Dear Kroger
By Mitch Berg
To: Kroger Foods
From: Mitch Berg, Hypothetical Gun Owner
Re: Standing Up To Stupid
Dear Kroger Foods,
Please open some stores in the Twin Cities metro area, so I can shop at them.
Because any chain that tells Michael Bloomberg and his pet group “Upper Middle-Class Moms Want Action” to go pound arugula is a store I wanna shop at.
That is all.
October 8th, 2014 at 12:13 pm
Indeed!
October 8th, 2014 at 12:16 pm
“Moms Demand Action” sounds more like a MILF porno title than an astroturf’s moniker.
I’ve shopped at Kroger’s many times growing up and always liked their stores. They’re better than Cub stores in the areas I’ve been to where they have both.
October 8th, 2014 at 3:35 pm
Just finished an expansion project for Kroger in Denver. They are huge.
October 8th, 2014 at 4:31 pm
+ a bazillion to nerdbert’s comments. Both of them.
It strikes me that Kroger’s position might be influenced by the fact that they recently had a customer “permanently incapacitate” a would-be thief outside one of their Indianapolis stores. People are starting to figure out what really happens with these things.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:07 am
I used to be able to shop at Kroger when I lived in Texas. I miss them.
I’m with you, Mitch! I think that there are a few vacant Rainbow stores around here that would make their entrance into the market a little easier. Well, except for the one in Bloomington that the union morons have under their thumb. Supposedly, it can’t be used as a grocery store for at least one year. I feel sorry for the little branch of Guaranty Bank that is in still in there.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:07 am
I used to be able to shop at Kroger when I lived in Texas. I miss them.
I’m with you, Mitch! I think that there are a few vacant Rainbow stores around here that would make their entrance into the market a little easier. Well, except for the one in Bloomington that the union morons have under their thumb. Supposedly, it can’t be used as a grocery store for at least one year. I feel sorry for the little branch of Guaranty Bank that is in still in there.
October 9th, 2014 at 7:53 am
I want these guys in the market.
October 9th, 2014 at 1:45 pm
Here in Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati we love their stores ……. They do upwards of 65% of the grocery biz here I believe – AND we have the Jungle Jim’s franchise right in the suburbs north of town. Most fun shopping experience ever …….
October 9th, 2014 at 1:55 pm
Sorry – meant to mention how glad I am to continue shopping at a grocery chain that has some common sense. We had the bad Wal-Mart incident about 30 miles north of Cincinnati just a few months ago – young man who was killed carrying a bb gun – and I was afraid we’d get the full Bloombeg after that incident.
October 9th, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Another thing I’d love to see in grocery stores; in Indiana, my step-dad’s favorite grocery store has a fairly good beer and wine selection. They are 90 minutes from Kazoo, so yes, that includes Bell’s, right next to the milk and eggs.
October 9th, 2014 at 6:33 pm
With all due respect to my Minnesota friends; you do not deserve a Krogers. Clean up your house first, we don’t need any headlines of massed lesbian book sellers and outraged Uptowners getting Krogers to bend.
Failing that, there are a few select spots left in Real America.
That is all.