Supermarket Operator Kroger To Hire 14,000 Employees
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NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Kroger is holding a nationwide hiring event to fill 14,000 open jobs across all its supermarket chains.
Candidates can apply online and/or show up to a store on Saturday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. for an interview.
Many of the openings are for part-time associates who bag groceries, stock shelves or ring up items at the cash register. The company says the jobs are permanent.
The Kroger Co., based in Cincinnati, has nearly 2,800 stores. Here in North Texas the are some 90 different Kroger locations and a dairy plant in Fort Worth.
The company says it created 9,000 new jobs last year and 20,000 new jobs in 2014. The 14,000 open jobs that it is currently looking to fill are a mix of new and old positions.
Last year Kroger created a separate Dallas division of the company. Spinning off the division from operations in Houston, the Dallas hub now oversees some 100 stores in North Texas, East Texas and North Louisiana.
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