I keep hearing this month they're letting people go but nobody can tell me more
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Just announced in the 4PM meeting with 10,000+ associates on the call.
KCC (Kroger Capability Center in India) is starting up.
3,000 corporate jobs to be eliminate over the next 3 years.
But they really care about our associates...blah, blah, blah....
The Deloitte folks working on NGPOS were a nightmare to deal with. You would have 200 people on a call and get zero participation outside of a select few Kroger employees.
I saw tech leads who I’m certain were over employed or assigned to multiple contracts. Ask one to lead a meeting and they would suddenly have network issues and drop off the call. Simple tasks assigned to them would take months to complete. The offshore engineers themselves didn’t understand basic coding standards. At least half were warm bodies to bill hours.
The saddest part is the amount of really competent folks that the program burned through. FTEs who burned out and quit and the Koncert contractors who were let go all have to deal with finding new work in the current market, while the people who enabled the failure keep getting paychecks.
@40j
Some number of Koncert contractors were informed of their positions going away in the next few weeks.
@3zc
Have not heard anything on FTEs so far.
A large number of Deloitte contractors on the NextGen POS project where notified today. Offshore was a complete removal with last day tomorrow, and onshore was nearly all with work until end of the week. Heard numbers like 270 gone and 15 or so staying.
This is 3rd hand knowledge (from affected Deloitte folks) as management has not given us any direct information so far.
@3x7 what about the FT’s??
i’m pretty sure Contractors would be sacked soon
@3k4
The NextGen POS project was put on hold Wednesday for an evaluation period of 45-60 days while a team determines the next steps to right this failing project. This will undoubtedly include buying significant portions of codebase rather than building it in house, which has been an unmitigated failure after almost 5 years. Expectation is that a large portion of those development, engineering and QA teams provided by Deloitte for this project will be let go.
Which office? I work in Blue Ash and not aware of anything in my particular office.
what is happening at kroger, heard there were some layoffs at BlueAsh today?
is it true?
I doubt its happening this month....no WARN Notice filed with State of Ohio yet...
Ohio's Mini-WARN Act (R.C. 4113.31), which took effect on September 29, 2025, requires covered employers to provide at least 60 days' advance written notice before qualifying plant closings or mass layoffs.
Overview of Ohio Mini-WARN Law Covered Employers: Businesses with 100 or more employees who collectively work at least 4,000 hours per week (excluding overtime).
Trigger Events: A plant closing or a layoff of 50 or more employees at a single site within a 30-day period.Key Difference from Federal Law: The state statute omits the federal 33% workforce percentage threshold for mass layoffs, meaning any layoff hitting 50+ workers at a single site may trigger state notice requirements.
@rf this is correct and they are aiming for a 40% RIF
@rz that was so insane, I tuned completely out for that section
@OP don't worry here is a video of a horse winning a race.
@qd strategy? Make it intolerable? Raise expectations and put people on PIPs?
well, layoffs are inevitable, but the strategy Kroger is implementing is, making you force quit rather than mass layoffs.
they want that slow transition to GCC, cause of which we could see those linked in post more snd more until Q2 2028
@jr it was someone who was with Kroger for just over 4 years.
@hg I found the post. It was someone in UX/UI
@jw it’s one thing to ask a question it’s another thing to beat a dead horse after you didn’t get the answer you wanted.
@jt the laid off person definitely sent a chill down my spine. Whatever the situation, it looked like they got rid of someone who speaks up and asks questions. We are working under quite the regime.
There was definitely a guy that posted yesterday that he got laid off “recently”. The other post was a woman who rage quit and retired early (good for her!).
@fc no one got laid off. You saw a little that up and quit unannounced after a 27 year career or something like that.
@fc i am in product and haven’t heard anything it might be something specific to that individual rather than org wide or product wide
@g3 product
@fc what business area?
Just saw a post on LinkedIn from someone at KTD that they were laid off.
@b8 blame leadership. It's their job to build culture and keep the noise away. They're doing a terrible job and have been for well over a year. We're tired of the canned responses, it's clear they'll be laying us off and they'll be damned if we get a severance
Hearing the Div headcount will be lowered by one VP
People have been saying “this month” since January 2026.
People leave breadcrumbs. It’s taxing at this point.