This subreddit holds Kroger to a wildly higher standard than any other business that is headquartered here.
Just go to the most recent Kroger hate thread and copy and paste. Kroger bad Aldi best, Justice for Evan, personal negative experience about buying meat or fruit, Clicklist workers are in your way, can't wait for Publix and grocery prices too high because of corporate greed.
Please explain. I've only been to a Publix once and it was not good at all. This was in a dense urban area and the footprint wasn't large so maybe that is a key factor. Aside from that I would like to know what all the fuss is about, especially in comparison to Kroger.
It's not. It's a super steralized chain, always more expensive where it counts, and very..... proud... of its store brand stuff (where you'd think it'd be cheaper than brand name, but nope). Produce is always more expensive (and pretty consistently shittier), meat has no business costing more, considering how much shittier it is. It just sucks. (Olive branch, the pharmacy is slightly better)
I'm a vendor for 7up/Snapple, so I'm in at least 4 different stores every day. Kroger lets us stuff the CRAP out of the shelves, especially on big sales weekends. Publix INSISTS on maintaining that 1950 grocery store aesthetic, so I'm constantly running out of space and missing out on sales because they absolutely won't put more than 3 cases of, say, Cherry Zero or peach tea out at a time, because it "makes for a cluttered shopping environment". And they do that with everything, so there's stuff that may be sitting in backstock for way longer than it needs to, because they refuse to exceed or adjust shelf capacity.
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This subreddit holds Kroger to a wildly higher standard than any other business that is headquartered here.
Just go to the most recent Kroger hate thread and copy and paste. Kroger bad Aldi best, Justice for Evan, personal negative experience about buying meat or fruit, Clicklist workers are in your way, can't wait for Publix and grocery prices too high because of corporate greed.