Kroger

My favorite thing about this Kroger, is the salad bar. You can stop in on lunch, pack a container full of vegetables or whatever you prefer on your salad, and then the final price is based on how much your salad weighs. They have dressing on the bar too, but I keep a bottle at work, just to top the salads that I bring back.
My second favorite thing about this location, is the seafood section. Today they had lobster tails for $ 5. Don’t judge, but it was the first time that I attempted to cook lobster tail. I don’t think I’ll try that again. I’ll leave that up to the restaurants. They used to have a steamer and they would steam the seafood for you, but now they don’t offer that… bummer.
This is somewhat of a superstore. It’s not quite as big as the Beaumont superstore, but it’s not as small as the Kroger location near my house. Here, they have pots, pans, and lots of other kitchen and cooking related items.
Download the app and save coupons and every Friday they have Free Friday Download, featuring a different free item every week. Today, it was a loaf of bread… score. Get a Kroger Plus card and for every $ 100 that you spend, you can get a few cents off per gallon of gasoline, at the Kroger gas station, which is pretty much in the parking lot. I dislike how they do their sales though, the ones like 10 for $ 10, conning me into getting 10 items, when I only needed 2.
They don’t sell liquor at this location. Kentucky has so many crazy liquor laws, that they would have to have a store separate from the actual grocery store and there really isn’t any room outside of the store. They do sell beer and have a lot to choose from.
I like that there is an entrance and exit that leads to New Circle Road and that you don’t have to exit via traffic light. There is an exit on Bryan Station, but that’s not the most convenient way for me.

This is quite possibly the single worst Kroger store in the entire chain. If there’s a Kroger in hell, it’s probably better than this one.
I once went here five times in one week and every single time they were out of the primary item I intended to buy. And we’re not talking about exotic things like organic pickled moose testicles or something, just simple, standard, everyday, not-​on-​sale dry grocery and frozen items — and mostly store-​branded ones at that.
Another time, I needed help at the self-​checkout — which might as well be called the «only-​checkout» at night — and there wasn’t a single employee in the entire front end of the store. After venturing off to find a stocker to help me summon assistance and then electronically paging the front-​end attendant (which sends a signal directly to a PDA they carry), they finally came inside from the parking lot nearly 15 minutes later.
I’m as patient as anybody and I know shopping carts don’t magically teleport themselves back inside the store by themselves, but that’s no way to run a front end. On top of the service issue, I could have easily loaded up a buggy with $ 5,000 worth of food and walked out the door with nobody ever knowing the difference.
The overall layout of the store is terrible. It’s almost like they’re trying to hide the deli and produce sections, and even Indiana Jones would need a map to find the organic section for the first time.
This store also turns out the lights inside the coolers in the frozen section at night, which has become a pretty standard energy-​saving practice among 24-​hour grocery retailers. What’s not standard, however, is the lights here don’t turn back on when you start digging through the cooler in the dark trying to find something to stick in your pie hole. These fancypants newfangled lighting systems are equipped with motion detectors for just such a reason, but for some unfathomable reason this store entirely disables them at night.
In all my visits to this Kroger during all hours of the day and night, I have yet to see a single solitary manager anywhere in the store or on the grounds. Perhaps they all spend most of their time back in the office sleeping, perhaps the company has developed some sort of new automated system to replace managers with computers or perhaps in place of managers this store utilizes magical robotic nanogenies invisible to the naked eye. Either way, the administrative system in place here clearly needs a reboot.
The only things keeping this review from being one star are you can still get good prices on excellent Kroger products here when they somehow accidentally manage to have whatever you’re looking for in-​stock and there’s a working mechanism on the front end for taking your money (or you don’t mind stealing), and some of the rank-​and-​file employees here are wonderful (particularly the «lifers»). Otherwise, I’d personally go searching for that Kroger in hell before I’d ever come back to this store.

This place has gotten a lot better since it has been remodeled. Not as big as the Kroger’s on Richmond Rd or Palomar. Still, it has a pretty good selection of most items.
Word of advice, you may want to avoid it on Saturday afternoons. That parking lot becomes a mad house.

This chain sucks. No local food. No craft beer that isn’t distributed by In-​Bev. Mostly crappy products. Industrial raised meat. One of the worst grocery chains and only a place to go when you run out of butter or need Advil at 10 pm.

This Kroger is a good grocery store has good prices and a pretty good selection of food, not much organic or natural products but all the name brands.