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Krogers Attacked · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Part two of Chuck Douglass in The Power Hour on
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  Speaker 1: six ten double UTVN eight two one DOUBLETV in is
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  Speaker 1: the number. That's a two one nine eight eighty six.
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  Speaker 1: Going through Facebook post here, Kalumbus City Attorney Zach Klein
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  Speaker 1: has posted both a uh a uh text well it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a graphic text graphic as well as a
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  Speaker 1: video going after Donald Trump because he says Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: is going after our elections. The president doesn't control elections.
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  Speaker 1: It reads states and counties do that, civics one oh one?
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  Speaker 1: All right, yeah, so you read part of that. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's good. Uh. We're suing the Trump administration for threatening
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  Speaker 1: to withhold federal funding from states and cities like Columbus
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  Speaker 1: that don't run elections the way Donald Trump wants, which
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  Speaker 1: is how requesting requiring identification for people to vote? Is
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  Speaker 1: that the big hang up? I need identification to get
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  Speaker 1: into city hall to come to your office? Is that
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  Speaker 1: the big hang up? I mean it, I want to
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  Speaker 1: know a city attorney's act. Clyde. I know you don't listen,
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  Speaker 1: you have people to do, But what's the hang up?
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  Speaker 1: What is it? Donald Trump wants? Columbus Franklin County, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: To do that, you feel the need, you got to
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  Speaker 1: fight him in court, and he feels need. He's got
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  Speaker 1: to threaten federal funding having citizens vote and people presenting
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  Speaker 1: ID to vote. You need ID for everything. It's not
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  Speaker 1: an unreasonable unreasonable request to make, is it. No? In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it's a demand, common sense demand. But again, both a
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  Speaker 1: text post and a video post today to explain why
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  Speaker 1: we must fight the Trump administration in court because the
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  Speaker 1: City of Columbus, you know, the City of Columbus is
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  Speaker 1: every town we represent all the world. These people they
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  Speaker 1: kill me. Ever since back when they Arizona. What did
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  Speaker 1: Arizona do? They did something with I think they did
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  Speaker 1: something with illegal immigration, And so Columbus felt the need
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  Speaker 1: to stand up and issue a statement from our city
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  Speaker 1: council against Arizona and to deny any city paid trip
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  Speaker 1: to Arizona. We would do no business with Arizona because
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  Speaker 1: we were mad at Arizona. You remember what that was
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  Speaker 1: all over? Were you old enough to even know about that?
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  Speaker 2: We talked about it. Actually I can't remember, but it
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  Speaker 2: was just like Arizon. Columbus rejects this, or they try
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  Speaker 2: to they were be Columbus, but they were just making
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  Speaker 2: a stink about it for no reason.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, be Columbus b ninety West Broad Street. You want
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  Speaker 1: to rules and you want represent representation, and stop fighting
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  Speaker 1: the people that want to change the way. Look when
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  Speaker 1: people said we need we need representation on city council,
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  Speaker 1: this at large crap ain't working. What did you do? Well? First,
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  Speaker 1: you established these area commissions, which was a bone with
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  Speaker 1: no meat on it, but you threw it to the
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  Speaker 1: dogs to get him to stop barking. So they said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: goodwill I have area commissions and that way we have
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  Speaker 1: representation within our area. And no, no, you really don't,
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  Speaker 1: because the Area Commission can vote read and the city
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  Speaker 1: Council and the Development Department can say no, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go with brown because that's what the mayor wants.
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  Speaker 1: Area commission has no legal teeth. They can't enforce anything.
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  Speaker 1: All they can do is pomp and circumstance. Have their meetings,
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  Speaker 1: have their hearings, let people talk, take a vot, send
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  Speaker 1: the vote to the city, and just be blatantly ignored
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  Speaker 1: if the city doesn't want to do what the area
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  Speaker 1: Commission says they want to do. But that was a
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  Speaker 1: way to appease people when they said, do you want
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  Speaker 1: more than seven people down there making all the decisions?
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  Speaker 1: And it lasted for years until recently, a few years ago,
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  Speaker 1: they said, we want more than seven people to bunch
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  Speaker 1: of tooth plisera commissions. So what did the city council do.
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  Speaker 1: They expanded nine seats, but still with no area representation.
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  Speaker 1: Don't not of them live on my beloved west side,
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  Speaker 1: and Lord knows we need some representation. They're not part
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  Speaker 1: of the community, but they get to vote on what
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  Speaker 1: happens in the community. Nobody goes down there and represents
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  Speaker 1: and advocates for the Hilltop or Lincoln Village or Westgate
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  Speaker 1: or any of the neighborhoods Holly Hill, Georgian Heights, all
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  Speaker 1: of the neighborhoods on the West Side. They've got nobody
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  Speaker 1: who goes down there and advocates for them. And so
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  Speaker 1: now there is an uprising people saying, look, we forget
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  Speaker 1: this at large crap. Where the people in four three
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  Speaker 1: two three two are deciding who the representative for four
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  Speaker 1: three two to two eight is going to be. That's
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  Speaker 1: not the way to roll this. That large stuff doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Plus it's all blatantly partisan. That's why we have a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat mayor, nine Democrat members of council, all Democrats on
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  Speaker 1: the Franklin County Commissioners were everybody's a damned Democrat. It
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  Speaker 1: also has to do with the laziness and sluggishness of
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  Speaker 1: the Franklin County Republican Party over the last twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't help. But it's all one sided. There's no
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  Speaker 1: representation from anybody who is on a political island that
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  Speaker 1: is different from theirs. There's no representation for anybody who
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  Speaker 1: is in a community island that is different from theirs.
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  Speaker 1: But they're making all the decisions. It's not right. That's
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  Speaker 1: not how things are supposed to be. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're gonna go all Article one, section eight on
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  Speaker 1: the on Donald Trump over this whole this whole voting
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  Speaker 1: thing requiring that we're not we don't believe in requiring
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  Speaker 1: ID and Donald Trump's not gonna make us require ID
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  Speaker 1: if you want to do that, fine, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's uh, let's get all constitutional with all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. What we have now cannot be called representation
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  Speaker 1: in the City of Colambus. It can't. It's laughable. You
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  Speaker 1: got those area commission areas. I think do we have eighteen?
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  Speaker 1: I think we're at eighteen now. We used to have sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got those areas that are set up already
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  Speaker 1: from within the boundaries of those area commissions, you should
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  Speaker 1: be electing members of city council. Perfect solution. No, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a great start. Well, then that would give us
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  Speaker 1: sixteen or seventeen members of council. Ooh, we've got a
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  Speaker 1: metro of a million people. Don't you think sixteen or
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  Speaker 1: seventeen representais is pretty daggone small. I'm not asking us
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  Speaker 1: to be Chicago. I'm not asking for wards. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: asking us to be New York. I don't need Burroughs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, let's be a better Columbus, and let's
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  Speaker 1: be exclusively Columbus instead of worrying about what the hell
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  Speaker 1: is going on in Arizona. Ninety West Broad Street, Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio four three two one five. That's where you are
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  Speaker 1: worry about that? Or maybe that's just me again A
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eighty six A two me WTV
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  Speaker 1: and I posted a Kroger thing, and basically I just asked,
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  Speaker 1: you know who did Kroger piss off? And would they
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  Speaker 1: do to do it? Because have you seen the commercials?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Zach the woman standing there talking about how
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  Speaker 1: evil Kroger is the commercials to television commercials. No, they're
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  Speaker 1: running all the time anymore, and Kroger is bad and
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  Speaker 1: evil and they do these bad things. And now they
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  Speaker 1: were getting eggs and just look at where their eggs
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  Speaker 1: come from. And they show some old, decrepit looking chickens that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're really trying to tear down Kroger. And I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out why who's behind this? Yeah, who's doing it?
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  Speaker 1: A couple theories that we're sharing. Of course, the first
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  Speaker 1: thing I got was, Umm, could you leborate on what
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  Speaker 1: you mean? No, this is why I use social media
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  Speaker 1: the way I do. I ask open ended questions to
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  Speaker 1: get open ended answers. I want to vary what people say.
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  Speaker 1: I could say, what did Kroger do to piss somebody off?
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  Speaker 1: At eight o seven pm on July twenty seventh, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, at their East Main Street location in the
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  Speaker 1: dairy department. That doesn't get me answers. That is way
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  Speaker 1: too specific. I ask open ended questions to engage with
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  Speaker 1: people because different people see things from different perspectives and
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  Speaker 1: I want those is that's why I use social media.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, I got one answer that said they
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  Speaker 1: believe it was a union thing where the Kroger is
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  Speaker 1: having a dispute with some kind of union. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if it's representing Kroger unions or maybe the
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  Speaker 1: union that represented Giant Eagle employees because they swallowed them
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  Speaker 1: up here recently. No idea, but one person said it
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  Speaker 1: was union. Another person said it was a consumer advocacy
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  Speaker 1: group that was upset over the dynamic pricing that they're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. That's where they have electronic price tags on
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  Speaker 1: things and it allows them to people they can raise
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  Speaker 1: the prices. Well, they can also lower the prices. But
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  Speaker 1: there are those who are, you know, very conspiracy theorists,
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  Speaker 1: like who believe that they'll incorporate this with facial recognition
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  Speaker 1: and what a wealthier customer who intends to buy more
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  Speaker 1: expensive things approaches the shelf, the price will change to
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  Speaker 1: a higher price. I'm not joking. That's what they think.
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  Speaker 1: That dollar fifty nine can of soup is going to
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  Speaker 1: become a dollar ninety nine if the facial recognition says
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  Speaker 1: this person only buys high end brand name products. I
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  Speaker 1: if that were the case, they'd be chasing away business,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't they And they want business. But Kroger's going through
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  Speaker 1: a lot of weirdness right now. I got something the
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  Speaker 1: other day about how I could get my delivery in
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  Speaker 1: two hours by using Instacart. But Kroger already has Kroger Boost,
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  Speaker 1: which I subscribe to, where they deliver in a Kroger truck.
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  Speaker 1: But then they're pushing Instacart. And then they've also got
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  Speaker 1: another thing where you can get your groceries and prescriptions delivered.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they do narcotics. I haven't really checked
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  Speaker 1: into it, but you can get your prescriptions if it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, antibiotics or whatever, and your groceries delivered. But
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  Speaker 1: that's another delivery service as opposed to just the Kroger
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  Speaker 1: delivery service. I'm not sure why there are three options it. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty happy with the Kroger delivery service, with the
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  Speaker 1: exception of one thing, and that is I drink. I've
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  Speaker 1: always been an iced tea fanatic. When I had to
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  Speaker 1: change my ways and you know, drop weight and shake
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  Speaker 1: the diabetes and all that crap, I found a zero
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  Speaker 1: sugar iced tea that I really like. It tastes like tea.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. Every time we order that, we always get
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  Speaker 1: it's not available. We don't have any in store, so
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  Speaker 1: it never gets delivered. But then I can drive over
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  Speaker 1: to the store and there's a shelf full of it.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe they just don't want to carry the
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  Speaker 1: heavy bottles of tea. That's the only thing I can
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  Speaker 1: figure because it's never available when I order it, but
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  Speaker 1: it's always on the shelf if I go over and
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  Speaker 1: get it myself. That is the one little gripe that
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  Speaker 1: I have with him. Aside from that, they're ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: point nine percent. They're on time. I did have one
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  Speaker 1: instance where they were significant, like three hours late, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, and I didn't even try
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  Speaker 1: to figure it out. But every other time they've been
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  Speaker 1: on time. Drivers are generally courteous, and you know, they
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  Speaker 1: will bring this stuff up. They don't fill it on
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk in front of the house or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I like the service. I'm happy. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: pay for it on a yearly basis. I know, what
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  Speaker 1: is it, eighty nine dollars or something like that a
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  Speaker 1: year and I'm good with it. We also have the
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  Speaker 1: same service through Walmart. Never, never we use it, it's
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  Speaker 1: like two times, maybe because habitually the queen just opens
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  Speaker 1: up the Kroger app. So I probably will cancel a
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  Speaker 1: Walmart win or just not renew it. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why the suddenly we have three delivery options. I'd
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  Speaker 1: love to see them grow what they are doing that's
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  Speaker 1: already working and working pretty well. But between those commercials
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  Speaker 1: tearing Kroger down and talking about all the evil that
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  Speaker 1: they are doing and showing those nasty disease ridden chickens
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  Speaker 1: and talking about here's where their eggs come from, and
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  Speaker 1: and this sudden change in the delivery, I just I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's up. I don't know what's up, and
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  Speaker 1: I want nothing but good for Kroger because you know,
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  Speaker 1: generally they are pretty good neighbors and uh and grocery
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  Speaker 1: prices are too high no matter where you go there
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  Speaker 1: there seem to be reasonable. The fuel points thing, if
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  Speaker 1: you spend a lot of money in groceries, you get
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  Speaker 1: a decent return on that. It's your your fuel fill
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  Speaker 1: up thing, getting a dollar off for every hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: you spend or is a thousand, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's is it ten cents per one hundred dollars?
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  Speaker 1: So once you spend one thousand dollars you got a
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  Speaker 1: dollar off, Dear Lord, then we must be spending way
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  Speaker 1: too much money, because it seems like I always got
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  Speaker 1: a dollar off. I better quit that. But I just
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why the destruction is in place here
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  Speaker 1: on Kroger. I don't know who's after him, why they're
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  Speaker 1: after him, And it's a sincere question because if something
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  Speaker 1: needs to be fixed, I would much rather get involved
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  Speaker 1: and see some dialogue opened up and get it fixed
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  Speaker 1: for something that I considered to be a good neighbor
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  Speaker 1: and a benefit to the communities they're in. They just
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  Speaker 1: gave ten thousand dollars to Columbus to help out with
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  Speaker 1: the the food and necessities and so forth for the
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  Speaker 1: people that lost all that stuff during the storms last week.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's pretty cool. I didn't get to Frankie Valley, Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll do that tomorrow