CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. is promoting several top executives as the retailer continues to remake its business through its Restock Kroger plan. “We are making progress on redefining the customer experience, and our high-performing leaders are determined to maintain that momentum in year two of Restock Kroger and beyond,” Mike Donnelly, the company’s executive vice
The war between retailers and credit card companies over transaction fees continues. The latest battle in that war began on March 1, when Kroger Co. announced that its Smith’s Food & Drug Stores division will be the company’s second banner to stop accepting Visa credit cards as a form of payment, beginning on April 3. Foods
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. said Wednesday that it is introducing a mobile payment solution that securely combines a customer’s payment and loyalty card information. Called Kroger Pay, the feature promises to deliver a faster checkout experience. The company is also launching a new Kroger Rewards debit card. “Kroger is redefining the customer experience by creating innovative
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. announced Friday a partnership to bring Geoffrey’s Toy Box exclusive brands to nearly 600 Kroger family of stores across America for the 2018 holiday season. Starting this month, Geoffrey’s Toy Box branded merchandise and displays will appear in participating Kroger Family of Stores with a selection of 35 children’s toys, ranging in
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. and Walgreens are piloting a joint retail concept that combines the supermarketer’s food offerings with the drug chain’s health and beauty mix. The companies are testing the format in 13 Walgreens stores in northern Kentucky, near Kroger’s Cincinnati headquarters. They will conduct the pilot over the next several months, closely monitoring
NEW YORK — Walmart and Kroger Co. — the nation’s two largest grocery retailers, in terms of sales — have each launched experiments aimed at bringing down costs associated with the final leg or “last mile” of delivery to consumers. Kroger last month announced a pilot program to test driverless grocery delivery. The supermarket chain
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. is rolling out its new apparel brand this week at 300 Fred Meyer and Marketplace outlets across the country. The Dip brand offers collections for men, women, juniors, children and baby. More than 80% of the items in the collection are priced at $19 or less, Kroger said. “Dip creates a
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. has made a number of executive appointments recently. Earlier this month the nation’s largest supermarket operator named Valerie Jabbar group vice president of merchandising, effective September 1. She has been president of Kroger’s Ralphs Grocery division — which encompasses 191 stores in Southern California — for the past two years. “Valerie
CINCINNATI — Kroger on Wednesday named Gil Phipps as vice president of branding, marketing and Our Brands. Phipps, who joined Kroger in 2012, currently serves as vice president of Our Brands. He assumes his new role on August 15. “We are fundamentally changing how we market to and engage with our customers, and Gil is the
CINCINNATI — Valerie Jabbar was named Tuesday as group vice president of merchandising for Kroger Co. Jabbar, who for the past two years has been president of Kroger’s Ralphs division, assumes her new role on September 1. Mike Murphy, vice president of operations at Kroger’s Columbus division, will succeed Jabbar at Ralphs, which is headquartered
WASHINGTON — The largest U.S. retailers have maintained their edge during the past year by launching new strategies, augmenting the in-store experience and reengineering both logistics and digital commerce capabilities, according to the annual Top 100 Retailers list released last month by the National Retail Federation and Kantar Consulting. The 10 largest retailers on the
CINCINNATI — Kroger on Monday introduced OptUp, an app designed to help customers make more-informed decisions and buy healthier food. With the app, nutritional information is at the shopper’s fingertips, said Colleen Lindholz, president of Kroger Health. “Kroger’s new OptUP app is transformational for the food retail industry,” she said. The app is a part of Kroger’s recently