/ck/ - Food & Cooking

what state?

What is kroger? I assume that's a grocery store? I'm american, so I assume you're canadian or something.

>>5557759

Georgia, near Canton

>>5557760
It's one of the largest supermarket chains in the united states.

>>5557760
Kroger owns a bunch of chains
QFC, Smith's, King Soopers

>>5557754
How does the lane thing work? I always see the monitors above the checkout lane and the manager running around like a chicken with his head cut off. What do the numbers of lanes/action mean?

>>5557754
Do you unload trucks with fork lifts or hand trucks? The plebs at walmart generally aren't allowed to use the forklift and try to offload milk pallets with hand trucks. Keks were had.

>>5557814
I work at Walmart and there aren't even any "hand trucks" in the store. We use pallet jacks to unload and move pallets around.

>>5557814
at the walmart i used to work at that would have been your job

>>5557813
At our store its just to notify a manager that something is wrong. Clerks are timed by speed and efficiency, and managers get bonuses for their employees efficiency. Hence the running around like a chicken.

>>5557814
We use something like the picture related, it's very fast and unloads pallets up to 1000 pounds. We have straddle jack for moving pallets up on to racks. They are banned from the sales floor, so we can only use regular hand jacks.

>>5557754
what company makes the sauces from the chinese kitchen? The teriyaki and sesame sauces are delicious

>>5557840
It's made by Kroger and comes in a generic plain box. That goes for most of the deli food as well.

>>5557754
why the fuck would you asshole sell a portioned side of salmon but not remove the scales?

do you know how much more difficult it is to scale a fish when its been portioned already?

>>5558215

Do you guys do subs like Publix? If so, are they nearly as good and reasonably priced?

>>5557754
>Night stock for 6 years
That's a long time.

>>5557754
what is your favorite Queen song?

>>5558225
That shit comes off the truck from distribution already packaged most of the time. Also, its not fresh, its frozen and thawed.

>>5558238
No, i wouldn't even call them subs ready, just generic sandwiches. We use the same meats but the bread is always old. They bake the bread early in the morning and its used all day. Publix has fresher ingredients and its about the same price.
>>5558257
After some promotions the pay is good, and the insurance is some of the cheapest you can get. Blue cross for 2 dollars a week.

>>5558270
Bohemian Rhapsody

Front End Supervisor here. I wish every single customer would choke to death on a bag of dicks.

>>5557754
At Winn-Dixie, cold items carried around shop for hours and then not purchased are still returned to shelves, including ice cream treats and frozen meats relying on being frozen.

>>5557779

I use to be one in newton county.

Just give us the gory details about shitty practices, nobody gives a fuck about anything else in these threads.

>>5558579
I don't envy you at all, night crew is much better plus a slight bump in pay. Everything other than inventory, holidays or backstock weekend.

>>5558635
You'd have to be more specific, we have alot of shitty practices. Managers raping the shit out of part timers to get bonuses when they don't even know how the store works. Being fired on the spot for going next door to a subway for lunch, which is literally 15 feet away from the front doors. A few months ago a new guy was fired for dropping a whole pallet of Del Monte cans. Off a rack about 20 feet up that contained hundreds of cans. Nearly killed someone in the process. He was fired for damaging products rather than nearly killing someone.

>>5557814
>The plebs at walmart generally aren't allowed to use the forklift and try to offload milk pallets with hand trucks. Keks were had.

European working in logistics here.. What's so funny about unloading pallets with a hand truck? Lots of trucks are loaded and unloaded with them. If they've got pic related or a loading dock you can just drive into it's no problem, right? What am I missing?

>>5558586
>go to winn dixie for the first time ever
>buy standard groceries
>make broccoli for that night
>fucking WORMS in the broccoli
>never go to winn dixie again and instead laugh at all the poor black people who go there instead of based Publix
winn dixie deserves to get raped in a home invasion. all hail based publix.

>>5558744
They are usually unloaded with heavy duty electric ones. When ours broke down one time we had to use a regulat jack. It took 3 people to pull 18 pallets off because they were so fucking heavy.

>>5558760
>They are usually unloaded with heavy duty electric ones

Ah.. I would actually consider that a 'hand cart' as well, in the context of you saying forklifts as the alternative.. Most of our pallet trucks are electric. We rarely use forklifts for loading trucks though.. We mostly use those for stacking stuff away in the warehouse.

>>5557754
>Every single piece of frozen food in the store has been thawed completely at least 3 times.

I'm not surprised, consumer protection and government inspection in the U.S. is falling by the wayside
as government at all levels claims this and that program is just "too expensive" to maintain, (inevitably,
programs that benefits the citizenry...) meanwhile the Global Corporate Nobility roll in money crookedly
acquired thru tax payer funded corporate welfare.

But as bad as consumer protection in the U.S. may have gotten, imagine what it's like over seas?

"Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) – “With such a huge territory and population in China, it's hard to avoid
all food safety threats and to put all unscrupulous businessmen under scrutiny,” said Su Zhi, a senior
official with China’s Health Ministry, after the authorities seized 76 tonnes of baby formula tainted with
melamine. Speaking at a food safety forum, he also called for greater vigilance against unsafe food
practices.

The problem was brought out into the open in September 2008 when the authorities revealed that
melamine had been added to baby formula. This chemical substance is used in making plastic and
is highly toxic for humans in whom it can cause kidney problems. Altogether, six children died and
more than 300,000 got sick from consuming the tainted powder milk.

Eventually, 22 producers were involved, including China’s largest and best known dairy company.
Chinese dairy products were eventually banned in many countries."

>>5558787
It's not so much the consumer protection but the fact all the food gets stocked at night unsupervised by management. 2 people get stuck in frozen with 6 pallets of food. After a while you don't give a shit. The best part is when you're doing inventory and you pull out a cart on the back of the freezer thats been there untouched for 2 years. As long as the expiration is in date we'll stock that shit right on the shelf. Frozen section food, deli, and meat department are also shipped on the same pallets. They're just set aside until they can be stacked on a new pallet and put back in the freezer. That frozen shrimp you just bought from us? Yep, fuckers been sitting at room temperature for 2 hours and refrozen. All that "fresh" fish in the seafood section? Yep, it's all been frozen and rethawed at least twice.

>>5558797
>It's not so much the consumer protection but the fact all the food gets stocked at night unsupervised by management.

Because there is no authority on the scene capable of imposing financial penalties to insure that doesn't happen; i.e. no consumer protection.

Obviously private and for-profit entities like grocery stores cannot be trusted to insure consumer safety on their own, as Capitalism's most holy scripture
is "profit above all" and as grocery stores have among the smallest profit margins of any business, corners will be cut wherever possible.

It's not grocery stores and other food related industries, I've worked 20+ years as a machinist and have _never_ seen an OSHA inspector walk through the shop...

ok not being a smart ass but where are you located. I thought Kroger was gone, like A&P. Winn Dixie or IGA just different, have not seen one in long time.

>>5558822
Canton Georgia. They are far from gone, it's one of the biggest chains in the entire country. Wherever theirs a publix theres a kroger across the street. Literally every exit off the interstate has them.

>>5558797
This sounds like something specific to your store / lazy crew.

>>5558822
SE Michigan here, there are plenty of Krogers around here. One of the last remaining supermarket chains, seemingly.

>>5557754
Even after reading through this thread I am surprised because the Krogers by me have WAY better produce than the Publixes (live in SE). I assume you shop at Kroger, so what do you look for when shopping there or anywhere.

>>5560286
It's pretty much standard practice in alot of grocery stores. When i get shipped off to other stores to train managers and their night crew i've seen even worse shit.

>>5560463
I do my shopping there because i have my employee discount and i get double fuel points. I just stay away from shit i know the crew fucked up.

>>5560429
I live in a Latin American country and go to Saginaw, MI every 2 years and every single time I am amazed to find our national products like Manjar or Condensed Milk at Kroger.

A medium sized american supermarket carrying Chilean baking products.
In a very poor part of Michigan.

It truly is wonderful to eat those foods that remind us of our home, despite being abroad.

Perishable Manager at a regional chain. I fucking wish I coule get an actual crew. I have to day stock with both dairy and frozen with 7-800 piece trucks and just one helper who is whatever the grocery side decides to throw my way. Ontop of that I am a defacto store assistant in duties.

>>5560553
Saginaw is small and poor but I think they also have a lot of immigrants who have restaurants there. Bizarre that a town of its size has so much Indian and SE asian cuisine as well as Mexican grocers and middle eastern delis.

>>5557754
Is it ever ok to wear a cravat?

I'm not saying I doubt you OP, but I go to Kroger for grocery shopping and I get frozen stuff, and there are a few things that I doubt were left in the heat very long. For one thing, margarine tubs maintain the factory swirl on the top which would have melted down if it had been left out. Ice cream also shows the sort of consistency that would be impossible if it had melted.

Of course, I'm in Ohio, very close to corporate headquarters for Kroger. It could be the ones around here are held to a higher standard.

>>5560643
Stuff like butter which is part of dairy is always a safe bet because it goes right from a cold truck into a fridge and is brought out on small carts. You probably shop in some where they actually pay out enough hours for people to do competent work.

>>5557779

I used to live in Nashville - it was all Kroger aside from some local places until Publix moved in... Kroger has the best prices though and mine was open 24/7

>>5558752
Winn Dixie, Piggly Wiggly, Food Lion... all shit tier grocery with bugs in the food - for niggers only -

I used to shop at Kroger and I worked at based Publix (fresh) - but now im on the west coast so I do the Safeway thing -glad I have not seen a Winn Dixie out here

>>5561135
OP here, it Publix is as christian as the rumors i've been told. I heard from some probably not so reliable sources there pretty much a few steps below chick fil a on the bible thumping. Nearly worked there but they didn't like my tattoo's and told me to fuck off.

>>5560634
>Bizarre that a town of its size has so much Indian and SE asian cuisine

I remember reading somewhere that in the last 10 years or so, Michigan has seen a 300% increase in the number of Asians in the state (or maybe that was just Macomb Co.?).

>>5558520

wrong answer

>>5558635
Not op but I got horror stories a
>I was a stockslave at my local topps supermarket
>place had higher prices than the rest but also looked twice as decrepit
>one day I was stocking the apple sauce
>notice a broken container in the back
>pull it out
>mold everywhere and.... A carcass? OH FUCK ITS A RAT
>tell my bitch of a manager. She investigates
>"clean up the applesauce! As for the rat I'm pretty sure your just making it up"
For weeks we could here them fighting in the applesauce aisle and found poop everywhere but that's not even the worst part
>walk into the meat department one day because I was friends with all the butchers
>I notice that their coating some of the meat in this weird liquid
>mfw it was hand sanitizer
>mfw my manager told them to sanitize the meat they drop/"looks questionable" with FUCKING HAND SANITIZER
Fuck that place, so glad I left and stole half my paycheck in food each day from their store (not the meat)

>>5561746
>FUCKING HAND SANITIZER
What the motherfucking fuck. I know that shit's probably nontoxic, but still. What the fuck.

>>5561135
>food lion
>bad
They were good and I loved going there until walmart + meat scandal in some backwater town fucked them over.