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If the company really doesn't care that much about serving southern Clintonville, why don't they move out and sell the building to Trader Joe's?
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Mister MooCow
Near Mooney's Mansion
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Posted 4 years ago # -
JimSweeney
E. Fton
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could it have something to do with their not selling alcohol? that's why i don't go there anyway. i wasted like fifteen minutes walking around looking for beer once. I had just moved in close by too!
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ladyryokomuyo
Fiddler Green
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I take it you've never been to Kroghetto on High and King?
Heck, even the Kroger on Main St. serving the Bexley area isn't so hot.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Cyclist
Peach District (State of Mind)
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All Krogers are lame. It is a grocery store. Should be nothing exciting about that. And if you are expecting amazing, exciting, and wonderful things from buying groceries, then you need to get out the house more. Are you wanting your experience to be more rewarding or a ritual like going to some image burdened place?
Just be happy there is food on the shelves and thank God. :lol:
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UncommonSense
Hilliard
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I got whippets there in High School, so it will always have sentimental value to me 8)
The worst Kroger I've been in was in Indianapolis. The worst I've seen, without entering, was Malta-McConnelsville (Ohio). You don't necessarily need to leave the U.S. to find the third world... :cry:
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brandonphoto
German Village
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JimSweeney wrote could it have something to do with their not selling alcohol? that's why i don't go there anyway. i wasted like fifteen minutes walking around looking for beer once. I had just moved in close by too!
I did the same exact thing!! I spent 20 minutes in there looking for booze, thought I was going crazy or something.
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CDS sherman
East Franklinton
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UncommonSense wrote I got whippets there in High School, so it will always have sentimental value to me 8)
The worst Kroger I've been in was in Indianapolis. The worst I've seen, without entering, was Malta-McConnelsville (Ohio). You don't necessarily need to leave the U.S. to find the third world... :cry:
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i have shopped there since 1995. i was a junior in high school. tremendous sentimental value there.... dont even talk shit... :D
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CDS sherman
East Franklinton
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i was not reffering to uncommonsense i was just relating to him..
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CDS sherman
East Franklinton
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Mister MooCow wrote What is it with the Kroger's @ Broadway? It's like the poor bastard step-child of the chain. I've been to stores in third-world countries that are cleaner, more modern, better stocked, and more in-tune with the potential clientele in their neighborhood.
im sorry but its a freaking grocery store and lets just be lucky thats it not vacant empty space as was high st from broadway south till almost pacemont
was 2 years ago for the most. after clintonville electric moved in light of " development" that never happened, that stretch was empty. and kroger threatened to bail aswell. the residents were scared to loose them. but kroger stayed. a good thing thank you....
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CDS sherman
East Franklinton
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im sorry but everything cant be a trader joes... people need real and affordable groceries aswell... :roll: :roll: :roll:
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CDS sherman
East Franklinton
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ladyryokomuyo wrote I take it you've never been to Kroghetto on High and King?
Heck, even the Kroger on Main St. serving the Bexley area isn't so hot.
thay have the largest kosher section in the city....
Posted 4 years ago # -
roy
Downtown
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I believe they do have higher standards for suburban stores, if I'm far from downtown and have to run in a Kroger I notice that they mop the floor and the baggers don't look like crackheads and it doesn't smell funny.
I like the shiny new Brewery District Kroger for bananas and Diet Coke, they also have decent sushi.
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LauraA
LaLaland
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brandonphoto wrote
JimSweeney wrote could it have something to do with their not selling alcohol? that's why i don't go there anyway. i wasted like fifteen minutes walking around looking for beer once. I had just moved in close by too!
I did the same exact thing!! I spent 20 minutes in there looking for booze, thought I was going crazy or something.
i did the same thing in westerville a few years back when they were still dry.
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heresthecasey
OSU
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Walker wrote How old is the Kroger at High & N.Broadway? I looks like it's just in need of a freshening up. Send Kroger some complaints/suggestions about it and maybe it will speed up the process.
i agree with you about the exterior, it looks pretty shoddy. but the interior was just remodeled maybe in 2005 or 2006, so i wouldnt be expecting anything on this front.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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roy wrote I believe they do have higher standards for suburban stores
LauraA wrote i hope they would remodel it and not build another one down the street and leave the current one to rot. which seems to be what happens in the burbs.
Yep. That's the problem with the nice shiny new stores in the burbs. They leave an old abandoned one behind.
I have some friends on Sawmill Road who lived very close to the Kroger just north of 270. Kroger decided to build a shiny new "Marketplace" one across the street. The old one is empty now, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the smaller strip mall tenants move out and get replaced with dollar stores, check cashing places, and other junk.
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Mister MooCow
Near Mooney's Mansion
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LauraA wrote i hope they would remodel it and not build another one down the street and leave the current one to rot. which seems to be what happens in the burbs.
That's exactly what they did; they built a new "marketplace" up at Graceland, so this one is left to be a pox on the neighborhood.
I've tried talking to the manager, complaining via their website, even contacting their investor relations. The manager (when I complained about the disgusting produce and lack of selection--while the UA Kroger's simultaneously had a wonderful selection) has this mindset that Clintonville is something akin to Weinland Park in terms of household incomes. When I pointed at all the high-end houses along North Broadway, she just shrugged. During this same visit, I accompanied the produce clerk back to the cooler in a vain attempt to find curled endive and saw a skid full of rotting raspberries (you know, the ones that come in little clamshell packaging for $3 a handful?)-- in case you've never worked in a warehouse, I'm talking about a 5x5 pallet stacked about 4' high with rotting berries; it had to be hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars of worth of berries. I was aghast at the waste and mismanagement (have they never heard of "rotate your stock" or "discount as freshness date approaches"?).
I'm sure Weiland's is loving that Kroger's sucks, but as wonderful as Weilands is, it isn't exactly a place where you can do more than specialty shopping (and woe unto you if you're jonesing for some Valrhona chocolate at 8:30pm-- Weiland's has been locked down for at least 30 minutes by then). And the Clintonville Co-op (another wonderful place that is open until 10:00pm) fails the test of being able to reliably supply all the main-stream needs of a foodie-wannabe.
If TJ's would move into the old Clintonville Electric or even the old video store just south of Taco Bell @ Hudson, life would be good.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Horse Chestnut
Merion Village
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You mean the South End actually has a better Kroger's than Clintonville? w00t! Go 'billies!
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