Kroger

Great local grocer, and caters to the local diversity. Best place to find a «manager special» too. Cost efficient!

I love this Kroger. The deli is nice and efficient, the cashiers are friendly and lovely to talk to, and people always help me when I need it.
The pharmacy, however, is horrible. For 3 years I have had nothing but terrible experiences with their pharmacists and techs where my medication isn’t ready, and every time something goes wrong, they blame it on me. I have to fix it. It’s because I didn’t do something.
I have been on medication for 17 years and never has a pharmacy made me feel so put upon; that I am the problem. My experience with them today left me shaking with rage and unable to get any work done.
In 20 years of adulthood I have had to complain to Corporate Customer Service about 2 businesses. The first was Dell Computers for shipping me a broken computer out of the box, and I had to fight for 6 months for a refund. The second was this Kroger’s pharmacy.
I have loved my experience at the rest of the Kroger, and love doing my shopping there. But I put off picking up needed medications for a week at their pharmacy, because I dreaded dealing with them.
They’re that terrible.

This is the closest Kroger to my house so I end up here frequently. It has the basics and is so much nicer since the remodel a few years ago. I used to avoid it because it smelled like spoiled food.
They always have the basics so it’s a nice alternative to some of the pricier gourmet and local grocery stores in the area.

I came here to buy some items for upcoming events. It was fine, but not outstanding.
They had everything that we needed, short of sugar packets and mixed bags of Halloween candy. They had packets of stevia and sweet and low and equal and everything else… but not sugar. I feel like, if you are willing to carry packets of artificial sugar, you should have packets of real sugar too.
They also had a few sections of Halloween candy, but none of them were mixed bags. We could get a huge bag of kit kats or milky ways, or snickers, but no mixed bags.
Like I said, it was fine, but I didn’t like that I had to go to 2 stores to get items that aren’t THAT crazy to want. It looked like a HUGE Kroger, so I’m pretty surprised that this was the case. I wouldn’t be opposed to coming here again, but it’s not my first choice.

I like this Kroger well enough. It’s not super large and spacious, but it’s a decent size so it’s convenient in a pinch. Also, 75% of the time I shopped here, I was unable to find several items on my list. After a while, I started shopping at the Kroger on Bethel Road, which is a little farther out, but I have better luck finding the things I need there.

I hesitated to stop here because the reviews were pretty bad. It was nearby, though, and I had a $ 10 gift card, so I swung by. And I don’t see anything wrong with the place. It’s a pretty typical Kroger. Clean, well-​organized, service was decent. Selection was decent. I found what I wanted (and spent exactly $ 10…)

This is by far the worst Kroger ever, but it’s the one closest to my house. Let me explain.
The first problem I ever had with this Kroger was the time I bought expired SoBe life water. It wasn’t just a few days expired, it was like 2 months expired. I didn’t notice it because I was sick and went home to drink it, but when I noticed, I complained.
A few days later, I went back and when I purchased something else, let the cashier know about the water and there was still a significant amount of it back there that was expired. She told me that things with water in them don’t expire. Not joking.
Recently, I bought expired Kombucha. My fault, I know. But when I went back, almost all of it was expired.
I’ve purchased rancid chicken from there twice. (Once on Wednesday of this week) and it was chicken that was still ‘in date’ but it was rotten. I also purchased a bag of pork rinds that were expired by a month, and most recently, I purchased a dozen organic eggs and because I’m a moron and didn’t check them before I put them in the cart, there were 6 bad eggs that were all cracked in half.
When I first started shopping here before the remodel, I would routinely find expired meats, but for some reason, I thought it would be better after the remodel.
I was wrong. I may or may not continue to shop here. I feel like everytime I shop there, I end up with something expired or rotten. There has to be a better Kroger in Columbus.

They re-​modeled this Kroger, and I’ve been here off and on. Fortunately I didn’t have to deal with all the construction drama. It shows you how much they changed the store! A few years back it was pretty small. They have redesigned it to add more of the premium selection that we like (natural section, bigger pharmacy area, etc.). It’s pretty much a standard Kroger. The only negative would be their parking lot; it should be expanded. In addition, some of these baggers need to know how to bag items better (i.e. a 2L doesn’t get placed in the same bag as lunch meat and yogurt). It’s okay and I’ll come more in the future.

Crowed and chaotic, just setting foot in this place gives me a panic attack.

Evidently it was renovated, because it was pretty damn clean — if compact.
I was in on the way to a friend-of-a-friend’s place from Ravari Room — and it was a smooth transition. If I continue to hang out in Clintonville, maybe this review will be revised — but at 11pm on a weekend, I can’t complain!

This is a nice Kroger, I really like that they had their own coffee station. It was great to get some hot water for my tea! This location seems nice and compact, my favorite kind of layout for any grocery store!

Lousy customer service and prices. Today, Monday Nov 21 @ 4 PM Cashier did not give me receipt with my change. I guess he was too busy trying to get me to «round up» to the next dollar. When I called the service desk, I was told to come back in with my plus card to get receipt. I think they could have taken my plus card # and printed out the receipt and mailed it to me, but I guess they were just to busy… or lazy

I am sort of hesitant to review a place like Kroger, which is… you know, Kroger… but since they vary so much in quality across Columbus (great = brewery district and graceland, lame = campus), I wanted to add my two cents here.
It’s fine, and I don’t hate it, and I often come here instead of GE because it’s cheaper and easier to get in and out of. But after two bad experiences with red meat here, I will flat out never buy meat at this particular Kroger ever again. I just don’t know what the deal is. I rarely buy meat anyway, but once I bought hamburger meat from here, and while it was supposedly fresh, and pink on the outside, when I cut into the stuff the entire inside was gray. Gross. I returned it, grabbed another package… and… gray. Yeah, ok, maybe a bad day.
Then, another time, I bought a steak — nothing special, just a cheap steak for making sandwiches. Again. pink on the outside, and it lasted approximately 8 hours in my fridge, before I pulled it out, and… gray.
Ok, so something’s up. Most other stuff here is fine, and they actually have a mini bulk section, but I just can’t do the meat.

I used to come to this Kroger all the time as it was right down the street from where I lived (before the one in Graceland opened). I was just back for the 1^st time in ages this weekend and (unfortunately) not much has changed.
This Kroger doesn’t even seem like its trying anymore. It isn’t the small size that bothers me as much as the feeling as if its dirty. Things seem to be strewn about if people decided they didn’t want them and they never got put away.
The staff doesn’t want to be there and it shows. I didn’t see a single person at the meat counter and there was one person at the deli counter, who took a good 5 minutes to even look up from what she was doing to even see that there was someone there trying to make a decision.
Its a convenient location at which to stop if you’re needing to pick up a few clutch items, but don’t make this the spot for your weekly shop.

Oh, Kroger. You worry me. You are lacking in so many ways… it’s time for a renovation.
I went to Kroger today because lately the Eag in Cville has had terrible produce — and by lately I’m going to say like, since fall. Anyway, I thought, oh, I never go to Kroger, I should try this one out. And I say this as someone who fantasizes about the Kroger at Polaris on a regular basis — the Clintonville Kroger is LAME. They have a major lack in the produce section, and most of the selections of everything are very small (except pasta sauce… they seem to really like it). As someone who, yes, has fantasies about grocery stores, but who doesn’t always want to make the trek out to Whole Foods (my wallet also doesn’t want me to do this), it would be nice to have a kickass grocery store in our hood. Giant Eagle has certainly come around with its renovations, but as I said, the produce there is often bad (I’ve had bad peaches, zucchini, basil, and cucumbers from here… and informed the customer service of as much), so the other choice is Kroger. Which is unfortunate.
I won’t be back to this location, but if you need one or two dry goods I can see stopping in.

As Krogers go, this is a… decent one. It’s not going to change your worldview in any way. Their produce section is… lacking, but they’re convenient and have the basics. They’ve mostly stopped buying Bocas, so if you’re going looking for vegetarian alternatives, this is not the place to shop. Also, their magazine section is pretty much limited to the extreme highs and lows of testosterone.
The pharmacy people are half and half. There’s one or two who are really cranky, and the rest are actually fairly sweet. There’s a mostly bald guy who is actually somewhat young who is excellent at giving flu shots (you won’t feel it at all).