The retailer has struggled with slowing sales for years with the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating its problems. Starting tomorrow, Kroger will end the extra $2 an hour of “hero pay” for essential workers, with other major chains following suit by the end of the month. Kroger will instead offer a new bonus payment of up to $400 for full-time employees and $200 for part-time workers.» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
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JCPenney Files For Bankruptcy, Other Stores Ending ‘Hero Pay’ | NBC Nightly News
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINING SHEEP
Common wasn’t all the billions the republiklans and corporate hag pelosi gave them wasn’t enough well let’s give them trillions this time okay
Let them go out of business…this country needs a wakeup call…. and sucking the c19 tit will fix nothing!!!!
If you don’t like or feel you’ll get sick QUIT your job. Nobody is forcing you to work there
Grocery store workers deserve a raise, even if there was no virus.
JC Penny going out, Who cares…they have terrible merchandise…old fashion garbage…good riddance!
soup can you think it’s 1% you go to work then.what’s stopping you.
Every American person out there putting her life at risk every time we go out just because they’re doing a job don’t mean they should get extra money for that they’re still getting paid by some of us don’t even have a job right now this is ridiculous we give them a little extra money to show them that we appreciate it now they wanna keep getting more money pure greediness we can’t even afford the products out there now and they want to raise the money up on that product to you but more so they can’t even afford it and then I’ll complain about they need more money selfish people if you don’t like your job then quit there’s plenty of people out of work right now that would love to have that job with the planning and do your freaking job and shut up andThankful you have a job to buy food and that and we need to close down the stock market to quit big politician some people from taking the money out until the pandemic pandemic is over with plain and simple Trump needs to wake up and listen to the American people
The problem with the 3 trillion bills, the people have NOT been helped out enough. Only one payment of $1200 so far! It’s been like 3 months. $1200 is basically one month rent. Canada and other countries are giving their people their 2nd or third $2000 (or whatever) checks & deposits. Most of this $$$ relief seem to be going to corporations and the House ( Democrats) , Senate (Republicans) friend and buddies. Why is the Kennedy Center getting billions in money? If the relief was just going to the people in the first place, they could have have save well over half of that money. Realistically we should be getting $2000 a month.
The new bill has money for illegal aliens, arts and humanities, prison reform and voter registration laws and minority owned cannabis dealers.
Yet their CEOS get multi millions!!!!???
How are supermarkets struggling, most people are eating in, markets are booming
Buy jcp stock or no 🤔
Space rockers cost billions
No money for this people..
Trump is pathetic.💀
Sad . Really sad . Stay online JC PENNEY .
stock drops 95% in a year and now they hand out $10 million in executive bonuses HAHA!
Simpson predict this
Yes Outsourcing was the biggest failure. To bad Senator McConnell gave those jobs away, cause now it’s all gone for good. North America Free Trade beginning of the end. Sorry for the 4 Americans that worked the cash registers and will lose their jobs, but was more sorry for the millions factories that close because of NAFTA.
Good riddance, this is a worthless company and needs to be put out to dry.
Yeah – people having jobs is stupid. The government should just venmo money to everyone.
everything will be online
I pray for all who are unemployed,many they get relief for their family and themselves.
Honestly JCPenney’s just needs to get better merchandise in general, unlike Sears who has never ever tried to fix there stores at all, atleast JCP has kept there stores from looking like trash minus the stuff they have sold, so honestly JCPenney’s will survive if they improve there merchandise. 🤔
Not surprised jcp is so expensive 🙄🙄🙄
Yeah yeah. They were doomed anyway
Walmart doesnt have extra 2$ pay.
Now’s the worst time to be an essential worker and NOW their pay gets decreased bc why? The “hero” act is not valid due to “re-opening?” Our gov doesn’t give a f*uck about us. What’s new!?
It was when Montgomery Wards went out of biz when back when, America started changing tradition. Sad to me. Like ToysWEREUs.
Montgomery Ward didn’t go out of business, they just became mail order/internet only.
They didn’t exactly fall to COVID they were sinking way before that I think I remember last year someone bailed them out cause I know in late 2018 JCP was already thinking of closing its doors until someone bailed them out in early 2019
Even last fall JCP wasn’t all that busy when I went to go look for a comforter it was completely dead
COVID just rushed the process
JC Penney was in trouble LONG BEFORE thks coronavirus pamdemic started. For instance , I have not been in a JCPenny store foe more than 20 years
80,000 more people that wont have a job to go back to. This is getting serious.
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Maybe the ceo will get a reality show then run for president.
J Crew too …wow!
I love J C Penney
Yesssss these garbage companies can finally go.
To be replaced with…what, dear? What do you have to offer that’s better?
“customers are taking notice”. Looked like she still bought a boot-full of stuff
RIP jcp 🙁
Test kits may give false positive and may give the Corona virus to people due to contamination.
Spreading false information as you are doing here should be made a felony crime.
Well I guess I’m going to have to close the JC penny credit card by tomorrow
So they took government money with CARE act….now they are using it to escape their failing businesses.
It begins..theyve dodged severence pay any debtors..shares cashed in ..elites can never lose.
Penny pinching..
Trump economy so sad
Thank a demonrat
Nnnnnnnnnoooooooooooo…..please I don’t want Amazon, I hate Amazon…….please no.
HaHa! “Fulsome review” doesn’t mean what they think it means.
$2 hr? $80 a week? pay your people
Very few of the employees are working 40 hour weeks. That would cost the employers too much profit.
Is this extra pay adding to the rise in food prices across the country? What other jobs offer this type of pay raise. It was going to eventually end anyway. Hopefully the stores will mandate masks for ALL customer and plastic shields for all cashiers.
Every business expense is paid for by the customers – that’s how business works. If it didn’t work that way, there would be no profit, no business, and no food in your pantry.
Were they still alive!?
Thought they demised the same time as Sears?
Well… it was to be expected they would go bankrupt. Has nothing to do with Covid.
JC Penny. My grandmother loves that place which is nice but shows you they aren’t really up to speed with the latest fashion.
All I ever bought there used to be socks and underwear, but now they can’t even get that right.
This has been on the way since last year.
Slowly but surely gathering into the one system, one world order.
Now the mall can converted for the homeless…..
Trump need to ask former President Obama what to do and how to run a country that is dying. He need to take notes President Obama the tell you what to do he’s a man.
I hate to see this.
Walmart and Kroger can afford to pay the $2 per hour. Shame on them.
Kroger, WalMart etc. want employees to work sick for the bonus pay scam. They do not care about the health if employees or customers. Walmart in Rapid City South Dakota had at least 2 confirmed employee Covid positive last week.
Economy is crashing slowly
*Kroger/Ralphs is the worst. They cheat their employees AND they cheat their customers. Evil empire at its finest.*
China really put the nail in their already coming coffin.
They fell like sears. Nobody goes to malls anymore.
So sad, love JC Penney’s
Sears gone. Now JC Penny. What’s next Macy? 😂🤣😅
covid-19 just fast forwarded the outcome for the struggling businesses all over the country.
Its pronounced “Je-see-pen-wah”
its French
James Stewart WOW YOU SHOULD BE A COMEDIAN……..crickets…….
Hold up i work at walmart and those people aint paying is an extra 2 dollars per hour !
Will the Fed help?
I NEVER IN MY LIFE, WISH ANY ONE BAD WISH, BUT GOOD! GOOD! CLOSE JCPENNY THEY OWN ME MY TAXES< I WORK 2- YEAR, I WAS A GOOD EMPLOYEE 1970,IN MIAMI,FLORIDA BISCAYNE BLVD IN A MALL STILL THERE 2020, BAD< 1999, I ASK THEM FOR MY TAXES, DENIALS, JUSTICIAS GRACIAS MI DIOS, AMEM 🙂 NO HAY 100 ANOS QUE DIOS HASE JUSTICIAS, PARA LAS BUENAS PERSONAS, COMO YO AMEN 🙂 THERE WERE BAD, I OPEN A SMALL BUSINESS OUT SIDE THE STORE NEXT TO FOOD COURT< "NAME VIVAS COSTMETIC", THEY WERE VERY BAD, TO ME MAFIOSOS< JCPENNY, GRACIAS MI DIOS, TU ERES BUENO. AMEN:)
The word hero gets thrown around a lot these days.
That Kroger employee can stand to lose a few pounds so maybe this cut in pay can help with that
What is JCPenny? Ok bye!
Big department stores are relics of the past.
People like shopping at smaller branded specialty stores like H&M, Uniqlo, Forever 21, Zara, FootLocker, Vans, Guess, etc.
These big department stores that carry home goods are also losing sales to Costco and Amazon.
Macy and Nordstrom will survive since they carry higher end clothing and accessories. And cater to higher income spenders.
JCPenny had some underlying Wealth conditions.
Inez Qtaish dreamed, i was getting things out of a car I was standing in a store , my son James court Jr was trying to help some guy who walked out of the store, James Court’s Jr followed the guy out side , lames said ” to the guy, I’m listening to You , you know I’m with you , don’t you? Donald Trump was sitting at a desk,, in a chair, i tried to climb over a desk, I said to Donald Trump , you know they putting stuff on people, Donald Trump said” I know just don’t say nothing.
Thank Walmart and Amazon.
🖕🏽 JCPenny
Hero for working in a store? Wow
Still fortunate enough to have a job I don’t need the extra pay…focus that money on the people that lost their jobs
Losing money? Thank a Democrat voted in your local blue seat
Don’t go inside stores, use curbside pickup! Curbside pickup is safer for the employees and safer for you!Curbside pickup is also super convienent and they often substitute higher value items for the same price if they are low or out of stock.
“Stop the fear”! “Stop the fear”! “Stop the fear”!
Hero pay should stay permanently.
byebye JcPenney store…. overpriced for years
I loved jc pins
More like hazard pay rather than hero pay…
In the 1970 and throughout the 1980’s JC Penney used to be my late grandmother’s cousin’s favorite department store. She took care of me for 8 years. End of an era. JC Penney’s lost customers due to corporate greed long before the coronavirus ever spread.
Its what Bezos and the globalists want, isn’t it??
“Hero”pay. If they are heroes, don’t you think they deserve more than $2 an hour to risk their lives? I’m not talking money. Our heroes deserve better.
JC.PENNY TOOK THEIR BAIL OUT AND JUMPING SHIP.
Wow
HOW can you risk your lives against a PLANDEMIC or is everyone in the comment section asleep!.
Law suits…
Time to invest while we recover and move forward!!!!
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These BIG businesses get (Tax Dollar) BAILOUTS and the CEOs get MILLION Dollar salaries but they can’t pay the workers $2.00 more for risking their lives! I STOPPED shopping at a couple of the mentioned stores years ago and will definitely stop at the others!
80000 more jobs down the tubes yet people still wonder why these giant corporations should get any support
They have been out of business for years!
Sam Walton must be spinning in his grave right now. JCPenney is the company that gave him his professional start. Without JCP, there would probably be no Walmart.
Their clothes was way too overpriced anyways, I’ll live to see another day.
Forget jc Penney. Sit back and watch. While evil takes away your freedom with the scamdemic.
I’m probably gonna be out my job I’m a asset protection associate
Remember when you could buy Levis 501 jeans out of a JC Penney catalog then look at the bra models on page 69? Damm I’m old..