York Minis Unwrapped Mini Dark Chocolate Covered Peppermint Patties (in the small pouch size you can get at the check out counter) Great Idea. Kroger's You Really Have To Work On Your Pricing Problems, Another Complimentary Item I Received.

Well folks, I write about a positive and a negative experience today. Let's start off with the negative so we can get it out of the way first and then conclude with the positive so we can end on a happy note. I went to a Kroger store the other day and guess what happened? If you have read my blog recently you can surely guess it had to do with getting a free item from them. This was due to lack of poor pricing in their system. I only had a few items and I checked my receipt before I left the store. Sure enough, wrong price charged to the customer. I cannot stress it strongly enough for you to really watch when you are at the check out counter that you are being charged correctly. Down an aisle there was a sale sign showing 4/$5.00 so what does that mean? Each item is at $1.25. Sure enough it rang up on my receipt and I paid that amount also, $1.49. Thank goodness a manager just happened to be there and I showed him the error. We walked to the area where the item was located. He brought me to the register and refunded the total amount of money. I think I verbally said to him does not the store lose money with the refunds they give to people. I must commend them on this, they do not give the customer a hassle when this occurs and they are courteous also. I cannot say this strong enough, people today work very hard for the money they earn and may live on fixed incomes also. Why are there stores out there that do not have their pricing correct in their systems and we, as the consumer, get overcharged. This is obviously becoming a problem if I am experiencing it more frequent than not. This needs to be looked into and corrected. Have you noticed the price of buying groceries keeps going up and up, I know the economy plays a part in this but did you consider the miss marked items being refunded to us are also playing a hand in all of this? Just a thought of mine, I may be way off base but then again it may have a bit of truth behind this thought.
Let's go onto happy thoughts OK. I think it is very clever what The Hershey Company created. They are called King Size which is written on the pouch but in reality the term is misleading. They remind me of a travel version size pouch one can eat a few pieces of candy and not over consume candy. I like this idea. Another thing I really like is there is an "actual size" picture of the item on the packaging. This allows one to not be surprised when they open the package, for you already know the size just by looking at it. A taste of candy but not being tempted to eat a lot of it. I think the first time I saw this it was at a Wal-Mart store. They are the unwrapped version of the candy but in mini size. I like this concept. I have purchased the mini Reese Peanut Butter Cups for baking and they worked out really well when I baked mini brownies. Just the right size when taking them out of the oven, you place one of the minis on each brownie and they look so cute too. See, there really are companies out there trying to create products for the consumer and not making them purchase big size/jumbo bags of product. Is $1.25 a steep amount to pay for a 2.5 ounce bag? Some may say yes, it depends on what you will be using them for. Paying $1.49 for this product, probably way too steep. Kroger I do believe that Wal-Mart sells them at the lower price point not $1.49. Consider taking down your price and not just giving a sale price to it for it has been out there in the market being sold prior to your store selling it. The consumer really does shop around for the best value especially in the economy we live in right now. Not everyone out there wants jumbo size this and that when purchasing items. Please keep that in mind.