Jackson Jambalaya

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.

I viewed the 'ThumpThumpThump' as a BLESSING. It helped block-out the lame old downmarket music, which only pitiful people had listened to, even when it was new. Coupled with gun range earplugs, and maybe a bit of humming, the thumping of the wheels was mostly sufficient to stop the music.

BTW, back when we still lived in the area, we found that stores in Rankin County played music less 'Top40 Hits of 1973', and less full of earworms, than what was being blasted at shoppers in Hinds and Madison. Speaking of BLASTING, my last moment in the I55 Kroger, was in the self-checkout area. The speakers over Checkout, had been turned up to full volume, and some sort of Ghetto Bubblegum garbage was playing. Couldn't hear myself think, could barely even get my groceries bagged, and never ventured into that hellhole, again.

But I do fondly remember the after-Passover markdowns section! Somehow, Kroger hadn't realized that everybody had fled Mississippi. National, apparently, continued to send. So, for several seasons, we were stocking-up on Matzo Ball Soup and Palm Hearts, at 95% off!!!! Good times...

KF didn't include the carts being used in the store at the time, another 50-60? I've started collecting a cart on the way in, sometimes from young mother-looking-women who shouldn't leave little ones to put their cart away.

I live in Jackson and I have lots of very nice things. I also have shopped at the I-55 store as well as Corner Market when it was Sunflower for 45 years. I get delivery now as do most of my friends in northeast Jackson. Kroger has a deal with Instacart. I don't need a cart and when I do run in for something every now and again, I've not had trouble finding a cart. I go out and about without fear, but I'm not out drinking after midnight. It's a city. I've lived in several cities and there's not one where I didn't learn where " not" to go. Every city has that area. For the life of me, why anyone wants to play politics using their state capital as the example is hard to understand. Executives of corporations want a major city nearby and a smart state government would make sure their capital city is great. They know their executives will need to deal with state government. Between racism and negativity, Mississippians are their own worst enemy which is a shame since most of the people of both colors make the best friends anyone could have. All you are saying to me is that you have made your own lives miserable.

The small carts are sissy, I'd no more use one than a purse.

Why does anyone shop at that Kroger? 90% of the customers there are rude scum of the earth indicative of why JPS doesn't have a chance at being successful. Pay a few cents more per item and shop at Corner Market.

If the bums are living out of Kroger carts, then those Costco carts must be mega-mansions.

Maybe they were in use in the store? Wow. I never thought of that. Thanks for helping. It was moderately busy but not a rush either. Didn't see more than one or two people waiting at checkout lines and self checkouts were full but they weren't lined up. I asked a security guard what happened to the carts and he said the bums were taking them. Hell, I'm not even seeing the target ones as I used to but I am seeing more Kroger carts on the streets.

Getting to the only question that sticks out to me - "why can't we have nice things"...went to Aldi yesterday in Brandon/Flowood and the cart aisle outside along the store was FULL of trash, Aldi sales papers and was down right nasty! Didn't take long for our new nice thing to start falling into an eyesore! The number of reasons we can't have nice things doesn't apply to just the homeless people.

@9:42, not content with the hot air they deposited @9:30, decides to go deep and blow more. Where do you find these people Kingfish?

9:42, Mom, We keep telling you that your neighborhood off Ridgewood has become that place where you should "not" go. Can you please look at that patio home in Madison that Sis and I found?

One presumes that 'Mom', in order to remain in Kush City, has already had a rooftop water storage tank installed (roof-mounting guarantees a bit of water pressure, should the power go out), and has bought an offroad-capable conveyance (preferably, with run-flat tires, and 'Light-Armoring', to foil the locally-popular paramilitary ploy of firing into the engine block) for driving over potholes, sinkholes, and virtual CENOTES bigger than the one at Chichen Itza (presumably minus Mayans sacrificing virgins - but, these days, who knows?).

After a person has installed a roof-mounted alarm/loudspeaker (in case Ecquadorian Robbery Tourists, or talented locals, cut the landline and jam the wireless), and paid to install cams sending images, in real time, to some incorruptible out-of-state security company, and after one has retrofitted the Primary Suite's walk-in closet as a safe room, it's hard to CUT ONE'S LOSSES, and leave.

Bingo. People on here are angry by and large. They hate it when other people succeed. If you look in the mirror and you are mad your neighbor did well then you are the problem. It really is that simple.