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I wish I had the imagination to make this shit up<\/a>: South Fulton Kroger under scrutiny for basically opening a slot machine area inside of the store<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t even know where to begin with this.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a hungry lion jumping into a herd of gazelle but there are so many intriguing options that it\u2019s hard to focus on just one, and they all get away and they go hungry, but in this case I don\u2019t know what angle to start blabbing on about and this post is going to (already) turn into shit.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s funny though; I like Kroger as a company.\u00a0 They used to be 24 hr. mostly until the pandemic so it was convenient to go whenever, and the bottom line was always that my dollars always stretched a little further at Kroger than say, Publix.\u00a0 But ask anyone I know around here, and the general consensus is that Publix is a preferable grocer, because it feels cleaner and safer and more upscale in general, none of which I necessarily disagree with, but when I\u2019m trying to stretch dollars, Kroger is still superior in that regard.<\/span><\/p>\n Granted, I still do the majority of my shopping at Publix, because there are literally two of them equidistant from my home and closer than the nearest Kroger and for daily needs and quick gets, time is money and distance wins out, but sometimes when I know I need to make a big trip, I\u2019ll go out of my way and hit up Kroger, because at least where I am, they\u2019re not as scuzzy as say, the ones in South Fulton are, which I am all too familiar with, seeing as how I lived there for 13 years.<\/span><\/p>\n But over the last few years, Kroger hasn\u2019t done themselves any favors in the public eye, especially that of the one that resides over the Metro Atlanta area.\u00a0 I mean, prior to getting hit with the Gentrification Bomb, we had Murder Kroger<\/a> in the middle of the city, where at least three murders had occurred.\u00a0 Then we had the Kroger in College Park that was accused of being racist<\/a> for implementing a series of security vestibules that basically enclosed shoppers inside aisles to help deter theft.<\/span><\/p>\n And now we have a Kroger in South Fulton County that for some reason, has decided to put a miniature slot casino inside their store.\u00a0 Prizes are not monetary, but they\u2019re still slot machines all the same.\u00a0 Like, my knee-jerk reaction is just to laugh at the sheer absurdity of such a wild idea, and just how flagrantly targeted it is at feeding into racial stereotypes and not even trying to hide it.<\/span><\/p>\n Like really, what the fuck business do slot machines have inside of a grocery store?\u00a0 Even Las Vegas has steered away from the days of having rando slot machines in every gas station, CVS and restaurant, and you can go into a Smith\u2019s or an Albertsons to get just your groceries and not be tempted to dump the remainder of your paycheck in some crappy Wild Cherry or Double Diamond machine.<\/span><\/p>\n But not this Kroger, who set up a loosely partitioned-off area with a few slot machines and some sad stools for people to really post up and get comfortable for a wallet-draining slot session.\u00a0 And it\u2019s at the front of the store, where it\u2019s easy for people to come inside with the sole express of gambling away their money, instead of like Costco where they make you march all the way to the back of the store in order to get a $5 rotisserie chicken.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Kroger Casino\u2019s spot is where you\u2019d see some other Kroger or Kroger-affiliated stores set up like a Subway, a Starbucks, or like eye glass repair or a tax prep kiosk; random conveniences meant to make you want to spend a little more time in the store to sway you to shop more on actual profit-making products.\u00a0 But instead, it\u2019s just a literal hole in the wall guarded solely by some portable plexiglass partitions with a sign on it that states one must be 18+ in order to play.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been to Krogers in the hood; maybe not this specific one, but I\u2019ve been to some rough Krogers in South Fulton.\u00a0 Usually against my better judgment, but the desire to save a buck or two, or sometimes they\u2019re just conveniently on my route.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think for a minute that by the time I post this, there probably have already been at least 100 minors who have meandered into this section of the store without repercussion and drained at least $2,000 by now.\u00a0 The store is definitely not going to spring extra for some fat slob with a fake badge and can of pepper spray to run security for this section, and it\u2019s clear that the intent of Kroger is knowing that they will help create young gambling addicts, and by being in existence, help pad their own bottom lines at the expense of the poor and vulnerable.<\/span><\/p>\n As sad as this all is, and the painfully obvious message that it\u2019s sending, all I can do is laugh about it.\u00a0 It\u2019s fucked up, but I still find it absolutely hilarious.\u00a0 Kroger is in the making money businesses, and there clearly no moral or ethical boundaries in place if they have an idea that can make them some, and they\u2019re absolutely not at all concerned over the optics of choosing stores in the hood of hoods to pilot such an idea out.<\/span><\/p>\n Next thing we know, there will be some form of legalized prostitution brought to you by Kroger, where customers can walk up to a different loosely partitioned section of the store, scan your Kroger Plus Card, and then chat with some store employee in a blue Kroger polo shirt about wanting to get 30 minutes with Kayla, before going into a makeshift brothel like in Taken<\/em> to get your jollies off.<\/span><\/p>\n And of course, this would pilot in Forest Park, or Covington, Georgia, because the seedier the idea, the deeper into the hood they need to be piloted in.\u00a0 Fresh for everyone!™<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wish I had the imagination to make this shit up: South Fulton Kroger under scrutiny for basically opening a slot machine area inside of the store I don\u2019t even know where to begin with this.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a hungry lion jumping into a herd of gazelle but there are so many intriguing options that … Continue reading Who needs Vegas when you can just go to Kroger?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,131,79,100,213,83,143,8,89,190],"class_list":["post-49953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-batarians","tag-branding","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-gamb","tag-observations","tag-ohatlanta","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-racism","tag-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49955,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49953\/revisions\/49955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}