Kmart The problem with kmart. Raleigh North Carolina

SEVEN FIFTY?! We started at SIX BUCKS. After minimum wage increased, I'm not sure what starting pay is. Probably the minimum of 6.85 or whatever it is. I've worked there for over a year and after my raise I'm still at $7.24 an hour. I don't want to hear about $7.50 being a problem, I would KILL for that much.

Onward now: you are very correct about the lack of training. As a cashier for over a year, I'm still learning how to do things, and teaching others who have been there even longer than I how to do things. Heck, I was put in charge of training people after a MONTH of working there, and still having little idea of how things work. There are also a lot of communication issues with managers, i.e., no two people will tell you the same thing.

Now, that's no reason for someone to be downright rude-- if you've been treated rudely on purpose, that's not a training issue. That's an attitude issue and no amount of training will fix that. However, if you don't agree with store policies, that's not an employee's problem, that's a problem with SHC in general and you'd do better to speak to a district manager than to scream at the cashiers.

You cannot get good employees for $7.50 an hour. This is just common sense.

$7.50 an hour is a disgrace. That is what you pay a high school kid that lives with Mommy and Daddy. this is a wage for a part timer, not a full time person living on their own.

$7.50 an hour is at least $2 an hour under the "living wage" even in Durham N.C.

Any business that cannot pay a living wage should not be in business anyway. And, usually most will fail.

because I never have to search for a parking spot. It's great, I can park really close to the doors and I never have to look further than the first row I drive down for a space. Once inside I can walk around and hardly ever run into anyone. Nobody bugs me, no shopping carts being shoved into me, and the lines are really short at the check out.

Walmart is always packed and I always have to worry about some jerk parking half inside my spot and half inside the next spot, making it really hard to climb back into my car after leaving the store. I always have to park far far away and risk being run over by all the other jerks in the parking lot. Too many people in the store, lines are way too long, little kids running around without parents.. I hate walmart.

So...while it's great for me... I don't know how Kmart feels about it. But for now I am happy. I hope they manage to scrounge up enough business to stick around with walmart just down the street. Even the Kmart shopping center looks pretty down. There are still a few businesses in there, but none that really attract people. Alot of the bigger ones, like payless, moved into the new walmart shopping center.

Down with walmart....yay for Kmart.
But then again, I don't want everyone else shopping at Kmart, it's like my little secret!

I am also a Kmart employee for just over a year in Michigan. I see the most glaring problem with our daily operations to be a lack of investment within our own company. We rarely have more than two associates on our entire floor at any given time to assist customers whatsoever, and training is not offered for any department.

Also, how much can one really expect from an employee making 7.50/hr and being scheduled a mere 8-10 hours per week? I find myself sometimes exhausted at the end of my shifts because I try to "cover" the store for lack of customer assistance. In a given day I will be responsible for the service desk, the checkouts, all breaks and lunches, providing shopping carts, and the list goes on and on.

The store i work at is doing well in a market with a WalMart, Target and Miejers within a mile of it. The one constant is that there is just no customer assistance available. I have seen, many times, a customer park a full shopping cart and exit the store because there was no-one to help them retrieve an item from a high shelf or something of that nature.

No matter the quality of employee you may have, a person can only do so much! Eventually, like myself now, a good employee will tire and look for employment elsewhere.

I am deeply loyal to Kmart, it is my favorite childhood memories to go there with my Grandmother! Unfortunately, the store is a sinking ship if the owners/investors dont invest in their own stores and make them pleasant to shop at.

Lastly, any Kmart I have been in is in serious need of updating!!Most checkout lanes are using equipment older than many of the workers, hence the trouble with improper ringing and delays dutring checkouts. I would love to hear ideas from other employees and hopefully allwyn lewis or Don Germano will read something and develop some insight of the common man!!!

The reason my family gave up on kmart a long time ago is their inability to price items correctly, especially those in the weekly sales flyer. 9 times out of 10 we would go to get something on sale it would not ring up for the price in the flyer. That was not just at one location, but at least 3 in Virginia.

That gets old after a while. Don't have that at Walmart or Target.

The reason my family gave up on kmart a long time ago is their inability to price items correctly, especially those in the weekly sales flyer. 9 times out of 10 we would go to get something on sale it would not ring up for the price in the flyer. That was not just at one location, but at least 3 in Virginia.

That gets old after a while. Don't have that at Walmart or Target.