Pros
Employee discount, fuel discount, nothing to do with IT
Cons
Kroger is successful in spite of its IT department. The CIO is never around and the useless morons that report to him are a disaster. Nepotism and old-boys club rule the day and keep IT in the dark ages. In fact, the theme of Kroger IT seems to be 'Lets Pretend'. Lets pretend we know how to effectively manage large projects, pretend our 'leaders' can pull their heads out of their backsides, pretend there is not a huge amount (40+ percent) of dead weight in IT that haven done anything in the last 20 years, pretend that R&D produces anything of value, pretend that they recognize and promote talent (most of the good people leave or are forced out after a few years), pretend that they know anything about ecommerce and agile delivery. That last point is worth noting - after more than a decade and having spent hundreds of millions of dollars pretending they are an agile eCommerce 'startup' they have yet to sell a single thing online. But, boy, can they pretend they do agile, hackathons and are a great place to work. I suppose it is a great place to work if you are a no-talent IT bottom dweller with an appetite for apathy and incompetence who just wants a paycheck.
