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Bernard Heinrich "Henry" Kroger (January 24, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American businessman who created the Kroger chain of supermarkets. Kroger was a pioneering grocery innovator who introduced self-service shopping to the public in 1895.
In 1883, 23-year-old Bernard Kroger, the fifth of ten children of German immigrants, invested his life savings of $372 (equivalent to $12,554 in 2024) to open a grocery store at 66 Pearl Street in downtown Cincinnati. [17]
Price Chopper Supermarkets is an American supermarket chain owned by Northeast Grocery, headquartered in Schenectady, New York.The chain opened its first supermarkets in New York's Capital District in 1932, and changed its name from Central Market to Price Chopper in 1973.
In 1990, Dillon was named the Vice President of Kroger. In 2003, Dillon became the CEO of Kroger. [3] Dillon succeeded its previous CEO Joe Pichler. It was announced on September 20, 2013 that Dillon would be retiring as CEO of Kroger effective January 1, 2014. Dillon was succeeded as CEO by Rodney McMullen, a COO of Kroger. Dillon remained on ...
Kroger is a German surname, a variant of Krüger [1] or a spelling of Kröger without diacritics. Notable people with the surname include: Bernard Kroger (1860–1938), American businessman who created the Kroger chain of supermarkets; Chris Kroger (born 1968), American ski mountaineer; Harry Kroger, American physicist and electrical engineer
Owen's Market was a small chain of grocery stores located in northern Indiana in the United States, owned by the Kroger corporation. Founded in 1938. At the time of the chain name's phase-out in August 2020, there were three Owen's Market locations in the Indiana communities of Huntington, Ligonier and Warsaw.
Among many other activities, grocer Bernard Kroger was a major fund raiser for the Cincinnati Anti-Tuberculosis League, and he helped fund the camp. [1] The camp was located on a 92 acre tract along US 50 (Wooster Pike) between Mariemont and Terrace Park in the Cincinnati area (Coordinates: 39°09′04″N 84°19′38″W / 39.151100°N ...
Bernard Kroger – chain grocer founder of the Kroger chain; Louis Kurz – major publisher of chromolithographs in the late 19th century; Johan Adam Lemp – father of modern brewing in St. Louis, started the William J. Lemp Brewing Company [149] James Lick – businessman and philanthropist, namesake of the Lick Observatory