some lawyer, union or governmental agency.

[@cinnamonstar808]

Its ON purpose, because bonus and stocks are given to these people along with their salary. they cannot go to jail because its company policy.

[@maxwellcrazycat9204]

As a former flat rate auto mechanic I was the victim of wage theft many times. Un paid or under paid for services. Shops mostly dealerships and manufactures have weaponized the pay system to save money for themselves.

[@waltdill927]

These behemoth "grocers" have become criminal because they control increasingly more stages in the chain of growing, producing, processing, transporting, distributing, and retailing virtually everything an American consumer puts in his/her mouth. There are something like three or four big players who no longer compete with one another simply because so much of what is actually available comes from the same agricultural region, or is made in the same processing facility; only the brand names and labels are different, and gigantic mega-players like Walmart and Kroger, along with their "cooperative" processors, simply dictate or otherwise "soft fix" nearly identical prices for every type and range of product they sell. Meanwhile, the overworked, underpaid citizen has only enough time to "comparison shop" in order to try and save a few pennies here and there; in addition to which the hamburger you put on the table might be sourced from a dozen different cows slaughtered in three or four countries. They are powerful enough to determine the prices gigantic agri-business operations get for just about everything on the table, since they control a warehousing and logistics system by virtue of the sheer scale and magnitude of a worldwide super-commodity that they jointly influence and direct, taking advantage of entire sectors of the economy, even the decisions of foreign governments. The super-commodity in question is something that the average American homemaker never feels the need to think about very often: the act of "eating"; of acquiring necessary "nutrition". Now we are being forced to think. Even in times of a Great Recession a significant majority, rural, closer to the land, managed to eat well enough, if frugally; money was in short supply, but a sense of charity, and domestic common sense, went a long way. We no longer have access "to the farm", to its generous beggar's banquet. We are barely a nation of farmers at all, in the traditional sense. Hobos would throw whatever cans of this-n-that together and call it stew, nowadays one is expected to "stew" over a fifty-cent egg, a three dollar loaf of "enriched" white bread, tuna-fish even the cat won't eat. It has become a matter of big business, CEO's richer than entire kingdoms, exorbitant profits; lately, sadly (for a working stiff) the sick rumor of want, poor nutrition, broken supply chains, that low grumble of a child's empty belly. Something like thirty to forty percent of the nation's food goes to waste, is tossed in the garbage, every single day. Empty shelves are a sham. They also are profitable. Not paying employees on time; not paying decent wages: these are profitable schemes. Hungry employees of a supermarket? Anywhere in the world, acknowledged or not -- that is inhumane. This industry, at any rate, cares little for what you purchase with your dollar; they always have the government and "food stamps" to fall back on as a reliable revenue supplement, regardless. And if "Let them eat cake" is the new battle cry, SNAP benefits keep the hungry from taking up knives, and properly eating the rich. One way or another, they will try and cook your goose.

[@Robert0Pirie]

I've had one paycheck in my life go missing due to a clerical error. I had some savings so I would be mostly okay until it got all sorted out, however, the GM of my location took cash out of his own pocket and gave it to me so I could make ends meet. It was of course with the understanding that I'd repay the next week when the check got there. It was really sweet and he seemed like a good guy, just trying to help and genuinely wanting to do right by us. Well, someone in admin found out he did this and emailed corporate. They apparently chastised him and threatened whatever a manager's version of a write up would be. It's wild that these companies genuinely do not give one flying shit about their employees to the point of discouraging managers from helping us out in any way they can. Wild. Simply wild.

[@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago]

Damn that's absolutely nuts. If it was his own money, and not the company's, they had no right to say anything. It's his money he has the right to do with it what he wants! And that was incredibly decent of him to do that. We need more people like that. I hope he told his superiors that it's actually none of their business what he does with his own money. Also- fucking hell, snitch much??? God people have no character at all. The snitch should get into a bad non-serious car accident for real. Totally unnecessary. You'd think he would respect that kind of empathy. Geez some people have their values all screwed up.

[@Robert0Pirie]

@@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago it was some BS about "fraternization" with subordinates. At no point did I feel that he was exerting control over me because of the good faith loan, but they said that for my protection he shouldn't have done it. Like, well y'all shouldn't have effed up my pay... where's my protection from y'all doing that?

[@GulfCoastGrit]

I have done something similar and was told not to but I was not chastised for it. We had an outstanding HR rep for our division and she explained why I shouldn’t: essentially it can give the appearance of favoritism. If I float one direct report in this one instance, but later there’s a payroll issue with another person and, for whatever reason ,I cannot afford to give them a personal loan then that creates a lot of negative feelings from that team member over something that, according to her, should not be my responsibility. She point blank told me the company has a duty to handle pay issues within 24 hrs and if any of my team had any more issues regarding pay to let her know about it and she would take care of it because “…my office is one floor down from payroll and AP and I have no problem going full Mississippi on people until they fix the problem.”

[@JB-mh5xy]

He's a GM. He didn't need to be paid back.

[@JB-mh5xy]

@@GulfCoastGrit But that 24 hours can be life or death for some people, literally. Someone needs to be in that office until it gets actually fixed, and money hits that person's bank account, or they load that person's paycheck on a bunch of Visa gift cards. I don't care if it took until 1AM. That person should get their money as on-time as possible.

[@ichor732]

I was paid 1.15 less an hour than promised, made to work 40 hour weeks at 16, and they actively prevented my union rep from contacting me. Kroger scorched my libertarian views and landed me here. Breaks my heart to hear it wasn't a rogue element.

[@mementomori7825]

You got screwed but you stopped being a libertarian? that's kinda a win, libertarians are freaking cray cray..

[@mr.sharpie2206]

UFCW wouldn't have done shit for you just like they won't allow these Kroger employees to strike because of this. They allow anti-union contacts that they should fight tooth and nail. They do the same everywhere even food factories owned by General Mills. UFCW is just another branch of Kroger, we caught our union reps double dipping (getting paid by company and union) at General Mills and they were allowed to just resign. Any Union shop not on strike for this isn't really a union shop.

[@morkallearns781]

Sad it had to happen to you before you woke up, but better than nothing…

[@opossummms]

How did your libertarian views get changed by that happening may I ask? I'd be interested to hear your perspective since I'm a leftist libertarian myself and enjoy hearing other points of view. :] (also that really sucks that that happened to you, personally I come from a pretty poor family and I don't think wed even be able to survive with that happening so I can definitely give ya some sympathy there)

[@ichor732]

@@opossummms I subscribed to the ideology that government's role is to interfere in the extremes of the free market (recessions, subsidies, crisis). A minimal role in the economy. When my workers rights were infringed and I was exploited, I became interested in virtues of firm government regulations on business and mass unionization. It would be interesting to hear the perspective of someone on the libertarian left so lmk what your view is.

[@patrickandrew8374]

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[@williamhenry3591]

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[@drjackliam8498]

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[@marialee1565]

Please can you leave the info of your investment advisor here? I’m in dire need for one

[@drjackliam8498]

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[@drjackliam8498]

He often interacts on Telegrams with the user name below

[@bnpixie1990]

The thing about Kroger doing this is that it signals to other businesses that they can get away with it too. Or pull other BS like hiring the fewest people to do the most work.

[@Winner3ty]

I work in retail, talking to the old timers... people who have been working here 20 years, they say that my store (stop and shop.) has always been understaffed, hell the person who told me only made 16 an hour!!!!!!! you get 50 cent raises every year, pathetic.

[@ninja1antelope]

They just put a bid in for billions for another grocery chain. Everyone should know corporations use employee money to go on a shopping spree.

[@venusvulpis7770]

It's very worth noting that during the pandemic, Kroger made a huge thing about giving employees extra pay, but quietly removed it about a month or two later. It was purely public relations. Don't let them trick you into thinking they give half a damn about the bodies that populate their floor and backrooms.

[@KesSharann]

Kroger managers threatened employees sick with covid during 2020 (no vaccines yet) to come to work or be fired. You know that came from higher up. Kroger doesn't care about employees or customers.

[@Surubispirit]

They didn't just remove it, McMullen, the CEO added it to his income... And when Cali mandated a $2 raise, they shut several locations down. Now they're saying my store, a Marketplace, which has had above 300 associates for the last 6 years has too many workers...yet they want the same productivity / results with less manpower...

[@venusvulpis7770]

@@Surubispirit Removing people and expecting more is part of what drove me out and exhausted my body into disability. In the e-commerce department (assembling online orders for pick up), they expect you to take 13 seconds (might be less now) between items. Now, when one item is on aisle 14 and your next item is a sprint over to aisle five while pushing a full heavy cart with four different people's orders and you're doing things like that for 8 hours straight with one 30 min break... Well, it's not hard to see how someone might get overextended. And if you don't nail these times they expect of you, you get chewed out by your superiors, written up, all for impossible tasks. If they want you to be a superhuman for them, they should give superhuman pay.

[@Surubispirit]

@Venus Vulpis my gosh, I can't even imagine pickup. I've had to help them and sometimes it's all you can do to even drive the cart around all of the people...I remember when one of them had to run from the one end to the other...smh

[@jimbob9247]

Yeppers the got bad publicity because Walmart did it first. Hero pay it was called. Legally couldn't call it Hazzard pay for liability I believe.

[@pinaerpowac4130]

If an employer refused or cant pay their employees that company should be liquidated and the funds/assets used to compensate the employees who were wronged with none going to the owner.

[@hmiroy2636]

I haven't shopped at Krogers for almost 9 months and don't plan on ever shopping there again. And I did contact Kroger to let them know how I felt and they don't care sadly because plenty of other people will continue to shop at this mega mess.

[@laurafreeland7800]

Anyone else remember during the “essential worker” days where Kroger gave their workers an extra $2 on the hour then turned around and sent letters out demanding that their workers give that extra money back, under penalty of placing balances on their credit report, then when caught, they tried to brush it off as “an accounting error”? I live in the hometown of Kroger and they were the only store during the “two weeks to flatten the curve” era that outright banned children from their stores for a little while. This impacted me as a single mother. Kroger has a reputation for doing shady things that hurt people and send profits to the top. This story sadly does not surprise me, just deepens my dislike for them.

[@jimbob9247]

They only paid this because Walmart started it ....hero pay it was called... legally binding for them to call it hazard pay I believe.

[@woodyssnake8562]

Wow I didn't know about that, awful

[@misterguy9002]

What happened in my neck of the woods at Smiths grocery was we were deemed “essential” and given a dollar an hour raise (woopty do) for a mere three months. They simply stopped giving us that dollar an hour pay raise without telling us….like we’re just to stupid to notice it was gone. The greed is atrocious!

[@laurafreeland7800]

@@misterguy9002 that’s so ridiculous, ugh

[@thedevilsadvocate5210]

bringing kids into a dangerous infectious area is bad

[@dennistucker1153]

My brother worked for Kroger for many years. He used to tell me about some of the truly evil things that his management would do. He is so glad to be retired now.

[@4Bobay]

Whatever your brother told you, it's true. I worked for K for 30 years and now suffer from a form of PTSD due to K management.

[@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago]

I don't understand how they can live with themselves after intentionally wasting so much perfectly consumable food, or let their employees go hungry. I will be fighting for laws to change this.

[@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago]

@@4Bobay hope you feel better my guy. Sorry you had to deal with that.

[@guppy0536]

You really have no idea things being said or done especially to the female workers 😒

[@coreenaburke5378]

​@@guppy0536I'm so sorry, I've been harassed all my life. You have to learn to put them in their place right away.

[@Kit-Voodoo]

Yup. I've had an employer pull the same shit. Took a law suit and 9 months for all of the employees to get their final three checks. The owner locked the gates, after a month and a half with overtime, of no pay. We were trying to save the company and worked for our assess off to help him. The state collected a boat motorcycle two sports cars and one of the owners homes to make it happen. He was planning to never pay us.

[@thecaretaker5963]

I remember working at the start of the pandemic under Kroger. Although they increased our wages by 2 dollars, they took it away due to “struggle with funding” while announcing a 900m profit in 2020. I’ve seen this happen with a few coworkers in my department, being delayed in paycheck over memorial weekend. It’s still happening!

[@Elevate20]

"If you go to work, you're entitled to an honest paycheck. And if you work and don't get that paycheck, you're rights have been violated" - Latonya Davis | Cashier, Kroger

[@RobertStoll]

Kroger is also gulping up Albertsons. This is shameful. I've noticed how tired most of the employees look at my local Frys even - it's like the spirit is being sucked out of them. No joke I walked past a supervisor lambasting an employee over work schedules on the floor, with the employee in tears and STILL stocking the deli counter. Not even taking them in the back, just shouting at them from across the counter.

[@quatreraberbawinner2628]

Eh jobs not that hard but the management is abusive

[@xXRenaxChanXx]

And I'm sure you said nothing. Because "hurrdurr is not my business".

[@SharienGaming]

how is that aquisition even legal? that is essentially creating a monopoly...

[@silaskuemmerle2505]

@@SharienGaming it’s not, but the way our antitrust laws work, the legislature has to pass a law that declares the merger illegal or the continued existence of the company that functions as a monopoly illegal for enforcement action to take place.

[@screenarts]

@@quatreraberbawinner2628 you never worked in grocery or you'd never said that.

[@evannniesen460]

At the first company I worked at was getting pain $9, the head of the warehouse bought Domino's one time. He called everyone in and said "Thanks for all your hard work, with just this warehouse the company made 1.4 million dollars. Give me a second let me grab the plates". When he left one of the employees said "where's the gold of the pizza". This was a job to deliver interior and some exterior parts for houses like $10,000 windows that open up. On their contract it states that the employee would only lift up to 80lbs, I lifted a 500lbs window with one other person.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

As an EBT customer once, I was told I couldn't use my EBT card and coupons in the same transactions. I was also told to hurry up and pay for my merchandise or move to the back of the line when I dropped my ring of Kroger discount cards. Their deli chicken made my mother sick and their milk went bad overnight ; the mgr.sais the union only allowed the food to be cooled at a certain temperature. No wonder my dad didn't want me to work at the closest place in my old neighbourhood. I'd rather shop at Publix, Aldi's, Lidl, Trader Joe's, or even Walmart than go to Kroger anymore. My mother's friend even had her wallet stolen when she shopped at a Kroger: the cashier saw her follow Ethel inside and trail behind her, but did nothing. Kroger used to be decent once. What happened?😢

[@AlexMint]

Yeah, the union absolutely is not to blame for management's cheapassery, except in the sense that Kroger literally owns the union to prevent a real one from taking its place.

[@shari9721]

The fact that people working in a grocery store suffer from food insecurity when every grocery store throws out boxes and boxes and dumpsters full every day of perfectly good food is absolutely sickening , disgusting and appalling but the fact that the reason they have food insecurity is because of the pathetic amount they get paid OR even worse because the company isnt paying them or isnt paying on time or isnt paying what they are owed or are taking out double payment is absolutely criminal . SMFH

[@ForcesUnseenTV]

I wouldn't say perfectly good, considering most food is processed and chemically toxic.. lol f**k the food, give me my money!!!

[@barronridge5613]

And if you try to eat something you are throwing out because you feel like you are about to faint you get fired for "GRAZING".

[@ingamingpc1634]

Blame the policy that if someone gets sick and they could potentially get sued they have to throw out that food so they legally have no bounds to be sued My boss told me this that if retail stores and other stores started giving out food and someone got potentially sick they could legally be sued That's right because of greed and the risk of being sued and because people have lied in the past about getting sick you can actually look up cases like that stores have decided fuck you I'm not giving out food anymore

[@ForcesUnseenTV]

@@ingamingpc1634 This is so true, we do it @ our store .. and its not kroger lol

[@JohnSmith-xu7ev]

Food insecure? People that are afraid of food? Learn English

[@jonquiljones]

We would go to jail for stealing from someone like that. Why don't they have to follow the same laws?

[@MUZUKUN-YT]

Simple. Lobbying.

[@zahiramalakh6352]

I saw this today: "If your employees steal from you, it's a criminal case. If you steal from your employees , it's a civil case"

[@jonquiljones]

@GuyInCLE 🤞

[@teacfan1080]

It's called the American justice system.

[@Gfysimpletons]

@@teacfan1080 it’s a failure

[@neilclarke2260]

Wage theft is an ongoing issue that needs to be addressed ASAP....it has been going on for a long time....

[@ericknoblauch9195]

Why is it that all retail companies are doing this, and cheating their workers out of the money they deserve for their hard work? I was cheated out of PTO paid time off, and flexible holiday pay which was accrued, and in the bank when I left Macy's. Now, I get a letter from a law firm for a class action lawsuit settlement for the time that The Home Depot did not acknowledge nor pay it's employees for. They say now I am entitled to $122.00 from the settlement from a class action for the time I did work for them. Then there was another settlement a number of years ago from a class action where it was Sears. Sears had to pay me $88.00. Back in the 1990's Macy's did not pay the accrued vacation time to the employees who worked at the Broadway Stores chain they bought out. Another class action had to be paid to us. Some retailers will try and quiet fire you by cutting hours so all of your money earned goes to cover your payroll taxes, and benefit cost. They then leave you with no money to pay your bills, pay rent, or buy food. It is a dirty way they try to force you out. Withholding or delaying a paycheck is another way they get people out. I've been in this field long enough to see the dirty games these companies pull on you. You have to be alert, and have one step ahead of them, and know when it is time to move on.

[@MyReviews_karkan]

It's crazy how this whole powerful country is run by these corporations. No one messes with them at all. They have all politicians in their pockets.

[@justinm4497]

there are enough people to do it, but we have become so dependent on technology and government handouts, that we can no longer afford to fund ourselves like they could in the older days, people could save up and then protest for a while. now the money gets more and more worthless. not to mention most of us no longer grow our own food, everything has become corporatized. and Jefferson did warn us it would happen if we accepted fiat currency.

[@alohatigers1199]

@@justinm4497 Welcome to capitalism

[@justinallen2408]

​@justinm4497 it's really the government handouts to corporations and the subsidies that occur that inflate the currency, gold isn't a good standard to use anymore. You can't save up because the money is worthless and is spent every month on the necessities, rent is up, food is up, electricity is up, gas is up, water is becoming more scarce. Yet corporations are allowed to pump water to sell in bottle form increasing the scarcity.

[@josephforest7605]

Koch ,of Koch Industries he was the best example of screwing people over , while having politicians in his pocket.

[@noreenalbright2245]

Thank the Bushes for that nonsense.

[@johnwilson1851]

I've worked for Kroger for 7 year. I can vouch for this bullshit. They're were many times I got shortchanged

[@quatreraberbawinner2628]

I didn't get my first weeks paycheck until a year and a half into the job, Kroger payroll is at best incompetent, at worst criminal

[@SharienGaming]

@@quatreraberbawinner2628 oh criminal for sure - something this widespread and systemic that is purely in favour of the company doesnt happen by accident if it were just their software being glitchy as hell... you would see plenty of overpays as well... but its consistently stealing from workers... you can bet that is absolutely intentional

[@tonyv3758]

Why did you stay for 7 years then? I'd quit after the first time they messed up

[@FS-qk5uq]

​@@tonyv3758 some people don't have a lot of options🙄

[@traybern]

THERE were. NOT they’re….DUMBBELL!!!!

[@righteousbyfaithinChrist]

Kroger, Alberstons, Smiths, etc. It is horrendous that the corporate greed of stockholders, endangers the lives of its workforce. Kroger should not be allowed to violate the rights of its employees. No way that such indifference should be encouraged to spread. This conglomerate, is systematically killing off the sense of community, that makes shopping at our local stores so inviting. The food is tasteless...

[@yvetteschneider5172]

That is true about Kroger employees getting cheated out of their wages, my son being one of them needing to tell the payroll personnel several times over the months that his time clock hours were not correct for the week and when would that be corrected on his paychecks; that was 2 years ago and he quit working there because it happened so often. A few months ago, I was at the service desk and an employee mentioned her time was incorrect again and wanted to talk to a supervisor about how to get it corrected. I believe that's the real reason their employees quit so often.

[@BoogerDad]

we really gotta start jailing these criminals as if they just shoplifted from their own stores. If there is no legitimate way to make money, then the easier, less legitimate ways become more realistic and practical. When companies act like this, it creates an unnecessary burden on the community. Crime increases when people are kept poor. If the company you work for, cant afford to pay for you work, then they can't afford to stay in business. plain and simple

[@antondovydaitis2261]

But shoplifting reduces corporate profits while wage theft increases corporate profits. Which is going to be the priority of law enforcement?

[@draneym2003]

But but but...jobs! -Chamber of Commerce

[@darthopper7874]

Individuals hide behind corporations. No person is ever held accountable.

[@sylviewalker7560]

Amen. All accountants know this is death sentence...not being able to make 'payroll'. Period.

[@Franklin-fb9xp]

Who does Kroger think they are treating workers like this? Pisses me off...

[@BillyraycyrusIII]

In the same way banks charge overdraft fees there should be penalties and fees paid to the employee for payroll errors.

[@coleengoodell7523]

This is a great idea and should be done.

[@citygirljody]

More corporate greed. My former employer VCA Animal Hospitals was the same way. They buy existing pet hospitals with $1M in revenue and 4 to 6 veterinarians, staff of 15-25 people and in just a few years your wage is stagnant "we can't afford your 25 cent per hr raise and keep the lights and heat on, too") older staff are bullied, many on baseless, trumped up charges, and forced to leave, there are measly pet benefits (they should be near free, not at 15% off), prices increase twice yearly, hours go down, they take on more "acquisitions", now pet hospitals are running on a staff of 1 doctor and 2 support staff. But Mr Art Antin lives on Marina del Ray, CA and also has a $9 million Santa Monica home. He retired in 2021 a very wealthy man with his employees still living paycheck to paycheck on $12 an hour.

[@jacobtrujillo9469]

Shocking. Shop all the time at Kroger. Was not aware of any of this. Thanks for posting. My boycott of Kroger starts now.

[@deadbeatboy]

Corporate Greed is unending. We MUST stop this, they won't stop on their own

[@ralph95]

All about stock holders

[@wl6279]

Corporate greed at its worst

[@wl6279]

And to think I’m always instacarting from them

[@ashm4760]

Ok Einstein, lead the way!

[@Chulitatr]

Kroger's food is awful, the meat is irradiated and tastes like leather, produce is rotten OR rots from the inside out AND they price gouge us to the maximum they can.

[@leeks1408]

I work at Pavilions, which is a part of Albertsons. I do not wanna see my coworkers working for & getting robbed by Kroger and forcing any of them out onto the street because of their selfish asses. The FTC needs to do their damn job & stop this merge from happening.

[@loserorangeorvoremonster8047]

they might be bought n paid for....

[@17388]

n my assistant manager tryna tell us that kroger buying us out is gonna be good since we'll get new equipment and better pay😭😭 lord save us

[@wintersprite]

I work at Shaw’s, also part of Albertson’s. 👋

[@jimbob9247]

I couldn't agree more.I was at Albertsons for 21 years. It closed and I have been at Kroger for 13.

[@crismcdonough2804]

In PA in 1982, Kroger was building a store in my area. They never opened because they realized that Pennsylvania was union friendly..they packed up and never came back. Obviously, their wage theft shenanigans (which a union could fight) has been going on for decades.

[@MrStumpson]

Its so sad she's counting down to retirement with a company that I don't expect to honor her retirement. Glad to hear she was able to.

[@JB-mh5xy]

"If it aint for us little people, Kroger can't make no money." Yep. And the unfortunate part of that is that corporations have brainwashed the working class to believe that's how it should be, and you're entitled if you ask for more. Think of the rich people!

[@alyssamaze5812]

I found out Kroger's unethical employer practices when I worked a few days at one of their warehouses. They will endanger you to get things done and under-train you, while you don't have health insurance and proper pay for 90 days. The job posting was misrepresenting and misleading to say the least. For a retailer that has union representation, their employees are NOT getting the protection, wages, and safety they deserve. This makes me sick to my stomach and frankly I've only shopped there out of convenience, but now I may stop shopping there altogether. Shame on you, Kroger- you are starving people while lying about your values as a company.

[@erich6860]

The grocer union at Kroger is a broken shell of a union. New hires are making minimum wage, and the new hires will never, ever, make the same wages as their current old contract counterparts. Oh sure years down the road they might with inflation, but it will have half the value. The union literally gave up the future of young adults coming into it, to pay for the older workers. People wonder why I feel bad for today's youth.

[@lasharael]

​@@erich6860 I came here to say literally the same thing. UFCW works for Kroger, not Kroger employees.

[@brooksp1191]

Most large Unions are worse then the companies. The union is there just to leech off both the employers and employees.

[@rebeccamartin2399]

That union is just a shell. Empty

[@robert48044]

I want to say one of there warehouses had a semi trailer fall on someone near me.

[@thunderpants645]

My mother retired from Kroger. Throughout the the late 70's and 80's , up through thee mid 90's she experienced many instances where management was rewarded for increased productivity and the actual people who increased the productivity were threatened with layoffs and wage cuts. She worked in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. She was oftened asked to file fraudulent statements. She never did. She told one manager that if he wanted to file a false statement, he could do so,but, she would not lie for the company.

[@concernedcitizen4031]

After i missed 1 check i would go elsewhere and contact any and every agency.

[@doubtingtom92]

I feel like a corporation should go through an audit for this kind of manipulative behavior before they're legally allowed to do any mergers or company buyouts. If you want to grow your company by gobbling up small, locally run, family oriented business, you better have your shit together.

[@usf1250]

They own the politicians. No way they would allow that audit to happen

[@christins.1481]

The problem is these type is corporations take advantage of their workers who just don't know the law and/or believe they can't get a lawyer, when you can and don't have to pay your lawyer upfront. Me and my husband has a lawyer and we only paid him after we won the settlement. My job tried screwing me and my husband over as we both worked for the same company. "Lawyer! Oh wonderful lawyer. Our job told us no." That guy rolled up his sleeves and a few days later work was calling us apologizing to us. Even I've missed a couple checks and told work that's fine. They could either give me a direct deposit on the card they gave me or give me cash out of the office after the manager on duty said I'll get paid next week. "Nope!" Lodged an official complaint and had money a few hours later. One time they even took money out of the office for me on an estimation.

[@crockpot5194]

It's a possibility of A Conflict Of Interest going on

[@TheCommanderFluffy]

I worked at Kroger's Dillons store when I was 17 and was short nearly $700 over the course of 3 years and didn't fully understand that they were stealing from me until years later. I got fired because I "stole" 2 bags of expired Kettle chips that were at the trash compactor.

[@cosmicllama6910]

"Nobody gets anything for free! No free rides! Food doesn't just grow on trees!" Actually, food does grow on trees, and when we lived in harmony with nature, she DID provide everything, for free. Imagine the Native Americans nickel and diming each other to death over their teepees. I'm sure they're laughing at us being destroyed by our own greed from the other side.

[@robertsteinbach7325]

They stole $700 from you and had to fire you before you found out. That's what they really did to you.

[@walexander8378]

Why did you want expired potato chips?

[@silvertain1978]

​@@walexander8378 they would have been totally fine to eat and you wouldn't even know it was "out of date" . I eat out of date food constantly like weeks out I'm never sick

[@Demopans5990]

I hear similar stories from Dunkin employees that take home all the doughnuts that were bound for the trash anyways

[@christinaburney5935]

I used to work for Smith's before Kroger bought it. This was way back in the day. If you could work your way into a cashier's position you had it made if you were a good employee. They had cashier's working that got Paid like $15 an hour when minimum wage was still $5 an hour. Then they started looking at employees as an unfortunate expense. People everywhere started talking about lowering labor costs. We were all well trained and provided excellent customer service too. We used to do everything for the customer at the checkout. All they had to do was walk up with their basket and we did the rest no matter how big your order was. When you stop paying well all that motivation to do an excellent job goes away.

[@moodtwenty47]

Doctor offices need to be investigated too because some offices don’t allow you to see the hours you worked. And state the same thing it’s a firewall issues 😒😒😒

[@moodtwenty47]

@@MrJuvefrank same here I started writing them down and taking pictures of the clock just in case

[@brianbatie6650]

I started as a cashier at Fry's Electronics in San Diego back in 1997. They promised that if we passed the A+ certification, we could move to Computer tech services, which came with a raise. A month into the job, I took and passed the test, moved over to Computer repair and tech services, and worked there for more than 4 months, receiving several customer satisfaction awards, but I never got the raise. Being a Black man in San Diego back then, I knew that raising the issue would only get me fired, which doesn't look good on a resume. I couldn't afford to consult a lawyer, so I beat them to the punch, quitting instead of having them tarnish my work record. As the franchise slowly sank into bankruptcy and then closed, I took some small degree of solace that I prospered in spite of them, and outlived them, but they were just one of several places I've worked where I encountered missing pay issues.

[@FractalPrism.]

you dont need to say you were fired on your Resume. you simply say you left the company for personal reasons or career growth or some other thing; but that's ONLY if you feel like answering that question during an interview. generally you dont answer why you left at all beyond something intentionally vague like "it was time to move on" do not admit anything that makes you look bad. if you quit, then you lose out on Unemployment, make them fire you so they are forced to pay.

[@brianbatie6650]

@@FractalPrism. You''re correct, but many people in my other line of work (computer hardware and network security) do check such things. Better to not hide such info, if there''s a chance they''ll find out anyway. ""I quit"" is still better than ""He was fired (for whatever reason they would certainly invent) Besides, why wait to be fired from a job that didn''t pay as promised? Every extra shift is that much more money lost/stolen/underpaid. AT any rate, I have been far better off and much happier in my first line of work as a music producer/performer.

[@rochelletaylor4558]

​@@brianbatie6650 the new law came cout that a job can longee disclose that and can be sued for assination of character unless you were violent or theft.

[@brianbatie6650]

@@rochelletaylor4558 Got it, but one needs a lawyer, they didn't pay enough for the initial consultation fee, and frankly being Black in San Diego back then wasn't the best position to be a litigant. Besides, I didn't like being in a city that closed public transport after 6 pm on Saturdays, because they didn't want working class people able to travel through "their" neoghborhoods at night on weekends. It was like Mussolini's summer retreat.

[@dsa2591]

We have the same situation here with our city bus drivers. Half the routes are campus routes through the University, and the University pays for those routes plus some toward the city routes. In the summer, they cut the campus routes and some of the city routes and some other routes are put on half-time, so if they used to come every 30 minutes, then they come once an hour. They can't keep drivers because of this, and because drivers sign up, get free CDL training, then quit and go work for the school system which pays more and has more benefits.

[@ginger6582]

Absolutely deplorable. Feel so bad for these people. You can't help but wonder if the government is involved in this.

[@christip20]

They’re probably giving them “grants” for starving them. This administration can’t ever be trusted again to protect Americans, they’ve “intentionally” dropped the ball every time they’ve had it & every time…someone pays with their lives. Of Course they’re involved in one way or another, but ultimately it’s MONEY….

[@deenanthekemoni5567]

This comment will get hidden by a DISGUSTINGLY CORRUPTED YT, but *YES* , they are involved 100%, they MADE it happen. Watch this comment vanish now

[@bonniejosavland3227]

You’re not very bright 😂😢

[@ginger6582]

@@bonniejosavland3227 Really. And you are? You are laughable.

[@roxycauldwell544]

The government is negligent. That's how they're involved. Corporations pay them a crap ton of money so they let them do whatever they want and turn a blind eye.

[@SlaughterDog]

Kroger gets away with it because they don’t pay employees enough to fight for their legal rights.

[@user-np9cv6yi6d]

46 year employee retiring in 2 weeks. Until MyTime pay system was implemented there was almost never a problem with payroll for any reason. Multiple issues for me just since the first of this year. And for the most part, Kroger refuses to address issues. And for sure no one in management gives a damn.

[@sandyallen1523]

There needs to be a website that tells us about companies who don't treat their employees right so the customers can do a quiet protest by not shopping there. Shame on Kroger!!! #Boycott Kroger

[@gingermcgarvey7773]

😂They all do it. On purpose or accidentally. No company is without complaints. Have fun growing your own food. Funny, the people who hate capitalism won't give it up.🤷‍♀️

[@billmalone5050]

Kroger, in this economy, should have NEVER even tried to by Albertson's in the first place and it needs to start paying their employees accurately and on time IMMEDIATELY. Whoever handles Kroger's payroll and accounting matters needs to be severely reprimanded and held accountable for these payroll foul ups. It would not surprise me if someone or some people involved with Kroger's payroll are not just flat out stealing / embezzling from their store employees.

[@christip20]

That’s something we all need to stand behind the employees, WE HAVE CHOICES NOW! I’ve been driving past a Food Lion to go to a Kroger, I won’t go back to Kroger until this lawsuit is settled for the employees…

[@JohnSmith-xu7ev]

Yup boycott union workers grocery stores

[@lesliemoore1656]

I worked at Winn Dixie,1998-2005. Management was caught playing with time clocks. I knew I had worked over 40 hrs one week and had logged it because it happened before. My check said 37 hrs. Next thing there was a class action suit. Took 2 years for settlement, got less than $200. One reason Aldi bought WD was lawsuits concerning wage disputes, discrimination, sexual harrassment(underage girls store I worked at), verbal abuse, from employees past and present. Employees, the face of the brand, are not appreciated. That is why Publix is growing so fast. Worked for them 18 years and always treated well and respectfully.

[@MyPisceanNature]

When I worked at Kroger, I worked night shift, so when time went in, we might still be working. I worked an extra hour after. I'd done it before, and the time was adjusted. This time, it wasn't. And after that, I refused to stay late when time went in, and I NEVER worked for anyone off the clock ever again.

[@randombytes3998]

I worked for the local Kroger store (Payless) about 2 years ago, graveyard, stocking shelves. It was corporate *policy to not give us the same schedule 2 weeks in a row, even though that would have been easier for the managers to schedule, and not to give us 2 consecutive days off. Policy. They're a terrible company. They not only shouldn't be allowed to merge. They should be broken up.

[@wintersprite]

That’s crazy. I work at Shaw’s which is part of Albertson’s. I often haver similar weekly shifts since I’m a bookkeeper and sometimes it can be the same two or more weeks in a row. I have coworkers who also have set schedules (mostly the older ones). I sometimes have two days in a row off and even occasionally a three-day weekend since Saturday and Sunday would be under two different pay weeks.

[@randombytes3998]

@@wintersprite The strategy is to keep you off balance and dependent. Kroger's a garbage company. I hope for your sake the merger is blocked, but history shows that it won't be.

[@patriciaariley5810]

Big corporations do not care about their empoyees.

[@vazquezmr1153]

Is been happening for a long time is hard to win a lawsuit against corporate.

[@LightningMcCream]

They're not "Struggling to pay workers" this is a numbers game. Sure these employees stand up and demand their paycheck. But there are much more that don't say a word. Companies like this are stealing the money. Not "Struggling to make payments" They count on X number of employees not asserting themselves, and therefore they get to keep that sum of money that goes unclaimed by the meeker employees, or the employees who didn't notice (ie people with mental disabilities). And then the workers who do demand their paychecks are literally getting the bare minimum, their paychecks. Nothing more. There is 0 Deterrent to prevent these companies from attempting to steal and when they get caught "Oopsie honest mistake winky face". A deterrent NEEDS to be implimented

[@lasharael]

The "glitch" is also conveniently circumventing their labor contracts. "Employees pay $20 for health insurance? Looks like $40 here in the software. Software, amirite? Its always correct because it's on a computer with the 1s and the 0s. Whatcha gonna do? Not my fault it's charging you more than we agreed. I can't argue with the software! That'd be crazy!"

[@agent8699]

Unpaid wages are merely a deferred liability. The longer they can defer it, the better it looks on the bottom line.

[@brendaalbaugh8927]

I just submitted a complaint to Kroger. When they refuse to answer questions it says a great deal about what they think about their employees also their customers

[@roselee4445]

Kroger has been going down a long time. They let all the handicapped go. Started self checkout so more laid off/fired. I refuse to self check out. But usually only one register open

[@erlindamartin4305]

This is the meanest of deeds. To steal is a crime; to steal from people who do not get adequate pay and whose jobs are menial and therefore more exhausting and more physically demanding shows a lack of compassion. The government should consider this a crime punishable not only by big fines but by imprisonment of the officers and owners of such businesses.

[@joetheastrosfan3460]

This is disgusting. Whenever I go to Kroger, the employees normally don’t have a smile on their face. It makes sense now

[@laynepaige5397]

Stop shopping there

[@joetheastrosfan3460]

@@laynepaige5397 I’m definitely thinking about it after seeing this. This is just awful

[@RONPEE-STINGER]

Nah they just hate seeing you

[@jbred6049]

I've noticed the same thing. The new hires are generally friendly and helpful. After a couple months they're scowling at you, and saying to themselves how dare you bother me by shopping here. It's a management problem, and a serious one at that. More often than not there are no where near enough employees to handle the workload. Chew em up, and spit em out. Years ago, a job at Kroger was considered a pretty decent gig. Not anymore.

[@Moosetick2002]

@@laynepaige5397 Where I live, grocery options are Kroger or Wal-Mart. Neither are very friendly corporations to their employees.

[@jimmiegurtowsky3045]

They never paid my son. He worked for them for four weeks. Know he passed away. My wife has called the corporate office . And the store manager so many times to try and get what he worked for. Today it's been one year since he passed we have been trying for his three daughters that he left

[@Ketovore-Karen]

Take that to your LOCAL NEWS STATIONS ! That’s ridiculous

[@wownewstome6123]

Send the corporate office and others certified letters with return-signature required via the US postal service. That way you have evidence of your communications. Keep copies of everything.

[@wownewstome6123]

Ask around. You may find an attorney to help you for free. I've never gone that route, but I think some sort of local non-profits might help you locate help.

[@deenanthekemoni5567]

Agree with Keto Karen. Take to News/Media outlet. Get attention you deserve. Gofundme maybe. But reveal the scum for what they truly are. Evil

[@robertpickett2569]

The issues of this type is becoming a common mainstay in the modern day... All across the country is the feeling an unstable presence of a major colapes in finacial security and well being of our society. In terms of anything you have for income and can pay for, there are many varibles that cause hardships, but treating anybody like this is utterly dispicable and out right ignerant with total disrespect....Sadly this is happening more often, the testing of what can be gotten away with....I am telling you an American revolt of hellish purportions is building. The ominous decay in the magnitude of issues all across this nation, you have to wonder how much longer can we be expected to sustain this ignerance....

[@AlexMint]

When Kroger positions itself as a union grocer, it's very transparent that Kroger owns the union, and is using that position to prevent a more useful one from taking its place. I don't know anybody working for Kroger who isn't struggling.