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I like Krogers, because it's close and convenient.

Sadly, Kroger is the best grocery store in the small town where I go to school.

Grew up on Kroger. A pal o' mine has just reviewed the newest, and largest Kroger around. So did the WVU daily. Though I think they meant square feet...

I used to work for Kroger. Well actually I worked for a small chain near where i lived called Kessel, which then got bought by Kroger.

I can say from experience they really don't care about their employees much. I worked there in high school, and although i was probably smarter and more skilled then most of the people there i was treated badly because I was young. Also, no matter what you had to belong to the union. The only problem is the union did absolutely nothing for part time workers, but yet i still had to pay my union dues. I paid more in dues then my father who was part of the UAW and worked for Buick... which as a high schooler, this sucked.

I would get in trouble for not taking breaks but it was because they gave me so much work to do there was no possible way for me to get it done in the time i was there. So the no breaks this is kind of illegal for people of that age. I also ended up staying late all the time to get things done, also illegal for people that age since during high school you're only allowed by law to work so many hours a week.

Sorry for the rant, bad memories. I hate the savings card thing too, big pain in the ass. Just give me the cheaper price......

Kroger is what is near me. Good variety and reasonable prices. I generally shop there and Costco.

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I miss Krogers. It was clean and had a good selection for not too much money. The grocery stores in the city where I live now (500,000 to 750,000 people) are horrible. Knawed on chicken wings left in the rusted grocery cart horrible.

We have a Dillon's (which is a Kroger brand), and it's the store of choice for me (sadly, we have no Trader Joe's or Whole Foods). Bonus points for them compared to other local chains: They give 5 cents off groceries for each bag brought in, and have a nice recycling program.

I do not have a great variety of stores near me. The one independent grocery is disgusting and known primarily for its "Pick 5 Truckload Meat Extravaganza". My choices are Publix, Kroger, and walmart. Walmart is not really an option, since they do not carry many of the things I like to buy. Publix is nice and all, but they are more expensive on most of the things I buy. I go there sometimes for a really good sale. Mostly though, I go to Kroger since it is the closest. They have a good selection of organics and even just introduced organic beef and chicken in our area. We do not have a farmers market open here all year round with local meat and dairy options so i feel Kroger provides a reasonable alternative in the winter months. Also, they are usually quite helpful there. To be honest, if there was a Wild Oats (or Who;e Foods now) here I would most likely go there, but there isn't, so Kroger it is.

Wow I must have had a bad Kroger as they were the most expensive store in town when I lived in IN. now I live in Oklahoma and they don't have them here. I am a whole food girl if at all possible but in a pinch I do like reasor's.


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I have found that there is a lot of range in krogers--some can be pretty nice with a wide selection of organic and international foods, while others have minimal specialty items and tend to be dirty.

I used to use krogers as my basic store in between trips out of town to whole foods, but, unfortunately, the kroger in my town closed which leaves me with the smallest harris teeter in the country, food lion, and wal-mart.

Kroger was my neighborhood store growing up. It was good for basics, but we were never big fans. And their generic label is dreadful. Now that I've gotten used to smaller, specialty stores in the city, I am always shocked to go to Krogers around the country (or Dillons or Fred Meyer). Most of them are cleaner and have better produce than I remember, but they are so huge now! And they seems that they carry a lot of things I don't want to buy and none of the things that I do.

Kroger's is awful. They bought an independent local chain here, which used to be one of the best chains, and man did it go downhill fast. The "no-frill" dirty gross stores have better choice and service (also they haven't had the long running track record of dairy goods being moldy upon first opening even weeks before the sell by date that the Kroger owned stores have had). It's like they've set a policy that there can never be more than 2 cashiers on duty no matter how busy it is, and of course, those 2 cashiers must not be of an age sufficient to handle alcohol purchases because then you might not have to wait for an extra 10 minutes for the "19 checker" to get off break.

I didn't know Dillion's was an arm of Kroger. I like Dillion's. They have nice produce and a wider range of organic products. And the clerks don't look at you like you're a three-eyed monster when you bring in your own bags...unlike the Walmart clerks who seem hell-bent on sending me home with at least one plastic bag no matter how many of my own bags I bring in.

Damn, what did Oklahoma do? It looks all lonely there on the map.

Screw Wal-Mart. If you want evil, it's called Kroger. They buy out local chains and turn them into bland, homogenous husks of their former selves. Wal-Mart's got NOTHING on these guys.

My parents' hometown grocery got assimilated four or five years ago. Owens used to be a cool store. Now it's just like every other Kroger store. The same safe items and brands, the same limited selection...it's sickening.

Which is not to say I won't shop at Ralphs when there's a good sale. Money's more important than my principles since I'm out of work. But I don't like it one bit.

If you want evil, it's called Kroger... I agree.
The Krogers in Friendswood, TX (on 517) is very evil. High turnover.
The management is oblivious to customer needs and abusive to the workers (especially the kids).
I rather travel the extra miles up the freeway to El Dorado and visit Walmart than deal with the small minded inconsiderate backwoods vermin that manage that store . I thought it would be different at other Krogers.. but it seems even in Houston, Louisiana and Georgia...Krogers hires barely reasonable high school sorta educated grads and places them over folks that they believe don't have the skills to work anywhere else.
The food is over priced and they have the nerve to tell customers they saved money...I could do better against them by shopping a convenience store! I hate Krogers they are not kind.. they are very inhumane to elderly handicap and people that are middle-working class!

Back when I was living in an area that had them, I worked for a Kroger's, in the bakery dept. I must agree that they are not the most wonderful of employers. Though I loved my job decorating cakes all day, I was paid a pittance and had to turn most of it over to the union. I couldn't stand my meager paycheck and left after a few weeks...
Their store brand is absolutely the worst I have ever had the misfortune to experience.