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Floyd R. Turbo

(33,281 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 02:13 PM Sep 2025

Sh!tbaggery Kroger Style:



Apparently Kroger and its affiliates advised staff to not give the advertised senior discount unless the customer asked for it. Memos similar to the above were circulated to cashiers and in some instances posted on registers. Bastards! 🤬
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Sh!tbaggery Kroger Style: (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2025 OP
I shop almost exclusively at Aldi SheltieLover Sep 2025 #1
Too far from where I live! 😢 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2025 #3
Haven't been to a Kroger affiliate since the pandemic Ritabert Sep 2025 #2
Bastards! 🤬 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2025 #4
I had never heard of it. niyad Sep 2025 #5
It was advertised on their app and emails were sent to loyalty cards holders in addition to mentions in flyers and Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2025 #6
Not around here. niyad Sep 2025 #8
To be fair, I just checked. Kroger used to offer a small senior discount, niyad Sep 2025 #7
Always didn't like that store... MiHale Sep 2025 #9
🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2025 #13
How would they know if someone was eligible or not? MichMan Sep 2025 #10
🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2025 #14
It could work out much like Oeditpus Rex Sep 2025 #11
😬 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2025 #15
Just one more reason to hate that store. LudwigPastorius Sep 2025 #12
Bastards!🤬 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2025 #16

Ritabert

(2,613 posts)
2. Haven't been to a Kroger affiliate since the pandemic
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 02:22 PM
Sep 2025

...when they closed Ralph's stores instead of paying a frontline bonus to workers. Screw them.

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,281 posts)
6. It was advertised on their app and emails were sent to loyalty cards holders in addition to mentions in flyers and
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 02:29 PM
Sep 2025

in store placards.

niyad

(134,035 posts)
7. To be fair, I just checked. Kroger used to offer a small senior discount,
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 02:34 PM
Sep 2025

but now only does so sporadically. I had never seen it in my store, and the staff would have mentioned it to me.

MiHale

(13,175 posts)
9. Always didn't like that store...
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 02:38 PM
Sep 2025

Shop local markets, support my community…they have all the same stuff, prices are comparable…little higher on some stuff but not by much. Don’t mind paying a little more to keep my friends and neighbors employed. Meat department is ‘da bomb’…love it when the butcher is your neighbor. Our community is high in seniors, he packages smaller portion meat choices for Wednesday sales for seniors then we get our 10% senior discount on top of that, without asking. Much of the produce is locally grown, fresh from the fields.

Such is life in the small town of Hale.



MichMan

(17,396 posts)
10. How would they know if someone was eligible or not?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 05:05 PM
Sep 2025

Should they just assume based on how someone looks? That might piss off a lot of people who aren't seniors yet.

 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
11. It could work out much like
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:48 PM
Sep 2025

asking a woman her due date and being told, icily, "I'm not pregnant."

LudwigPastorius

(15,007 posts)
12. Just one more reason to hate that store.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:54 PM
Sep 2025

I despise those animated Kroger people ads. If I ever actually saw one of those little motherfuckers dancing in the aisle over low prices, I'd dropkick them all the way into the Frozen Foods section.

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