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CINCINNATI -- Kroger Co. reported record sales and strong earnings for the third quarter ended Oct. 8.on. Adjusting last year's third-quarter results to reflect the sale of 13 Kroger units in San Antonio to Mesa, Ariz.-based Megafoods Stores...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Kroger Co.'s division here is about to adopt a new display tactic in its pet aisle in a bid to boost canned sales in the struggling dog food category.The project is a case in point of how better category management can result...
ATLANTA -- The Major League Baseball season may be long over, but the impact of a baseball tie-in promotion run here by Dial soap may last all year and into the next.Executives at Dial Corp., Phoenix, said the company is still processing responses...
ATLANTA -- Kroger Co., the leading supermarket chain here, took the high road on pricing the hot sell-through movie "Jurassic Park."The Atlanta Kroger marketing area, which leads the local market in total grocery share and in supermarket video...
CHICAGO -- The growth of premium store brands is leading supermarket chains into muddy waters in defining quality, said the head of quality assurance at Kroger Co., Cincinnati."By virtue of their success, premium programs represent a viable market...
DALLAS -- Kroger's Texas divisions, based here and in Houston, have signed on as the Southwestern sponsors of a series of guidebooks on prescription and OTC medications.The guidebooks will begin appearing in stores in November, according to the...
I did a quick industry study for our recent Electronic Marketing Conference to find out the penetration of electronic marketing/frequent shopper (preferred customer, frequent buyer, card-based marketing, front-end electronic marketing, data base...
ATLANTA -- The Kroger Co.'s Atlanta division here used newspaper ads, posters and large in-store displays to successfully publicize a Humane Society walkathon, and increase pet department sales in the process.The Pet Parade '94 walkathon was run...
CINCINNATI -- Kroger Co. here will test a computerized shelf display system designed to increase the flexibility and efficiency of item promotions.With the new wireless system, Kroger and participating manufacturers will transmit promotional data...
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Kroger Co., Cincinnati, has moved five turn-of-the-century homes here in order to build an inner-city store on its site of choice.While the store's exterior will be modeled on Savannah's fabled Old City Market to fit in with the...