—since I am already boycotting Kroger for removing the sporting magazines from the shelves for advertising “assault weapons”, I don’t have to do anything more—
Long time Publix shopper. Had recently switched to Kroger because of the gas discount. Even that gas incentive is not enough to keep me a Kroger shopper. Back to Publix where shopping “is a pleasure.”
[Most hours of the day—or night—they make customers do Self Checkout, or they have ONE human checker on duty who handles both the scanning and bagging]
Oh, just like Wal-Mart.
Don’t like self-checkout? Get ready, more of it is coming to your local Wal-Mart. They intend to install MORE self-checkout machines and have already been experimenting with a store that’s only self-checkout. And that was some time ago.
Now, if I could only get past 1-800-WalMart to their corporate office’s phone number (local store is not resolving an issue).
Kroger bought the Northwest chain, Fred Meyer about 10 or 12 years ago and has been working overtime to ruin what WAS one of the finest grocery/garden/home goods store in the PacNW. I decided the day I heard this to cease shopping with them, my wife has been loyal for well over 40 years. Go woke, go broke.
It's that way at the Krogers in Fort Bend County as well. Some are in great locations and I can't understand why they are so poorly run. I mainly shop at HEB where there are plenty of cashiers and baggers and they check you out fast. No need to boycott a store like Kroger cuz it already sucks enough to be not worthwhile.
Business as usual at my Publix. If there are more than 2 people waiting at a checkout lane, someone is on the phone calling to open up another lane. No self-checkouts.
Publix is pretty much an employee owned company btw.
Me too and it’s going to be hard for me because they’re the only place in town that sells my favorite ice cream.
No to Kroger for absurdly singling out nonunion employees to punish in the name of ‘public health”
Corporate morons: please stop pizzing on the publics’ legs and telling everyone it’s raining
The Covid vaccine and boosters are the only product in the world whose failure is blamed on those who haven’t taken it.
Where I do my grocery shopping, there are no self-checkout lanes. There’s a real person doing the checkout, and another person bagging the groceries. That second person puts the bags of groceries on a cart and wheels them out to my car. That’s standard service for all shoppers. Besides that, they give me a 5% senior citizen discount on Wednesdays.
. . . . . BOYCOTT THE 'WOKE' . . . . .
I shop at Safeway because my mother did, as did my grandmother before her. How’s that for brand loyalty?
I buy alcohol there because the price is the same with or without their stupid card, which I don’t have.
For everything else, which they mark-up 20% for those without a card, I go other supermarkets (other than Walmart, of course, which is always a dump).
I’m pretty sure that this $50 surcharge for unjabbed, nonunion workers will fly in right to work states.
That’s assuming you actually have items with which to check out... because the store aisles are clogged with yahoos pushing little 3-car trains (like ones your toddlers ride at Six Flags or Disney World) as they fill “online orders” for customers who—wisely—opt not to set foot in the actual store."
So you know how they treat you and your fellow customers. But now you draw the line at how they treat their employees?
I live in a small town. My choice is Kroger a mile away, or Super Walmart 5 miles away. Otherwise I can go 25 miles to, guess what, another Kroger.
At least at my Kroger because it’s a small down pretty much only employees of seeing me so many times I never get the questions on returns or things like that. Also I refused to wear a mask from the beginning when Our Idiot Governor mandated them. No one ever said a word to me when I was the only person in the store without a mask.
Another thing that makes me very angry about Kroger is that they told employees they wouldn’t have to wear a mask if they got the job. I know several that got the job only for that reason. And then lo and behold the company now says you have to wear a mask regardless or you get fired. One employee told me that the company said if they had a medical reason they could not wear a mask then they could just not come to work.
I was upset when I heard the news about Kroger, but after thinking a bit I’m switching most of my shopping to a regional grocery store.
I get tons of coupons from Kroger, but there are only a few items that are bargains - and mostly it’s their store brands.
I don’t like leaving a store I’ve shopped for 20 years, but I can’t do business with them without this being on my mind.
We hate Kroger. Unfortunately there is one right up the street so if we are in a hurry we break down and buy a few things there.
Meanwhile………..a few years ago, Smokers were the target of Health Insurance Companies and now as a result, if you’re a smoker, you pay more for Health Care.
While people that smoked (a legal activity) tried to warn others about this and how it can expand…………Crickets.
The charging more for Health Care due to Life Style ship has sailed years ago.
Sick and tired of surly, unfriendly clerks with sneering attitudes acting like they're doing me a favor by checking me out (not all of them of course).
I can pack my own bags faster and far better than they do -and I am a senior citizen.
BTW: Which grocery chain isn't "woke" these days?