Decline of Macy's, Kroger's (Cincinnati, Akron: purchases, price, groceries)

[WILWRadio]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

Yeah, we got our meals at Hy-Vee practically instantly. And they had a segregated seating area, right when you walk in at the front of the store. It wasn't just some random chairs and tables thrown up in the middle of the store. From the menu board, to having actual silverware, HyVee put a little more effort into making it run like a real restaurant than other stores do. They even had some retarded guy running around cleaning up the tables -- no garbage cans to dump the trash yourself. (No knock on the retarded guy, I think it was nice that they gave him a job.)

For those who have never been to a Hy-Vee store, don't get the impression that this was a restaurant. It was similar to what you would see in a Kroger store but with enough additional touches that it was a little more consumer-friendly and ran a tad more like a restaurant.

However, Hi-Vee had no way to ring up my banana with my meal, which is odd considering that the deli / restaurant was right next to the produce department. I had to go through the regular checkouts to get my banana and soybean yogurt.

I would bet that they require a different cash register for the regular store items because it affects the closing paperwork for the department and also inventory.

[Renownedtheworldaround]

Kroger sues Lidl over copyright infringement - Business Insider

And in other Kroger news.

[WRnative]

Lidl appears to be Aldi on steroids. This is a nice looking store, with the prices shown in the various pictures indeed rock bottom. And Lidl won't require a quarter deposit for use of shopping carts, as at Aldi, eliminating that hassle. Wish there was one near me.

Lidl store tour - Business Insider

[WRnative]

Barclays analyst says Lidl offers very high quality private label goods at very low prices, where most private label goods at grocery chains are low quality. Both of the following videos discuss Kroger.

Private label means very high quality at Lidl: Barclay's Karen Short

Kroger sues Lidl over private label name. Lidl, unlike Aldi, offers only private label goods. Deutsche Bank says Lidl prices are 14 percent below those at Kroger.

German grocer Lidl enters US grocery wars

[WILWRadio]

Originally Posted by WRnative

Barclays analyst says Lidl offers very high quality private label goods at very low prices, where most private label goods at grocery chains are low quality. Both of the following videos discuss Kroger.

Private label means very high quality at Lidl: Barclay's Karen Short

Kroger sues Lidl over private label name. Lidl, unlike Aldi, offers only private label goods. Deutsche Bank says Lidl prices are 14 percent below those at Kroger.

German grocer Lidl enters US grocery wars

Just curious. I've noted a decidedly anti Kroger tone in every one of your posts on the subject of this grocer. Are you a disgruntled current or former employee?

Ultimately the consumers will decide where they want to shop. Price is not always the most important factor but service and product quality will usually be the primary criteria for most discriminating shoppers. Aldi has not made much of a dent into Kroger's profits over the years and I suspect this new German company will no either.

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by WILWRadio

Just curious. I've noted a decidedly anti Kroger tone in every one of your posts on the subject of this grocer. Are you a disgruntled current or former employee?

Ultimately the consumers will decide where they want to shop. Price is not always the most important factor but service and product quality will usually be the primary criteria for most discriminating shoppers. Aldi has not made much of a dent into Kroger's profits over the years and I suspect this new German company will no either.

Mostly, I'm just posting comments by analysts and/or articles on Kroger. Did you listen to the videos linked in post 94? My comments summarized the representations made in those videos.

I'm not a Kroger employee, have never worked there, and know nobody that is or has been a Kroger employee. There are no Krogers in Greater Cleveland.

Apart from my general interest in Ohio corporations and U.S. retail, I'm also a Kroger shareholder. I'm always interested in stocks whose share prices have had a big setback.

Kroger's Q2 will be interesting given the relative weakness in U.S. grocery store sales. Greater food inflation seems necessary to reignite Kroger earnings.

https://www.census.gov/retail/marts/...ts_current.pdf

What inflation? Consumer prices flat in June, CPI shows - MarketWatch

I would post any positive articles that I discovered about Kroger. Have you found any?

[WILWRadio]

Originally Posted by WRnative

Mostly, I'm just posting comments by analysts and/or articles on Kroger. Did you listen to the videos linked in post 94? My comments summarized the representations made in those videos.

I'm not a Kroger employee, have never worked there, and know nobody that is or has been a Kroger employee. There are no Krogers in Greater Cleveland.

Apart from my general interest in Ohio corporations and U.S. retail, I'm also a Kroger shareholder. I'm always interested in stocks whose share prices have had a big setback.

Kroger's Q2 will be interesting given the relative weakness in U.S. grocery store sales. Greater food inflation seems necessary to reignite Kroger earnings.

https://www.census.gov/retail/marts/...ts_current.pdf

What inflation? Consumer prices flat in June, CPI shows - MarketWatch

I would post any positive articles that I discovered about Kroger. Have you found any?

Unfortunately I don't have the time to research much of anything these days. I leave for work at 9 AM and don't return home until at least 10:30 PM and on some some days as late as nearly 1 AM. And I work every other Saturday. No time to do anything these days..

Regardless, I am always skeptical of so called expert analysis on many industries businesses when they start to project success or failure based upon what these experts considered fact. It's tantamount to sports broadcasters trying to predict the score of a game along with the outcome. Rarely correct.

[jlawrence01]

Originally Posted by WILWRadio

Regardless, I am always skeptical of so called expert analysis on many industries businesses when they start to project success or failure based upon what these experts considered fact. It's tantamount to sports broadcasters trying to predict the score of a game along with the outcome. Rarely correct.

Considering that the analysts were constantly hyping Tesco's Fresh & Easy and the new Whole Food's concept, I would rather wait and see.

I know several supermarket analysts and I would respect their opinions more if they did not spend 100% of their time in New York and California.

[take57]

Originally Posted by WILWRadio

It's tantamount to sports broadcasters trying to predict the score of a game along with the outcome. Rarely correct.

As long as we're critiquing the tone of posts, I don't think you're in much of a position to take the high ground since not unlike listening to a sports broadcast where the announcers are slappies for the home team it too is rarely correct nor interesting.

[take57]

Originally Posted by WRnative

Apart from my general interest in Ohio corporations and U.S. retail, I'm also a Kroger shareholder. I'm always interested in stocks whose share prices have had a big setback.

Same boat. There is a degree of usefulness taking the temperature of the hometown crowd which is why I look at this thread. In this case, since it appears the locals seem to believe everything is nice as pie over on Vine St., I have to wonder if that's the prevailing attitude within Kroger. If so, that makes me more inclined to divest when the opportunity arises since clearly by almost every financial metric, this company has significant problems that won't go away by downplaying or ignoring them.