CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. has taken another bold step toward creating a seamless online shopping experience by partnering with Nuro to provide grocery delivery with unmanned vehicles. The two companies will develop a pilot program to be tested in the fall in a market that will soon be announced. The program will be the first
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co.’s Atlanta division president Bruce Lucia has announced his plans to retire, and the company has promoted Tim Brown, currently Cincinnati/Dayton division president, to succeed him. Additionally, Michigan division president Scott Hays has been promoted to president of the Cincinnati/Dayton division. Lucia, after 44 years of service, will step down September 1. “In his more than 40 years with Kroger, Bruce has
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. has announced that it will work with Mountain View, Calif.-based Nuro in a test of using unmanned vehicles to deliver online grocery orders. The companies say they will announce a pilot market soon, with deliveries expected to begin this fall. During the test, Kroger customers will be able to place same-day
NEW YORK — Both Kroger Co. and Food Lion made some moves in the North Carolina market this month. Kroger announced that it would be closing its stores in the Raleigh-Durham area. The Cincinnati-based grocer, which owns regional grocer Harris Teeter, said it would be closing a total of 14 stores by August 14. The
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. is buying Home Chef, a Chicago-based meal kit company with $250 million in sales. The companies say the deal will position Kroger to take the lead as consumers change the way they shop for and prepare the meals they cook at home. Kroger will pay $200 million for the Home Chef,
LAS VEGAS — To stay relevant in today’s competitive market, retailers must truly know their customers and speak to them in way that is not only personalized but also truly personal, Stuart Aiken, Kroger Co. group vice president and chief executive officer of 84.51°, told attendees last month at IRI’s Growth Summit 2018 at the
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. said this month that it plans to hire 11,000 employees to fill jobs across its supermarket divisions, including nearly 2,000 management positions. The job growth figures do not include jobs created as a result of capital investment, such as temporary construction jobs, or increases due to the company’s mergers, according to
CINCINNATI —Kroger Co. announced plans for a second outpost of its newest restaurant concept, Kitchen 1883. Like its predecessor, the sit-down, stand-alone restaurant will offer Cincinnati-area diners what the company calls a fresh take on comfort food. The restaurant is scheduled to open in the fall in Anderson Township, about a dozen miles southeast of
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. announced plans to expand its grocery delivery coverage area in 2018 by adding 500 stores and curbside pickup locations to the service, which uses grocery delivery specialist Instacart to transport groceries to the shopper’s doorstep. “As part of Restock Kroger, we are investing in redefining our customers’ grocery shopping experience by
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. reported a 90% increase in digital sales in fiscal 2017, and said it increased market share for the 13th straight year. The company said the results validated its new Restock Kroger strategy. “We launched Restock Kroger in the fall of 2017 and finished the year with positive momentum in our sales
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. has agreed to sell its convenience store business to EG Group, a privately held c-store retailer based in Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom. The transaction, which is valued at $1.25 billion, is expected to close during the first quarter of Kroger’s financial year, or by May 26. Kroger had announced last October
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. has promoted Steve McKinney, who was previously president of Kroger’s Fry’s Food Stores division, to the post of senior vice president of retail divisions. Monica Garnes, who had been corporate vice president of produce-floral merchandising, will succeed McKinney as Fry’s division president. According to the company, the leadership changes support the