Kroger – Lemon

Three shades of metallic yellow, on the can, is nice. That logo, though—pay a graphic design student 50 bucks to come up with something that makes sense. If you can’t decide on a flavor, why not lemon? And this version of lemon is fine. It’s not fair to pick on Kroger Water Division (but is there such a thing?) just because my local grocery store is owned by Kroger, and it’s a terrible place. Well, it used to be owned by Roundy’s, but now Kroger, and it’s my least favorite grocery store in my experience—yet I keep trying to go there with a smile (it’s across the street, so close, and also, I don’t have a car)—yet, every time, I leave angry. Usually, I buy something on sale and don’t get the sale price. Other times, I’m confused by the advertised price—they do sneaky things so fool you. Why do you want to piss off your customers? Besides that, half of the time what I go there for is not stocked. Also, it’s not a big store, and a good third of the place is taken up with alcohol. But the worst thing of all—at one point, they stopped having shopping baskets whatsoever. They have carts, of course, but no baskets, like every other grocery store. But like I said, all of this should have no bearing on their sparkling water, which is good certainly respectable.

No. 126 – 10.2.25