It sounds like a satirical headline, but strangely, and sadly, it’s not. An incredulous Kroger shopper has taken to Facebook to ask why her store in Savannah, Georgia was apologizing for carrying locally-grown produce. Isn’t locally-grown supposed to be a good thing? Or is the country’s largest grocery chain so used to getting its produce from far-flung places, that it[Read More…]
In the not-too-distant past, some grocery stores didn’t know what to make of those newfangled printable coupons that seemed so easy to manipulate and photocopy – so they simply stopped accepting them. Today, we’re all much more sophisticated, as are the printable coupons themselves. So the thought of anyone not accepting them makes it feel like we’re regressing to an[Read More…]
We’ve heard it before – digital coupons are the wave of the future. So why is the country’s largest grocery chain, with one of the largest digital coupon selections, printing many of its digital coupons on paper – right in its weekly ad? Who needs to mess with logging onto a computer and loading coupons onto your loyalty card, when[Read More…]
Perhaps we should make a fill-in-the-blank article: _____ has announced it will discontinue double coupons, effective on _____. Today, you can fill in those blanks with “Dillons” and “August 21st.” Proving that even Kroger subsidiaries are not immune to the parent company’s recent aversion to double coupons, the Kroger-owned, Kansas-based chain Dillons, along with its subsidiary Gerbes, announced today that[Read More…]
There’s been some buzz about a lawsuit filed this week that some fear – or hope – might make the Kroger-Harris Teeter deal dead in the water. But fear not (or, don’t get your hopes up). The suit is likely just to line the lawyers’ pockets, and possibly force the companies to pass the costs on to customers. Nice. Attorneys[Read More…]
Harris Teeter fans have had a week now to digest the news that their favorite regional grocery store will soon be swallowed up by supermarket giant Kroger (read: “Sold! Kroger Buys Harris Teeter”). The initial cries of horror have turned into quieter grumbles of discontent, but the bottom line remains that the vast majority of Harris Teeter shoppers are not[Read More…]
Double coupons are officially over the hill – and in some areas, they’re fading fast. It’s an interesting time to be commemorating the 40th anniversary of this money-saving perk, because the very grocery chain that claims to have invented double coupons may become the one that finally kills them off. To mark the first anniversary of Coupons in the News,[Read More…]
As late as Monday night, Harris Teeter and Kroger were still negotiating their deal that was announced early Tuesday morning (read: “Sold! Kroger Buys Harris Teeter”). Meanwhile, Kroger’s Central Division had, much earlier, decided to announce its new lower prices (and oh, by the way, no more double coupons) on Tuesday morning (read: “Kroger Keeps on Killing Doubles”). So for[Read More…]
The country’s largest supermarket chain just got larger. Kroger announced today that it’s buying North Carolina-based Harris Teeter. The $2.4 billion deal will bring 212 new stores into the Kroger fold (for a total of 2,631 stores), and give the company a much bigger profile in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic. But what will it mean for Harris Teeter shoppers? Kroger[Read More…]
This is getting a bit tiresome, but here we go – Kroger is eliminating double coupons again, in yet another region. This time, it’s the Central Division, which incorporates Indiana and Illinois, as well as a few stray stores in Missouri, Michigan and Ohio. The double coupons will end after July 31st; the “new lower prices” that will make up[Read More…]
