YIKES!
I generally shop in Food Lion.........it's amazing how the prices vary depending upon location of a particular store in a Chain grocer. Even with Viginia's sales tax my big shopping trips to Food Lion is more than $50 less than what it was when I shopped in FL in Delaware, less than 100 miles away and with no sales tax.
The WaMart I shop at is in Maryland, and even with the MD sales tax, prices are much lower than in Delaware. In fact theonly places where I even notice sales tax is the dollar stores (Dollar General, Family Dollar, Dollar Tree) those prices are the same everywhere and so the extra 5cents on the dollar is noticeable.
Kroger has a bunch of stagnant stupiheads for
management. Istead of trying to beat another
business at it's core competancy, they should
be trying to perfect their own. Case in point,
they have, and *have* had, for *years*, on their
website, a FAQ, saying that "while we do not offer
online ordering at this time, we are investigating
options..." Who the frig do they have doing thwe "investigation? Barnaby Jones??
They want to put the knock on other groceries?
Let me browse their offerings, orfder online, pay
online, and arrange for a pick-up "window" time,
so that i can drive up, and hand my print out
reciept to a bag boy, pop my trunck and haver
him load my car with my purchases...and if
they think that this will cut down on my
"impulse purchases" they are stupid. From my
online shopping at other online retailers, i
have found it tends to increase it. as long as
the "ompule offerings" are conveiniently presented.
They waould be wise to set up a shopping expirience
that mirrors the brick and mortar shopping trip.
IE: Present the online products/aisles, exactly as
one would get to rthem, pushing a cart through
the aisles.