{"id":5922,"date":"2015-09-23T20:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T03:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2015-09-23T20:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T03:41:54","slug":"no-cost-right-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5922","title":{"rendered":"No Cost, Right Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/no-cost-rigt-price.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/no-cost-rigt-price-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"no cost rigt price\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5923\" \/><\/a>With the new no cost salad options, King Soopers customers don&#8217;t have to worry about spending too much money on salads because there just aren&#8217;t that many to choose from.\nKing Soopers Stapleton Store Manager Gary Stevens feels they are just making things easier for shoppers.  &#8220;We just felt like we were giving people too many choices and that the store was getting too f&#8212;-ing crowded.  So &#8211; we decided to scale back our salad options by just not stocking a lot of them.  It really has helped move along store traffic and get you ass&#8212;, I mean, help our customers make your shopping experience go faster.  We&#8217;ve been working on this same strategy in other parts of the store.  Right now we just leave the pallets in certain areas to deter people from buying stuff.&#8221;\n<!--more-->\nCustomers may have noticed the many empty areas in the salad aisle near the produce section of our local King Soopers store.\nAlli Meyers, a frequent King Soopers customer commented, &#8220;Yeah, I was looking for one of those Caesar Salad things, you know the bag of salad with bacon, and well, um, they&#8217;re hardly ever there.  I mean, I&#8217;m trying to eat healthy, or at least eat some lettuce with my bacon and Caesar dressing and there isn&#8217;t much to choose from.  I mean, do these guys actually expect me to buy lettuce and then buy vegetables and make the salad myself?&#8221;\nThe Stapletonion was actually able to reach King Soopers parent company, Kroger, about this serious salad issue.  Randy Christin, Director of Inventory Management at Kroger regional Headquarters said, &#8220;Um, Yeah, we know, there aren&#8217;t a lot of salad choices there, but, well, that store is really busy and, um, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a Sprouts close by so we really don&#8217;t have to a give sh-t&#8230;Oh wait, you guys are a newspaper?  Well, we&#8217;ll do what we can to fix it.  I can&#8217;t tell you when, but we hear your customers&#8217; concerns.&#8221;\n&#8220;In a way, it might cut down on the traffic at the front of the store, I mean it always feels like an obstacle course trying to make it through the piles of stuff and displays near the entrance, so this non-salad thing, well, it might actually be a good idea,&#8221; said Ms. Meyers on her way into the store this past Tuesday afternoon.  &#8220;We&#8217;ll just have to wait and see.  King Soopers is sort of becoming a last resort as it is.  This is where I go when I forget to go to Sprouts or Trader Joe&#8217;s.&#8221;\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-113","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}