Hi Gang, over on the General section I posted a story of how a member of my gun club was insulted by the local Kroger store after it was noted he was legally carrying a firearm. The thread really took off. Keep in mind the store was not posted at the time of the incident and open carry is legal in Ohio, so the fact the gun was seen is not an issue. This is what Andy wrote on our Club website about the incident.
http://ccfsa.20.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=742&sid=76b488be98c8803a78d1820917b2d67a
Please keep in mind before judging this fellow for going back in to shop, this part of Ohio has been hit hard economically, this county is where DHL was located and now our unemployment level is at 19+%. 60 Minutes has done stories, Rachel Ray and Jay Leno have been here to try to help.
Three years ago our unemployment was 2% and many now standing in the line at the Sugartree ministries food pantry used to be the donors to the pantry. Kroger issues rebate checks for use of their credit cards and in tight times that would motivate many to swallow their pride and go back in even after such an insult.
Andy, the fellow this happened to, wrote Kroger to complain and got this in response.
Our club members have begun a letter writing campaign to Kroger to try to reverse the policy but frankly that is not going to be enough. We need your help.
What needs to be done is to get Kroger to reverse their new policy. This effects all of us as Kroger owns many grocery stores under many names across the United States. Since their Corporate HQ is in Cincinnati it is possible they may make this their national policy. So it would behoove us all to write and or call them to make our displeasure with this anti gun attitude known to them, so we can try to head this off from becoming national policy in all their stores and hopefully reverse this idiocy in the area where it began in SW Ohio.
I hope we can count on your participation is turning the tide back.
Contact info
Kroger's Wilmington
1230 Rombach Avenue
Wilmington, OH 45177-1943
(937) 655-5720
Call Center
(Open Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. EST)
1-866-221-4141
Mail
The Kroger Co.
Customer Relations
1014 Vine Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-1100
Corporate Switchboard
(513) 762-4000
Corporate Affairs/Media Relations
Corporate Affairs Department
The Kroger Co.
1014 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202-1100
Executive Offices
(please direct correspondence to the attention of a department or individual)
David B. Dillon CEO
1014 Vine Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-1100
(513) 762-4000
http://www.kroger.com
http://ccfsa.20.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=742&sid=76b488be98c8803a78d1820917b2d67a
Was shopping Sunday April 18 with my wife and daughter at Krogers in Wilmington. I have my CCW and always pay attention to the door and around the door and i never have seen a no gun sign. We were walking down the aisle when I noticed two employees at both ends and one was a manger. I pointed them out to my wife. She always says I'm to paranoid about being followed. They followed us for about another two aisles. When we are in the middle of one aisle with no one else in the aisle with us. The mangers approaches me and ask if that was a gun that i was carrying. I told him it was and said I was not allowed to carry in Krogers. At this point I notice they have the aisle blocked off at the ends so no one else can enter it. I told him the store is not posted and by law it needs to be posted if they don't want firearms in there store. He proceeded to tell me it there policy and they are not allowed in the store. I told him i did not know that because it's no posted any where. He asked me to leave so i told that is not a problem and left. I went out to the car and put the pistol in the lock box and went back inside . The mangers were at the door and said we told you to leave. I said i did and showed them my empty holster. They proceed to follow us the rest of the shopping trip.
I nor my wife liked to be treated like common thugs, criminals or what you want to call it.
Please keep in mind before judging this fellow for going back in to shop, this part of Ohio has been hit hard economically, this county is where DHL was located and now our unemployment level is at 19+%. 60 Minutes has done stories, Rachel Ray and Jay Leno have been here to try to help.
Three years ago our unemployment was 2% and many now standing in the line at the Sugartree ministries food pantry used to be the donors to the pantry. Kroger issues rebate checks for use of their credit cards and in tight times that would motivate many to swallow their pride and go back in even after such an insult.
Andy, the fellow this happened to, wrote Kroger to complain and got this in response.
Our club members have begun a letter writing campaign to Kroger to try to reverse the policy but frankly that is not going to be enough. We need your help.
What needs to be done is to get Kroger to reverse their new policy. This effects all of us as Kroger owns many grocery stores under many names across the United States. Since their Corporate HQ is in Cincinnati it is possible they may make this their national policy. So it would behoove us all to write and or call them to make our displeasure with this anti gun attitude known to them, so we can try to head this off from becoming national policy in all their stores and hopefully reverse this idiocy in the area where it began in SW Ohio.
I hope we can count on your participation is turning the tide back.
Contact info
Kroger's Wilmington
1230 Rombach Avenue
Wilmington, OH 45177-1943
(937) 655-5720
Call Center
(Open Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. EST)
1-866-221-4141
The Kroger Co.
Customer Relations
1014 Vine Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-1100
Corporate Switchboard
(513) 762-4000
Corporate Affairs/Media Relations
Corporate Affairs Department
The Kroger Co.
1014 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202-1100
Executive Offices
(please direct correspondence to the attention of a department or individual)
David B. Dillon CEO
1014 Vine Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-1100
(513) 762-4000
http://www.kroger.com