Pros
The schedule was very flexible, and you received a decent discount on items from the store. You also meet a lot of new people, which is always exciting. You can also buy Kroger stock with no commissions and even buy fractional shares and have dividends reinvested, so good retirement.
Cons
Where to start where to start? As the title says this was the worst job I've ever had. Let's see here, first and foremost you're never truly hired when you start. You're on a 90 day probation period, meaning at any point from day of hire until day 90 they can and often do just fire you just like that with absolutely zero warning. It's sickening, good people think they finally found permanent work, only to be fired or laid off without a warning. Disgusting. No other company I've worked for has engaged in such practices. Second the pay is just a joke, it's fifty cents above minimum wage, it's terrible. Even if this job paid $15 an hour it wouldn't be worth it, it's just so terrible and I'll explain why further. So the first few days of hire are just a complete waste of time for everybody involved. I was hired as a deli clerk, and yet I spent days reviewing policies and watching videos on being a cashier. Whatever, I'm getting paid to participate but it was such a complete waste of time. However after that orientation is over this is when working as a Deli Clerk in Fred Meyer just goes to absolute hell. You spent days and days receiving totally irrelevant training only to be thrown off the deep-end dealing with customers with absolutely zero relevant training at all! I think they were attempting a "learn by doing" type training, but they failed so miserably. You see, they were so insanely short-staffed that there was never any bloody time to just have something explained to me, I was never even given a basic tour of the facility, just simply told to fetch some type of meat from the walk-in fridge. Ok, but seeing how I didn't receive a brief tour, it's going to take a few minutes to find. What's the policy if there isn't any meat in the fridge, then what? Next, you are given a TON of things to do. Don't think that you only have one job, oh no you're responsible for so much more. From of course serving customers to cleaning all the equipment, to cleaning dishes, to cooking, and baking, to having to meticulously write down your cooking, to even stocking the shelves, to crushing boxes to having to dispose of all the grease in the back, there's just endless things to do and never enough people to do them. I was scheduled to leave at 8 pm, instead I stayed until 11 pm. This wasn't common, but it did happen a fair number of times. It's ridiculous. And lastly maybe because this job is hell, half of my coworkers weren't nice or polite at all. Morale was extremely low and coworkers weren't helpful. In conclusion, if you're debating between this job or some other, take the other one. This job is worse than every one, that I can personally guarantee. Even if I had received proper training, this job would have still sucked. Even if you made double the minimum-wage, this job sucks. Instead it's all of these. Avoid this job like the plague. It's sort of humorous, the day I was going to submit my two week notice, that was the day I was fired. Thank God that hell was done with. Let me be clear, EVERY other job I've had is light-years better than this one. I've worked retail for years, and as a package handler for FedEx lifting heavy boxes for hours. I LIKED all of those other jobs and would rate them favorably, but not this one. Avoid working for Fred Meyer like your life depended on it.