My Kroger is closing... (rambling and venting)

[beetrothed]

:sad:

My friend just facebooked that our Kroger is closing!!!

Stupid evil Super Walmart opened a few months ago... Now I'm left with Jade (a tiny chain with dirty stores and HIGH prices -- I've gone in twice and left with exactly what was on my list; I NEVER do that!), evil Super Walmart (which I hated even before this!), and Brookshires (their HCW board is practically dead because they only have a few OK deals from time to time)

we just moved here 8 months ago and I was already missing my publix where I almost always saved more than 50% (lots of bogos and store q's) -- and my CVS. ARGH!!!!

Thanks for letting me vent!

[anbfraz]

I am so sorry! That would be devastating to me too...living in this area gives us so few choices to start with. Taking away your Kroger is practically criminal!

Since you're kinda being forced to shop at WM, check out the free & cheap thread...maybe that will help you feel better about shopping there. Lots of free stuff always helps me!

[CW&M Mom]

Oh that just stinks. I know what you mean. we just moved to rural kansas. I have 3 choices for grocery stores. Walmart, dirty store and overpriced store. Otherwise I have to drive an hour to the next store. (Dillons our kroger brand out here is 2 hours away).

We dont' have a CVS here either....it's the pitts.

((HUGS))

[TheWoman]

It is time to move.

[pedspeech]

So sorry! My Kroger is half an hour away, but it is a small, pitiful store. I drove over an hour yesterday to go to a "real" Kroger so I could have some selection for the mega sale. I miss living near a good Kroger, too!

[danas_mom]

I'm so sorry, how frustrating.

How far away will your nearest Kroger be now? Because seriously, I drive another 30 miles past our nearest WM Supercenter to do my weekly shopping at Kroger. Double coupons alone makes it worth it, not to mention they actually, you know, put stuff ON SALE regularly.

[gavin_and_maggies_mom]

On the bright side, when my kroger went out of business in May, there were TONS of good clearance aisles and i got so much free stuff!! then the last week of operation the whole store is 25%, then 50% and eventually 75% off. at least it can go out with a bang!

[beetrothed]

Thanks for the encouragement... There's a Kroger in "the next town over" which is about 40 miles... Although someone told me this weekend that they heard that one is closing in January... I'm hoping they're just misinformed?

[jaws1]

that's just wrong, wrong, wrong of Kroger If a "bad" store that's not even nationwide can survive WM, sure seems like Kroger could.

[beetrothed]

that's just wrong, wrong, wrong of Kroger If a "bad" store that's not even nationwide can survive WM, sure seems like Kroger could.

It is a very small Kroger... It doesn't even really have a deli and I can't find pretty basic things like Thomas' english muffins... Apparently there have been rumors for the last few years that it's closing.

I went in yesterday and they obviously have stopped getting trucks... No bread, little produce and meat, and they must have shipped the cards back because the whole display was empty. :sad: Enough people shop there that there was a noticable lack of stuff on the shelves, and that was even before everything went on sale...