North Cincinnati datapoint. Was purchasing 4 variable VGC today. Cashier was going to process them as per normal procedure. A new Customer Service Manager came up and told her she was not allowed to sell over $1000 of them, that I would have to ring them up at the Customer Service desk. Cashier was not aware of this 'rule' and apologized to me. So she voided the transaction and I went to the service desk and rang up the 4 cards. I mentioned he must be pretty alert to notice this at a register ~5 lanes away (hoping to detect if they had noticed and tracked me from the gift card rack). He replied that he just happened to be making rounds and noticed it and that Krogers have had a lot of fraud recently. Completed the transaction without issue, but wanted to share the experience with others.