The Kroger Co. achieved over $1 billion in cost savings last year, money that it’s reinvesting in store remodels, price reductions and new ways to boost online sales. Some shareholders are worried that cost cutting has started to impact the quality of the shopping experience at Kroger. “There’s only so [...]
Kroger will begin carrying topical products containing CBD at stores in 17 states this week, The Detroit News first reported. The products offered will include balms, oils, lotions and creams, which have FDA approval, and will range in price from $3.99 to $59.99. Customers can find CBD products at 945 Kroger stores in [...]
More than 9,000 union members who work for Indianapolis-area Kroger Co. stores have approved a new three-year labor agreement with the grocery chain. The agreement covers members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 700 who work at 71 central Indiana Kroger stores. According to a statement issued [...]
The Kroger Co. plans to pilot a reusable packaging system for leading consumer brands in an exclusive grocery retail partnership with Loop US LLC, a circular online shopping platform developed by waste management firm TerraCycle. Kroger, along with retail pharmacy chain Walgreens, will be the first U.S. retailers to employ [...]
The nation’s largest grocery chain has vowed to stop using plastic bags. Cincinnati-based Kroger says it will phase out the plastic bags by 2025. The chain goes through 6 billion bags annually. The project will start at Kroger’s Seattle chain QFC, where CBS News reports that it expects to be [...]
As food retailers gain more experience providing prepared-foods solutions for their customers, they are carefully selecting restaurant partners or developing concepts themselves that meet the needs of their shoppers. Some operators that had previously relied primarily on in-house foodservice have begun bringing in more restaurant concepts from outside, especially local [...]
Retailers are testing out smart shelves and coolers with penny-sized cameras that collect information on shoppers and their purchases, according to the Associated Press. The technology is aimed at personalizing the shopping experience, but also raises questions about customer privacy. Kroger has placed cameras in two stores near Cincinnati and [...]
Nobody can say Rodney McMullen doesn’t know the grocery business. He started as a bagger at Kroger Co. when he was in college, rising through the ranks to become chief financial officer, then chief executive officer, of America’s biggest supermarket chain. But can he lead the 2,764-store Cincinnati-based company through [...]
Is Kroger winning the grocery wars? Battered by a two-year price war and waging an expensive battle for superior home delivery, Kroger's profits have taken a hit. But it has steadily increased sales even as it cuts prices. New market share data shows Kroger getting traction in several of America's [...]
The stakes have never been higher for Kroger. The 135-year-old grocery chain is facing stronger competition than ever before, between Amazon's foray into groceries with its acquisition of Whole Foods, Walmart's multi-billion-dollar investments in store remodels and digital grocery services, and the rapid growth of German discount grocers Aldi and [...]