Mr ridge and the rest of his patriot act gang are eyebaling your poultry purchases.
Next time you go into kroger buy some lamb just to throw off those dirty bastards!
Kroger owns the Fred Meyer Chain of Stores in the Anti-Chain North West. This kind of policy wouldn't play well over here.
Alot of people over here don't like this tracking the customers stuff.
When I got to the checkout isle, I use the self checkout whenever possible
Please don't. Number1..you won't save any money. Number2..you work for nothing. Number 3..More Americans will be unemployed. We need those jobs.
Late last month my wife was in the hospital for a week; the local Krogers laid off two people.
Please come out of the 20th century and get rid of your checks. Use a credit card and you will zoom through the queue, and you will have incredible consumer protection that does not extend to checks or debit cards. If you cannot manage your finances, simply write the check to your credit card issuer the same day. Paper checks are soooo 20th century.
I like Aldis.
I have to travel a bit out of Nashville proper but the prices a great.
Kroger is Union and surly.
Since our local HG Hills closed, I go to Harris Teeter mostly.
They must also know the amount and frequency of your bank deposits.
Just another reason to use cash...The fact is grocery stores are NOT banks. The fact that they allow you to write checks is a convience for you. Bad checks are a re huge part of the cost of doing business and many stores are trying to find ways to eliminate it. That's why I use cash...so I can't be tracked or limited or anything else
Simple answer...don't use Kroger as an ATM. If you want cash, get it from your bank. Kroger is correct in not letting check writers get cash over the purchase on a consistent basis. Paper checks are for morons.
Try a debit card or a check card.
in my kroger store,you have to spend 35.00 in order to get a paycheck cashed...
maybe someone can answer me this: Why is this vanity allowed while others are moved to General Chat?
So you're one of the ones holding up those supermarket lines with those infernal checks! I can't believe people still bring checkbooks to the supermarket. Why? It takes five seconds to swipe an ATM card and the money comes out of the same account without you backing up the supermarket line into the produce section while the cashier is checking your name against the "bad check" list and all those other time-consuming tasks associated with processing a check. C'mon, it's the 21st Century - get with it.
Checks? Come on, checks went out with powdered wigs. Use a debit card.
Retailers make waves for RFID
The overwhelming message from the world's biggest retailers and RFID--fans to their suppliers is--don't wait to be told to use RFID, start your projects now. The only problem seems to be that suppliers are less than clued-up when it comes to the supply chain chips.
Speaking Wednesday at a conference organized by not-for-profit RFID standards organization EPCglobal, both Wal-Mart and Tesco were encouraging their suppliers to adopt the tracking technology now.
Colin Cobain, UK IT director for Tesco, advised suppliers to get involved and take a considered view of the new technology. "Some manufacturers are going down the route of slap-and-ship--I urge you not to do that... If you start of slapping-and-shipping, you'll get a bad name in your organization." He added that the question about RFID was not "whether or not it will make a huge difference in the world: the question is, will you be ready?"
Simon Langford, manager of RFID strategy for Wal-Mart and Asda, said "start engaging in RFID today... don't sit back and wait for it to happen." Wal-Mart, remember, were so enthusiastic about the technology that they issued a mandate telling their top suppliers to get the tags in their supply chain by January 1, 2005, or else.
Langford revealed that retailers weren't the only ones falling over themselves to get on the RFID bandwagon. Since the Wal-Mart diktat was issued, 37 smaller suppliers not affected by the mandate had contacted the chain store and asked to join in with the technology.
While Tesco is planning its own rollout and testing the technology on DVDs and other homes entertainment products in two UK stores, it isn't discounting the possibility of issuing a similar declaration.
Tesco's Cobain said that in the event of it requesting 100 per cent manufacturer adoption of RFID, the company would give its suppliers at least six months to get on board.
One Tesco supplier, however, wasn't entirely convinced that the time would be sufficient, saying: "There are many hundreds of suppliers that aren't aware [of RFID] and could be caught be napping," and added that six months was a long enough lead time only if suppliers started their own research and pilots now.
The issue of cost was also playing on suppliers' minds, with one not-as-yet RFID-enabled supplier posing the question of whether the retailers paid for the technology they want suppliers to have.
Both Tesco and Wal-Mart replied in the negative but both are keen to stress that adopting RFID isn't money for nothing. Cobain added that it was in retailers' interest to make the proposition win-win for them and their suppliers.
And while the thought of spending around 10p ($.07) a tag and £1,000 ($1,772) for an RFID reader might loom large, the benefits are there to be had, the retailers insist.
One such benefit is that RFID means better supply chain visibility and that means less out of stock items - which Wal-Mart estimate as comprising about 8.3 percent of items worldwide.
Just get a new Kroger card in your name only.
Kroger is really struggling these days. That probably has a lot to do with any changes in their check-cashing policies.
I don't take checks at ALL in my businesses anymore. If someone has a checking account that they properly maintain, it's easy enough to get a debit card, which doesn't have all the risk for businesses that checks do.
As to why I don't take checks anymore, it's quite simple: I have too many of them left over from when I did.
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