kroger denied gas station at highland kroger store

i don't know that area too well. it just seems it would make a mess of traffic for that area.

Ug; it would.

That parking lot is a zoo on the best of days, and can just imagine what a couple of rows of pumps and a hut would do.......OY

I don't know the area or the specific site at all. However, since the crux of the argument comes down to increased traffic, I'm curious how many people actually go out of their way to buy supermarket gas. The only time I buy supermarket gas is if I'm already in the store and just happen to need gas. I've never said: "Hey honey, let's head to Kroger for some gasoline".
As usual, I'm sure my behavior is atypical, if not peculiar.
Bill

I would love to have gas pumps at that Kroger. It is my "home" Kroger and has been my entire life. The traffic and congestion can be annoying, but thats expected when living on Bardstown Road. Its never been so bad that i've thought "Man, I would love to move away from the city center so that my Kroger can have a parking lot the size of freedom hall and I will never have to wait or park more than 20 yards from the front door."
Plus, there is a void of gas stations on that strip of Bardstown Road. There is not a gas station from the Circle K across from Bashford Manor to the Speedway on Grinstead. Ok, there are 2 pumps at K's Food Mart on Speed but they are old and inconvenient. That is a pretty long stretch of densely populated area to not have a gas station. I would rather see pumps go in at the existing Kroger space then to tear down an old building or small business to create a new gas station elsewhere on the strip.

[Robin Garr]

Its never been so bad that i've thought "Man, I would love to move away from the city center so that my Kroger can have a parking lot the size of freedom hall and I will never have to wait or park more than 20 yards from the front door."

Good writing, Madi!

I would love to have gas pumps at that Kroger. It is my "home" Kroger and has been my entire life. The traffic and congestion can be annoying, but thats expected when living on Bardstown Road. Its never been so bad that i've thought "Man, I would love to move away from the city center so that my Kroger can have a parking lot the size of freedom hall and I will never have to wait or park more than 20 yards from the front door."
Plus, there is a void of gas stations on that strip of Bardstown Road. There is not a gas station from the Circle K across from Bashford Manor to the Speedway on Grinstead. Ok, there are 2 pumps at K's Food Mart on Speed but they are old and inconvenient. That is a pretty long stretch of densely populated area to not have a gas station. I would rather see pumps go in at the existing Kroger space then to tear down an old building or small business to create a new gas station elsewhere on the strip.

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Using the same line of thought how much additional traffic would it really generate? Probably less than all the people that drive a lot farther to get gas.

I'm tototally with Madi. I live in the neighborhood. Frankly, I don't care what kind of gas station it is - we need one. I now have to make special trips just to get gas. It really doesn't make sense to do that.

However, I think Kroger kind of played a little dirty pool. They were offered the old gas station spot at the corner of Taylosrville and Bardstown Rd where a bank is now being built. They knew the neighborhood association opposed putting in new access and gas pumps to the proposed location.

So I dunno. I guess I'm torn on the issue.

I often use one of two Thornton's located at Goldsmith Lane and Bardstown Road. I also use the Shell Station across the street form St. Raphael's on Bardstown Road.

My main concern would be with the amount of back-up on north bound Bardstown Rd from people trying to turn into that lot. It is already a pain trying to turn into the bank parking lot across the street going south bound, and the drivers behind me get less and less patient and more and more aggressive the longer I have to sit there waiting to turn.

It would be nice to have a closer fuel option in the area, but I don't know if that is it. Who decided to put a bank where the gas station was at the corner of Bardstown and Taylorsville instead of, you know, a gas station...?

Plus, there is a void of gas stations on that strip of Bardstown Road. There is not a gas station from the Circle K across from Bashford Manor to the Speedway on Grinstead. Ok, there are 2 pumps at K's Food Mart on Speed but they are old and inconvenient. That is a pretty long stretch of densely populated area to not have a gas station. I would rather see pumps go in at the existing Kroger space then to tear down an old building or small business to create a new gas station elsewhere on the strip.

That's not true. There is a Shell gas station/food mart on the East side of Bardstown Rd, just north of Gardener Ln shopping center.

Good! Getting in and out of there is already a mess. I LOVE this Kroger, and live in the Highlands. I don't mind going to Speedway on Grinstead .

Good! Getting in and out of there is already a mess. I LOVE this Kroger, and live in the Highlands. I don't mind going to Speedway on Grinstead .

It's true but I really don't see that many more customers would go to Kroger just for the gasoline. It would just be a convenience for the people that already shop there in most cases.

I live near Douglass Loop and 'my' gas station is the SuperAmerica on Taylorsville Road across from Bowman Field.

Good! Getting in and out of there is already a mess. I LOVE this Kroger, and live in the Highlands. I don't mind going to Speedway on Grinstead .

It's true but I really don't see that many more customers would go to Kroger just for the gasoline. It would just be a convenience for the people that already shop there in most cases.

I disagree, I have a friend who lives near the Kroger on Central/3rd. Whenever I go to her house, I make it a point to stop there for gas...it's cheap, and I use my Kroger discount .

[Robin Garr]

I live near Douglass Loop and 'my' gas station is the SuperAmerica on Taylorsville Road across from Bowman Field.

If you stop and think about it, it's pretty much the same on Frankfort Avenue, where I can't think of any gas stations along the main restaurant-row strip at all, and only one small one east of the water company until you get out to the Chevron at Frankfort and Lexington in St. Matthews. We generally hop over to Brownsboro Road, where I can think of three, or the one just west of I-64/Grinstead at Grinstead and Lexington near Cherokee Lake (which looks dubious and is best avoided).