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Kroger operates Harris Teeter to sell the upscale - larger range of stock. Prices on some items are a bit higher. Harris Teeter stores tend to be spotted more densely in areas that have higher incomes.

Except in areas where distance is the deciding factor in which store to patronize I doubt the dollar store is actually in the same market as the lower price grocery. I find their products and prices fit to some tasks so I occasionally purchase things there

Yeah. For those of us who actually shop, Prime isn't that good of a deal on most things - especially when you have to pony up $119 for the "privilege" of giving your money to Amazon.

So I can buy Hodgson Oat Bran on Amazon for $9.97 or a Pack of 2 for $19.99 or I can buy it from Kroger for $2.19.

Sure, I can buy a pack of 12 for $28.20 ($2.35/box) but I'm still shelling out money and storing things that I have no room for. So, it's a false economy.

Hodgson Oat Bran $9.97 on Amazon

$2.19 at Kroger

Why do people lie when you can look it up on the Internet.

Indeed.

a zen koan

Those sound tasty. Is it a baked good? I bet you can buy the ingredients to make them at the grocery store.

Then don't use them. I have never seen a store where they are mandatory.

The Kroger in my area always closes down the cashier-staffed lanes after a certain time. The Walmart does so intermittently.

Well, since I'm going to spout off, I'll be as through as possible on the follow up.
Okay... it first looked like I was completely incorrect and that *only* Kroger used the information.

However... Per their policy here: http://www.kroger.com/company_information/Pages/privacy_policy.aspx

It is your choice to provide Kroger with your personally identifiable information. ...
Kroger and its affiliates may use personal customer information to create merchandising and promotional programs tailored around specific purchases, the frequency of store visits, volume of purchases, and other data.

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However, technically it's not a sale- only use by affiliated companies.

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So I could be contacted by many companies (the list is too long to post here but is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger), including (it appears) Disney, but my information isn't sold to them.

Randalls has the same situation. per their policy "only related third party companies" can use my information.

I was at a company that was part of Beatrice Foods Corporation back in the 80's. We had 3,000 "related" companies.

Well, maybe you'd have better luck applying at the national chain of grocery stores called "Kroger". This "Kroger's" must be some half-assed local monm-n-pop who obviously doesn't have the budget to hire an IT staff, let alone enough to pay you to stock the shelves. The big chain with a similar name might be a better bet, and would probably offer more stability.

Or, you're a dumbass who didn't even know the name of the store at which you were applying to work, which often is a disqualifying attribute. That would explain the inability to type letters into boxes on a computerized application.

Well, actually the application *is* available to him. He obviously has access to a computer, as he was able to post his plight here on this forum. If he had two brain cells to rub together he would have went to kroger.com and found that the application is available on the magical Interweb thingy.

I would strongly suspect the kiosk is running the exact same application as the web site: http://kroger.com/careers.htm.

I'll put on my BOFH hat: If you don't have a computer, go to the library. If you dont have a library, move to a place with one. You're obviously not a completely computer illiterate whining dumbass, you managed to get your post on slashdot.

Sheesh!

stop being a whiney bitch. If their terminal sucked, so what? You obviously have internet access to be posting your story to slashdot, and every public library has internet access, so you and the general public can apply online at Kroger's website.

http://www.kroger.com/careers.htm

Where I live, one grocery store, Krogers, has a near monopoly.

Not that I actually know, as both of them taste like pure evil.

Kroger is fairly common in most parts of the US, as far as I know. You won't have a problem finding a Kroger owned store in the midwest, at least. I'm sure you've heard of or seen some of their stores.

Oh, another bit of info: If you have a loyalty card from Kroger, QVC, King Soopers, Ralph's, Dillon's, Smith's, Fred Meyer, Fry's, or any other store in the Kroger line, you can use it at any other store. For instance my QVC card works at any Kroger.

I can barely express how much I loathe [Lotus Notes]. As an email system, it sucks. As a document database it sucks. The web interface sucks. Yet for some unknown and ill-conceived reason, the IT people at work picked it to run our internal intranet. I can only assume that someone either got a hell of an all-expenses-paid, 6 month vacation to a tropical destination out of it, got a large infusion of free cash, or were terminally brain-damaged when they picked this software.

You hit the nail on the head right there. Currently I work at one of the Kroger offices, but used to work at the Kroger helpdesk, doing computer and POS tech support. If you didn't know, Kroger is a huge grocery chain that has bought out many other chains throughout the country, currently operating a total of close to 3000 stores nationwide. There are many, many offices throughout the country for all of these stores, and they all had their own email systems, as they were all originaly seperate companies.

So Kroger decides that everyone should be moved over to the same system, for consistency's sake. I can understand that. That makes sense. Then it was announced that they had decided on Lotus Notes....

Ok, so tech support sucks. Lotus notes really sucks. Now combine the two together. I had to do tech support for Lotus Notes R5. Can you imagine??? Just put yourself in my shoes. I think at some point, everyone there considered suicide.

What makes me crack up is the reasons you listed for your company choosing Lotus Notes. Those are the exact same reasons we used to joke about at the helpdesk! Well we had one other one also... someone must have gotten one hell of a blow job...

Lotus Notes is, without a doubt, the absolute worst program I have ever used. EVER . It cannot do anything right. The interface is horrible. Everything is ugly and poorly designed. It's slower than molasses uphill in January. It eats up nearly all of my paultry 128MB RAM on this crappy computer I have to use, so everything else pages out (Fun!). There is not one good thing about it. I always hear people bitching about it. It's always giving errors when trying to send email. Luckily I used to support it so I know how to fix most of them... EG, "Invalid Document" when trying to send an email. Gee, thanks Lotus, that error message is really descriptive of what's wrong. (If you get this message, you have to delete Cache.DSK and mdircat.nsf in C:\Data\LotusNotes, assuming a default installation. Then re-open Lotus and it will rebuild these files).

Now I know lots of people despise Microsoft, but Kroger has MS Office deployed throughout their business. MS Office comes with Outlook. Outlook may not be the best solution ever, but at least the damn thing works. Throw up an exchange server is each office, and we're all set. No, instead they probably spent tens of millions of dollars to deploy Lotus on all of our workstations, and not one single person likes it. Since lots of people probably use Outlook or Outlook Express at home, this would have made sense, beacuse nearly everyone is familiar with it.

Anyways this rant has gone on long enough... And just in case you didn't realize it yet, I fucking hate Lotus Notes :)

Quoth the poster:

QFC is owned by Starbuck's.

BZZZT! WRONG! QFC is 0wn3d by Kroger. So are many stores. I spelled "owned" that way because QFC used to be a nice place to shop for good products, but now all they do is sell the same generic Kroger crap at QFC (read: higher) prices.

For a nice, locally-owned, discount-card-free place to shop in the Seattle area, check out Larry's Markets. Besides, Larry's is union and its management treats the employees like human beings. Other good, card-free ones are Town and Country Market and Top Foods.

My only complaint with online papers is that they don't carry local advertisers. I'd love to read the online paper and see ads for local merchants just like reading the old fashioned news print. Heck... Send it to your printer and get a coupon for boneless chicken breasts at $.99/lb down at the local Kroger.

Alas, online papers don't follow the same paradigm as their successful predicessor... Instead I see ads for match.com and other online services I'll never subscribe to. This is where I don't get it: People who surf online still have lives offline. (I know this is Slashdot, but admit it, you occasionally squint at that bright thing up in that big blue ceiling.) When will companies realise they can combine local content with local advertisers for products people might be interested in buying when they step outside the door in their locale?

At the Kroger grocery store nearest to my home, when they opened, they had LCD panels attached to the grocery carts with a roughly 11" diagonal screen.

There were some sort of sensors on the top of the panel (IR maybe?) that would receive information from transmitters suspended from the ceiling in each aisle.

The carts would let you know which items were on sale in that aisle, could provide a map of the store or direct you to specific items that you were searching for.

The big problem was that everyone who brought their kids shopping let their kids push the carts so they could play with the displays, and the kids wouldn't watch where they were going (some of the adults didn't, either!) and so they would constantly be running into each other, knocking into displays in the aisles, etc.

After about 3 months, they gave up and removed all the displays from the carts and I've been able to shop safely without worrying about someone ramming a cart into my achilles tendons every few minutes...

I personally don't miss them and I'm glad to see them gone.

I'm almost appaled at the fact that there is an article about weblogging (ugh, that's like Kroger and their 'krogering'. I dislike that word) without a mention of Slashcode? Of course slashcode has more features and is trickier to use than most people who use blogger probably want to deal with. It's also more geared towards news and discussion sites of course, but I have noticed several /.-ers (CmdrTaco especially) in the past reccomend it whenever they mention weblogging