Kroger beats Wal-Mart (Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati: buy, bankruptcy, construction)

[luv my dayton]

Meijer has good prices and love their produce. Kroger superstores next. Have gone to Aldi for my paper products,detergents and plastic products. Trader Joes has items I like to send in holiday boxs and go there seasonally.

[PerryMason614]

Originally Posted by luv my dayton

Meijer has good prices and love their produce. Kroger superstores next. Have gone to Aldi for my paper products,detergents and plastic products. Trader Joes has items I like to send in holiday boxs and go there seasonally.

I agree when it comes to Meijer and produce (and meats). And things like paper towels and detergent are cheaper there. I like the Meijer brand paper towels (half-sheet). Great quality at a great price. For the store brand stuff like cereal, peanut butter or jam, you can't beat Kroger for price and quality.

You have to watch Meijer. Their sales are good, but a lot of their everyday prices are higher than Kroger. Cold cuts come to mind where I notice this the most.

Walmart I rarely shop for groceries. I like the department store side, but not the grocery store side.

Aldi is also great, but I never got into the habit of going there even though it's across the street from Meijer.

[SWOH]

Going to college in Oxford, every day I'm here I'm thankful that we have such a nice Kroger in town. It's a lifesaver, their food selection is excellent. I just wish I could find more time to actually go there and shop!

Meijer overall is my favorite store though. Hard to beat their selection of food, although Kroger has them beat by a mile on pre-cooked foods like chicken wings, sushi, olive bar, etc. I'm hoping Meijer sees the value here and adds these kinds of food items with their store renovations they are doing all around Dayton.

Wal-Mart IMO isn't worth the time to go there. They are the new Kmart.
Filthy, disorganized stores, poor variety of products (this is what kills them more than anything, really), I mean most of these supercenters aren't even 10 years old and already they look like they've been through a war. Some of the stores I can't even get a cart down the main aisle because they try to shove so much random inventory in. And having all that inventory laying around can't be helping their bottom line. I certainly don't trust buying meat from there, and their produce is consistently bad.

[wsjthree]

I agree with a previous poster who stated that the farther away from Cincinnati, the worse the Krogers become. We had lived in various Ohio cities for over 20 years before relocating to the Raleigh/Durham North Carolina area. I was appalled at how BAD the Kroger stores are here. They are far apart, and I had been driving about 20 minutes to get to the one nearest my home, but they consistently had expired dairy on their shelves, were out of advertised items, and customer services was non existent. Kroger did buy the Harris Teeter chain, which is slightly better, but again, there are too few of them. This area is rapidly expanding in population, but there are no new stores being built. There is a major shopping area near my home, but only a small grocery store there (local chain) and a Walmart with groceries. People here are consistently looking for a new grocery stores in the area and I think Kroger is missing an opportunity.

[jlawrence01]

Originally Posted by wsjthree

I agree with a previous poster who stated that the farther away from Cincinnati, the worse the Krogers become. We had lived in various Ohio cities for over 20 years before relocating to the Raleigh/Durham North Carolina area. I was appalled at how BAD the Kroger stores are here. They are far apart, and I had been driving about 20 minutes to get to the one nearest my home, but they consistently had expired dairy on their shelves, were out of advertised items, and customer services was non existent. Kroger did buy the Harris Teeter chain, which is slightly better, but again, there are too few of them. This area is rapidly expanding in population, but there are no new stores being built. There is a major shopping area near my home, but only a small grocery store there (local chain) and a Walmart with groceries. People here are consistently looking for a new grocery stores in the area and I think Kroger is missing an opportunity.

RDU was one of the markets that I was thinking about where Kroger stores were particularly bad. Some of the Tennessee stores were also pretty bad.

One of the reasons that they bought Harris Teeter was to get better penetration of the SE region.

[censusdata]

Wal Mart's problem is too many Gen X and Gen Y people spent half their childhood standing in line at Wal Mart because only 2 lanes were open, LOL. Honestly the people in most consumers in WM are pure trash and their workers aren't much better. Ditto McDonalds. I am not comfortable being there and I grew up poor and am now middle class. But I never got any face tattoos and my mom didn't wear tight shorty shorts LOL.

The bulk of my shopping is done at Meijer, Kroger, Aldi, and sometimes Trader Joe's (a bit too far away). Aldi has less selection but I've been very happy with many of their store brand products. Kroger has higher prices on most things I buy, but I like to get meat / deli there. Aldi just opened in my market and I just like how their store is run. Very German / European with frugal and practical process you don't see in America. You return your own cart or you don't get your quarter back. Rather than have people complain about the bagging you bag your own things. But they still pay employees more than average while having lower prices.

[maxmodder]

Originally Posted by censusdata

Wal Mart's problem is too many Gen X and Gen Y people spent half their childhood standing in line at Wal Mart because only 2 lanes were open, LOL. Honestly the people in most consumers in WM are pure trash and their workers aren't much better. Ditto McDonalds. I am not comfortable being there and I grew up poor and am now middle class. But I never got any face tattoos and my mom didn't wear tight shorty shorts LOL.

The bulk of my shopping is done at Meijer, Kroger, Aldi, and sometimes Trader Joe's (a bit too far away). Aldi has less selection but I've been very happy with many of their store brand products. Kroger has higher prices on most things I buy, but I like to get meat / deli there. Aldi just opened in my market and I just like how their store is run. Very German / European with frugal and practical process you don't see in America. You return your own cart or you don't get your quarter back. Rather than have people complain about the bagging you bag your own things. But they still pay employees more than average while having lower prices.

If we want to be perfectly honest those born in 2000 and up got a pretty crap deal. Shoppers of today have no clue how to save money by going to Aldi or Dollar Tree. Trader Joe's prices are not good.

If walmart wasn't trash websites like peopleofwalmart would not exist.

I knew a guy that went to Europe for 6 months and didn't change his eating or excercise habits. He lost 40 lbs just on eating typical European preservative free foods. The fact that McDonalds is very successful and that a major debt is owed to China is evidence of the **** poor decision making by Americans.

[motorman]

Kroger's Simple Truth now the nation's largest brand of natural-organic foods, just two years after it was launched:

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnat...n-organic.html

[motorman]

Anderson to become the nation's largest Kroger store:

Kroger to expand Anderson store into nation's largest

Just as Cincinnati food shoppers are becoming acclimated to Kroger's huge Oakley store, the company announces it will open an even larger store at Anderson. What's interesting is that this new behemoth will not be another "Marketplace" store.

[motorman]

Kroger expands into Milwaukee/Madison:

Roundy's takeover gives Kroger stronger Downtown store model

This merger, including an innovative store format, will bring Kroger into Chicagoland.