Oh God, last comment IS SO TRUE! One of life's many winners even went out of their way to give us a "dissatisfied" survey comment over it, and leave a diatribe of an essay, beginning with "First you took away Senior Day, now you're taking away double points! You just take, and take!"
As for the "cherries ad", what gets me is the "suggestive selling" in the ad that recommends buying several pounds of them to "enjoy all year long" and putting them in holiday desserts.
As if Kroger doesn't already sell pitted frozen cherries year round to begin with.
Yeah, they're not cheap, but neither or fresh cherries, and you would have to go through the trouble of pitting and slicing them...All for desserts to make in the next 3 months?
I get that supermarkets are in the business to make money so that's probably why they upsell things like cherries, wine, avocados, but come on!
There are certain foods that almost everyone loves, then there's things that not everyone is into, and cherries, wine and avocados are among those things.
I'm one of those people who can eat avocados for straight up, for breakfast. But I've met many people who hate them.
I'm just glad it's pumpkin season. Oh those delicious pumpkin pies...
Um we had the pumpkin pie in July event that went on as well. And frankly I think me AND the customers were over that once it started. As I doubt we barely sold more than the amount that we usually sell when they are 3 high on the end of the pie table.
I'll miss the reaction I got from customers who see how expensive the bag of cherries are and freak out before I hit Total. At which point the discount comes in, and they get a sigh of relief. Although a quarter of those customers ended up wanting me to void the cherries off anyway despite the discounted price.
Are Krogers' customers really so dumb they'd think they might need a map to find something from the North-West? Do Instore Audio Network writers know how insulting and condescending they are?
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"If I only had a brain..."
...but I'd settle for a nerve or two.
a few things I'd like to comment on I saw discussed here........
I remember when the music played before, without the in store audio announcements. now, we finally know who they are.
I regret to reminisce on the Jason derulo coca cola ad. torturous! although, in a sick and twisted way, I was sad when I noticed I wasn't hearing it anymore. that's Kroger/in store audio's desired effect tho, yea?
rainier cherries>bing cherries
after working in produce for two years, I still remember the stench of rotten pumpkin making me have to refrain from barfing all over the front entrance area of the store where we unloaded bin after bin to put on displays. boy it sure was a comedic relief when a customer picked one from under the stack, causing a couple others to roll in front of a car passing by. I would start singing Smashing Pumpkins songs aloud.
cinnamon brooms. ahhhhhhhh. I still shop at the Kroger I worked at, and those things are heavenly. I noticed their seasonal return the other day. smelled them before I even saw them.
who else has quit Kroger to move on to other stores, or other careers? I've been at Walmart six months now, would never go back, but I do miss some coworkers who made the job tolerable. I don't miss the lazy *******s who turned everything around on you to make their sorry ass seem like a hard worker, when everyone saw right through that bs. some funny things happened around the same time as my transition. to start with, a new union contract almost immediately after I left (coincidence, I'm sure), raising everyone to 10 an hour. still less than what I make where I am now.
Oh yes! Say it is so! The obnoxious cherry commercials seem to have at last been picked away and put into cold storage for the time being, where they will rot next to all the other currently inactive Instore Audio Network gems. I worked a little over ten hours today and did not hear a single Oh No! Say It Isn't So! or Cherry! Baby! spot when normally I'll hear each like 10x over the course of a shift.
In the meantime, I eagerly await the return of Santa's Little Yelpers.
