Fuck you Kroger

[arcadian]

You have no bakery to speak of and the breads you stock are crappy. Plus only one of your delis that I know of carries BoarsHead and that is way too expensive anyway. So FUCK YOU!!!

[RebelOne]

1. My Kroger here in North Georgia is excellent.

Great deli section and some really awesome breads. I don't know where you are located, but come on to the Kroger in Woodstock, GA. You will be surprised at the selection.

[stray cat]

2. Kroger gives full benefits to part time workers and reaches out to employ the disabled.

[Kajsa]

6. The same is true with one of my local Ralphs markets,

owned by Kroger.

[siligut]

3. Kroger bought QFC and their quality went down.

I hardly ever shop there anymore, even though it is close.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

4. I like my Kroger and prefer to it Farm Fresh and Food Lion (my 2 other choices)

They have a GREAT Deli, the meats are always good, and most of the staff is pretty cheerful. Their breads used to pretty bad, but they have a whole new batch of "artisan" bread that is good and their in-house Tuscan is a staple in my house when I don't make my own. And now we have a Trader Joe's and life is complete.

[dgibby]

7. Ha! Sounds like you live in my hometown! n/t

[kentauros]

5. If you live in Texas, go to HEB

They have the best bakeries of any of the chain stores :D

Alternately, make your own, or find a little bakery to support :)

[blue_onyx]

8. I like Kroger

Their private selection deli meats are excellent. They are expensive (7.99/lb but often on sale for 5.99/lb) but it's worth it. Nothing worse than eating a sandwich and biting into a fatty bit. I've purchased Boars Head deli meat and it was expensive as well. It may be the brand, not Kroger, that's pricing it expensively. I've also gotten good bread at Kroger.

One of the Krogers near me remodeled and turned into a high-end concept store. It offers fresh soups, sushi, and pasta salads. It's a very nice Kroger.

[grasswire]

9. one of those "high-end" concepts came to my local Kroger's too

It turned a neighborhood one-stop shopping store into a ridiculous high end "green" store with a 40-seat sushi merry-go-round and an automatic potato chip machine and a tortilla maker employing one dedicated employee and a huge excess of machines and floor space. There's a whole hot steam table where pre-made "ethnic" foods go stale -- I've never seen one person buy anything from the 30 feet of choices. There's a huge floral section where (I am told by an employee) enormous amounts of cut flowers are thrown away nearly every night. The deli does not carry the sale meats from the weekly newspaper ad; only the high-end stuff. The snooty cheese section and olive bar go begging. The freezer cases are full of expensive processed stuff. I could go on......

It's absolutely wrong for the neighborhood.

[arcadian]

10. Food Lion and Wal_Mart are also going that "High end" route.

Which means, they remodel the store to make it look "not crappy" and they raise the prices on the same crap they offered before. They usually change the logo around and change the name, Food Lion's new high end chain is called "Bloom". It's still the same crappy store.

[blue_onyx]

12. The one near me still has good prices.

I haven't noticed any price difference between the "normal" Kroger and the "high-end" Kroger. I've gotten soup and pasta salad there a few times and it has been good. The other product offerings seems pretty much the same too.

[femmocrat]

11. I used to love Kroger!

They pulled out of western PA in the mid-1980s when their workers tried to unionize. They were replaced by some cheap crap place where you had to pack and carry out your groceries in cardboard boxes from a big pile. No bags. They just had the groceries in boxes on the shelves.

I can't remember the name... U-Save or something. We used to call it "U Shove It". Very inhospitable place.

Kroger had the bestest jalapeno dip at their cheese chop.... Yummmmm.....

[Bryan]

13. Gee, I've got no problems with the Kroger in town

Union shop, neat as a pin, everyone's helpful, nice bakery, efficient pharmacy, swell prepared fare; maybe your local manager isn't up to snuff.

[grasswire]

14. our "union shop" Kroger's is being picketed...

....by local unions because for the big remodeling now going on they have brought in cement workers and others from outside the state!! There's a big sign outside saying "SHAME ON THIS STORE"