Kroger

What a cool grocery store for this college town! I loved the selection of cheese and carry out items. They also have a huge bistro for hot foods, an Asian buffet, a sushi train, and ample seating. There were tons of student communing and eating.
There are also plenty of locally made goods for purchase.

A pretty awesome grocery store for a little town like Bloomington! Plenty of choices. Can have customized meat cutlets. Cons: 1, sometimes vegetables are not as fresh, could come in and have empty shelves; 2, cannot trust the quality of the small home electrics, once bought a blender leaking, returned immediately.

Why am I posting a review for Kroger’s?
Yes. I know. They have an awesome dirt plot for mushrooms that you can pick and buy and devour. Sorry, I love mushrooms and my local Kroger has no indoor mushroom plot. :(All of our mushrooms come in those plastic containers.
I can’t really give a proper review since I can’t really buy everything I would like and bring back to my hotel room with my tiny fridge. However, from what I’ve seen, this Kroger is huge. It has a prepared food section, self-​serve bars, tons of fresh produce that I just wanted to throw into my cart and veggie-​nap, many «health» foods (organic, etc.) and the usual stuff like snacks to drug store items like over the counter meds, band aids, household items, and hygiene items. Sure, it sounds pretty standard, but what really made this stand out were the fresh mushrooms in that soil. The entire place was also huge and I didn’t feel one bit claustrophobic. Is it me or did it seem like the aisles were more open?
I so wanted to get some mushrooms, but they would have just sat there, so I took a picture instead.
MUSHROOMS.

This is a great store, not much they don’t have, especially since newest remodel. Just yesterday had seen some unusual pasta from Italy, thought I would have to order online, but nope long thin Italian Fusilli
Pasta.right there, and the new bulk area for all kinds of odd stuff you only need once in while is awesome!

How a ginormous corporate store like this is so frequently out of basic staples — lemons today, limes a few weeks ago, whipping cream, other milk product shelves are bare on a regular basis — is just beyond me. They usually blame «the warehouse.» «Didn’t come in on the truck.» Whatever. What sort of idiots are in charge of their supply chain?

Krogucci
Free Wifi
An events stage
A TV lounge
Great wine selection
Starbucks…

I’ve eaten at the Bistro three times now and have enjoyed the variety, prices and environment every time. My favorite so far is the carbonara pizza.

Kroger sucks. Get with the century and allow me to pay for thanksgiving meals online for my sister in Indiana. Also don’t transfer me 3 times and leave me on a never-​ending hold if there is absolutely no way to pay over the phone. Glad that you guys changed your policy on taking payments over the phone after years of ordering meals.

This location is monstrously huge, and has been recently remodeled in advance of a Whole Foods that will soon be coming to Bloomington. In the attempt to make this a world class sort of Costco/​Walmart/​Sams grocery, a huge and low-​cost liquor section as added, along with buffet-​style hot food section with a genuinely cool sushi bar, and a pizza/​sandwich kiosk.
There’s a pharmacy, and a large expansion of overall items. There is enormous choice, along with a feed-​the-​organics-​heads section in both produce, and an area dedicated to actual healthy foods.
When it’s completed, the remodeling will be awesome, but there are enormous underlying issues here, IMHO. These include: understocking of advertised items, so that sure, you can get a rain check, but you’ll be upset and buy something more expensive anyway; price thrashing that’s plainly ludicrous and makes long term planning impossible, should you desire one-​stop-​shopping (ex: cage-​free eggs that vary 99.4% over a month in price); ostensible loss-​leaders; sustained farming commitment signs right out of Orwell’s 1984 (some fish sold is sustainable but much is not); prices that magically change between the shopping aisle and checkout to the point where one must watch them like a hawk; and general sloth.
You can become stressed if you don’t watch what’s going on, compare products carefully, ensure that you picked a product from a shelf where the price tag matches the product; take a calculator with you because in Indiana, two like-​type products don’t have to have the same measuring units, making comparison almost impossible, and other feats of being a super-​shopper. If you are a super-​shopper, you can be rewarded here. If not. they’ll slice pennies from you that over the long term, add up considerably. Did I mention being out of common produce items, randomly?

Woah! This Kroger is huge! I found they had a decent selection of everything. The liquor prices were very good. Some of the cashiers… not friendly at all.