NASHVILLE — Kroger Co.’s The Little Clinic has collaborated with Results Physiotherapy to offer patients additional treatments for a wide variety of conditions and injuries with a joint commitment to help patients live pain-free without prescription opioid medications. Clinics in Tennessee, Kentucky and southern Indiana will participate. “The Little Clinic increases access to important health
Norwalk, Conn. — Competition among retailers for the top spot on this year’s PoweRanking list was closer than ever before, according to Kantar Retail, with Walmart and Kroger Co. finishing in a virtual tie for first place. The 2016 edition of Kantar’s PoweRanking, the 20th, listed PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Co. as the leading manufacturers. (In
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. on Tuesday announced that Houston division president Bill Breetz will retire from the company effective August 24. He will be succeeded by Marlene Stewart, who currently serves as president of the company’s Dillons division. Colleen Juergensen, currently vice president of merchandising at Kroger’s Smith’s division, will succeed Stewart as president of Dillons. Kroger
CINCINNATI — The Kroger Co. said it will hold open interviews in its stores on Saturday, May 14, to fill an estimated 14,000 permanent positions in its supermarket divisions. “We have openings across the country for friendly, hard-working associates to join our team,” Tim Massa, Kroger’s group vice president of human resources and labor relations, said
Many of the exciting new supermarkets appearing throughout the country these days are not coming from the usual sources. Rather, they’re products of retailers not normally associated with new, different, exciting or groundbreaking. Examples abound. Kroger’s newest supermarkets — like the recently opened stores in Cincinnati — are large superstores with a complete assortment of
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. has promoted Mary Ellen Adcock to the post of group vice president of retail operations, effective May 16. She succeeds Marnette Perry, whose retirement was previously announced. Adcock is currently vice president of operations for Kroger’s Columbus division. “Mary Ellen brings to her new role a strong track record of success leading
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. said Monday that Jay Cummins, president of the company’s Smith’s division, plans to retire on April 29. His replacement will be announced at a later date, according to the company. Cummins began his Kroger career in 1972 as a clerk at a store in Huntington Beach, Calif. He went on to
Walmart has begun closing stores, as the retailer had previously announced. Most of the closings involve the Express stores the company began opening over the past two years in the belief that it could more successfully compete with the likes of such small-store retailers as drug and dollar stores with convenience-oriented stores than the big
MIAMI — The Food Marketing Institute on Saturday night presented its Sidney R. Rabb Award to Fred Morganthall, executive vice president of retail operations at Kroger Co. FMI also honored Jerry Kehe, chairman of the board at KeHE Distributors, with its Herbert Hoover Humanitarian Service Award. And J. Alexander “Sandy” Douglas, executive vice president of
CINCINNATI — Fred Meyer president Lynn Gust is retiring from his post as Kroger Co.’s Fred Meyer Stores division, effective January 31. He will be succeeded by Jeff Burt, president of Kroger’s Central division. Fred Meyer, based in Portland, Ore., offers one-stop shopping at 132 multi-department stores in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Gust started