“And so I’m calling my wife, and I called my mother, asking `Anything you need from the store, let me know.”‘ĭillon makes it a habit to pop in at the nearly 2,500 grocery stores run by Kroger, a $60.6billion business with 290,000 employees. “I bought several things in every store, so the car was pretty full,” Dillon said. Dillon, chairman and chief executive of Kroger Co., hit as many stores as he could, including seven or eight on Christmas Eve. Here you’ll see a pastiche of those much older ads, showing that Cincinnati somehow anticipated the War on Christmas by several lifetimes instead of our usual habit of being 10 or 20 years late.CINCINNATI – The head of the nation’s largest supermarket chain spent much of his holidays shopping – for groceries.īack in his native Kansas, David B. Depending on your age, you will or won’t recognize the many defunct stores and companies, but you will definitely notice how few of them say Merry Christmas. We’ve highlighted the more interesting names in this collage of greetings from 117 Cincinnati businesses.
Here you can see some actual Enquirer ads, gathered from the classified section of December 25, 1961. You refer to the Doctor’s column of December 2017 describing Cincinnati Enquirer ads back to the 1880s that wished you just about everything except a “Merry Christmas,” even on Christmas day. I could use a little Happy Holidays right this very minute. We’ll keep you posted.Ī few Decembers ago you described some old Cincinnati newspaper ads that said Seasons Greetings instead of Merry Christmas, just to show that the “War on Christmas” has always existed for anyone who needs it. They’re still working on rehabilitating their deeply scandalous reputation, which has improved to the level of an overcoat on Times Square filled with Rolexes. Their website language is pleasantly vague. FIFA seems to be punting (sorry, wrong sport) about what comes next.
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We’ve got the perfect large and, um, spacious airport, plus an imperfect large highway bridge across the Ohio River that might finally get upgraded if we get the nod. The more prominent games will be perfect for Paul Brown Stadium. Our brand new soccer stadium and its large and rabid fan base will, of course, be perfect for several World Cup games. That’s been delayed by our now-familiar friend, COVID-19. We made our official presentation in July, and the next step is for FIFA officials to visit each city in order to receive a more direct and personal bribe impression. FIFA, the international soccer body, will choose 10 American cities out of 17 finalists to host various World Cup matches in 2026. Let’s get readddddy to (perhaps, possibly, sort of) rummmmble.
Is FIFA taking us seriously? Will my dream come true? -KICK ME AWAKE We’ve shown that we’re a serious soccer town. What’s the status of Cincinnati’s bid to be one of America’s host cities for the 2026 World Cup? It’s not like I’m expecting much, but I’ve heard nothing since the summer. Their vending machines probably feature more choices than the entire old store did. The answer to Dad’s riddle? Coldwell Banker West Shell’s offices are where the Hyde Park Square Kroger used to be. Neither of these workarounds lasted very long. A shuttle bus was hastily arranged to run between locations, and a Cincinnati convenience store chain (King Kwik) opened a modest market at the vacant address. The Rich Housewives of Hyde Park were not amused. Kroger opened a much bigger store at Hyde Park Plaza in 1974, abruptly closing the one on the square with a week’s notice. But then “product extensions” began to multiply, and supermarkets started to resemble airports.
The Kroger on Hyde Park Square wasn’t much larger than a modern UDF, and that was typical. Also, the world had only one type of Pepsi, one flavor of Crest, and one texture of Charmin.
Grocery stores used to be tiny little things that sold-this may come as a shock-only groceries. Was it the group of stores where the coffee shop is now? Maybe that was a single storefront? Dad wouldn’t tell us. We thought he was joking, because no place seems big enough. My dad walked my sister and me around Hyde Park Square and made us try to guess where there had once been a Kroger.