By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 770 called its new contract with The Kroger Co.’s Food 4 Less/Foods Co. supermarkets “the best deal ever won at Food 4 Less.” UFCW Local 770 said late Friday that a bargaining committee from UFCW unions [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News The Kroger Co. is bringing automation from logistics technology provider Knapp to its Great Lakes distribution center in Delaware, Ohio. Cincinnati-based Kroger said Friday that the DC will use a combination of Knapp order, storage and retrieval (OSR) shuttles that deliver grocery cases in [...]
By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times The Kroger supermarket in Yorktown, Va., is in a county where mask wearing can be casual at best. Yet for months, the store urged patrons to cover their noses and mouths, and almost everyone complied. “People don’t like to wear masks here,” [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News The Kroger Co. aims to hire 10,000 associates across its operations in a summer hiring drive that kicks off this week. Cincinnati-based Kroger said Monday that its first nationwide “hybrid” hiring event — encompassing online and in-store interviews — will launch on Thursday, June [...]
Source: RTT News Supermarket chain Kroger Co. announced that Cincinnati-Dayton division and United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 75 members in Cincinnati, Dayton, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana ratified a new labor agreement. The Cincinnati-Dayton division is investing $159 million in wages across the five-year agreement. The company noted [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News The Kroger Co., Hy-Vee and Publix Super Markets are among the growing list of retailers no longer requiring face coverings for shoppers fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Kroger, the nation’s largest supermarket operator, said Wednesday that starting tomorrow customers and employees who have completed coronavirus [...]
By Mary Papenfuss Source: HuffPost Kroger grocery company CEO Rodney McMullen cut COVID-19 hazard pay for food workers last year just months into the pandemic — then scooped up a record $22.4 million in compensation for himself, Bloomberg reported Thursday. McMullen’s pay package was revealed Thursday in a regulatory filing. [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News The Kroger Co. has launched a pilot to deliver online grocery orders — to nearly any location — by autonomous drones. Under a partnership with Drone Express, a division of TELEGRID Technologies, Kroger will be able to deliver products not just to a street [...]
By Mike Troy Source: Progressive Grocer "Leading with fresh and accelerating with digital” is a phrase that the food retailing industry will be hearing a lot from The Kroger Co. this year and beyond. It’s a simple message that works equally well when communicating with investors or associates to describe [...]
By Alexi Chidbachian Source: Fox 11 Los Angeles Grocery store workers and members of the community are calling on Kroger to stop closing stores in their neighborhood. Employees and customers of a Ralphs market in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood held a press conference and Passover Seder on March 25th urging Kroger to [...]