Word: kroger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the crow, all of whom will be present, are: coxewhin, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Kroger 16, of the Army Air Force; stroke, Dr. Charles Lund '16; No. 7, Louis Curtis '14; No. 6, Dr. David P. Morgan '18; No. 5, J. W. Mittendorf; No. 4, H. S. Mittendorf; No. 3, Henry Meyor '15; No. 2, James Talbot; and Stroke, Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts...
...Dixie's boss is bespectacled, pipe-smoking Raymond Erastus Hart, 47. Smart Mr. Hart learned the grocery business while traveling about Michigan opening new stores for giant Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. He also learned that the way of the small town independent grocer is hard, and decided to stay out until he had a saving trick up his sleeve. Last February, he cannily foresaw the strict rationing ahead, and guessed that coupon-confused housewives would give a rib-cracking welcome to an old-fashioned grocery store, where there was no such vexing thing as "points...
Food shortages threaten to make a mockery of the merchandising might of grocery chain stores. At Chicago, last week, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Food Chains, goliath grocers like A. & P., Safeway and Kroger heard that the foundations of their greatness were being undermined-huge turnover shrinking, their small but carefully controlled unit profits thrown out of kilter by price ceilings...
Last year the chains sold one-third of all U.S. retail foodstuffs, grossed $3.8 billion. Sales volume climbed still higher this year. Some chains have had the best year on record. Kroger's sales in August were 26.4% better than the same period last year, Safeway's up 27.9%, National...
Best example of how the chains set compliance standards is in food retailing, where the U.S. has some 600,000 outlets, ranging from carload-lot supermarkets to one-man neighborhood shops. Only 40,000 (7%) of these outlets are owned by chains (A. & P., Safeway, Kroger, etc.), but they do a potent 33% of the business. The five largest chains alone, with about half the chain outlets, handle two-thirds of the chain volume. This, says the Department of Justice, means that "the food chains are in a position to dominate the food industry." If that...