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But this isnt to discuss the company you work for, this is to discuss Krogers, who used to have a bunch of full time employees, now being FORCED to reduce them because of Obama.
I doubt that many of them were ever considered "full-time" employees. Supermarkets have very few full-time employees, generally only the managers and section heads.
Costco does rather well paying their employees $19 an hour. Unlike Walmart/Sam`s Club their employees don`t steal from them and they don`t have to keep training new employees.
Newsflash: Wal-Mart's purpose of existance is to make their shareholder's wealthier. Something they cannot do by paying more than the market demands.
So - corporations are people, right up to the point where there's a call for them to show people-like characteristics like responsibility, citizenship and perhaps even basic decency?
Obamacare is the least of Kroger's problems. The cleanliness of the stores has IMO been declining for years, selection is mediocre at best, deli stinks, meat quality stinks.
If I want price like staple goods, I'll got to Wal Mart. If I want quality, the Publix next to the Kroger here gets my money.
Obamacare is the least of Kroger's problems. The cleanliness of the stores has IMO been declining for years, selection is mediocre at best, deli stinks, meat quality stinks.
If I want price like staple goods, I'll got to Wal Mart. If I want quality, the Publix next to the Kroger here gets my money.
Around here (DFW) they're hit or miss. Some Kroger's have been remodeled and are beautiful with some of the best selections in the area. Others have been left to rot.
Around here we have Kroger's, Tom Thumb (owned by Safeway), Albertson's (not too many of those), Fiesta, Wal-Mart, and Super Target. There are some Market Streets and Brookshire's in the suburbs, but that's pretty much it. We also have Whole Foods and HEB Central Market but that's at the premium end. Sprouts and Natural Grocers fill in the organic/gluten-free/hippie niche.
I do most of my shopping at Super Target and Kroger's these days. Kroger's is less expensive than Tom Thumb and there's not an Alberton's or Super Wal-Mart all that close by.
If you think Kroger's is expensive, stroll around a Tom Thumb sometime. Whew. They sure are proud of their merchandise!
Offering health insurance and the number of part-time employees who actually meet the hourly threshold to sustain it are two different things. I'm not surprised that you don't understand this considering you think that $150 Million in profits for a grocery chain with ~1,550 stores in the United States is worth mentioning.
You mentioned earlier that Kroger's $279 million in profit was peanuts, and, a justification for their inability to provide health insurance benefits for their part-time employees. I provided the Safeway figure to demonstrate to you that a company making over $100 million less per year in comparison to Kroger, has still figured out to provide their employees with healthcare benefits as part of their compensation plan.
Analysts have provided the 51% , and it is far more up to date than 2005 data.
I know, I found a few other pieces of information online after I posted. I also compared the number of employees per company via a quick Google search.
CostCo has 196,000 full and part-time employees, and, 96% receive healthcare benefits.
Target has 355,000 full and part-time employees, and 44% receive healthcare benefits.
To provide perspective, Walmart has 2,000,000 full and part-time employees, and, as you mentioned, 51% receive healthcare benefits.
That's somewhat of a disparity--980K Walmart low-wage employees do not receive benefits, and, those are most likely the families that are receiving government subsidized insurance, as well as are reliant on foodstamps.
Companies have 2 main objectives to increase profits and cut expenses. They are not in bussiness to make sure you have health insurance, if you understand that why would you boycot them?
Businesses have forgotton what is their most prized asset.............their labor force.
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