>We don't have Kroger around here, but I visit a couple of different supermarkets. Never bought or looked for knackwurst, so I can't speak to that.
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>In the baking chocolate (which is what I'm interested in), depending what I want, I have a choice between Nestle, Hershey, Ghirardelli, Baker's, and the store brand. And that's without looking in the kosher or organic sections.

It was just an example - the point being that it's a shelf I'm observing regularly, and an item we were buying regularly for years. IOW, not comparing with other shops, but across time. Items are vanishing. Maybe not in large numbers, but rather gradually, hard to notice.

Speaking of chocolate, it's something we all love but can't stand the sugar, which translates into pretty much anything but Hershey. And guess what, Zachary vanished completely. Didn't see that brand for months.

>Sounds like you need to choose a better market.

Since there's not a single one nearby (this is a residence-only kind of ghetto, but this day is too nice to get started on zoning), we sort of circle around. Now with one Kroger and on K-mart in that radius being closed in the last few months, we have this new oriental-latino shop in old Kroger's space, which more than replaces them both.