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Let's Go Krogering #2 Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 3/19/2005
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

This is a mystery cache located at the Brandon Kroger. While you are here get some groceries you know you need them.

Hello Kroger shoppers. Welcome to another Bone1977 Kroger cache. What I have for you today is a little shopping excursion. This cache is located at the very spacious Brandon Kroger. This cache is what I would consider to be a puzzle/mystery cache. In order to find the cache you need to do a little grocery shopping to find and fill in the missing coordinates. Upon finding the items on the grocery list you will need to take the item’s barcode and write it down to fill in the missing numbers. To keep this simple we will only use the 10 inner numbers (see barcode sample below). Yes you can buy these items and they are always carried at this store. (Just ask the night manager.) The above coordinates put you right in front of the store. Go inside and do some shopping to find the missing coordinates. If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them that Wayne Estes (Store Manager) and Ken Roberts (Night Manager) said it’s cool to cache at Kroger.

Barcode know how:
-The first 5 digits in a barcode tell you who the manufacture is.
-The second 5 digits in a barcode tell you what the item is.

Coordinates to the cache: N. 32 1A. BC4 W. 90 0D. EF0

Grocery List
1. Reese Hearts of Palm (use the first digit in the barcode to fill in A)
2. Doxsee Clam Juice (use the ninth digit in the barcode to fill in B)
3. Uncle Sam Cereal (use the fifth digit in the barcode to fill in C)
4. Giovanni’s Anchovy Paste (use the ninth digit in the barcode to fill in D)
5. Meyenberg Goat’s Milk (use the second digit in the barcode to fill in E)
6. Bob’s Red Mill Flax Seed (use the fifth digit in the barcode to fill in F)

Kroger history:

1883: The first store opens at 66 East Pearl Street in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1901: Kroger is the first grocery company to operate its own bakeries.
1904: Kroger buys 14 Nagel meat markets and a packing house. Meat and groceries are sold under one roof for the first time.
1916: Self-service is tried for the first time and the food store as we know it today begins to take shape.
1938: Barney H. Kroger dies at age 78.
1944: G.I. Joe's rations include Kroger-made plum pudding.
1972: An experimental scanner checkout system is tested in a Kroger supermarket.
1979: Kroger becomes the nation's second-largest food retailing company.
1999: Kroger merges with Fred Meyer, Inc. in a $13 billion deal that creates the nation's largest retail grocery company.
2005: Bone1977 Hides his second Kroger cache.

Enjoy the Cache.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Uvag sbe svany ybpngvba: Trg n Tevc.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)