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In 1883, 23-year-old Bernard Kroger, the fifth of ten children of German immigrants, invested his life savings of $372 (equivalent to $12,164 in 2023) to open a grocery store at 66 Pearl Street in downtown Cincinnati. [17]
In January 1999, the John C. Groub Co. was acquired by Kroger, which continues to operate 22 JayC locations. The Foods Plus stores have been renamed to JayC Plus. Under the ownership of Kroger, the JayC division grew its Ruler Foods brand to 13 stores at the end of 2012, including the first store outside of Indiana. Some of the added Ruler ...
Kroger continuously expanded his market area, reaching into Kentucky with new locations in the 1890’s. In 1902, Kroger continued his acquisition program, buying 14 Dayton, Ohio, grocery stores from the Cincinnati Grocery Co. [17] Kroger stores appeared in Missouri in 1912 and Indiana in 1924. Kroger expanded to a peak of 5,575 stores in 1929.
The study, commissioned by grocery labor union groups, found that many Kroger employees said they have faced housing and food insecurity. The average annual earnings of Kroger workers is less than ...
The grocery-store chain is replacing a smaller Kroger store across the street at Allisonville Road and 116th Street in Fishers with a new 120,000-square-feet location.
In 2014, Kroger finalized its merger with southern-grocery chain Harris Teeter, acquiring the company's online ordering platform, Express Lane, along with the chain's more than 200 locations.
In October 1998, Fred Meyer, parent company of Smith's Food and Drug based in Salt Lake City, announced a strategic merger with Kroger, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. [5] Several months later, in May 1999, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the merger of the two companies, named The Kroger Co. [6]
Marsh Supermarkets was an American retail food chain headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with a peak number of 86 stores in 2013 located throughout central Indiana and parts of western Ohio (including metropolitan Cincinnati). Its eventual parent company was Sun Capital Partners, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.