My store offers a wide variety of organic produce, and there are hundreds of organic items scattered throughout the store. As a result, we attract large numbers of health/fitness nuts, Whole Foods shoppers and health conscious stay-at-home-moms...in other words, 95% of our customer base is WHITE and relatively affluent. If a Whole Foods or Trader Joe's was built in my town, my store would probably go out of business. Who mostly shops at your store?
...anyhow, "ghetto" store here. I think the technical name for it is a value store. Most of the customers are working class. As for race, we pretty much get a good mixture of everybody. I will say this though, the people who tend to buy the crab legs, candy, and food like that and put it on their bridge card are mostly blacks.
My store's a middle of the line store, I think it's considered a lower end mainstream store.
We have a decent amount of organic produce and a nice nutrition section but it's not a marketplace.
Since it's a small town (the only Kroger in the whole county), a $100,000 day is considered average.
As far as race goes, not that I really care about that type of thing, but most of the customers are white but that's only because the town is mostly white. The only black person I see in the store is one of our managers, most days. lol
-- Edited by 4hourrush on Saturday 8th of February 2014 11:24:51 PM
I was looking at some data/graph related posts on our breakroom out of boredom. Across all of them, we're classified as "upscale".
I agree with it though. We're next to a hospital and surrounded by some upper middle-class (and on) homes. Our customer base (85+%) are Caucasians, followed by Asians (10+%) and then everyone else.
Not that I'm saying that race has something to do with it, but just pointing out the environment/community we're surrounded by.
783 in Ashland Kentucky is a mixed bag of professionals to working class folks and we do a tremedous amount of ebt.......The mix of product does give us a edge on other retailers in our area...that is economically depressed.
-- Edited by charles on Sunday 9th of February 2014 12:02:09 AM
Suppose for a moment that race does, in fact, have a great deal to do with your store's standing. Know also that Kroger and other retailers spend millions of dollars analyzing, categorizing and otherwise researching the traits and buying habits of racial groups that shop at their stores.
I guess my store would be considered a middle class store? We get everyone from the poor ghettos to the rich water side houses on an island. We only gross about $1mil a week (about $160k - $170k a day with fuel and RX.) Most of our produce is nearest the entrance and the whole outside parking lot smells like chicken since we go through lots of chicken (wonder why...)
Just to give you an idea, the Kroger I work in is located in Mississippi...
The store is quite diverse.
I have nothing against EBT card users but I am very sick of seeing fat-as$es on electric buggies coming through my line and swiping their ebt card. I had this one guy come through my line on an electric buggy purchase ONE item, a box of honey-buns, and guess how he paid for it? he used an ebt card! He was white btw. I have had several lard as$es who do the same thing. I tend to get a lot of these types of customer everyday who purchase junk foods with an ebt card then they will whip out a 100 dollar bill to purchase alcohol and cigarettes. What pisses me off that these EBT users are able-bodied but I can tell they don't have jobs because they get 400-600 dollars worth of food stamps. Which is ridiculous considering the fact I have had elderly people come through my line who are unable to do much but only receive less than 100 bucks on ebt.
So what if the guy bought honey buns? He only gets so much a month, and if he uses it on honey buns, he does.
I really don't see people care so much about it.
Now if he bought $100 in cigarettes with it, then yes, i'd complain.
So what if the guy bought honey buns? He only gets so much a month, and if he uses it on honey buns, he does. I really don't see people care so much about it. Now if he bought $100 in cigarettes with it, then yes, i'd complain.
I think anon is pointing towards the shocking laziness. Using a scooter to buy $3 junk food with an EBT card. Would piss me off too.
Y'know what would piss me off the most because of laziness? When some prick uses a regular shopping cart, get only a single loaf of bread, and goes through the express register and leave his cart in front of the other customers.
Unfortunately, our express registers are arranged so that they're all lined up on a long counter. Think of department store counters like the ones at Burlington.
My store is surrounded by ghetto apartments, so we get a lot of low class customers (and employees), as well as middle class customers from the middle class suburbs a few miles out.
The store itself was recently remodeled, so it still looks nice.
My store is surrounded by [s]ghetto apartments[/s] Section 8 Housing, so we get a lot of low class customers (and employees), as well as middle class customers from the middle class suburbs a few miles out.
The store itself was recently remodeled, so it still looks nice.
Our store has a large organic section as well as a big fancy cheese shop with an olive bar, a lot of affluent people in very nice cars shop here. yet, when the first of the month hits, you'd think you were working at the welfare office.
