Vantaggi
Profit sharing and bonus incentives are the only thing keeping turnover from capsizing what was once one of the most profitable chains in southeast grocer.
Svantaggi
New acquisition of Albertsons has lead our parent company conglomerate, Kroger, to step on our necks. Penny pinching, canceling needed remodels, equipment repairs and preventing us from paying associates a living wage-- all under the guise of maximizing profit at store level. Salaried management teams are seeing the writing on the wall and I cannot personally count the number of store level and corporate level management that has left in the past year, but it is probably hovering around 100. These are tenured bodies we're losing in key positions like distribution and category management. The next five years will prove to be interesting for Harris Teeter as the current trend will leave these stores without any staff before long.