Kroger

I’ve been shopping at this Kroger for one year. The staff is friendly and the prices are cheaper when comparing to HEB. I wouldn’t get your meat selection here but everything else seems great. For additional saving I recommend the Kroger card! It has great discounts on gas.

I used to love shopping at this store. Lately, it has gone downhill. Every time I go shopping, they are out of some of the most common grocery items. I would think that this problem would be resolved eventually with some inventory adjustments, but management has not bothered and I’ve had this problem for at least a year. I loved shopping here to avoid the cluster that is the Tejas Center HEB, but there’s no point if I am never able to complete my grocery list and have to go somewhere else anyway. The produce and milk/​dairy sections are the worst I’ve ever seen as far as stocking goes.

Picked this Kroger for my Sunday morning grocery shopping today because it’s really sinking in hard that by supporting HEB, every dollar I spend at H-​E-​B is dumping more fuel on the fire of that greedy corporate empire that is destroying my own neighborhood. (Kobe Steak across the street from my house is the latest victim of HEB’s greed).
I found the meat selection to be interesting and different slightly by other large grocers in this area. Pork Chops were more expensive than Village Foods but they had both bone in and butterfly center cuts as THICK, so I picked up both to do my own Bobby Flay style pork chop throwdown tonight with a side by side comparison of the two.
Cheese selection is small but focused. Wines are pricey and you have to be careful there. I would actually advise against wines here as even with my knowledge it took me 10 minutes to find something of value, a 2010 California Sledgehammer Zin at $ 9 that sells for $ 18 everywhere else. Beer selection is also excellent.
Funny thing happened at check out. Told the guy I was trying to boycott HEB due to the ass raping and urban decay HEB is bringing to my neighborhood. And he instantly looked up and said «You mean them buying Albertson’s on University to close it down?» And I was like, well, yeah exactly. He then told me that he lives on 29^th street right by me so he was one of my neighbors. He also said that he used to shop at Albertson’s and that it was a «nasty disgrace» that the city allowed HEB to buy another grocery store only to shut it down and deprive the gateway of A&M of grocer, out of greed. Well… WOW!
I’ll be shopping here a lot more now. Doesn’t matter if it takes 3 – 4 more minutes to get away from HEB.

So I hardly ever get the chance to go Krogering since San Antonio has only HEB’s and Austin has only HEB’s and Randalls but I figured why not come here during my short CS trip to get a few snacks and gas. This is definitely an awesome grocery store better than about 95% of the HEB’s I have ever been to in SA and ATX and on par with the excellence that is Randalls. Although I have to give the overall edge to Randalls. I can’t live without Safeway Select Ice Cream! I had a Kroger club card from when I was in Dallas so I didn’t need to get one. Like Randalls they have excellent gas rewards but unlike Randalls you cannot stack your rewards and they only rollover for one month while Randalls Power Pump Rewards rollover for about 3 and a half month periods. Either way it’s always nice to have another option to get gas and groceries then the tyrant that is Wal-​Mart and WEB, or excuse me HEB. Also I saw that CS still has an Albertsons, man am I jealous of the selection of stores here! Damn SA with HEB and their monopoly there. So all in all Kroger better then HEB and Wal-​Mart, but just right under the greatness that is Randalls.

This Kroger Signature anchors the shopping center at Boonville Rd. & Hwy. 6, just south of the Première theaters. It is laid out very similarly to the Rock Prairie Kroger Signature store.
when I arrived I grabbed a shopping cart, but soon thought I’d only buy a couple items. Then I spotted something I’d been seeking for a week and a half. Pepsi Throwback, made with real sugar: Its slated to be on distributed until June 15.
Well its not Kroger’s fault that this Pepsi just plain sucks.
As for the rest of the store, they have a decent meat dept., although its combined with a pathetic attempt at a seafood dept., a pretty good beer cooler, but lame selection in the soup aisle, and fewer hot sauces than the Rock Prairie Kroger. Also, they have fewer coffee brands than other stores in the area. Their produce dept. is nearly identical to toe R.P. Kroger, and is about equivalent to Albertsons’, but looks nicer.
All in all a decent store, but not as good as any of the local H-​E-​B locations. Not really worth driving out of the way for.