Let me tell you about my beef with fabulous Kroger. I'm kinda fucked where I live because there is nothing here. My apartment is just outside of Ft. Knox but the wrong side of Knox. So I have to go about 14ish miles north to the closest Kroger. Save A Lot is right there with it but no closer. Or, I can go down, around and back up (17ish miles) to the nearest Wally World. Which my wife and I do most of the time. We can go at 0300, I can get one of the geriatric carts and Anyone Who's Anyone isn't there, which means I can get though the isles and my blood pressure doesn't rise because of stupid people. Win, Win. Sometimes we go to Kroger. I really don't like Kroger but sales and whatever takes us there. That and I am a broke bastard so I have to watch my pennies a bit tighter until I can start sucking off the tax payers. So, if you can read the receipt there a three items on it, one ham and two toilet paper. Best cheap toilet paper I've found, By far. That said, here's my bitch.
I'm screwing around the other day, Jo is napping and low and behold I hear USW gonna strike at the oil refineries. Go figure, right? Who would have thought the MFing union go on strike? Now Jo and I had talked about going to Kroger's during that weekend but never made it. When I heard the news, I said better go fill up. Then I thought if I'm going out I might as well head north and grab some TP at the same time. Went to tell Jo and she decided to go with me. Again there are three items on this receipt. Two TP's and one ham. They had the ham on sale so Jo thought we'd grab one and stick it in the freezer. Everything else is my fault so this might as well be. I made the mistake of going to the self checkout. One must understand I'm slow. The ham doesn't ring up properly so we hit the button for some help.
Finally the young lady (Michael according to the receipt, nice to know they have control of the registers but maybe that's why they have such high prices, gotta make up for the employee theft some how) comes to help. At which point I see a ham that should go from 40 bucks to 20 but goes from 40 to three hundo. Yep, three bills for a ham. I just looked at Jo and said great now it's three hundred for the ham. So she rings for the manager, waiting, waiting, waiting, all the while I screaming at myself, "why didn't I get in one of those carts". Again, in and out, two different things, I won't use it if I don't have to. By the time the manager gets it right I just wanted out of there. I just can not stand or walk any more, at least not for any length of time.
When we got home I e-mailed Kroger's. This was on 1 Feb 2015. The only thing I have seen or heard from Kroger's is a survey asking how they did with the response to my complaint. Needless to say what my reply to that was. However, you should understand that this is not the first time I've complained about over charging at this Kroger's. As a matter of fact I have several e-mails and calls to and from Kroger corporate and the local store. The point is, it never ends. It's ham this week, cake mix last, bologna and hotdogs before that. They are always over charging people. ALWAYS. The sad thing is they have their very own pricing division. Just a big group of people that do nothing but adjust the price of shit. Forty plus hours a week. That's it. Just price shit. Make sure it's correct. It's not like the good old days when I worked as a stock boy 60 hours/week for $3.35/hour (with no overtime) and had to tag every item with a price gun. Just Price Shit.
Then it hit me as I was typing this up. Kroger is a union shop, Dave. WTF do you expect?
