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Kroger’s how do I hate thee?
Let me count the ways. Olive oil you say? Sure right with the other oils. No, nor in the Italian, salad dressing or condiments. In with the spices. That’s logical. Gluten free crackers for company? Surely in the health food section with all the gluten free items. No. Well then the specialty items. No. Crackers. No. Cookies. Stupid me I should have looked there first.
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The produce is always 3 days past its prime as well.It's "Smokin Gal", not "Smoking Al".
Egging in the Atlanta GA region
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Their meat is terrible.
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I wouldn’t touch it on a bet. And gal was right about their produce, except for their sweet potatoes, they’re spectacular. Also good with their avocados.
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Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store.Carrollton, Va
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Our Kroger sucks
2 LBGE, Blackstone 36, Jumbo Joe
Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)
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We have 3 Krogers in our area. One is the pits, the second is clearly much better. The third one is where we buy 80% of our food except for meat. This one also carries Boar's Head products and Murray's cheese products, while the other two do not or on a drastically smaller selection. It also has a nice wine, liquor and beer selection. Competition is what I would call fierce between three grocery chains.Chief9 said:Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store.Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time -
I just bought two briskets at my local Kroger. Couldn’t pass them up @ $2 / # on sale. I can use them for chili and such if nothing else.DoubleEgger said:Their meat is terrible.
I have few choices in our crappy area, but the produce and meat is better than average in ours. Nothing close to spectacular, but adequate.
Definately different experience depending on the store. Could be that I am conditioned to accept mediocre due to my lack of options. Lol. -
They’ve closed them all around Durham. We’re left to slum it at Harris Teeter, Fresh Market, and Sprouts."I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
We have two Kroger’s, a food city with another slated to open soon and three Walmart’s. Whoohoo. We do have plenty of Hispanic markets, so there’s that.
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Our Fresh Market closed this year. Cool store and all that, but only rich old blue haired ladies in their furs shopped there. Their prices were so stupidly over priced it was silly! The only reason I ever went there was for jars of Tillen Farms pickled classic asparagus spears.JohnInCarolina said:They’ve closed them all around Durham. We’re left to slum it at Harris Teeter, Fresh Market, and Sprouts.Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time -
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Seafood is very good at Fresh Market.
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I would love that. It is nonexistent at our Kroger. At least it is as far as I’m concerned as I don’t like being sick.GrillSgt said:Seafood is very good at Fresh Market. -
Our only liquor store is in the dreaded Kroger too.South of Columbus, Ohio.
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I forgot to add that within the last 18 months that Kroger closed 2 stores in our area leaving just the three I mentioned. The reason for closure AND I can testify to this fact for at least one of them - the shoplifting meant more went out the door than went in the cash register.RRP said:
We have 3 Krogers in our area. One is the pits, the second is clearly much better. The third one is where we buy 80% of our food except for meat. This one also carries Boar's Head products and Murray's cheese products, while the other two do not or on a drastically smaller selection. It also has a nice wine, liquor and beer selection. Competition is what I would call fierce between three grocery chains.Chief9 said:Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store.Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time -
You guys have stores where rich people shop in furs and others shut down due to shoplifting? All in the greater Peoria area? I need to get out more.RRP said:
I forgot to add that within the last 18 months that Kroger closed 2 stores in our area leaving just the three I mentioned. The reason for closure AND I can testify to this fact for at least one of them - the shoplifting meant more went out the door than went in the cash register.RRP said:
We have 3 Krogers in our area. One is the pits, the second is clearly much better. The third one is where we buy 80% of our food except for meat. This one also carries Boar's Head products and Murray's cheese products, while the other two do not or on a drastically smaller selection. It also has a nice wine, liquor and beer selection. Competition is what I would call fierce between three grocery chains.Chief9 said:Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store.Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX -
The bullsh!t is strong on this one.The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
You guys have stores where rich people shop in furs and others shut down due to shoplifting? All in the greater Peoria area? I need to get out more.RRP said:
I forgot to add that within the last 18 months that Kroger closed 2 stores in our area leaving just the three I mentioned. The reason for closure AND I can testify to this fact for at least one of them - the shoplifting meant more went out the door than went in the cash register.RRP said:
We have 3 Krogers in our area. One is the pits, the second is clearly much better. The third one is where we buy 80% of our food except for meat. This one also carries Boar's Head products and Murray's cheese products, while the other two do not or on a drastically smaller selection. It also has a nice wine, liquor and beer selection. Competition is what I would call fierce between three grocery chains.Chief9 said:Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store.Philly - Kansas City - Houston - Cincinnati - Dallas - Houston - Memphis - Austin - Chicago - Austin
Large BGE. OONI 16, TOTO Washlet S550e (Now with enhanced Motherly Hugs!)
"If I wanted my balls washed, I'd go to the golf course!"
Dennis - Austin,TX -
Huh? I never even mentioned that 2 Cub stores from Chicago folded years ago!dmchicago said:
The bullsh!t is strong on this one.The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
You guys have stores where rich people shop in furs and others shut down due to shoplifting? All in the greater Peoria area? I need to get out more.RRP said:
I forgot to add that within the last 18 months that Kroger closed 2 stores in our area leaving just the three I mentioned. The reason for closure AND I can testify to this fact for at least one of them - the shoplifting meant more went out the door than went in the cash register.RRP said:
We have 3 Krogers in our area. One is the pits, the second is clearly much better. The third one is where we buy 80% of our food except for meat. This one also carries Boar's Head products and Murray's cheese products, while the other two do not or on a drastically smaller selection. It also has a nice wine, liquor and beer selection. Competition is what I would call fierce between three grocery chains.Chief9 said:Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store.Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time -
Jeez Ron what kind of hellscape did you retire in man?RRP said:
I forgot to add that within the last 18 months that Kroger closed 2 stores in our area leaving just the three I mentioned. The reason for closure AND I can testify to this fact for at least one of them - the shoplifting meant more went out the door than went in the cash register.RRP said:
We have 3 Krogers in our area. One is the pits, the second is clearly much better. The third one is where we buy 80% of our food except for meat. This one also carries Boar's Head products and Murray's cheese products, while the other two do not or on a drastically smaller selection. It also has a nice wine, liquor and beer selection. Competition is what I would call fierce between three grocery chains.Chief9 said:Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store."I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
I loved the Kroger near our place north of Houston when we lived there, granted HEB was my favorite.
We have Smith's (A Kroger brand store) which is decent. Produce is pretty good, meat is alright and selection is good.Las Vegas, NV -
Kroger and HEB are equidistant from the house. I prefer Kroger for:
- peppers. They usually stock about 4x the variety that HEB has.
- it’s on the way home from work.
- their plastic bags are the right size for proofing bread dough in.
- raw chix breast already vac sealed. Ready for SV. Yes, I’m lazy.
- a Kroger near work has a Murray’s in it. Their burrata mozz is the 2nd best that I can get locally, for 1/3rd the driving time.
HEB is the better store overall though, and that’s where I usually shop.#1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February 2013 • #3 Mini May 2013A happy BGE family in Houston, TX. -
Our Kroger is fine. I don't have any problem with the meat (mostly just chuck roasts and ground round) that I've bought. I prefer Harris Teeter (which is owned by Kroger) because they were here before Kroger but either is fine.I have no idea what their shoplifting losses are like tho.“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk
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I live in Austin. Home of HEB ans Central Market.RRP said:
Huh? I never even mentioned that 2 Cub stores from Chicago folded years ago!dmchicago said:
The bullsh!t is strong on this one.The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
You guys have stores where rich people shop in furs and others shut down due to shoplifting? All in the greater Peoria area? I need to get out more.RRP said:
I forgot to add that within the last 18 months that Kroger closed 2 stores in our area leaving just the three I mentioned. The reason for closure AND I can testify to this fact for at least one of them - the shoplifting meant more went out the door than went in the cash register.RRP said:
We have 3 Krogers in our area. One is the pits, the second is clearly much better. The third one is where we buy 80% of our food except for meat. This one also carries Boar's Head products and Murray's cheese products, while the other two do not or on a drastically smaller selection. It also has a nice wine, liquor and beer selection. Competition is what I would call fierce between three grocery chains.Chief9 said:Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store.Philly - Kansas City - Houston - Cincinnati - Dallas - Houston - Memphis - Austin - Chicago - Austin
Large BGE. OONI 16, TOTO Washlet S550e (Now with enhanced Motherly Hugs!)
"If I wanted my balls washed, I'd go to the golf course!"
Dennis - Austin,TX -
LOL - back when I was in my last position I personally took our weekly deposits to 3 institutions. They always amounted to no less than $200K to an occasional $1.2 million. Had any of the scumm had any idea of the cash portion in those deposits I'm sure I would have been robbed, beaten or simply killed and I am not exaggerating. One year some little sh*t riding a bike keyed 5 of our trunks. After that I bought a Ford pick up and never had another incident in 11 years.JohnInCarolina said:
Jeez Ron what kind of hellscape did you retire in man?RRP said:
I forgot to add that within the last 18 months that Kroger closed 2 stores in our area leaving just the three I mentioned. The reason for closure AND I can testify to this fact for at least one of them - the shoplifting meant more went out the door than went in the cash register.RRP said:
We have 3 Krogers in our area. One is the pits, the second is clearly much better. The third one is where we buy 80% of our food except for meat. This one also carries Boar's Head products and Murray's cheese products, while the other two do not or on a drastically smaller selection. It also has a nice wine, liquor and beer selection. Competition is what I would call fierce between three grocery chains.Chief9 said:Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store.Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time -
Me, not too long ago, to a guy stocking shelves at our Kroger: Where would I find Cracker Jack? It's not with the popcorn.Him: Aisle 14; that's where the crackers are.
Rob
Columbus, Ohio
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Man you dodged a bullet there!RRP said:
LOL - back when I was in my last position I personally took our weekly deposits to 3 institutions. They always amounted to no less than $200K to an occasional $1.2 million. Had any of the scumm had any idea of the cash portion in those deposits I'm sure I would have been robbed, beaten or simply killed and I am not exaggerating. One year some little sh*t riding a bike keyed 5 of our trunks. After that I bought a Ford pick up and never had another incident in 11 years.JohnInCarolina said:
Jeez Ron what kind of hellscape did you retire in man?RRP said:
I forgot to add that within the last 18 months that Kroger closed 2 stores in our area leaving just the three I mentioned. The reason for closure AND I can testify to this fact for at least one of them - the shoplifting meant more went out the door than went in the cash register.RRP said:
We have 3 Krogers in our area. One is the pits, the second is clearly much better. The third one is where we buy 80% of our food except for meat. This one also carries Boar's Head products and Murray's cheese products, while the other two do not or on a drastically smaller selection. It also has a nice wine, liquor and beer selection. Competition is what I would call fierce between three grocery chains.Chief9 said:Y'all certainly have a different experience with your Kroger stores. I love ours from the craft beer bar, to the meats and produce. My go to store."I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat -
For some time now I have used a different approach which has proven to humor even the most sour grocery store employee. I merely approach one and say..."OK -I give up...where are you hiding the XXXXX now?" It always brings a smile to their face and they help me!Wolfie51sb said:Me, not too long ago, to a guy stocking shelves at our Kroger: Where would I find Cracker Jack? It's not with the popcorn.Him: Aisle 14; that's where the crackers are.Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time -
When it comes to horrible layout...Costco is the winner. Where the f*** is the bread??? It’s right over there next to the tires.Which came first the chicken or the egg? I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg.
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That way you buy tires tooSmokeyPitt said:When it comes to horrible layout...Costco is the winner. Where the f*** is the bread??? It’s right over there next to the tires.
~ John - Formerly known as ColtsFan - https://www.instagram.com/hoosier_egger
XL BGE, LG BGE, Med BGE, BGE Chiminea, Ardore Pizza Oven
Bloomington, IN - Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoosiers! -
RRP said:
Our Fresh Market closed this year. Cool store and all that, but only rich old blue haired ladies in their furs shopped there. Their prices were so stupidly over priced it was silly! The only reason I ever went there was for jars of Tillen Farms pickled classic asparagus spears.JohnInCarolina said:They’ve closed them all around Durham. We’re left to slum it at Harris Teeter, Fresh Market, and Sprouts.
The Fresh Market will always have a special place in my heart just b/c it was the first high-end grocer in our area back in the day. The classical music they play when you walk in still puts me in a good mood. Gotta grab that tiny cup of fresh brewed coffee before I begin browsing the isles. I certainly wouldn't go there to stock up on dry goods, but for high quality imported Italian pastas, cured meats, cheeses etc it's pretty solid and much better than what you'll find at Costco. Their meat counter is also better than Whole Foods, at least in my area.
I do 90% of my shopping at Publix and other 10% divided up between Costco, Whole Foods and Fresh Market. Around here Kroger, even the nice Supercenters, are not much better than Walmart one you get to the meat counter and see mostly saline "enhanced" stickers on everything.South of Nashville - BGE XL - Alfresco 42" ALXE - Alfresco Versa Burner - Sunbeam Microwave
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