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ROANOKE, Va. — Kroger’s Mid-Atlantic division here this week began a new campaign to lower everyday prices on thousands of items. The lower prices debuted Sunday....More

While economic conditions have gone up (sometimes) and down (often) over the past decade, one constant in the supermarket industry has been Kroger Co.’s sales gains....More

The combination of an improving macro-economic environment and some strong company-specific performances might have driven the stock-price gains among traditional supermarkets in the first quarter....More

The opening last week of nine of the 30 Aldi stores planned for Houston over the next two years and the imminent entry of The Fresh Market there means competition for the city’s conventional operators is likely to escalate....More

CINCINNATI —Kroger Co. here on Thursday said that more than 4,800 of its workers would gather in Louisville, Ky., next week to prepare and present 17,000 emergency food and personal care boxes in what the company called the largest one-day volunteer effort by a single company supporting the Dare to Care Food Bank, Kroger’s local Feeding America partner....More

CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. is putting a big foot forward in South Carolina. The retailer last week began construction of a Marketplace superstore on Hilton Head Island, a store that would become its first such outlet in the Palmetto State....More

ORLANDO, Fla. — A dearth of publicly traded supermarket peers is obscuring the industry’s underlying health from Wall Street, Michael Schlotman, Kroger’s chief financial officer, said at an investor conference here Thursday....More

CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. said on Tuesday that Rich Manka, vice president and pension investment officer, plans to retire effective July 15....More