Breitbart: The Kroger grocery company is giving its employees a big thank you for their hard work during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Saturday, the company announced that every hourly frontline grocery, supply chain, manufacturing, and customer service associate would receive a one-time bonus amounting to $300 for full-time and $150 for part-time, according to a press release.
“Grocery workers are on the frontlines, ensuring Americans have access to the food and products they need during this unprecedented pandemic,” said Kroger Chairman and CEO, Rodney McMullen. read more
…”during this unprecedented pandemic”
Eats potato chip. Calls Mom to ask about polio, TB, and Hitler.
Went to my nearby Kroger this morning during the shopping hours (7 to 8am). Lots of older folks there and most items were available. They wiped all surfaces of the checkout area after each customer and they all wore gloves. Was able to pick up the paper products I wanted for one of my neighbors I spoke of and was able to get her some chicken, burger, eggs, oranges, fresh veggies and a few single serving pies they carry (we all deserve treats). The smile on her face made it all worth while. Tried to write me a check but I told her to wait until this is over and just invite me for a sit down lunch some time. Made my day. They need to make that shopping for the older folks 5 days a week though. Was very crowded and yes there were people much younger there that ignored the request to set the time aside for there elders.
This may be a small gesture, but it will go a long way in helping relieve even just a little bit of stress.
good on them
..it would be a nice gesture if the UFCW hadn’t already screwed all their union members out of many times that…
They are making huge profits so what is a little bonus?
But Big Business is Eeeeevil!
So there I was, trying to be a good citizen, checking on old neighbors, seeing if anyone needed anything, feeling like I was contributing. I get a knock on the door. It’s a younger lady 45-50, and she is checking on me. Granted I’m older, 64, but holy crap I didn’t need to get slapped in the face with it. I thanked, let her know we’re fine, and she left. I went to my rocking chair. Damn.
Joe, wish some younger gals would check on me. All I get is Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons and kids selling overpriced candy bars.
Different Tim,
And for each intruder, there is one simple word, said with courage and conviction, that will deflect all three, “NO.” Then close the door.
Different Tim
MARCH 23, 2020 AT 11:08 PM
“Joe, wish some younger gals would check on me. All I get is Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons and kids selling overpriced candy bars.”
…one time in my youth, I was running around downtown (back when White boys still COULD without getting racially assaulted), I happened upon some sort of gathering of Hari Krishnas in full eastern dress, doing some sort of ridiculous dance and proselytizing as they used to in airports pre-911. One of these was a VERY large (I weighed probably 140 lbs at the time so LOTS of folks seemed large to me then), very Black man, who whirled over in his robes directly to ME for some reason, stopped DEAD in front of me, and wordlessly presented me with two copies of a slender tome titled “Christ and Krishna”. Being that young, skinny me was rather intimidated by this slab of silently looming crazy in full flowing battle dress threateningly proffering a mystical screed, I quickly dug out my only $5, exchanged it to him for his Bible blasphemies, and booked for the bus, grateful only that he didn’t follow.
I wasn’t too interested in the actual books as I found Krishna fashion somewhat off-putting, so I put them in the book case in my family home (I was like, 15) and mostly forgot about them.
…after some passage of time, a knock came on the door when I was home alone, waking me from my vital teenage mid-morning to noonish slumber. I plopped out of bed and draggled to the door, only to have my eyes seared by a sunny day and even suunier smiles on the faces of a pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Happy people are annoying to teenagers and this fellow evidenlty wanted me to read HIS screed, but collectively they were MUCH less intimidating than the Krishna I met downtown, BUT they recalled his “gift” to me. Raising a finger for the Jehovah’s Witnesses to wait, I breifly closed the door, recovered a copy of “Christ and Krishna”, openened the door, removed the Watchtower from his expectant hand, only to replace it with the Krishna book, and swiftly, but gently, closed the door again.
I never saw another Jehovah’s Witnesses the rest of the time I lived there.
I feel a LITTLE bad about it NOW, since I understand more about the biblical Great Commission and that these men were simply waling in the light as they saw the light, but my GOD did they make Christ annoying…
Post script: many years later, I was with part of my fire crew at Bowling Green State University at a National Fire School seminar when we noticed a Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah’s Witnesses across from the hotel. This was a novelty to us at the time because they weren’t so common here then, and young, bored men being assholes, we decided to see how THEY liked it if WE knocked on THEIR door.
Turns out, not very MUCH, not very much AT ALL…
SNS, I got hit up by Hari Krishna’s at the SF Airport on my way home on leave back in the 70’s when I was in the Navy, They were such pests that I bought their damn book for $10 just so I could get rid of them and promptly threw the book into the garbage before I caught my flight home. You know how they finally got rid of them, they issued everyone in the airport children’s toy clickers and told people to use them every time they were approached by these obnoxious jerks, they finally got the message after a while and quit bothering all the travelers at the SF airport.