I have noticed that in out store some of the Hamburger meat is way too thick. I may not be an expert at grillin but I know it's too think to grill. It wiould be burnt on the outside before it cooks in the middle. I even asked one of the meat departmeant workers. They told me that is the way corp office wanted it cut. Abd they agreed with me it is too thick. Some of the steak is too think also. Also Kroger meat used to be good. Now it's not really that good not the steaks anyway most of the time they are tuff even when you put tenderizer on they are tuff.
Don't buy the ones ground up in the store they are SO NASTY. Have you seen the things they put into that stuff? Some of it is almost green and it's super fatty. Unless you have a good friend in the meat shop that will run you through some of the good stuff that is >_>
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I'm confused on several points on what exactly you're trying to post. Hamburger patties come in prepackaged and they're typically around 1 inch thick or 8 oz portions. If you're referring to Store Trimmings they would prefer to be around 73/27 if possible, but at our store depending on who is cutting we can still produce around 10 - 15 lb of trimmmings being around 80/20 most of the time. In our service case we usually cut 1 1/4" most of the time, but can have a variety of cuts ranging from 1/4", 1/2", and 3/4" as well.
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I won't buy chicken from ANY of them. Ever again. Got deathly ill from one store, saw putrid displays in two others and ALMOST ate yet another spoiled batch from the fourth. When I called the store manager on that last account, the attitude I got was so blase' that I've been giving that store T O N S of free advertising ever since.
So far, I haven't had any probs with their beef products.
We won't buy meat at Kroger...we buy it at a small regional chain store. Its virtually the same meat, same grade, and its usually cheaper. But hey, soon it won't matter anyway. Kroger will be phasing out alll the meatcutters and going to almost 100% pre-packaged meats. This will start happening in January 2013 as the individual meat department contracts come up for renewal. Why is Kroger doing this you may ask??
Well, one reason is that WalMart is Kroger's hero. Kroger is a WalMart wanna-be. Kroger will almost always adopt and adapt a WalMart strategy, policy, procedure and tout it as Kroger's own genius creation, never, never, ever admitting or acknowledging that WalMart has done the same for years.
Another reason is money....of course! Kroger knows that any revenues lost by no longer offering meat cutting services will be more than made up for by no longer having to pay the high wages that so many of Kroger's veteran meatcutters earn. Kroger can hire 1,2,3,or more aart-time high school or college kids, all desperate for any kind of job at any pay level, to replace the hig earning meatcutters. All they will be doing is stocking shelves with pre-packaged meat, and just coincidently, Key Retailing will tell them how to do it without thinking. Kroger knows that they will save bunches ofmoney with this plan. Wonder how they'll use that savings? Can you say share holder dividends and executive salaries and bonuses? You'd be right about that. Think Kroger would use the savings to maybe help keep employee health plan premiums from being negotiated higher at next contract renewal? Not a chance!
Don't buy the ones ground up in the store they are SO NASTY. Have you seen the things they put into that stuff? Some of it is almost green and it's super fatty. Unless you have a good friend in the meat shop that will run you through some of the good stuff that is >_>
Whoa now. The only things that go into the in store ground beef is trimmings from that day's cutting. I work in the meat department, and I know for a fact that nothing like that goes in. If we trim a huge chunk of fat off a round, and it's basically 3/97, it goes in the bone bin. Does not go into the trim tub. Your meat cutters and clerks may not care what goes in, but here, we do not put anything int he grinds we would not eat ourselves.
I remember one of our guys, found a 3lb chuck pre pack that someone had poked their finger into. Took it into the cooler and was going to put it in the grinder with the trimmings another cutter was preparing to grind. He stopped him, and said what the hell? We don't do that here. That cutter wasn't there long. We do things the right way, or not at all.
I would hope the vast majority of meat departments would operate the same way.
