Barely any shoppers *or* discounts
WEEK 39 – Covington Kroger Closing, Set 2
We are continuing our circuit around the closing Covington Kroger this week, beginning with this shot looking down the (pretty dang desolate) rear actionway. I do want to emphasize the word “closing” in that sentence… I fear if I didn’t tell y’all that, it wouldn’t be obvious from the pictures at all. The usual big yellow closeout signs that I had seen at past Delta Division store closures were nowhere to be found here in Covington, and indeed have been absent from all the other closures in Arkansas that I visited earlier this year, too. Not only that, but the associated discounts also seem to have been eliminated… embarrassingly, I was actually complaining about that to my dad while in this store, not realizing there was an employee nearby who likely overheard me! I know a lot of people who visit store closures are out only for deals and couldn’t care less about the employees losing their jobs, so I sure hope I didn’t give off that impression to him. Still, though, it’s certainly an interesting change in M.O.
My first inclination is to think that this, too, has to do with the major backlash from the 2018 closures… i.e., if we don’t make the closures obvious while shoppers are in the store, maybe it will get less social media attention and fly under the radar. Of course, it could just as easily be that I’m overthinking it, and the lack of discounts is simply because Kroger Delta has gotten stingy and doesn’t want to discount everything anymore. Hard to tell if that’s the full-on driver or just an added benefit.
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Barely any shoppers *or* discounts
WEEK 39 – Covington Kroger Closing, Set 2
We are continuing our circuit around the closing Covington Kroger this week, beginning with this shot looking down the (pretty dang desolate) rear actionway. I do want to emphasize the word “closing” in that sentence… I fear if I didn’t tell y’all that, it wouldn’t be obvious from the pictures at all. The usual big yellow closeout signs that I had seen at past Delta Division store closures were nowhere to be found here in Covington, and indeed have been absent from all the other closures in Arkansas that I visited earlier this year, too. Not only that, but the associated discounts also seem to have been eliminated… embarrassingly, I was actually complaining about that to my dad while in this store, not realizing there was an employee nearby who likely overheard me! I know a lot of people who visit store closures are out only for deals and couldn’t care less about the employees losing their jobs, so I sure hope I didn’t give off that impression to him. Still, though, it’s certainly an interesting change in M.O.
My first inclination is to think that this, too, has to do with the major backlash from the 2018 closures… i.e., if we don’t make the closures obvious while shoppers are in the store, maybe it will get less social media attention and fly under the radar. Of course, it could just as easily be that I’m overthinking it, and the lack of discounts is simply because Kroger Delta has gotten stingy and doesn’t want to discount everything anymore. Hard to tell if that’s the full-on driver or just an added benefit.
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)