https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cascade-road-kroger-store-manager-attacked-south-fulton-police

couldnt have anything to do with this though...just racism:

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SOUTH FULTION, Ga. - South Fulton Police are searching for the person who attacked a store manager at the Cascade Road Kroger earlier this month. It's the latest in a string of dozens of incidents near the store and residents who shop there say they want to see the issue of crime bagged up.

"Crime is just rampant…it's rampant," shopper Zan McBride-Spence told FOX 5. "You have to be mindful…I always feel like I'm looking over my shoulder."

That's how she and others described the area around the store surrounding the store police and EMS have been called to 67 times so far this year.

The most recent call was an early morning assault involving the store's manager on May 8. South Fulton Police say he was punched in the face by a man he suspected of shoplifting and asked to leave hours earlier.

"Oh, man I hate that, I mean, 'cause I try not to be up here at nighttime, 'cause I mean, this whole area is not that great, you know," shopper Jodi Edmondson said.

Police tell FOX 5 a similar incident happened at another Kroger location on Edgewood Avenue. They are still looking for the suspect.

More than a dozen calls made to police from the Cascade Road location were related to break-ins, fights or customer disputes, thefts and assaults.

"These people…it's just…the world is just crazy right now," Edmondson said.

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A manager was punched in the face by a suspected shoplifter that he asked to leave hours earlier, who came back later and attempted to do it again.

Police have been called out 67 times this year. Let's assume 1 per day, that would be 40% of the days that this Kroger location was open this year, police have been called to the location.

Solution...

Remove the cages around the diapers. You steal the diapers, hold your infant as a front seat lap child, have your sister drive aggressively towards the responding cop, cop shots at vehicle killing your 1yr old.

Bingo! You don't need to steal diapers anymore!

I can remember when half the Kroger stores everywhere in Texas were roped off because under blue laws, you couldnt buy stuff behind the ropes on Sundays. I should have whined.
also as early as the 70s at self serve gas stations in Houston, you had to pay the guy first through some bullet proof window..

Esteban du Plantier said:

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Lol, I was in a Kroger in Atlanta a few weeks ago and almost every pack of beer in the beer fridge had been torn open and a beer or two removed. I couldn't find an unopened 6pk, so I had to piece one together.

That town has good chicken wings and a world class aquarium, but is otherwise a **** hole.

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I lived in Midtown ATL in a really nice building. 2 Br, 2Ba Corner penthouse, over $3k a month rent. It was fun but the crime was a constant issue. I was going for a run on the Beltline and was running through Piedmont Park going back to my place. Had to run for my life being chased by several of the "underprivileged."

Someone dropped their bag of weed just outside the building. Drugs and smell of weed everywhere.

Obvious prostitute on the elevator on a Sunday morning - I guess "going off shift."

After hanging at a local bar with some of the other residents, went back for an afterparty at this guy's apartment, the guy takes a mirror of the top of his fridge with lines of coke on it. Had to peace out on that and stayed away from those people after that. Guy had his drug dealer at the party named "Blue."

Crazy definitely autistic weirdo next door in an efficiency apartment who called me at 11 am on Sunday because he was getting the shakes and needed some liquor because the liquor stores didn't open until noon. One Saturday night he showed up at my place with two black prostitutes, then f'ing left. I had to kick them out. He couldn't believe I got mad about that - he thought he was doing me a "favor."

Car broken into, even though we were behind cages in the parking garage in the building.

First week I was there two gangs had a gun battle a block away - police found AKs and over 60 rounds. I didn't even hear it. Girl I knew had a bullet hit a water pipe in her adjacent building and it flooded a bunch of apartments below.

There were fun parts too, and met my second wife. Met Charles Barlkey in a bar eating chicken wings and that was fun.

The crime and urban scene got to be too much. Now I live outside of town on 20+ acres with normal neighbors. Still hear gunshots, but it's me and my neighbors!

First of all, Kroger sucks so I won't be entering one, but if certain individuals want to act like we are in the jungle I say put cages around the whole store and let folks in staggered and monitor them like your life depended on it.

There is a Kroger in a nearby town everyone calls, Kroghetto.

Owlagdad said:

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I can remember when half the Kroger stores everywhere in Texas were roped off because under blue laws, you couldnt buy stuff behind the ropes on Sundays. I should have whined.
also as early as the 70s at self serve gas stations in Houston, you had to pay the guy first through some bullet proof window..

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Whining would have gotten you nowhere unless you went all Al Jolson on them.

American Hardwood said:

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If you don't want be treated as second class citizens, then don't act like second class citizens. It's as simple as that.

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GeorgiAg said:

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There is a Kroger in a nearby town everyone calls, Kroghetto.

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I bet they have good sales on gizzards

fc2112 said:

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These people seem confused about why stores do this. Do you think it's just for fun? All that stuff costs $ to put up. The choice is cage hours or no store.

And no one but your our Community are to blame for why it happens.

Woman walks through a Kroger in Atlanta filming the metal “cage” gates locking up cleaning supplies, baby stuff, and more overnight. She’s pissed, calling it “cage hours” and saying it makes Black people second-class citizens in a Black neighborhood.

They do this because of… pic.twitter.com/vU4z20qwAU

— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) June 17, 2026

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Per the Google, she's over half a decade late in her faux rage.

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Kroger has been utilizing metal security gatesboth for restricting access to specific aisles (such as baby care, cosmetics, and over-the-counter medicine) and for regulating customer entry/exitsince roughly 2019 to 2022

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Besides, it's Atlanta, I'm sure there's plenty of other places she can shop at.

But, thanks to social media, everyone's got to share their faux rage for the likes and retweets.

Poor thing sounds fatigued. Maybe she will eventually connect the dots.

Ironic that they'd put the cleaning supplies in the cage when if they'd clean up the culture there'd be no need for the cage in the first place.

I can't remember which grocery store it was in BCS but the cosmetics/personal care section used to be roped off at night and this was like 20 years ago.

My unconscious bias being fed

They need to hold the element of their community (shoplifters) that causes this accountable. That's the only way it will ever stop - cultural norms must change.

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Atlanta is the butthole of the South

I can't understand for the life of me why anyone would want to live there

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Blame Gen. Sherman!