If you had a minus rating, I'd use it...(Amazing how many of your former customers are starting their reviews with similar words. In former days, you could access all the "deals" and coupons directly thru the loyalty card, with also took care of fuel points... Now since y ou rcorporate nincompoops have taken the tack of :do it our way or get out of the store, things are convoluted, and making a purchase which involves any kind of discount is a task worth of Cissiphus! Now you have to have an app for everything, and most of the apps do not work... sooooo instead of being in andout of the store in a half hour with $300 in groceeries and incidentals, and a full tank of gas at a nice discount, you end up with about $30 in groceries because you can't access the deals because your apps do not work...
Clearly you have no idea of how irritating this is... Your staff knows, but corporate is too stupid and too arrogant to listen to anything anyone says. Now it's an hour and a half to get anything done, you have to have everything you want uploaded to your Kroger app which does not work...you don't get the fuel points...they want you to buy 5 of things you do not want to get a discount on the one you do want...si you loose 6 purchases right there. Money's tight and people no longer buy things the don't need to what they do need. They go to Wal Mart or Harps.
Your meat's good, but it is not worth hours of my time and disappointment when the store doesn't have what they advertise, and prefer to use the old "bait and switch" approach, which is by the way illegal.. Most of the time though discount isn't applied because your damn apps do not work... Are we seeing a pattern here? We have four Kroger stores in the Hot Springs area and they are all having the same problems. If it's that way in this market, it's that way elsewhere, and the stock report confirms that. You've gone from one of the best ratings to the bottomo of the bin, because of bad management and trying to force customers to jump thru hoops... Wal Mart tried that for about a calendar quarter some years ago... the old "If we don't have it, you don't need it" campaign... Their customer base abandoned them and their stock took a huge dip... Now they are into customer service and they are back on top again... they'll be taking over your stores soon enough...
Your clerks and stockers are universally in a bad mood from having had to deal with very angry customers... i used to have and see people with fully loaded carts, now there are just a very few items in most of the carts I see leaving the store... You can complain, but the complaints are unheard. Management cleararly doesn't give a ratzazz about what the customers want.
I have just spent 5 count em 5 hours with three techs to try to get a damn app installed... No luck... I understand why your stock which up to a year ago, was one of the top rated, is in the toilet.... People do not have time to jump through a hundred hoops to spend money... You have alienated most of your customers...especially the ones who working, making money and do not have time to putz around looking for deals that do not exist, on apps that do not work. Before whatever idiot took over your marketing came in, I bought about $300 a week plus gas... My cart was always loaded... this week which will be my last time EVER to have ANYTHING with that chain, was 30.25 plus $10 in gas...the rest of the budget went to Sams and Wal Mart and the produce buy went to Harps. I am now a Harp's customer and will NEVER EVER do business with Kroger's again... except to shop your going out of business sale.
Take a look at all the other one star reviews just on this site...They tell the tale of WHY people don't use your store for more than pick items... Then fire the idiot who came up with this bull, ( because keel hauling is not legal in this day and age) OR YOU WILL BE HAVING A GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE... And for gods sake, quit hiring somedy's nephew to run things... At this point, I wouldn't go to Krogers if they gave me the entire store... I am simply livid at this level of incompetence and arrogance...You can spend billions on advertising if you want to, but the former customers are so deeply disgusted that they will nver return... You are circling the proverbial drain, and are too stupid and too arrogant to notice it... I have just run my loyalty card thru a cross cut shredder, and will not miss it one bit. NEVER AGAIN read more