King Soopers' SWAT Team

[buffalobo]

We expend quite a bit of effort to avoid shopping in person at the corporate grocery stores.

Place pick up orders
Place orders to be shipped to home
Place orders with online vendors
Source fresh products from producers - farmer, rancher, produce our own
Search out local independent grocers

We facilitate the above with extensive planning and careful pantry/freezer inventory management.

After many years of massaging/adjusting/managing our system have found we spend less, waste less and can afford better quality foods.

A good example of independent grocers is Heritage Market in Eaton, CO and Ridleys in Laramie, WY.

We especially like Heritage Market for being a pleasant place to shop. Good selection, courteous employees, no self check out. They automatically bag with good quality(reusable) plastic bags and a very polite courtesy clerk carries your groceries to your car. The experience is well worth the extra couple percent in cost over Kroger and others.

Even the poorly managed and expensive independent market in our nearby small town is preferable to big corporate stores.



If you're unarmed, you are a victim

[eddiememphis]

We especially like Heritage Market for being a pleasant place to shop. Good selection, courteous employees, no self check out. They automatically bag with good quality(reusable) plastic bags and a very polite courtesy clerk carries your groceries to your car.

Wow! You live in 1958. Watch out for Wally and The Beav playing stickball in front of the Donaldson's place!

[buffalobo]

Wow! You live in 1958. Watch out for Wally and The Beav playing stickball in front of the Donaldson's place!

Damn straight and we like it. There is value in service.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim

[kidicarus13]

After many years of massaging/adjusting/managing our system have found we spend less, waste less and can afford better quality foods.

The experience is well worth the extra couple percent in cost over Kroger and others.

So does your experience costs + or - ?

[buffalobo]

So does your experience costs + or - ?

If you mean cost in dollars above Kroger and other chain stores, approx 10-12%.

Value of being well stocked with better quality food? Tough to put a number to it but enough that the effort is worth it to us. Couple hours of our time each week.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim