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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]
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 ...
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Work has officially begun on a new Kroger on Lexington’s Northside. The Cincinnati-based grocery store chain broke ground Aug. 30 on a $40 million state-of-the-art marketplace at 760 Newtown ...
Barney Kroger founded his first namesake grocery store in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Now a publicly traded company, Kroger is still headquartered in Cincinnati, and today the company is considered ...
SupeRx – Kroger created the first SupeRx store in 1961 with most stores next door or very close to existing Kroger stores [75] [76] Thrift Drug – merged into Eckerd after J.C. Penney bought Eckerd; Thrifty PayLess – acquired by Rite Aid in 1996; Treasury Drug – acquired by J.C. Penney, then shuttered in 1980; Value Giant; Wellby Super Drug
1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1883rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 883rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start ...
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