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Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen has resigned after an investigation into his "personal conduct" found it counter to the company's ethics policy.

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Kroger CEO resigns abruptly after 'personal conduct' investigation

The country's largest supermarket chain is shaking up its leadership after Rodney McMullen had led the company since 2014.

March 03, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
Egg prices jumped more than 15% in January, after farmers had to cull millions of laying hens due to avian flu. The rise in grocery prices kept overall inflation elevated.

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Retailers including Trader Joe's and Kroger have begun limiting egg purchases

Egg farmers have been plagued by widespread outbreaks of bird flu. Experts say it's hard to predict when the industry will bounce back from the illness' effects.

February 13, 2025
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  • Ayana Archie
A shopper pushes a cart through a Kroger supermarket in Newport, Ky.

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Kroger and Albertsons grocery megamerger halted by two courts

Two rulings — in federal and state courts — make it increasingly likely that Kroger might abandon its $24.6 billion plan to buy Albertsons. The merger aimed to combine two of America's largest supermarket chains.

December 11, 2024
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  • Alina Selyukh
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Opioid settlement from Kroger is set to bring millions to Georgia. But like others, it'll take time

Some Georgia counties are being invited to get their share of Kroger’s $1.2 billion, multi-district settlement over the franchises participation in the opioid addiction crisis.

July 23, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Kroger first announced its plans to buy Albertsons in October 2022.

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FTC and 9 states sue to block Kroger-Albertsons supermarket merger

The Federal Trade Commission and 9 states want to stop the deal that would combine the country's two largest grocery store chains. The companies say they have to merge to compete with Walmart.

February 27, 2024
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, a prison guard rides a horse alongside prisoners as they return from farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment's exception clause, that allows for prison labor, provided legal cover to round up thousands of mostly young Black men. They then were leased out by states to plantations like Angola and some of the country's biggest privately owned companies, including coal mines and railroads.

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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color.

January 30, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Washington's attorney general has sued to stop Kroger from merging with Albertsons and creating a grocery-store colossus. Here, a Kroger in Flowood, Mississippi operates a gas station and a pharmacy.

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  • Business

Warning of higher grocery prices, Washington AG sues to stop Kroger-Albertsons merger

"Shoppers will have fewer choices and less competition, and, without a competitive marketplace, they will pay higher prices at the grocery store," Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson said.

January 15, 2024
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  • Alina Selyukh

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Will the feds block a grocery megamerger? Kroger and Albertsons will soon find out

America's two largest supermarket chains have struck a $25 billion deal to combine. Now the FTC is about to decide whether it will block or allow it, and under what conditions.

January 09, 2024
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  • Alina Selyukh
Let’s Ride Atlanta offers free electric shuttle services in partnership with local businesses. Their latest parentship with Decatur will drive downtown residents to the nearby Publix through April.

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Supermarket closure inspires local shuttle service program

Officials in metro Atlanta are launching a shuttle service helping residents reach the grocery store after one location, nicknamed the “Baby” Kroger, shut down after more than 20 years.

January 20, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
A customer exits a Kroger grocery store on Sept. 9 in Houston, Tx.

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Kroger and Albertsons plan merger to combine 2 largest supermarket chains

The $25-billion deal is likely to draw intense scrutiny from federal regulators and critics as it would form a new supermarket colossus at a time of soaring food costs.

October 14, 2022
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  • Alina Selyukh
The Kroger grocery store chain will close two of its stores in Long Beach, Calif., following a mandatory pay raise instituted by the Long Beach City Council last month.

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  • Business

Kroger To Close 2 Long Beach Stores Following City-Mandated Pandemic Pay Increase

The chain decided to close the stores after the Long Beach City Council in Southern California passed an ordinance requiring large grocery outlets to increase wages by $4 an hour due to the pandemic.

February 03, 2021
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  • Dustin Jones
Teen accused of stealing nearly $1M from Georgia supermarket

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Georgia Teen Accused Of Stealing Nearly $1M from Kroger

A Georgia Teen was arrested for stealing nearly $1M from Kroger in Gwinnett County.

January 22, 2021
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  • Associated Press and
  • La'Raven Taylor
Sherman Jenne, a cashier at the Fred Meyer grocery store in Burien, Washington, takes part in a protest outside the store against Fred Meyer's parent company Kroger on Friday, May 15, 2020.

Kroger Offers Employee Bonus After Grocery Union Criticizes Cutting Of 'Hero Pay'

Kroger has announced they will give full and part-time employees a $400 bonus following criticism from the country's largest grocery union. The move...

May 18, 2020
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  • Sarah Rose
Proposed new plans for a self-storage facility in the 84,000 sq. ft. old Kroger building now reserve 15,000 sq. ft. of the building for a future grocery store at 400 Pio Nono Ave.

New Plans For Old Kroger May Include Grocery Store After All

The developer hoping to turn the old Pio Nono Avenue Kroger into storage units is not giving up. Axela Development Group is asking for a rehearing...

March 09, 2020
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  • Liz Fabian
The 84,000 sq. ft. old Kroger building will continue to sit empty at 400 Pio Nono Ave. after the Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission rejected a 569-unit self-storage facility for the property.

Shuttered Macon Kroger Will Not Be Converted To Storage Units

More than a dozen people signed up Monday to speak against a proposed self-storage facility at the old Kroger location at 400 Pio Nono Ave. Their...

January 27, 2020
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  • Liz Fabian
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