pharmacy technician

pharmacist

senior certified pharmacy technician

assistant store manager

store manager

King-Soopers

Gonna be a long one. First and foremost i will say that every store is different so it doesn't mean you'll have the same experience at your store. Worked for KS for almost 5 years on the front end. There is so much to say i don't even know where to start. KS is a good place if you are just starting out and need a little experience, but don't expect to learn a whole lot in this job! Very unprofessional and doesn't teach much on how a real job works. The pay is not very good and takes way too long to build up enough to be a 'decent' wage. Work 1000+ hours to get a whopping 25-40c increase. 

F.E. management (head-clerks) were just awful, a lot of the time they just stood around doing nothing or just chit chatted among each other when we needed help. It would take about 3 calls over the intercom to get one of them to come over (this was a daily thing). One head-clerk would constantly be on their phone, act all professional and nice to customers but complain about them the minute they walked away. (would curse A LOT about them) Another would leave daily for long periods of time and nobody would know where she went as well as do whatever she could to basically not work and chit chatted with customers when we needed help as well as called in all the time and the best part she NEVER got in trouble for it!! There was favoritism among who got to go do certain things, they wouldn't let anyone else try. 

Customers can basically steal and get away with it. I cannot tell you how many times i have seen people walk and we can't do anything as we are not allowed to stop them. Told a head clerk about someone walking out more than once and they act like it's no big deal and just ignore it. Also their management skills were awful, people would take longer breaks, disappear, stand around doing nothing, be on their phones and nothing would be done about it. I see so many who should be fired and yet there they are still working there. 

Was not fun at all working with a bunch of teenagers, constantly goofing around/ being on their phone, not to mention how HORRIBLE they were at bagging. From being too busy chatting and therefore bagging slowly to putting 2 items in a bag or putting smashable stuff on the bottom of the cart. What happened to common sense?? Plus a lot of them would just goof off when they went to get carts, saw a few kids just standing outside on their phones when they were supposed to be collecting buggies. Then there's the whole turn over rate. I have never seen so many kids (always the teenagers) quit so fast. Bagging and collecting carts was about the easiest job in the whole store, Its like kids just don't want to work. 

King soopers 'make it right' policy was just down right annoying. Basically complain about any little thing and we'll make it right for you! Usually meant getting an item for a big discount or free. and it would be over the dumbest things too. This one older lady would come in weekly treat employees bad and milk her way into getting something free/discounted. She would make up the biggest most obviously fake excuses as to why she deserved such item for free. But of course we gave it to her.  

Overall i would say this job is only good if you are starting out or need an extra/temporary job. There is little to no room to grow unless you are a favorite. I couldn't take it anymore. I highly disliked working here and do not plan to ever go back. 





Pros:
- select a shift (has its cons though) 
- work with you if you are in school
- management would have bbq's/pizza/sandwich day sometimes
- 7 day paid vacation after 1 year/14 days after 3 years
-management would usually work with you if you couldn't be there for a shift or needed to leave early 
- weekly pay


Cons:
- terrible management
- seniority/favorites
- no where to grow
- select a shift (if you don't have seniority you get bad shifts to pick from)
- dealing with lazy teenagers
- hourly wage and raises

King Soopers is filled with mean-spirited, martinet managers who like nothing better than a good scream at someone they supervise.  If not a good scream, sometimes with contorted smiling face, these misfit managerial moo-moos enjoy condescending to their underlings between stippled, swollen lips -- hissing like vipers on a power trip.  No people skills.  You will be told to keep your bathroom breaks short, and they will be timed.  Bathroom breaks will be announced to all and sundry as "potty breaks", yes --  in front of customers by Front End Supervisors who look like Gidget but act like Godzilla's Girlfriend. Miicro-managing every move you make.  There is a sense that things are hopeless and only getting worse.  Top managers come and go.  Chaos reigns as you are not really trained to do your job, but are berated when you make a small error.  You will be paid next to nothing and will not get medical benefits for at least a year.  That's right, a YEAR.  Your schedule requests will be disrespected time and time again.  You can ask for the hours you want. That's a good thing.  Don't expect to get them.   There are rumors that some managers enjoy making employees work more or less than they request, that they actually give more hours to people who ask for less, and less to those who ask for more.  It's preverse, but the supervisors appear to get kicks from making their employees miserable.

The good part?  Some nice people will be your miserable coworkers.  You can be yelled at together and demeaned by hair-brained Front End Supervisors.  At least, misery is some company.  Unable to get people to do what they want, these "Supervisors" rely on humiliatation and insults.  Again, no people skills and Kroger, the parent company, doesn't train supervisors to do more than point and laugh and insult. They actually will do that, I mean some supervisors do laugh and point at employees -- this is not good management, but this is Kroger.  

I liked the customers.  I enjoyed solving their problems.  Also,  I loved how a few would roll their eyes when Gidget would admonish me in dulcet tones, "Make sure you take care of your customers!"  oblivious to my obvious efforts.  Other customers were shocked at how a certain Service Manager would gossip about employees, shamelessly making fun of them as customers watched.  

There were some good people who worked there, even a good manager or two -- but overall, the experience was one of the worst in my working life.  

Asking for breaks can become a shouting match.  They owe you breaks but the Front End Supervisors appear to enjoy the game of making you ask for them.  There's a streak of petty cruelty here that is not helpful, it will distract you from your job and help cause mistakes.  These mistakes will lead to being taken aside and lectured.  Training is lacking, and if you don't know something, you will be called on the carpet for asking.  It is truly a dysfunctional work culture. 

There were a couple of managers I liked. The good ones don't last.     

 The place is full of drama.   That can be entertaining, however it is not worth it.  I guess I've made my point.  The pay is barely above minimum wage.  You are on your feet all day.   This place sucks.  Avoid it at all costs.  It might ruin your health.  It is a sweatshop of a job.  Do not work here.  DO NOT WORK HERE.

I started as a courtesy clerk in 2014. Eventually got tired of  working upfront and got promoted to bakery clerk in 2015. I was trained on almost everything. I became the most reliable clerk. Eventually the hours got cut,  like they do every year, and I was tired of 20 to 25 hours a week at 12.50 an hour. Finally put in my papers and I got promoted in my store and didn't have to transfer. I didn't have much to learn because I knew mostly everything. Fast forward to now, it's awful. New processes, hours being cut, no help. I have no time for breaks and barely time for a lunch. I usually work on my lunch because they expect schedules to be done on mondays (which I'm not supposed to do them because I'm an assistant. ). If I take my breaks and lunch, nothing will get done because there is so much to do and no help. They cut my hours and I'm expected to fill all the cases on the sales floor, fill all the tables(which I have stuff through the store), do markdowns by 9am, break my frozen load down, and have everything full by 9am or 8am on weekends. They expect full shelves constantly even though I can't help we rely on system to forecast what the tables need and order most of my stuff that's frozen. High expectations from upper management and corporate. My store managers are decent. Most of them come to help without a fit. It's funny how I can't have my clerks scheduled the way I need them but they can keep me on overtime almost everyday to finish everything. These corporate people have NO idea what it's like to work in these departments. Working here is like being in a prison, honestly. Before all this new nonsense, we would do our jobs and laugh and everything would get done. Now it's all do this is x amount of time. They want faster and faster now. They want things done so fast yet they make us waste our time on top of the hour walks, first touch walks, and fresh at 5 walks. Like I am always working from the moment I get there til i leave. No one gets that. I usually have to stay because I don't want to leave my closer with a huge amount of stuff when they have so much in a 4 to 5 hour shift. This job is a good starting job but for me, this is not my career and I will not stay for much longer. I stay for the full time and the pay, I won't find this anywhere I can guarantee that. Also no work life balance. 40 plus hours a week and it's hard to keep a set schedule. We are allowed one Saturday and one Sunday off a month and I can't take them off because I dont have the people to. I only get those days off when I take my vacations. I love my coworkers though. I have met some amazing people here. A lot of people work so hard here and it's never enough. Nothing will change with this company.

This is a typical min-wage job-- teenagers slacking off as much as they can and hiding around the corner to smoke; 20-year-old managers with zero people skills yelling at the slacker 17-year-olds; department managers that get angry that there are "too many people standing around" when we can neither predict nor create the flow of commerce, nor are we responsible for hiring practices; HR moves too slowly to respond to business demands resulting in multiple months of understaffed employees and then a glut of employees when business drops, resulting in hours cut without warning; scheduled shifts that swing madly between a 3 am and an 11:30 am start time without warning or regard for sleep schedules; lots of horseplay and joking around in the back room. 
I quite enjoyed my coworkers for the most part and the overall mood was upbeat despite COVID worries, but was dismayed to see how many employees immediately shed their masks when they were off the sales floor. 
HR took a VERY long time to process my application despite telling me "We are very short handed right now and need to hire a lot of people", and indeed I had to phone them every day for 13 days to ask, over and over again, whether my application had been seen, when I could come in for an interview, when I could come in for training, that I was available, that I could come TODAY if they wanted, and what day I could start. I was forgotten multiple times during the hiring process. The overall impression was that HR was severely understaffed and thus disorganized. 
Despite my age and work experience I was hired as "part time" at 12.25/hr and then scheduled for 40 hr/wk. I asked why I was scheduled for 40 hours and still considered part time, HR informed me that I "must be scheduled for 40 h/wk for 13 consecutive weeks to be considered for a change in status". This means, of course, that they would schedule me for 12 weeks at 40 hours and then the 13th week for 39 to avoid paying benefits. I smiled and said I understood.
Just as I left, they were cutting hours for employees. In a month, eight new people were hired, three quit with a notice and three quit by means of not showing up. As I said, typical min-wage job. There's nothing else like it.

I worked here for over 7 years.  I started when I was a junior in high school just to have a job.  I ended up staying with the company all through college and even a little bit after college.  The only reason that I stayed so long is because of the job security.  At the end of my career at King Soopers, I was making $17.81 per hour, which is pretty decent money for just being a produce clerk.  Department managers make about the same amount and have a lot more stress involved, so it was worth it to me to just work as a produce clerk.  

Over the years, this company has really gotten worse at taking care of their own. 

They implement new policies and ideas for things that don't need to be changed, and the only result is that it makes work life harder/worse for all the employees.  One example of this is that they wanted the whole store to look amazing by 9am everyday, which was never really an issue with the way the schedule was to begin with, yet they felt the need to start bringing in multiple employees at 4am instead of what it used to be which was 6am and 7am.  

This company also did away with all Christmas bonuses for the "regular" employees.  Management still got fairly big bonuses based on certain criteria, and the Kroger (King Soopers is part of the Kroger family) CEO got a $13 Million end of the year bonus.  It makes the employees feel under appreciated when the CEO is making $13 million a year in bonuses, and the employees have their already small $20 bonus (in the form of a kroger gift card) taken away from them.

Also, at the store I worked at last, they didn't do a Christmas party.  Most other stores do one every year and usually rent out a cool place to do it at (ex: bowling alley, dave and busters...).  When I asked somebody why we didn't get a Christmas party, they said it was because our store manager didn't like them, so we don't do them.  This to me was just another huge slap in the face.  Who cares if the store manager doesn't like them, a lot of people do like them.  It is about making your employees feel happy and valued so that they want to come to work every day and bust their backs for you.  

All of these factors, and many others, on top of the fact that they cut hours/amount of employees and still expect the same quality/amount of work to get done every day add up to make this place a very miserable place to work.  I do not reccommend working here, unless you just want to find a secure job that pays pretty good compared to other retail jobs.

We're do I begin! I was trained by someone who was leaving, so she didn't care how I was trained! Within my first week 4 different people trained me? Four different  ways! Confused, yes I was! I was told there would be some nights! Well technically  no I worked a 2 am  shift to 10:30! They normally have 2 full time bakers but at the store I worked they had one! So I opened on his days off! the other days I came in at 5 or 6 am! So sleep was all over the place! Days off were also or non existence! The schedules were not out by Friday when the new week begins on monday! Which made it hard to plan anything at all! I had a list of things I needed to do,I worked my bum off, came in before time, worked through my breaks and still didn't get them done! Then they added things to my list? The frozen bread was clumped frozen in a block mess! So I'd have to unthaw them work them into a loaf, which took time away from other things! Things I had no control over! My 45 day review was awful! I was crying knowing I was doing all I could and here they were telling me it wasn't good enough! They were going to move me to bakery clerk and cut my hours! Since every day was different the next day I didn't have that much to do and got all done! The management  was all about their schedule! They would leave to go take smoke breaks leaving me to deal with everything! The phone, customers, the ovens etc! I was lamb pasted for not getting to the deliveries  put away! which even the head baker at times never got too!  The one manager left notes one day explaining my opening as a bleep show,leaving it where she knew I would read it! They wonder why they had been through 7 bakers in a short time! Maybe unlike your king sooner slogan your people don't make the difference!  After changing my schedule many times to accommodate  their misguided scheduling, coming home late to finish things most of these times clocking out at my scheduled time to avoid managers getting in trouble for overtime! Trying to sleep and dealing with family, kids etc! I left this job! Imy so glad I didn't apply at the store I shop at! As I have such awful feelings for what this store put me through I would not be going back! I try to see the glass as half full kind of person however thinking of the things I went through here I need a full glass of wine! One time when I was still a newbie the floor people  came in and something flooded! We had a ice skating rink in the freezer! I was blamed for it! There was no management there  to report to, I was trying to get my long list of things done! Ugh!

Job security is top notch because of the Union benefits, unless the management cares enough to have it out for you or you're caught stealing from the company, you'll almost never lose your position. It takes a great amount of time, patience, and focus to truly fire an employee from this company, and most managers (at least in my experience) don't have the time or patience to do so because of how much work they have themselves. As long as your doing the basic necessities required of your position, you should be fine. Workload varies depending on department and location, be weary of working at busier stores if you have a hard time focusing or keeping a fast pace through the work day. Liked working here because of cool staff, employees, and coworkers, but overall the company itself is a joke. They keep trying to fix something that wasn't broken and are becoming more and more strict on how things are done because of either financial issues the company may be experiencing in the market or to try and keep up with how much they are required to pay their employees (at least their department heads) to be able to live with the increasing economy and housing market in Colorado, which has caused a lot of good and loyal management workers to leave the company because of their being more and more pressure added, which in turn benefits the company financially because they then get to promote someone new and hire someone else to work for less money. As far as management goes, work/life balance is rare, to be expected in grocery retail, but good luck trying to schedule a doctor's appointment or get the time off needed to spend with family or make your personal life a little less stressful (unless you're a total brown noser or in favor with your store management team) if applying for management. Dress code is dope, wear whatever you want as long as it's work appropriate and you're wearing your apron or vest. Overall met some cool managers, some bad ones, some hard workers, some lazy ones, people of all types and backgrounds, racial profiling is a rarity, don't regret my time with the company, even if there were times I wanted to go on a killing spree because of it (that's a joke, by the way, in case you were wondering).

Ok so keep in mind not everything here is everyone's experience but it is 95% or more. I have never met an employee who is happy to work. Barely anyone likes their job (especially in retail) but as a Courtesy Clerk (or cc as I will be saying the rest of this review) for this store its a new level of just depressing. I worked over in the pickup department during the worst of times and it wasn't this bad. Your first month or two go really well everyone seems very happy, the job isnt overly physically taxing (minus carts), and you get to meet a lot of new people. But after that it gets really bad really quick. The work is menial boring repetitive busywork. The customers who were mostly nice and you could have some interesting stories to hear all become this boring blur. The coworkers you thought were happy you realize were bored and depressed. You are told to be happy and friendly to customers and you end up putting up this mask of joy for the customer. And after a while that not so taxing job just creates more and more stress on your body. Nobody is happy working as a cc once you have been there more than two months. Your job feels pointless as you really only serve as a way for people who are lazy or old to check out for themselves. But all that said would be bearable if the store wasn't a chaotic mess. Every day from 8:30 am - 6 pm the store has a constant neverending rush of customers. It is loud and crowded and honestly a horrible experience. You have to bag as quick as lightning and bounce from checkstand to checkstand every customer just to keep up. This ends up being what causes what is at first an easy job to become one of the hardest physical and mental endurance tests ive ever had. This is all to say, don't work here for more than 4 months. It's an ok temporary job or early highschool job but nothing else. If you need a stable income or even half understanding working conditions just find somewhere else. It is mentally and physically excruciating and this doesn't even come close to mentioning the poor management or other things.

King Soopers can be a good place to work at if you like the people you work with, especially since the money can be good. It was pretty good for me for a while. Although I was working hard, I was pretty happy with my job. The pay is poor to start, but tops out nicely. Beware that the raises between year 1 and 3 are meager, then you get two huge raises in year 4.

I worked overnights stocking groceries in a non-union store for King Soopers. It's a demanding job, but I took that as an opportunity to develop my work ethic. It can be fun when everyone is in good spirits. The problem is that you can't leave the store until all of that night's load is thrown. So you could be there for 12 hours a night, day after day, doing exhausting labor.

At my store, they only published the schedule a few days before you'd be working it. That makes it pretty much impossible to plan get togethers with your friends and family. Combine that with forced overtime, and you feel kind of isolated like a conscript to King Soopers.

Vacations, shift choices, and job assignments are all parceled out based on seniority. That means you can forget summer vacations unless you put in years and years there. It also means you work all the hardest shifts and all the hardest jobs. Where I worked, the senior people contributed no leadership but only sponged perquisites.

The pay for an entry level manager is only a little more than your pay if you top out after 4 years. It might be appealing to take the position to get that pay faster, but your time stops counting when you're a manager. So if you were making $10/hour when you got promoted, then worked as a manager for 5 years, you'd go back to $10/hour if you stepped down.

Overall, it probably depends on what store you work at. You have low starting pay, good pay if you stay. You won't know your schedule in advance. You have to sign up for vacation at the beginning of the year and hope no one more senior wants the week you ask for.

I worked at King Soopers as a Clicklist shopper for about six months before I was let go. This was at the beginning of the Covid hysteria, so the circumstances were maybe a bit unusual. I didn't have a car, which I told the hiring manager, and was relying on the bus to get to work. The buses regular routes and schedules had been cut back and altered significantly for Covid, and although my bus to work was fine, other buses to places like the doctor's office were not.

The team and managers for the Clicklist department were great people who all pitched in to make sure orders got picked and sent out on time, but the Store Management was very disconnected from the realities that our department was facing. The Associate Manager forced us to increase the number of orders per hour that we were picking even though we didn't have sufficient space for holding them or sufficient manpower to get the orders done on time. Personally, I liked the job well enough even though it did get monotonous at times, and I was one of the fastest, most accurate pickers.

After an extended period of being sick caused by wearing a mask for eight hours a day, during which I wasn't allowed to work because I was "symptomatic" and during which I wasn't paid for the time I had been forced to take off, and several doctor's visits and notes that I had to pay for out of my own pocket to be allowed to return to work, and then another extended period of being sick caused by wearing a mask for eight hours a day and not being allowed to work, my employment was terminated because of "job abandonment." 

I learned that apparently you're supposed to update your employer every couple of days when you're not able to work because of illness even if there's literally nothing to update them about so I guess I learned something valuable from that experience. King Soopers is not a good place to work if you value being treated like a person rather than a cog, though. Your immediate managers may be great, but the store managers see you as disposable.

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