Kroger stores vary greatly in quality and variety. Anyone doubting this should visit the Kroger at 9400 Brownsboro Road. It is only 15 miles from the LaGrange store. The Brownsboro store is like a large Fresh Market. It offers Boar?s Head meat in the deli dept., the store is clean, there is a salad bar, the produce is fresh and abundant, the meat dept. is clean and offers fresh meats, the bakery is pretty nice and there are several checkout lanes where you can still actually have someone check out and bag your groceries.
The store in LaGrange is what Kroger considers a ?meat and potatoes? store. Don?t know what that means on paper to the store, but I think they must truck in all the left over produce to this store from other stores. It?s not fresh. The selection is horrid. The store looks old and not clean. The self-checkout lanes are front and center and there are usually lines in the other lanes. The organic section is limited and the meat dept. is as well. This is a good store to find frozen corndogs in. This is not a good store to shop in if you are looking to make a gourmet meal. I think management must consider LaGrange to still be a small, rural town that wouldn?t support better quality or variety. Sadly they must not be noticing the rapid growth and development happening all around them. The influx of new residents are from out of state and are used to having better quality and variety. The ones I?ve spoken to make the drive to other Kroger stores to avoid this one. No, the norm for area residents is not Banquet TV Dinners and bags of frozen corn. And this store is going to lose business in a hurry as soon as a store opens in LaGrange that offers good quality, variety and prices.