"Don't sell anything that you wouldn't want yourself" words of Wisdom from the video

@glennso47

Жыл бұрын

Except they do just that nowadays.

@glennso47

Жыл бұрын

When he sold the meat, did he put his thumb on the scale? Was any of the meat formerly the horses that were delivering the meat?

@annarodriguez9868

Жыл бұрын

Basically, the rule was "Do unto others as you would want it done unto you." It's as it should be and that's why it has been successful.

I used to go 'Krogering' with my father as a child in the 1950's. I use that term because I can still remember the jingle today: 'Let's go Krogering, the happy way to shop'. I'm glad they are still around!

@veronicaferguson8548

2 жыл бұрын

As soon as i saw the video title ,i sang the song😂

@dalebailey754

Жыл бұрын

Let’s go Krogering. Krogering. Krogering. Let’s go Krogering. A better way to shop. Let’s go Krogering. For the best of everything. Including the price!

@jaredevildog6343

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like great memories!

@aaronwilliams6989

10 ай бұрын

​@@dalebailey754I remember that song.

My Dad worked for Kroger for 39 years at the warehouse on Lindbergh in St. Louis county.

@HockeyGuy_in_STL

3 жыл бұрын

Grew up in Kirkwood and went to KHS.

@unclemonster48

3 жыл бұрын

Such an awesome career! Back when employers cared for their employees.

@LoriFoster

3 жыл бұрын

30 years in Cincinnati!

@theodoreskaff1209

3 жыл бұрын

He probably unload my trucks!

@unclemonster48

3 жыл бұрын

@Anthony Chavez that’s kinda weird about piggly wiggly. Down here in the south they buy up old Winn Dixie stores and take up shop and do pretty well here. But who knows the grocery business can change like a fart in the wind these days.

"Let's go Krogering for the best of everything, including the price"🎶🎶🎶I still hear that jingle when I step into the store to grocery shop.❤🐘❤

@PegsHouston

3 жыл бұрын

That must be me you hear, I sing it every time I shop there. They're getting used to me, lol...

@mikefannon6994

3 жыл бұрын

"Kroger - the happy way to shop"

@aurorarose2836

3 жыл бұрын

@James Doolittle ...oh no, I'm sorry to hear that about your Kroger experience.

@packingten

3 жыл бұрын

@James Doolittle Yes Jimmy I was thin my whole life,Then the very thing I done for a living injured my back,So sitting in front of TV with nothing else to do... @70 Years old...Ahhh yes grab a box of Hostess Twinkies & a glass of homogenized milk...What else!?😊.. No speech please..🤪

@chrisgarrett601

3 жыл бұрын

@James Doolittle I am sure Harris Teeter is not the same as it was before Kroger. I worked at Kroger 25 years, And it was a good place to work before about 2010. But it started going downhill. I left in 2019 and I am glad I did I cannot say too much more here because I don't want to get sued. I do have some awful stories the way I was treated about my last 2 years.

An awesome documentary! $372 to open a business. Now those were the good 'ole days!

@jonnelson9760

3 жыл бұрын

You have to rephrase that with inflation $372 is equivalent to $10,475.25 today. $10,500.00 to open a business. Now those were the good ‘ole days!

Never even heard of Kroger until we moved to TX (from CA) in 1995. Suddenly they were everywhere. Loved the store.

@mrbear1302

2 жыл бұрын

You never shopped at Ralph's?

@annarodriguez9868

Жыл бұрын

@@mrbear1302 I shopped at Ralph's in California, but didn't know it was a part of Kroger. First time I heard of or saw a Kroger was when I went to visit a friend in Little Rock in 1980. Now I've seen Kroger labels at Food 4 Less.

@dalebailey754

Жыл бұрын

Kroger had owned Ralph’s and Food for Less for probably 20 years or more, as Kroger purchased their parent company, Fred Meyer, about a year after it purchased Ralph’s and Food for Less.

Part of my supper tonight was a slice of Kroger-baked marble rye...and I loved it. :-)

I lived in Dayton, Ohio from 1972 to 1985. We shopped at Kroger's all the time. Thanks so much for the fascinating history! 😊👍

I shop at Kroger all the time. Ironically, as a child in the 70's, my family rarely went to Kroger. 2 of my brother in laws worked for Kroger. One worked at the local Kroger bakery and the other was a truck driver for the company. In the late70's-early 80's, my bro in law who worked at the bakery would sometimes bring different types of breads and pastries to our house. My favorites were the white powdered donuts and the chocolate chip cookies.

@lloydkline1518

3 жыл бұрын

1970s they had farmers jack supermarket:::A&P Supermarket;;etc etc

I get the best deals at Kroger. Love the deli and bakery at my store. They put Walmart, Aldi's and Meijer to shame. Love Turkey Hill peach ice tea!

Behind every big company, there was a innovative, motivated and great person. With the death of every great company, there are fools.

Plus with the Kroger points you can save on gas and that's great.

Kroger was the first job I ever had when I was 17

I live in Detroit, Michigan and the very first Kroger store I went to was in the Eastland Shopping Center in Harper Woods, Michigan. I remember when Kroger had stores in the Eastland, Northland, Southland, and Westland Shopping Centers. I, also remember when Kroger had a Bi-Lo Supermarket Division that did not give out Top Value trading stamps. When Kroger stopped giving out Top Value trading stamps and they renamed the Bi-Lo Supermarkets to Kroger. The first Bi-Lo Supermarket I went to was in Hamtramck, Michigan. It was located on Holbrook just west of Jos Campu in Downtown Hamtramck. After renaming the Bi-Lo stores to Kroger then, Kroger came out with the Kroger Plus Savings Card. P.S., Kroger had closed the Eastland, Northland, Southland, and Westland Shopping Centers stores permanently. Kroger also had quite a few stores located in the inner city of Detroit, which Kroger had closed permanently.

We shop at a Food4less which is the where a lot of Kroger's overstock ends up at reduced prices

Kroger left my area in the early 1980s when I was very young, but I still remember "Let's go Krogering!" Now I have to leave the state to go to Kroger.

@dalebailey754

Жыл бұрын

Not sure where you live, but it’s possible Kroger exists there under a different banner name, or soon will be if the FTC clears the way for the Kroger/Albertsons merger.

I miss those chocolate chip cookies the bakery used to sell. A dozen, wrapped in a styrofoam tray for $1.99 back in the 80's. They tasted really good, soft and chewy. Almost like they were homemade.

Wow! I never knew that Barney Kroger was such an innovator.

One word: Superb, to describe this retrospective! Kroger is an American icon of the highest regard. Barney would be speechless but overflowing with pride. My Mom bought lots of lovely things for our home with Top Value stamps. My sister and I used to have pasting parties with her. It was fun!

@oceanlover3530

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a great memory! ✌🏻🙂✌🏻

I love Kroger, shop there for groceries & get my meds there, have for many years. After my husband died 5 years ago, the people at the pharmacy gave me hugs & comfort words & one young employee came out from behind the counter & hugged me one day & said " I just heard today about Jimmy dying ". I don't believe that happens at all pharmacy's unless they really care about their customers. I always remember that.

Today Kroger is the sixth largest retailer by sales in the US, behind only Walmart, Amazon, CVS, Costco and Walgreens, and is the 17th largest of any US corporation.

@R32R38

3 жыл бұрын

@Proud Pastrami I suspect it's due to the nature of the business. Food retailing is a steady but unexciting industry. A well-run company like Kroger can almost always make money regardless of economic conditions, but given the very low retailer markups in the business it can't significantly grow earnings unless it keeps expanding into new territories or acquires other retailers. In Kroger's case, territorial expansion has gotten more difficult as its "footprint" has grown, and there are fewer and fewer acquisition candidates (not to mention antitrust concerns). What it means is that while the company is as close to a Guaranteed Sure Thing as you can get, with a risk of failure that's essentially zero, it's also not going to be the sort of fast-growing company that stock market investors like.

@DebbieFeury

Жыл бұрын

Kroger used to earn CVS years ago

My relatives from Kentucky always say we're going to "The Kroger"!

@lindawolffkashmir2768

3 жыл бұрын

In N. Indiana, it’s Kroger’s. Much like Meijer’s, we tend to add the apostrophe S to everything up here, even though it doesn’t have it in a lot of cases.

@johnnyobigcatdaddy

3 жыл бұрын

@@lindawolffkashmir2768 I had to work hard at not adding the 's to both stores! Think I finally stopped at age 50!

@JL-sm6cg

3 жыл бұрын

@@lindawolffkashmir2768 I thought only in Michigan we added the 's on the end of all store names that didn't have it already. Lol

@lindawolffkashmir2768

3 жыл бұрын

@@JL-sm6cg Happens in Indiana, too!

@UserName-ts3sp

3 жыл бұрын

i live in ohio and i say krogers or meijers

Despite what people think of Kroger, they did pioneer much of the modern supermarket concept. In fact, their willingness to build modern stores effectively finished off the A&P company in most of the USA.

I grew up in Union, Kentucky and remember trips to Kroger’s in the 50’s and my mother getting Top Value Stamps.

@davidcooper9952

3 жыл бұрын

My mom bought me an HO scale train and slot car racing set with the stamps! In Cleveland.

Funny thing I was watching your videos last night thinking to myself he should do one on Kroger. I open youtube and lo and behold my wish is granted. So awesome thank you for making this vid.

@Daledavispratt

3 жыл бұрын

This channel is the Kroger of KZread! :-)

@coloradostrong

3 жыл бұрын

Cause you tAlK in yOuR sLeEp. We heard you.

This was interesting! Thank you! Kind of funny that we've come full circle with grocery deliveries. They are more popular than ever.

I used to go to Kroger all the time. I don't have any near me now. I had no idea how diversified the company became.

My Grandfather managed a Kroger during the Great Depression in West Virginia.

I did this very morning.

I am going on my 19th year at Eastland Kroger in Nashville TN... And we have a happy Crew to work with everyday!!! Live 3 blocks away from the store #880 and I am also play my keyboards at the store as well; been a musician for over 4 decades!!! Loved the video. Thanks for letting me be a great full employee!!!

Yep, we have a Kroger in downtown Cincinnati. I was there today.

I remember Piggly Wiggly which I spotted that grocery store in this video.

@lyleswavel320

3 жыл бұрын

Had one in Sulphur Springs Texas 15 years ago and Clarksville Texas 18 years ago

@doug9066

3 жыл бұрын

@@lyleswavel320 I remember them when I lived in the midwest as well as Red Owl.

its amazing how the Kroger company did things right and kept the company not only alive but brought in other stores. obviously a well run company

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

@@flyone8350 Haha Freddie Freddy??

@oceanlover3530

3 жыл бұрын

@@flyone8350 And I heard Kroger and his family were actually aliens from Mars disguised as humans. They were trying to take over the human species. Scary stuff huh? ✌🏻✌🏻

Do a video on Winn Dixie, I would like to know the history of that chain. These videos are awesome.

@johnnyobigcatdaddy

3 жыл бұрын

I was a truck driver in the late '80's and early '90's, and made a delivery to a Winn Dixie whse. in New Orleans in the middle of August! I got there the night before my delivery, so me and 4 other drivers got a cab and went to the French Quarters, and it was so hot that sweat was dripping off my finger tips at 11:00 at night! It was a fun night though!

@codybrandoncargle3129

2 жыл бұрын

I used to work for Winn Dixie working there sucks on pay, but shopping there is better than they were in the early 2000’s. 🤔

And this past week Kroger opened a bigger store in Teays Valley, WV! I visited that new store for the first time just today!

@romangedz730

3 жыл бұрын

Is there one at the St Albans mall?

@RolandTaylorJr

3 жыл бұрын

@@romangedz730 Their Kroger is still there, but they haven't made that one bigger yet!

My wife's great-grandfather was offered a chance to go into business with Mr. Kroger. He figured it would never work so declined. Oh, well. If my wife was some kind of executive with the Kroger Company, I wouldn't have met her.

@lloydkline1518

3 жыл бұрын

Wow::: I hear that story about Starbucks coffee ☕shop too;;:

I shop at Kroger 2x a week and love their coupons and points on ⛽

Another great video by Recollection Road. Hope you do one about Jewel-Osco

@nickhill8612

3 жыл бұрын

I never heard of that.

@cdfreester

3 жыл бұрын

I second that request

I used to work for Kroger as a bagger in the 90's after i finished high school and had an uncle who worked in upper management at a Kroger warehouse in Salem VA and I worked at the Vinton VA store

Great video as always, After Kroger bought Harris Teeter here on the East Coast they lowered prices which is great

@glutenfreejoe6099

3 жыл бұрын

@James Doolittle Albertsons bought Safeway and Acme, Giant bought Food Lion

@LarcR

3 жыл бұрын

Harris Teeter prices weren't lowered enough. They are still expensive except for sale items.

I work at Kroger in Michigan. Good place to work!

Thanks for sharing😊

When I was a child in the 50's and 60's my mom would go to Kroger. We did not have a car but the store was close by. On Friday or Saturday it was the big shopping day. She took one of those personal carts you pull. I was horrified especially as a teen. Because she made me go with her. You know how teens throw little hissy fits!! We did have a local grocery store that my mom would go to for staples during the week while I was in school. My mom did all the shopping dad did not get involved. We did have an A&P, Great Scott and a Wrigley's but they were too far to walk. Now as a senior I am thinking about getting one of those personal carts. I am sure my mom is laughing on the other side🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. PS still shop at Kroger to this day😊😊.

@sixletters9759

3 жыл бұрын

Did you grow up in Detroit? I remember Great Scott and Wrigley's from when I was a kid, in Detroit.

@maryl5567

2 жыл бұрын

Loved your personal story!!

@glennso47

Жыл бұрын

Some people go to the grocery store and they steal the shopping carts to take their groceries home. Then they leave the carts at the curbside. 😮

Now we've almost gone full circle back to delivering groceries and packed pickup orders. Soon Kroger is launching drone delivery rather than horses.

@b.savage8953

3 жыл бұрын

Not quite because the quality is not the same now as then with most but I do love Kroger better than walmart.

@flyone8350

3 жыл бұрын

They will arrest me and say I attacked their drone.

@jamesslick4790

3 жыл бұрын

@@b.savage8953 Hell, I like 7-11 better than Wally world. 😜

@prgunnels7679

3 жыл бұрын

I work in ClickList and we have several customers that hire Instant Cart to pick up their order.

Giant Foods also gave out Top Value stamps. My brother ordered a pocket knife in the mid 60s from the stamps collected.

I used to shop at Kroger when I lived in Cincinnati for around 9 years but there aren't any where I live now.

In the 1890s, John S. Dillon opened a general store in Sterling, Kansas, and learned that allowing customers to charge then pay later and delivering groceries to their homes was a financial and manpower strain on his business. In 1913, he opened his "J.S. Dillon Cash Store" in Hutchinson, Kansas employed a new marketing concept called cash and carry, where the store would not offer credit or delivery services. Dillon opened a second store in 1915 that he managed then placed his son, Ray E. Dillon, in charge of the original store. In 1917, the company was incorporated under the name "Dillon Mercantile Company, Inc". Due to his sons John and Ray both being overseas in France during World War I, Dillon sold his company to his investment partners, but soon afterward both sons returned. They opened a new store called "J.S. Dillon and Sons Store" in 1919 and incorporated in 1921.[1] After several decades of steadily building the chain, a burst of growth began in 1957, when John's son, Raymond, expanded with additional stores in the Wichita market when, in September 1957, Kroger sold off its Wichita, Kansas, store division, then consisting of 16 stores. By 1968, J.S. Dillon and Sons had grown into Dillon Companies, Inc., and began acquiring regional banners, such as City Market, Fry's, Gerbes, and King Soopers, over 300 convenience stores in five states, and Jackson's Ice Cream dairy. Dillon Companies, Inc., joined the Kroger company in 1983 and brought with it two future CEOs: Joe Pichler, who served as CEO of Kroger from 1990 to 2003, and Kroger's former CEO, Dave Dillon. Dave is the great grandson of J. S. Dillon. Today, more than 12,000 employees work at 93 stores in the Dillon Stores Division, which includes 26 stores in Wichita, Kansas, area; 11 stores in the Omaha, Nebraska, area; nine stores in Topeka, Kansas; and 24 fuel centers. The format for most locations is the traditional combination of food, general merchandise, and pharmacy, with an average of 49,000 square feet per store. The division offers Dillons Marketplace stores in Kansas, located in Wichita, Andover, Derby, and Hutchinson. In 1983, Dillon Companies, Inc., was acquired by The Kroger Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, creating a nationwide grocery chain. Several years later, David Dillon was named Kroger's President and COO and became CEO in 2003. Dillon retired from that position effective January 1, 2014.[2]

@cdfreester

3 жыл бұрын

We lost Dillons in the Kansas City area in 2009. We miss them - Dillons was our favorite grocery store.

My mother worked at a Kroger’s supermarket in the early 1960’s in Bloomington, Illinois. I remember going there to shop on several occasions when I was a little boy. We used have Dillons in our area in northeastern Kansas, but they moved out 12 years ago. It was our favorite grocery store. I still miss them.

I miss going to Kroger. It was so convenient.

I shop Kroger at Smith's in Las Vegas, and their prices are definitely lower than the rest especially Albertsons and Vons. On some things, the price difference can be as much as a couple of dollars on a single item. I get sticker-shock if I have to go to Albertsons for something.

@louisianarainwater

3 жыл бұрын

So true!

@dalebailey754

Жыл бұрын

Wow! That’s a huge difference!

I thought it was Piggly Wiggly that invented the self serve grocery shopping. But it was Kroger that brought many of the conveniences we take for granted today! Electronic scan is cool, but I wish they'd take back the self check lanes.

@marks.c4753

3 жыл бұрын

They did.

@healwithsunshine

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. That’s what the video on Piggly Wiggly said.

I moved back to the midwest recently and after 30 some odd years in Oklahoma, I've rediscovered Krogers. One of the things I've really been impressed with is their store brand products. Most that I've tried have been very good quality. Their Big K cola is not bad for a generic store brand, and a 2 liter is less than half the price of Coke and Pepsi. With few exceptions, their store brands have been as good as their brand name counterparts.

@6:59; it's been a long time since seeing a Kroger that looked like that!

Kroger is an American icon and your channel is awesome.

I was just at Kroger yesterday. I'm surprised you didn't mention the 'Let's go Krogering" jingle of the 80s

When Kroger expanded with their second store, they rented space from my great grandparents at their East End business called East End Cafe. The building caught fire a few years ago and was torn down.

I remember shopping Kroger with my mom on Friday nights. Free samples and fill whole basket for $25.00.

Kroger still thrives in my city when all others have died. It's sad but I'm glad we still have Kroger.

@luisreyes1963

3 жыл бұрын

Aren't you lucky? 😁

@ChristopherSobieniak

3 жыл бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 Perhaps, but I liked a local chain more (Food Town).

@xr6lad

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure a choice of ‘oneI’ supermarket is great.

@ChristopherSobieniak

3 жыл бұрын

@@xr6lad I know. But that's the crap I deal with now in my old age and the way things have become.

How well I remember shopping with my mom at our small Kroger as a child. We avidly saw ed and redeemed Top Value stamps. Kroger is still my favorite grocery store.

The first time I remember Kroger was living in Louisiana; we had a store in New Iberia on the eastern edge of Route 182 at the city line. IIRC, we tended to split our grocery shopping between Winn-Dixie, Kroger, A&P, and Delchamps. Most recently, within the last couple years or so, visiting with family members in Ohio often saw me with my wife and kids at Kroger. I loved the Kroger Spring Water; besides that, I also loved that they'd sell wine and liquor in the Krogers there(Manischewitz and Mogen David are my favorite wines).

When I was little there was a Kroger on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh's East Liberty section across from the Nabisco bakery adjacent to Mellon Park. It closed down in 1969 when I was seven. It broke my heart. Kroger would leave the area 15 years later.

I love this! So nostalgic! 👍👍👍👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😍😍😍😻😻😀😀😀😀😄😄😇

I don't believe there are any actual Kroger stores on the west coast, but one of the chains shown on the list - Foodsco heavily features the brand, which I'm just as pleased with as other name brand products! In fact, when one of my cats was little she loved the instant cheese grits so much she used to chew on the unopened packets until I started bagging them out of her reach!

@vf5126

3 жыл бұрын

They’re not called Kroger, but Kroger owns the ‘Fred Meyer’ chain in the Pacific NW. FM has both Variety and Apparel sections, but the Grocery side features ‘Kroger’ labeled products..

@runrafarunthebestintheworld

3 жыл бұрын

I have never been to a Kroger. I don't think I've seen one anywhere in California and probably not the only one.

@dalebailey754

Жыл бұрын

Kroger owns the Ralph’s, Food for Less, Foods Co, Quality Food Centers (QFC), and Fred Meyer chains all on the West Coast, as well as Smith’s and Fry’s, just a little east of the west coast chains. Their presence in the western US is huge.

🎼 Let's go Krogering, Krogering, Krogering, let's go Krogering, the place to shop🎼 💙🤍

@flyone8350

3 жыл бұрын

The place to get arrested and have your life destroyed

THEY ALSO STARTED THE FIRST DOUBLE MANUFACTURER'S AND TRIP COUPONS PROGRAMS AS WELL.

Until one year old I lived in an apartment across from the Kroger elephant. Troy st. In Dayton Ohio. My first learned word, elephant.

My great grandfather drove a horse and wagon for Kroger in Cincinnati, Ohio

Three words about my favorite thing about Kroger: Shaved deli ham.😋😋😋😋😋😋

I shop regularly at Mariano’s and, through the last year, order a shipment a couple times a month from Kroger for pantry staples. Great prices and free shipping.

My first job ever Kroger Alcoa Tennessee in 1989♥️♥️

3:59 A Kroger to the left of a Ben Franklin! In Swissvale, Pennsylvania there was this exact paring in the 1970s, But rather than on an Edwardian main street, It was in a late 1950's shopping center.

I am surprised that there is something very significant that is missing - Kroger at one time, and still may be, the largest florist in the country. I don't shop at Kroger a lot but if I need flowers to take somewhere, I always go to Kroger.

@aurorarose2836

3 жыл бұрын

I buy flowers and plants almost every time I shop at Krogers. Their plants are of high quality.

Kroger was king in Houston until a few years ago when HEB came into town. Since then more and more customers switched to HEB and Kroger is almost a ship out of water.

@robertjaent6087

3 жыл бұрын

HEB should come north to ohio and would do the same to kroger in its company headquarters! I have been in HEB stores and they are amazing and the price is well below that of kroger.

@runrafarunthebestintheworld

3 жыл бұрын

@Joe Nickell I haven't seen a Kroger in California though. LoL

@dudedude949

2 жыл бұрын

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld hate to burst your bubble, but Kroger owns Ralph’s....

There are several Kroger stores here in Illinois, i still go here and there .

@robertboone7860

2 жыл бұрын

Down near St. Louis. Kroger has made a comeback as Ruler Foods

There are 2 Kroger-owned markets here in the Chicago area, Food 4 Less & Mariano's. And we gladly shop at them quite often. 🍎

Kroger was my childhood grocery store in my home area Detroit. We don’t shop there at often but I love it there and I always say hi to them and there animated characters “Kroji”

Kroger ha😂changed a WHOLE lot since I worked there in the late 80s. Just like the industry as a whole. Amazing.

Excellent documentary about an innovative retail entrepreneur. Those open refrigerator aisles burn through electricity especially in warmer months - many stores now have switched to rows of door fridges and freezers.

Kroger was the first Instacart! I really enjoy your videos.

Having recently worked in a Kroger, I had to laugh about all the quality talk in this video. Maybe once, but nowadays it’s all about being cheap and fast.

@dalebailey754

Жыл бұрын

The population of the US has exploded since its inception, as has the number of people who rely on a grocery store to provide food for their families due to industrialization. They have done what was necessary to remain innovative and relevant.

I go Krogering 2 times a week.Ive been to other grocery stores through out my life,but i always seem to go back to Kroger.I like the new large stores.But we still have a small,well comparitivly small,neighborhood Kroger.It will always be my favorite. Sad to say though that the bakery has declined over the years.And rarely do i see stuff actually made at Kroger.

I never shopped in a Kroger but have shopped in groceries owned by Kroger (Dillons, Food for Less, Fred Meyer). I enjoyed learning how Kroger brought what I think of as the modern grocery store into being. Thanks for the upload.

At one time, kroger's had 2 stores in meadville Pennsylvania. Sadly the chain left in the early 80s.

@gerardkowalski7683

3 жыл бұрын

We had a few in Erie as well and they left in the late 70s or early 80s .

@gerardkowalski7683

3 жыл бұрын

We had a few in Erie as well and they left in the late 70s or early 80s .

So far Kroger is still around we still shop there thanks for this upload.😘😊

So Ralph's and Food For Less are actually KROGER??!

Kroger closed one of their oldest bakeries in Columbus without notice several years ago, which dealt a blow to a few people I know. It made me sad, but also reminded me that every old business is in business for a reason, and its not to loose money.

Kroger entered the Houston area by purchasing local grocery store chain, Henke & Pillot back in the 50's. In Texas, Kroger is battling popular Texas-born grocery store, H.E.B. I have a love-hate relationship with Kroger as they will discontinue products that sell out frequently, because of their popularity with customers. Sounds crazy, but Kroger will stop selling products that get sold out frequently.

My 88 year old mother, in Michigan, won't shop anywhere else, and I can see why. I remember her sending me to Kroger's when I was a kid, with a list, and I knew that if I couldn't find something, one of the Kroger employees would help me find it or a suitable alternative. This video really brings back the memories. We don't have Krogers or any of its subsidiaries around here.

We have Food 4 Less out West, but many of my East coast/Midwest friends use Kroger. Thanks for a great episode!

We always went to Kroger in the 60s and 70s in Wheeling, WV. Its still there (but a new larger store) 50 years later. Kroger seems to come and go in the south where I'm at now. They can't compete with Food Lion at the low end or Harris Teeter at the high end. EDIT: I didn't know they owned Harris Teeter.

@codybrandoncargle3129

2 жыл бұрын

Food Lion is a lot better than Kroger the only thing I didn’t like about Food Lion was the higher prices in the Atlanta area before they went out of business, and Harris Teeter don’t remember that place except my parents been to one in the Atlanta area once, it’s basically a Publix and Ingles from my understanding as well. 🤷🏻‍♂️

We mostly went to A&P, Spartan, D&W, and IGA stores. For some reason we were never a Meijer family and I don't recall any Kroger around when growing up.

True! Barney Kroger created his store in 1883, I know, I was there!

@joelfrombethlehem

3 жыл бұрын

And that makes you at least one hundred and sixty years old!

@JustFunandGames

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, the first store was created much earlier than 1883... at the time, it was call "Rubbles'. 😂

In Chicago when I was a child Kroger was established in the market. Then they pulled out maybe 50 years ago. The closest Kroger to me, aside from Food 4 Less is in Kankakee, IL.

@MIKECNW

3 жыл бұрын

I emailed them a long time ago and they said 1971 so you're about right. I wasn't around when they had stores here, I first learned about Kroger from y grandparents because they had a location here in Park Ridge which became a Dominick's. I learned later they took over all of most of the former Kroger's here.

I was serving in the Air Force and stationed in San Antonio when Kroger opened their first store in that city in 1980. I had never hear of the grocery store chain but a co-worker from Kentucky grew up with Kroger in her town and I remember she was super excited the chain had come to south Texas.

@itsjohndell

3 жыл бұрын

I went through Lackland in '75 and boy SAT was a shitkicker town. When I finished my Flight I couldn't wait to get out of there, Guess where they sent me for Pilot Training: Randolph. When i was done there I swore I would never set foot there again. When i moved West a few years ago and since I-10 runs thru it I figured i''d visit the Taj a last time. City is totally different, diverse and population is 1.4 million. I actually like it, been back since.

@ilovegoodsax

3 жыл бұрын

@@itsjohndell Sounds like you were at OTS on Medina Base Annex?

In the 1980’s I was a meat cutter for Stump’s Enterprises which was a regional grocery chain at the time in Dayton, Ohio which at its peak had around 24 stores. We viewed Kroger as the enemy so to speak. Little did we know that Stump’s would go out of business due to severe mismanagement and that Kroger would go on to become the behemoth it is today!

@scott1414

3 жыл бұрын

@Joe Nickell wow! Pretty wild. I worked there from 1980 till 1988. Started bagging groceries, then changed to meat dept cleanup, and then to a meat wrapper, then to an apprentice meat cutter and then right before they started going downhill, I became a journeyman meat cutter. I started at their Salem Ave. location and then transferred to their Needmore Rd. flagship store, and then to their Englewood location. So long ago!

I grew up going to Hoggly Woggly and Winn Dixie. When I got older usually went to Ingles. Krogers at time, unless you bought their brand was little on expensive side. It has gotten better.....they have best tomatoes now and love the gas perks.

@codybrandoncargle3129

2 жыл бұрын

Piggly Wiggly sucks can’t stand them, Winn Dixie is okay but Ingles is so much better than Winn Dixie actually, other than that they are both basically the same atleast Ingles is more like Kroger with Publix like mentality actually and they have things like Winn Dixie that other stores don’t have including Publix either, and Kroger is nothing like they used to be they ran Lucky’s Market in Panama City Florida out of business and sold off Tom Thumb, so I take it your from Georgia like I am originally. 🤔

@danielthoman7324

Жыл бұрын

My mother always said Kroger was too expensive. She always bought the cheapest of everything.

"If you don't raise the cost of your bread....you'll be killed or shot." Whoever wrote that idiocy was destined to fail in business regardless, and in life. 😂😂😂😂

@jamesslick4790

3 жыл бұрын

Unless his business was called "Cosa Nostra" Then - Fuggedaboutit!

@artistknownaslisa2850

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesslick4790 lol

@HwoarangtheBoomerang

3 жыл бұрын

Different times, man.

@rustyschackelford9645

3 жыл бұрын

Tell that to the Clintons. They have a body count higher than the Marines.

@artistknownaslisa2850

3 жыл бұрын

@@rustyschackelford9645 Hey! I know you! What's up? I made a comment yt deleted, the bastards.

There was a Kroger in the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Monroevile, PA.

@noble604

2 жыл бұрын

Fast forward to now and Chick Fil A line during 2020 lockdiwn went around that entire Miracle Mile lot lol

I grew up with my mom shopping at Kroger and filling those little books with Top Value stamps. I've still got a picture of a mother and child that came in a set. I have always shopped Kroger too but the town I live in now no longer has one. There's no Kroger under a different name either. I use to go to JC's in Indiana which was Kroger but now I either have to go to Wal-Mart or Publix. I don't like either one.

@BrokebackBob

3 жыл бұрын

Well, move to Bloomington, Indiana where we have 5 Kroger stores from the biggest to a cozy one downtown.

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