Kroger

This store is so crowded. You can barely have two carts passing each other in the aisle. Better hope there isn’t s pop-​up stand in the aisle or you will never get through.

I hate this Kroger and refuse to shop here any more, even though it is the closest one to my house. Returning bottles here is a nightmare, the machines are old and never working properly. There is always a huge line to return bottles. Today I went to the service desk to ask the girl if she would take back my bottles there, since the machines were out of order and I had already been waiting for 15 minutes for someone to come. She told me she wouldn’t take them back, and I had to go back and wait. It wasn’t like I had a whole cart of bottles or something, I had a neat 12 pack of cans! I also have found expired food here on several occasions, One time, I was buying yogurt and noticed that a whole section was expired. An employee happened to be nearby stocking, so I informed him that the one brand of yogurt was all expired, and he barely looked at me and muttered «I’ll look through them in a bit.» You could tell he was never going to look through them, he didn’t even bother to ask me which kinds were expired. So save yourself a headache, and grocery shop somewhere else.

There are places I’d much rather do my grocery shopping but in a pinch or for a big job where I need a lot of staples I don’t mind coming here. Being a big grocery chain the prices aren’t terrible and most everything is fresh. The problem is that I do try and eat more organic, especially when it comes to certain fruits/​veggies and meat and they have a very limited produce selection and very little organic meat to speak of. They do have a smallish health/​organic section which is good, but they don’t have a ton of variety. If I need special ingredients for baking I have trouble finding it here but for basic flour, sugar, egg, butter, they’ve got it. I also totally love their brand ice cream. The caramel sea salt truffle is the bomb, yo!
I do like that every time you use your Kroger card you not only save money in store but you acrue point to discounted gas at their gas station out front. On big shopping months (like around holidays) I’ve saved as much as .40 off a gallon of gas which is nice when gas prices are so high.
Overall it’s your basic big chain grocery store but cleaner and much better organized compared to other Kroger’s I’ve been to in the area. But for specialty stuff it’s better to go elsewhere.