Why can't we have nice things? Check out exhibit A, the Kroger on I-55 North.
There were all of 15 buggies in the parking lot. What happened to the buggies? Take one good guess. Bums. They start fires all over the place, break into businesses, and steal all the shopping carts, making it harder to buy food.
Kroger shopping carts are now all over Northeast Jackson. Hell, even a house on Canton Heights has two in the back yard. There are a bunch of them at the Hotel O. So maybe shoppers need to take their own shopping carts to Kroger. Progress, baby, progress.
Pitiful.
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The location will close soon for sure.
I seriously doubt it. That Kroger and Clinton Kroger are supposedly some of the best performing stores in the company.
Many of the Kroger locations in Memphis have grocery cart wheels that lock when they hit the property perimeter thus rendering the carts useless unless you want to drag them.
The early Kroger shopping cart relocation activity is declining every day.
Fewer Kroger shopping carts means fewer are being relocated every day and that's how we are boldly moving the city forward.
Watch with your own eyes!
Smaller sizes are usually slightly more profitable than the jumbo sizes, so no carts means no more 36 packs of toilet paper!
Grocery store market share as of Nov 2024.
I like to use the small ones. They once had a dozen or so of them. All gone.
Dayum! Are there that many bums in Jac.....Wait, I retract that.
If only we had a PD that understood the concept of possession of stolen property being a crime.
Put a TV camera in front of Joseph Wade's face and he'll talk about it for hours.
Just left there. 100% accurate reporting of the grocery cart shortage. Was scratching my head, mystery solved.
Re-elect Chowke. He will fix this problem. Right?
In the words of Maximus Decimus Meridius as he screams to the crowd ...
"Are you not surprised ? "
Folks at this Kroger are great. I go early morning. I like the smaller carts too, Kingfish. No, 3:33, it will not close. It has hundreds of loyal customers.
It absolutely will not close. I go there at least once a week, at lots of different times and the place is packed. I've been cartless a few times and it has been very aggravating. Lots of shoppers using lots of carts but there are also a huge number being stolen. I thought there were companies that collected a bounty on returned carts? Is Kroger not part of that program?
I picked up a small Corner Market cart there the other week and took it back to Maywood, assuming it hadn’t come from the Duling store. Those jackwagons are industrious when they want to be.
If people have to get back in their cars and drive to another location so they can use a cart, how does the store perform well?
Make it like any other Democrat utopia, put wheel locks on all the carts and lock everything up.
I don't shop at that Kroger because Jackson can F OFF with the extra 1% sales tax.
Kroger I-55 is usually packed- I wonder what percentage of their weekly sales are paid for by EBT - anyone care to guess?
Jackson is not a city anymore. It a sh*th**e
When the rights of the few supersede the law and the rights of everyone else
Here’s a thought, maybe all the carts were being used by customer inside the store! Sundays are the busiest grocery shopping day of the week. Nah, sounds too logical…
Not the first time I've seen both ends empty. First time I've gone and counted what was in the parking lot. Some of the collection points were empty while the others had no more than two apiece.
I shop regularly at the Kroger on Lake Harbour in Ridgeland, and recently noticed a cart shortage as well. Seems like some of the carts just get worn out. Bad wheels - thump thump thump. I am thinking they are trying to replace, and there is a temporary shortage.
ALDI makes you use a quarter to get a cart. Not much, but enough psychology to get folks to return them (and chain them) until the next person puts in a quarter. Think that would help Kroger? :)
Mondays at 8am is the least busy time to shop while Saturdays between 12-3pm is the busiest time ...
If you plan to go grocery shopping on Saturday, expect to be met with a colossal crowd. According to Drive Research, 59% of shoppers set out to grab groceries at the end of the week, with Saturday being the day of highest volume.
Perhaps some of us should take a step back and realize that the use of a shopping cart in a grocery store is a real luxury. Simple as it sounds, it really is a luxury.
Now, close your eyes and imagine pushing everything you own, which is the contents of a shopping cart, down the road more than likely with no destination. All of a sudden shit gets real, does it not?
Nah, dawg. Not really. I’d just prefer to have a shopping cart, if it’s all the same. I’m not contemplating existential meaning every time I get a shopping cart. Stop the bums. It isn’t theirs.
The solution is to return to the days of old. Hire "bag boys" to take your groceries to your car. I'm sure that additional payroll is cheaper than new carts all the time. And it would actually help the community. It kept me out of a lot of trouble in my days and gave me money as a teen.
7:59 - Here's a thought. Read a whole article before lamely commenting.
Kingfish informs where the carts are located off Kroger's property, thus proving his point. Try to keep up.
Well, the state damned sure makes no money off EBT cards since nothing purchased with one is taxed.
The also make good fish structure when submerged at Ross Barnett Reservoir
Start charging a quarter for them like Aldi -- people *might* start returning them to the stalls.
Since Covid, Kroger has a continues to have a great delivery system and now partners with Instacart. Unlike small suburbs that are spread out, Jackson is an ideal market for home delivery and that is especially true for the I-55 store that has so many neighborhoods in close proximity. The charge is minimal especially if you put a money value on time. When I do go into the store, there are always sufficient carts, and the stores are not as crowded. Some customers will share those carts with neighbors and roll those carts back and forth enough times to have already recovered cart cost in profits. That is not uncommon in cities. Indeed, the I-55 store employees and Lakeland store know many of their regular customers by name. I was surprised the first time welcomed me by name. Kroger has been profitable enough to buy out Albertsons. They are able to manage their business losses quite well, including unsold goods. Observations seldom provide enough reliable information and are prejudiced by the beliefs of the eye of the observer. Just politely and respectfully ask the friendly store managers.
Funny you bring this up KF. Under the I55/maywood overpass Friday evening I watched as a train of Kroger buggy bums crossed in front of the stop light. It took about as long as an actual train for them to pass. Maybe it was 8 or so bums with 5 or so buggies. It was like a bum parade.
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