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I do not like these "savings cards," mainly for one reason. I've noticed that the stores that use them raised their prices so that the "sale" price with the card is what the regular prices used to be before they started using the cards. So in reality, you are getting the regular price instead of a high price (i.e. some thing that used to cost $5.00 with out the card now cost as much with it and $7.00 with out). Where are the savings at? So what's the point of stores using these cards other than as an excuse to make more money by raising thier prices?
-Anonymous in Ohio 5/7/01
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Thank you for bringing this out into the light! I thought I was the only one who noticed the immediate increase in Kroger's prices once they started the cards. I have since switched to a smaller independent grocery.
-Anonymous in Ohio 5/10/01
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Here are two price comparisons for Kroger with before the card and after the card prices. I purchase these two items regularly:
Soft drinks, 20oz. bottles Kroger milk, gallon
Before card: 3/$1.00 Before card: $2.79
After card: 2/89cents After card: 3.29
With card: 3/$1.00 With card: 2.79
Where is the savings?
-Ronald in Ohio 5/8/01
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This seems like a case for raising the minimum wage. Krogers is demonstrating its lack of social responsibility. It takes all of the advantages of living in this great country and stuffs it in the pockets of its CEOs and upper management and gives nothing back unless it is made to.
Which only tells us what we already know. Krogers rips off its employees. Crap rolls downhill until there is something there to stop it.
How many times has Krogers gotten tax breaks and other incentives to locate or stay in a particular town and then turned around and closed the store, leaving the employess and local economy high and dry without so much as a two week notice? Do they pay back the tax incentives? No. They keep them.
Kroger Brand Tuna includes tuna processed at Agroindustrias Rowen in Ensenada, Mexico. This cannery is "dolphin-unsafe" because it currently processes tuna caught by injuring and killing dolphins. Agroindustrias Rowen and Kroger have repeatedly refused to adopt Earth Island's "dolphin-safe" tuna standards. The Earth Island standard is recognized and accepted around the world as the only certifiable and verifiable regime which insures canned tuna is truly "dolphin-safe". This standard is based on two criteria:
1) Tuna cannot be caught by chasing, harassing or netting dolphins. "Dolphin-safe" tuna also cannot be caught through the use of driftnets.