Kroger Marketplace

overall this is a nice place with most of my food needs. The up-sides are: - accessibility... easy access from my house - parking... plenty of spots - has a pharmacy, starbuks, and other specialty areas (pizza, sushi, etc..) - lots of variety - "healthy" choices are marked with green labels in the isles - cleanliness There are 3 opportunities for improvement - the fruit quality is often poor. more specifically, nectarines are often brown inside straight out of the store. The Kiwis are also usually bad. they are often hard. I've tried to let them ripe but it doesn't seem to work. they stay hard and do not taste good at all. - there is a lack of consistency for food location. One can find a given food in several locations within the store. Due to this multiple location of food items, some foods will not be where you expect them to be. for example, at a given location where you will find dates, you will not find figs. The figs are somewhere else, and there may or may not be other dried fruits there. - bagging.... i bring my own bags shopping to avoid the use of plastic bags that litter our environment. just look at the roadsides. I understand the need to wrap meat in a plastic bag. But this store will double or triple wrap such items (also wine bottles and eggs). I end up with a bunch of plastic bags even when i bring my own bags.