Kroger

This Kroger classifies, but requires that you leave your safety, sanity, and shopping list at home. If this is routine for you, here is your go to for groceries.
For it’s proximity to downtown it could technically qualify as an amenity. I would have given the store another star for setting up at this location, but the company has not supplied enough baskets or cashiers during peak times to handle the rush. If you’re not in a hurry this place can be an interesting mêlée of the socio-​economio spectrum, toiling (and loitering) in varying degrees of culinary urgency.
They stock the basic items, and limited organics if that is important to you, but at this store it just confuses me. Luck for me, their security can show me out the door.

It’s hard not to have mixed feelings.
Kroger is notorious for having great disparities between their stores, which is one reason why some of their locations have been assigned pejorative nicknames by insensitive locals. This one, being in a low income neighborhood, is not one of their flagship stores.
But at least they are here — it’s not just an oversized liquor store. Many people in this neighborhood probably don’t need the olive bar or the seedy baguettes and Murray cheeses offered at other Krogers. One could argue that it caters to the neighborhood and there are probably plenty of people who rely on this grocery.
At the same time, I have to admit that what they do offer in here is remarkably unimpressive. The limited produce selection is really the highlight for me. I stop in regularly to pick up a bunch of bananas, but that’s usually as far as I feel I can go. If I’m truly hungry, I may wearily eye the prepackaged cookie aisle. But otherwise it’s kind of a monument for everything that’s wrong about the western diet. I just don’t get the sense that they are trying on that score.
Still, I’m grateful for those bananas.

I visit this Kroger location often due to it being right across the street from my dorm. The selection here isn’t that great as they don’t offer nearly the amount of options that other Kroger locations do. The staff here are pretty friendly and willing to help you should you need assistance. The hours of operation are alright, but I’d rather they stay open a little bit longer since they do close at 10pm. They have remodeled recently and they do offer uscans which is useful because the checkout lines can get pretty long sometimes. If you’re in the area and need to pick something up, then this location might have it but if you have the opportunity to go to another location, then I would definitely recommend doing so.

They have to have the nicest staff of any grocery I have ever been in. The selection isn’t as great as the flagship stores in the Highlands or East end, but I rarely don’t get what I want.
The staff is what makes this my go-​to store. I just wish they were a 24 hour store like a few others in the area.
Yes, the neighborhood is ‘scary.’ So they hire an off duty cop to keep an eye on your car.

Not all Krogers are created equally… this one, I recall, being one of the official Hellposts on Earth (been a few years but doubt it has changed). First, there is a higher chance of items being past their expiration date like, mold growing on items… yeah. Second, the staff… not the nicest bunch — in fact when I went there with my ex, we got 2 cans of pop (or soda to you Yankees heh) tell me WHY the cashier rang 2 cans up as an ENTIRE 12 pack because «she didn’t know how to do them individually»? Oh I do NOT think so… I took the receipt to the customer service desk and showed the manager our receipt and purchase, no 12 pack in sight, manager questioned her about it and she tried to lie and say she rang them up individually but neither I, nor the manager, are blind. Manager called her out on lying, manager rang up our purchase to show the cashier how to do it right. Man, pettiness knows no boundaries because we returned about a week later and guess who was there? Yep, the incompetent cashier and she pointed us out to the fellow trash talking workers and we… ignored her. Why cause a scene with someone like that? And that bothered them because we didnt let them bring ourselves down to their level but you can bet we stopped going there and started going to the less ghetto, more clean with a better selection location on Bardstown rd in the Highlands! Unbelievable right? And that place is even worse with the guy with the juicy jheri curl hanging out front, looks a lot like one of the characters from Coming to America, asking «Hey…need a ride?» But with a look that added the «I wanna stick it in ya too» vibe. Uh… noooo HELL NO!!! That guy was all kinds of sleazy in his «I’m trying to be a pimp» suit straight outta the 70’s! I have yet to come across a grocery store as bad/​unreal as this one in NYC which may surprise a lot of people but its true! Will never forget that incident nor that creepy, juice dripping bastard for as long as I live no joke haha! And my ex was equally creeped out by him too!

This is the only grocery store that I have been to where a security guard watches the carts out front and a county sheriff stands guard inside the front door after dark. On top of feeling eerily like a prison, the selection is terrible. Don’t expect to find any seasonal or organic items at all. You get to top off your trip with long check out lines as there are no u scan machines. If I were Kroger I would take my name off of this store.