1.They always put the stuff you need, in the way back.

2. A bottle of mayonaiise that you turn upside down and squeeze costs way more than the glass jar, for no other reason than the fact that you don't have to dirty up a bunch of butter knives getting it out.

3. Discount cards. Next thing you know they'll be wanting to scan our retinas.

4. The customer service line on the first of the month.

5. People in the back of a checkout line that hurry up to the new available lane without allowing the person in front of them to go. And the cashiers that don't care because they make minimum wage.

6. Plastic bags by default.

7. Staring at the vibrant downtown storefronts across from the check-out line. I'm convinced they will get street cars before most mid-sized midwestern cities.

8. Picking a number at the deli (it's a sad day for America when the BMV operates more efficiently than a kroger deli)

9. There's always some hag taking up the middle of an isle that can't decide between Ragu sauce and Prego.

10. Please place the item in the bag. Please scan your item before placing it in the bag. (You heard that voice in your head as you read that).

 

People wonder why I eat out all the time.

Oh, the trials and injustice you endure!

 

 

 

(Sorry, my sarcasm mix is stuck on high today...)

 

Please place the item in the bag. Please scan your item before placing it in the bag. (You heard that voice in your head as you read that).

 

So true. I want to punch those machines sometimes.

^The sad thing is, is that sooo many people STILL don't understand how to use them!?!?!  Also why aren't all of the automated checklines open all of the time??  It takes 1 person to do the work of 4 or more people.  Especially late at night these things never seem to be open...WTF?!?!?

I like how the Ohio Direction Card replaced food stamps to make being on the dole less embarrassing (among other things), yet the U-Scan announces very loudly, "Please take all food stamps to the cashier!"

^I found that particularly hilarious for some reason...I'm a sick individual.

^The sad thing is, is that sooo many people STILL don't understand how to use them!?!?!  Also why aren't all of the automated checklines open all of the time??  It takes 1 person to do the work of 4 or more people.  Especially late at night these things never seem to be open...WTF?!?!?

The sad thing is that so many people use them flawlessly and so many of the cashiers seem to screw up at least once per transaction.

There should be a rule allowing only one person per station at the U-Scan and cell phones should be disabled.

AND FURTHERMORE ........

David, I have a solution for you - Findlay Market!  It's much better than going to a grocery store.

 

I hate the automated checkout lanes, and I find them annoying.  I get even more annoyed when I have only a few items, and the only express checkout lanes open are the automated ones! 

Avoid the store all together.  That what I do in NYC.  Try freshdirect [ www.freshdirect.com ] Is there an online grocery store in your area?

If you avoid Kroger, your shopping experience will improve.

^The sad thing is, is that sooo many people STILL don't understand how to use them!?!?!  Also why aren't all of the automated checklines open all of the time??  It takes 1 person to do the work of 4 or more people.  Especially late at night these things never seem to be open...WTF?!?!?

 

What I hate is when late at night they are all that's open.  I'm anything but a technophobe, but I despise those things and refuse to use them.  I've left a semi-full cart up front and left (never to return) when they refuse to open a "real" lane.

 

I can't stand the "loyalty cards" either.  You know damn well they are working on sharing that database with junk mailers, health insurance companies, Homeland Security, et al.  It's NOYMFB what I buy and eat.

 

My biggest customer pet peeve (besides uncontrolled children) is people in line who have to see what's in your cart and comment on it.

E Rocc, what's your zip code?

E Rocc, what's your zip code?

 

ROFL!  Another pet peeve. 

 

(by the way my profile's accurate....contrary to probable popular belief it's not 44212. :evil:

E Rocc, what's your zip code?

 

ROFL!  Another pet peeve. 

 

(by the way my profile's accurate....contrary to probable popular belief it's not 44212. :evil:

I'm glad you gotta kick out that.  Anywhoooo, Bedford ... Brunswick...same difference.  LOL  :-D

I am going to preface my comment with I like kids BUT my pet peeve is when the kids are at the salad bar "picking" items off and eating them. I want to scream "where is your mother? Go find your mommy!"

 

 

 

E Rocc, what's your zip code?

 

ROFL!  Another pet peeve. 

 

(by the way my profile's accurate....contrary to probable popular belief it's not 44212. :evil:

I'm glad you gotta kick out that.  Anywhoooo, Bedford ... Brunswick...same difference.  LOL  :-D

 

Bedford has a real downtown.  And a historical society that displays more than just cows and IBM PC/XTs.  8-)

I can't stand the "loyalty cards" either.  You know damn well they are working on sharing that database with junk mailers, health insurance companies, Homeland Security, et al.  It's NOYMFB what I buy and eat.

 

health insurance companies???

 

oh, and giggle about the first of the month. I avoid banks then too!

Here is what I hate with Kroger --

 

1. Your "discount" with your "Kroger Plus Card!" is nothing more than a sham to make it seem as if you are receiving a one-up from say... Safeway.

2. Their intrusion into the organic/health food market is paltry and pathetic at best. If you want organic and vegan meals, go to Wild Oats, Whole Foods, or your local farmers market.

3. And the annoying "Please place your items back into the bag" etc. voices at the U-Scan lines haunt my memories.

4. Kroger replacing their customized "Welcome Kroger Plus Member!" that made me _FEEL_ special, is now "Welcome customer!" with some generic "U-Scan" software crap. I miss the old Kroger :(

5. Gasoline rebates. Hey! Our gas is 3 cents cheaper! Or back in Ashland, 6 cents! For cash customers only! Here is a BIG CLUE: Why not DROP the price of the gasoline by 6 cents across the board! That looks MUCH MORE nice on the digital gasoline price screen and will attract many more customers.

 

/rant

5. Gasoline rebates. Hey! Our gas is 3 cents cheaper! Or back in Ashland, 6 cents! For cash customers only! Here is a BIG CLUE: Why not DROP the price of the gasoline by 6 cents across the board! That looks MUCH MORE nice on the digital gasoline price screen and will attract many more customers.

 

I'm guessing the reason is because, from what I understand, gas stations hardly make any money on gasoline - like, pennies a gallon, if that.  They survive on selling snacks and smokes and beer.  So it makes sense to drop gas prices only insofar as it drives traffic into the store for a pack of gum.  Alternately, they can encourage folks to shop in their store rather than Bigg's with the promise of discounted gas, and make their money back on the groceries...

 

Here is what I hate with Kroger --

 

1. Your "discount" with your "Kroger Plus Card!" is nothing more than a sham to make it seem as if you are receiving a one-up from say... Safeway.

2. Their intrusion into the organic/health food market is paltry and pathetic at best. If you want organic and vegan meals, go to Wild Oats, Whole Foods, or your local farmers market.

3. And the annoying "Please place your items back into the bag" etc. voices at the U-Scan lines haunt my memories.

4. Kroger replacing their customized "Welcome Kroger Plus Member!" that made me _FEEL_ special, is now "Welcome customer!" with some generic "U-Scan" software crap. I miss the old Kroger :(

5. Gasoline rebates. Hey! Our gas is 3 cents cheaper! Or back in Ashland, 6 cents! For cash customers only! Here is a BIG CLUE: Why not DROP the price of the gasoline by 6 cents across the board! That looks MUCH MORE nice on the digital gasoline price screen and will attract many more customers.

 

/rant

 

Actually the real thing wrong with Kroger is that their produce and baked goods taste horrible.  My housemates and I bough the same stuff from Meijer and Kroger to compare.  Meijer's produce was fresher, the baked goods were larger and cheaper, and on top of it all, it tasted great.  Kroger on the other hand had small, bland tasting baked goods, and the produce was also small and disappointing.

Avoid the store all together.  That what I do in NYC.  Try freshdirect [ www.freshdirect.com ] Is there an online grocery store in your area?

 

Ugh, I curse you fresh direct customers under my breath- the last thing we need in Manhattan is another fleet of polluting, honking, double-parking delivery trucks doing what folks were perfectly capable of doing by foot before the Internet.  End of rant.

Avoid the store all together.  That what I do in NYC.  Try freshdirect [ www.freshdirect.com ] Is there an online grocery store in your area?

 

Ugh, I curse you fresh direct customers under my breath- the last thing we need in Manhattan is another fleet of polluting, honking, double-parking delivery trucks doing what folks were perfectly capable of doing by foot before the Internet.  End of rant.

 

In my entire life I've rarely gone to the grocery store.  I don't think I could do it every week/bi weekly/monthly.  On the occasions I have gone in for one or two items, I end up going up and down the aisles for products I craved, but didnt need. 

 

In addition, with my schedule it easier for me to order stuff and have it delivered.  Strap what part of the city are you in?

Its meals-on-wheels for corporate executives!

David, I have a solution for you - Findlay Market!  It's much better than going to a grocery store.

Can you believe I've never been to Findlay Market?!  I need to check it out :)

 

 

2. Their intrusion into the organic/health food market is paltry and pathetic at best. If you want organic and vegan meals, go to Wild Oats, Whole Foods, or your local farmers market.

Oh God you're one of those people? Jeez all you need now is a Granola Bar and one way ticket to Portland!

I can't stand the "loyalty cards" either. You know damn well they are working on sharing that database with junk mailers, health insurance companies, Homeland Security, et al. It's NOYMFB what I buy and eat.

 

health insurance companies???

 

Do you think health insurance companies might be interested in lecturing people about "bad" eating habits?

 

This is one of the reasons I so strongly oppose "single payer". If it ever passes, I expect it to be used to excuse a modell-load of "nanny state" laws.

 

BTW, The best time to go grocery shopping is the wee hours of the morning, assuming the place isn't "self check only".  Some of the departments aren't open...but the only one that really affects me is the butcher shop and I prefer the local independent one anyway.

^Depends on the store.  I've had some of my longest waits during the wee hours, when they only have one check-out line open, and some of my fastest during the worst rushes, because you only have to wait for one shopper ahead of you, and every station has a bagger...

 

BTW, I love the self-check-out...the worst wait is never more than one cycle through the four stations...

 

 

Actually the real thing wrong with Kroger is that their produce and baked goods taste horrible.  My housemates and I bough the same stuff from Meijer and Kroger to compare.  Meijer's produce was fresher, the baked goods were larger and cheaper, and on top of it all, it tasted great.  Kroger on the other hand had small, bland tasting baked goods, and the produce was also small and disappointing.

 

You know who had bad ass baked goods? Big Bear. Big Bear was awesome.

I can't stand the "loyalty cards" either.  You know damn well they are working on sharing that database with junk mailers, health insurance companies, Homeland Security, et al.  It's NOYMFB what I buy and eat.

 

health insurance companies???

 

Do you think health insurance companies might be interested in lecturing people about "bad" eating habits? 

 

Insurance companies are very adept at scoping costs for an individual whether in a group policy, or in an individual policy environment. Trust me, the last thing they need to set a proper rate is your shopping list.

 

Also if anyone would really be concerned about an individuals eating habits, it should be the employer (not the insurer) who is shouldering the majority of the costs (read: risk). So next time General Motors starts calling Kroger for Joe Schmoes shopping list, let me know, because that will be news to me.

 

Short One-Line Answer: They don't need your shopping list to lecture you.

 

(sorry I just think you are absurdly off base/conspiracy theorist here, did you just watch sicko or something?)

I can't stand the "loyalty cards" either.  You know damn well they are working on sharing that database with junk mailers, health insurance companies, Homeland Security, et al.   It's NOYMFB what I buy and eat.

 

health insurance companies???

 

Do you think health insurance companies might be interested in lecturing people about "bad" eating habits? 

 

Insurance companies are very adept at scoping costs for an individual whether in a group policy, or in an individual policy environment. Trust me, the last thing they need to set a proper rate is your shopping list.

 

Also if anyone would really be concerned about an individuals eating habits, it should be the employer (not the insurer) who is shouldering the majority of the costs (read: risk). So next time General Motors starts calling Kroger for Joe Schmoes shopping list, let me know, because that will be news to me.

 

Short One-Line Answer: They don't need your shopping list to lecture you.

 

The employer pays the premiums.  The insurer pays the costs.  Don't think that companies won't sign on to lower rates if the insurers decide to issue warnings calling for "corrective action", with higher deductibles or even exclusions if there's no compliance.  As you yourself say, they have highly sophisticated business models.

 

(sorry I just think you are absurdly off base/conspiracy theorist here, did you just watch sicko or something?)

The last time I watched a movie that included Lumpy Reifenstahl (bka Michael Moore) was Team America.

UGH. Another reason why I prefer freshly baked cookies (and foods)from local sources, or ones that were not trucked in from California.

 

Opened up my carton of cookies (20 pack) I got from Kroger. Bought them two days ago and are still good. Found a few BUGS crawling in and around them, despite them being unopened. After I ate two.

 

Now, let me go purge my insides.

UGH. Another reason why I prefer freshly baked cookies (and foods)from local sources, or ones that were not trucked in from California.

 

Opened up my carton of cookies (20 pack) I got from Kroger. Bought them two days ago and are still good. Found a few BUGS crawling in and around them, despite them being unopened. After I ate two.

 

Now, let me go purge my insides.

 

Well, hell, that's how you know the cookies are good !

If the bugs are dead - DON'T BUY.

Marks. Cheapest damn grocery store in Columbus, zero crazy loyalty cards.

 

I do loves me my Get-Go gas points program. Both our tanks were on "E" at the same time and I had something like $2.40/gallon in credit. We pulled the caravan scam and filled up the Honda and the Volvo for 13 bucks. It was like 1998 all over again.

This is one of the reasons I so strongly oppose "single payer".  If it ever passes, I expect it to be used to excuse a modell-load of "nanny state" laws.

 

A "nanny-state" thrown in a grocery store thread. Is urbanohio the greatest or what!

Somehow, I thought I was warped into the smoking ban thread :)

^fascist.

You always spit a little when you say that.

the emotional scars of years of speech therapy are opened back up.

Your poor, poor, soggy therapist.

I do feel for people who have been displaced with the U-scan but I think it is in part due to a shrinking labor market.  I don't mind the U-scan line.  I like to bag my items the way I want them and I'm pretty adept at the whole checkout thing.  What I cannot stand are parents who think the thing is a damn toy and let the kid stand there and scan stuff.  One item, okay.  The whole friggin' cart of munchies?  Oh no.  Ooohhhhh, noooooooo!  If you want your kid to become techno savvy buy the little dear a computer.  Don't worry, he'll learn to surf porn at work just like daddy in no time! 

I made this thread thinking its the dumbest thing ever, out of boredom....I had no idea it would get this many responses.

^ This only proves one thing: Urbanohioans consume packaged goods.