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I don’t hate Kroger’s app. If I’m at the store I can search for an item and find out what aisle it’s in. Complaints seem to be more about shopping online.
Can you see the aisle without first adding it to a list?
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Where I live, Kroger used to do their own delivery, but they've switched to Instacart for fulfillment now. I've stopped doing Kroger delivery because the Instacart people are WAY too annoying to deal with; I hate having to babysit every single decision the Instacart shoppers make. I would happily pay more for in-house Kroger shoppers, but there's no option to do so.
Weirdly in Florida Kroger is doing grocery delivery via its own vehicles, but no Kroger stores exist in the state, only distribution centers.
I wrote about the same service a decade ago[0]. Just re-read it and there has been progress!
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Weirdly in Florida Kroger is doing grocery delivery via its own vehicles, but no Kroger stores exist in the state, only distribution centers.
Kroger owns a dizzying number of brands. If be shocked if you didn't have at least one of their supermarket chains there.
Tech, let me introduce low margin retail. Kroger has a margin between 1 and 2 percent: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KR/key-statistics (depending on your preferred measure). And yoy earnings are down. And it's even worse in the delivery app subcategory. Why bother with that tech when Instacart etc are losing 3 dollars for every dollar they bring in? Seems like best case scenario you get to sell to their customers a…
Where I live, Kroger used to do their own delivery, but they've switched to Instacart for fulfillment now. I've stopped doing Kroger delivery because the Instacart people are WAY too annoying to deal with; I hate having to babysit every single decision the Instacart shoppers make. I would happily pay more for in-house Kroger shoppers, but there's no option to do so.
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Blue Ash is a suburb of Cincinnati (where Kroger is headquartered), so not quite the middle of nowhere but also not exactly a tech hotspot.
Thanks. I'm not super well versed in Cinci and didn't mean to insult them as a city, but it seems like Blue Ash is 15 miles from the city center and 30 miles to the airport. Seemed kinda far out accounting for traffic and such. Or is it one of those cities where more is going on in the suburbs than the city proper(lived in one of those myself)?
Proximity to the airport isn't really a big deal -- the airport isn't even in Ohio and is far away from literally everything. City center isn't a big deal -- that's more important for night life, and it's a pain to get in and out of. Believe it or not, Blue Ash has always felt way more accessible to me than downtown.
The most "happening" shopping center in Cincinnati right now is Kenwood, which is right next to Blue Ash -- overall located near far better retail biomes than downtown. Not everything in Cincinnati is going on in the suburbs (downtown and Newport have seen a big resurgence in years of late), but the north suburbs (like Sharonville, Blue Ash, Fairfield, Kenwood) are still some of the more "up" places in the city.
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Weirdly in Florida Kroger is doing grocery delivery via its own vehicles, but no Kroger stores exist in the state, only distribution centers.
Kroger owns a dizzying number of brands. If be shocked if you didn't have at least one of their supermarket chains there.
https://www.wesh.com/article/kroger-central-florida/38508663
Kroger delivers groceries to Central Florida without opening a single store
Walmart just quietly tracked everyone in their computers without so much backlash.
I see a difference here.
> I want better for Kroger Same company who avoided Apple Pay for years to push their ridiculous Kroger Pay.
Walmart/Home Depot/Winco are the only big Apple Pay holdouts that I know of now.
Heard a talk by their CEO and I was impressed by his focus on technology as a differentiator and competitive advantage. I will also say that technology is more than just the website/app - it is also their supply chain and how they run the stores.