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Murder Kroger

I was listening to a podcast about this Kroger called the murder Kroger in Atlanta. I was surprised because I always thought this was more of a Chuck E Cheese thing. Do you have any murder stores or restaurants where you live?

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by Anonymousreply 25July 19, 2025 8:09 PM

I can't think of actual names but over the years a few have come up with questionable frequency . Mostly related to mob activities.

by Anonymousreply 1July 19, 2025 4:24 AM

I have heard of the Murderkroger!

Apparently they tore it down and built one on nearly the same spot to get people to be willing to shop there again.

I have not had the pleasure of shopping at the Murderkroger but I have been to the UnSafeway in Denver. It lived up to its name.

by Anonymousreply 2July 19, 2025 4:39 AM

What the hell is Murderkroger? The link explains nothing and there’s next to nothing online.

by Anonymousreply 3July 19, 2025 4:43 AM

OP, what’s the name of the podcast?

by Anonymousreply 4July 19, 2025 4:44 AM

A lot of the Krogers in Atlanta have been given names for whatever reason.

There's Murder Kroger (murders!, renamed Beltline Kroger ), Disco Kroger (next to a disco; replaced by Publix - RIP), Kosher Kroger (duh), Hipster Kroger, Krogay, Shi**y [Citi] Center Kroger, Fiesta Kroger (¡Arriba!)...

by Anonymousreply 5July 19, 2025 5:11 AM

MurderSafeway is down the street from me in Portland.

by Anonymousreply 6July 19, 2025 5:53 AM

It was called Theories of the third kind r4

by Anonymousreply 7July 19, 2025 5:58 AM

When I first moved to LA someone I met at a party called the Culver City mall "Murder Mall." Don't know if that was widespread or just her personal slur but at the time Culver City wasn't the best area

by Anonymousreply 8July 19, 2025 6:21 AM

I don’t think they actually name places in NYC or people would stop going out. Although there is a McDonaldds on 8th Ave and like 46th St. This particular Methdonalds is frequented by junkies and is the home of a lot of violent robberies and stabbings. It’s the one where I, when riding a citibike to my sales bottom job, passed by a dead body in the bike lane that the police had just shot, knife still in hand.

And of course you have the infamous BeatDonalds on w4th street and 6th, another junkie haven, where an employee served a massive metal pipe beat down to two unruly customers who jumped the counter. That’s a rough one too.

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by Anonymousreply 9July 19, 2025 6:42 AM

We used to have a "Not so Safe...way"

by Anonymousreply 10July 19, 2025 7:12 AM

In DC there used to be (maybe still is; I haven't lived there in decades) the Social Safeway and the Soviet Safeway.

by Anonymousreply 11July 19, 2025 2:23 PM

The Ralphs on Sunset is the Rock'n'Roll Ralphs.

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by Anonymousreply 12July 19, 2025 2:24 PM

Will the trial of the murder Kroger involve a rural juror?

by Anonymousreply 13July 19, 2025 2:26 PM

Dallas used to call a Tom Thumb grocery some cutesy name, but I cannot recall what it is since I am not in Dallasite.

by Anonymousreply 14July 19, 2025 2:29 PM

Yeah, I'm the one who lives down the street from MurderSafeway and we moved here from the Pico/Robertson area (the slums of Beverly Hills) and, yes, there were always cops and ambulances at the Culver City mall so we always went to the mall at Century City.

by Anonymousreply 15July 19, 2025 6:51 PM

I love you R13! Murder Kroger used to by Kroger at the turn of the century. It just seemed like a normal grocery store.

by Anonymousreply 16July 19, 2025 6:57 PM

I live near a Mexican Kroger an hour outside of Atlanta.

by Anonymousreply 17July 19, 2025 7:00 PM

R15, I don't know anything about Culver City (except that it's kind of shitty). It's so close to such nice areas, why hasn't it gentrified?

by Anonymousreply 18July 19, 2025 7:01 PM

Awww. I lived at Ford Factory Square (which shared a parking lot with Murder Kroger) in the mid 1990s. Was always fun to race my trick from the car to the lobby at 4am after a night at BackStreet.

by Anonymousreply 19July 19, 2025 7:03 PM

[quote]there were always cops and ambulances at the Culver City mall so we always went to the mall at Century City.

The same Culver City that is now so lovely and walkable with its own Erewhon?

by Anonymousreply 20July 19, 2025 7:23 PM

Not a restaurant or grocery store, but a roller rink in Chicago's Uptown. I used to live a few blocks away. They found two bodies in the early aughts when they were tearing down for condo construction. Rainbo skate. I don't know if they ever determined whether they were killed there or dumped. No ID either. The placed had been closed for a while when I lived there. It had a reputation as a gang hangout.

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by Anonymousreply 21July 19, 2025 7:49 PM

R19, I bet we know some of the same people

by Anonymousreply 22July 19, 2025 7:52 PM

R21 That whole area is so gentrified now, but I remember living near there in the 90s. There was a Butera grocery store at Clark/Wilson (a few blocks away from where the Rainbo was) and it was always a bit shady there, lots of gang members.

But man, that neighborhood had SO much good dick - white, black and brown.

by Anonymousreply 23July 19, 2025 8:00 PM

Residential Culver City has never been shitty, I don't think. Maybe small pockets on the edges.

by Anonymousreply 24July 19, 2025 8:04 PM

It seems like every time I go to the NOLA reddit, some shit's going down at the Walmart on Tchoupitoulas, including this bizarre story.

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by Anonymousreply 25July 19, 2025 8:09 PM
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