Long lines everywhere at the check outs AND self checkouts.
Around 15 people in the self checkout lane with only 50% of these things open.
I parked my cart and walked out.
Kroger sucks these days. Restock item blocking the store isles. It seems like the reshelf a lot of things every second week. Moved most of the check out to self check out but they are not even open.
Kroger’s can vary big time depending on the area. Most of them trend on the crappier side, but some are very nice, similar to a Whole Foods. There used to be one in metro Atl known for years as Murder Kroger, but that was replaced by a very nice one once the area saw an influx of investment.
Long lines everywhere at the check outs AND self checkouts.
Around 15 people in the self checkout lane with only 50% of these things open.
Yeah, they recently suddenly fired most of the check out workers, having installed more self check outs, but don't want to actually open and use the new self check outs (keeeping half or less of them powered on).
Long lines everywhere at the check outs AND self checkouts.
Around 15 people in the self checkout lane with only 50% of these things open.
I parked my cart and walked out.
Kroger sucks these days. Restock item blocking the store isles. It seems like the reshelf a lot of things every second week. Moved most of the check out to self check out but they are not even open.
What is your experience?
Not Kroger, we don't have those here but I have left full carts of stuff at Target, Walmart, and at least one other place for the same reason. Sorry to whatever employee found my cart, half the siht was probably spoiled by that time but, mgmt, wake the f up.
At costco, my costco anyway, self check is going over like a lead balloon. Costco checkers are blazing fast, how is some dips!ht customer going to scan faster? And the 4 self check stations were being policed by 3 employees??? Just open more lines goddddammmit.
Summary: I rarely opt to use self check unless A) Its clear, no line and B) I have minimal items or C) I get a discount or paycheck for scanning my stuff.
The Kroger near me is too small and the aisles are too narrow. It's tolerable really early or late, but I go to Meijer otherwise even though it's further.
Self checkouts can suck everywhere. There's always 2 or 3 groups who hold up the line because apparently scanning something then putting it in a bag is a complicated process for some people.
I was once stuck in line behind someone bitching that her food stamps wouldn't cover it. I was stuck waiting in line for 10 minutes before I just left. I then decided I'll spend a little more for admittedly higher quality food (though there's no point in certain things - e.g. Rao's is the best store-bought sauce I've ever had but I'm not paying $10 for a single use sauce that's only enough for 1 dish and maybe 2 meals).
The kicker: this was in a relatively nice downtown part of a major city.
- e.g. Rao's is the best store-bought sauce I've ever had but I'm not paying $10 for a single use sauce that's only enough for 1 dish and maybe 2 meals).
Costco carries this and I haven't bought it and don't recall the price but I bet it was less than that. Maybe I'll try it.
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Hey OP this sounds like every grocery store in CA. ALDI checkers are fast, but you gotta bag your own groceries. Trader Joe’s employees have to ask you questions about every item they ring up, so again, I bag my groceries.. Uggg. The few times I go to Whole Foods they have a 70 yr old that can’t look up codes and calls a manager over. Someone on another thread pointed out that he’s not a goddam employee getting paid so he shouldn’t have to bag his groceries. Kinda agree with him.
funny, my neighborhood Facebook page was just complaining how awful our local one is. Yes, it's awful. No workers, no stocked shelves, dirty, messy. I feel like I'm in a low area dollar general every time I go in. The produce looks dirty and old. The meet is a weird grey/brown the next day in the fridge. Bread always molds quick. I drive the extra 10 minutes to Publix even if it's for one thing. It's just run but idiots really who don't care at all. If you're in a pretty bad area it's even worse.
funny, my neighborhood Facebook page was just complaining how awful our local one is. Yes, it's awful. No workers, no stocked shelves, dirty, messy. I feel like I'm in a low area dollar general every time I go in. The produce looks dirty and old. The meet is a weird grey/brown the next day in the fridge. Bread always molds quick. I drive the extra 10 minutes to Publix even if it's for one thing. It's just run but idiots really who don't care at all. If you're in a pretty bad area it's even worse.
I wished we had a Publix. I go to a couple of different Krogers but even the more "upscale" one has gone downhill in the last 6 month or so. Now you see aisles blocked with palettes and stuff. People make fun of carts with a bum wheel which seem to be every second one you try to pick. You can't find stuff anymore on the shelves and yet they ask you "Did you find everything" every figgin time because they have to.
Kroger owns a brand of stores in the PNW called Fred Meyer, aka Freddie's. Over the past 20 years, the local Fred Meyer I used to walk to as a kid and buy candy with my paper route money has become a husk of what it once was. Some highlights:
1. A band of criminal vagrant drug users lives in the woods behind the Fred Meyer closest to me. They like to enter the store after 8 pm and steal clothes, food, beer, whatever they want. They load up and leave unopposed. Quite the thing to pay $100 for a chunk of your weekly groceries only to see Cletus walk out with hundreds of dollars or merch for free. He's the victim though, I keep forgetting.
2. There's another Fred Meyer in a rough part of town that is only still open because closing it will create a "food desert" which has bad optics for the company, especially around here, so all the poor people come to what was previously a nice Fred Meyer to shop. They look and act like you might expect.
3. Generally only two check stands are ever open with 1-2 u-scan areas coupled with tons of people shopping there means long lines stretching well down most aisles.
4. Never any carts at the entrances. All carts sit out in the parking lot in the cart return areas or are strewn about. Carts are now easily 10+ years old and look it... portions with rusted caging exposed and crappy wheels.
5. In a half hearted effort to curtail crime, the store now closes at 10 pm instead of 11 pm with employees guarding the door and gatekeeping between 9:30 pm and 10 pm. This generally just turns into giving people a bad vibe of "you have X amount of time to get in and get out!".
Long lines everywhere at the check outs AND self checkouts.
Around 15 people in the self checkout lane with only 50% of these things open.
I parked my cart and walked out.
Kroger sucks these days. Restock item blocking the store isles. It seems like the reshelf a lot of things every second week. Moved most of the check out to self check out but they are not even open.
What is your experience?
I don't really understand this. Presumably you still need groceries, so now you have to spend the additional time to go to a different store, select all the items again, and then check out. Sure, the checkout process may be faster elsewhere, but you'll still have to spend more time going somewhere else compared to checking out at the Kroger you're already in.
I guess if you could ensure that an employee with sufficient power to make change found your cart and that they could read your mind about why it was abandoned, then you could claim to be taking a principled stand or sending a message about long lines. However, it's probably most likely that some low-level employee just robotically unloads your cart as one of many tasks they complete that hour, and no greater message makes its way anywhere. Perhaps you're further slowing down the operations of the store by taking a worker who could be returning carts or stocking shelves and now having them clean up your cart instead.
I don't know, this just sounds like a weird "protest" that makes your grocery procurement process longer, with little likelihood of conveying a greater message.
Long lines everywhere at the check outs AND self checkouts.
Around 15 people in the self checkout lane with only 50% of these things open.
I parked my cart and walked out.
Kroger sucks these days. Restock item blocking the store isles. It seems like the reshelf a lot of things every second week. Moved most of the check out to self check out but they are not even open.
What is your experience?
I don't really understand this. Presumably you still need groceries, so now you have to spend the additional time to go to a different store, select all the items again, and then check out. Sure, the checkout process may be faster elsewhere, but you'll still have to spend more time going somewhere else compared to checking out at the Kroger you're already in.
I guess if you could ensure that an employee with sufficient power to make change found your cart and that they could read your mind about why it was abandoned, then you could claim to be taking a principled stand or sending a message about long lines. However, it's probably most likely that some low-level employee just robotically unloads your cart as one of many tasks they complete that hour, and no greater message makes its way anywhere. Perhaps you're further slowing down the operations of the store by taking a worker who could be returning carts or stocking shelves and now having them clean up your cart instead.
I don't know, this just sounds like a weird "protest" that makes your grocery procurement process longer, with little likelihood of conveying a greater message.
He's not rewarding an underperforming business with his money, that's what he's doing. I don't like garbage comic book movies so I don't pay money to go see them. It doesn't stop garbage comic book movies from being made, but I spend that money on another entertainment option that I do find value in and reward that business.
No complaints about the Fred Meyers (owned by Kroger) in my town. The alternative here is Safeway (or the Safeway-owned local brand), which has much higher prices.
I don't know, I wish we had Kroger where I live. This city we travel to often has them and I love it.
Then spend your life being anti-Democrat party, if they're for anything then you'd better be against it, if they're against anything then you better be for it. That's how get and keep Krogers, etc, by keeping out the BLM/Antifa and assorted fellow travelers of the Left.
It is inconvenient when restocked items block the store aisles. It is like could improve their customer service and ensure that there are enough staff members available to open more self-checkouts during busy times...
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