King Soopers

Massive Massive store, but when you go in there you realize that they don’t sell liquor, or for that matter even beer or wine.

The produce section is always organized.

Good sized location with everything you need.

Usually do not shop at this one, but it was on the way back from eating lunch. I don’t know if it was something in the water or what, but had 4 employees stop us at some point, and ask if we were doing ok, if we were finding everything ok, etc. I will admit at most other King Sooper’s, they will ask ‘Hi, How are you’, but today it, seemed like we got asked just about every question in the book. The layout of this one is a bit weird. aisles are not just parallel, you have some smaller sections where the store is broken into different sections with aisles still parallel, but perpendicular to the other aisles. It’s not just the fruits and vegetables, but other sections as well.

I will start by saying that I am a grocery store snob. I actually drive past the Safeway that is closer to my house, and there is the other King Soopers down County Line that may be equally as close as this one, but I really prefer this King Soopers.
It is always clean, produce is always fresh, I love their cheese bar and olive bar, and the best part is the same managers are always standing unobtrusively near checkout lanes to ensure good, quick service checking out!
It’s organized in a way that makes everything easy to find, I have yet to not find something I need (can’t be said for Safeway!) and it’s a fairly large store. Staff is helpful for those few times I’m looking for something specific and out of my norm. Carts are regularly pulled in from parking lot and I never see other people’s trash/​receipts/​etc in them.
Any time I buy a bag of ice, the bagger always runs to the cooler to grab it for me and put it in my cart. That little detail is HUGE as I frequently have walked out of other stores forgetting to stop by the cooler to grab my bag of ice.
The new deli «computer» at entrance really helps speed of the deli process and virtually eliminates the «standing around», instead I do all my shopping and just swing back through the deli before I check out!

Apparently it had been a few months since I stopped in because of a few major changes I noticed recently. Had to stop in for celery flakes, oddly enough this is the only place I have been able to find them. No, it is not some new Kashi cereal, they are dried celery and I use them for homemade soups and dips. Not that I go on a hunt for Celery Flakes, but I do check in the stores I go into.
Convenient to my office, I have visited this location at all hours of the day. They do carry a full range of most everything. If you need a quick lunch, they have a great deli and hot foods and soups selections. Get well or Birthday Card, Yes. You can find it here. Flowers cause you screwed up… Check, even charcoal and fire logs for your BBQ or camping pleasure.
So I was met with change #1: The enormous new phallic symbols that block the entrance in. Not sure why they were necessary, I would not think someone would want to drive through the front door of the Highlands Ranch King Sooper’s. I find them rather annoying in most any location they are placed.
Change #2: They redid the Starbucks location inside. They made it more of a lounge with a neat little fireplace and all. I didn’t get much of a chance to look around as it was extremely early in the morning and I needed to get to work. I will be stopping back in the near future for a full rundown of the new space.

Well, I can start of by saying it is a King Soopers (AKA City Market) so you should probably know what to expect if you have ever been into a grocery store here in Colorado. There is nothing particularly stellar about this location. It has an acceptable «ethnic foods» section as the part of town it is in (Highlands Ranch) is not as «Culturally Diverse» as other parts of town. So that is impressive. The store is configured in a way that makes sense. So no complaints there.
My one beef with this joint is that I am usually in here between the hours of 7:00 pm and 2:00 am and it ALWAYS seems like the guy who does the floor polishing is going. Seriously, for how much he runs that machine their floors should look like a mirror, and for some reason I have yet to determine, he «chases» me around with that silly zamboni thing, he is not chasing me per say, but I have to take evasive action to not be run over several times per excustion to the store. So… being stalked by the floor polishing zamboni driver aside there is nothing really unique or different about this King Soopers.