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First large deposit was $1,000,000 from General Motors. Later in the day GM sent another $2,000.000. Biggest depositor was Chrysler with $4,000,000. Four guards from Kroger Baking lugged in $250,000 cash. The rush of small depositors kept the bank open 40 minutes after closing time. When the books closed the total inpouring...
Piggly Wiggly, Kroger Grocery & Baking's subsidiary, Piggly Wiggly Corp., last week gave Almar Stores Corp. of Philadelphia the franchise right to open...
Giving a reverse twist to the same basic idea, Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. (5,200 stores in the midwest) approached publishers last year with the proposal: "The average chain grocery is handier to the home than the average drug store. Why not sell through us?" Alert Editor George Horace Lorimer promptly seized upon the plan for Curtis Publishing Co. Last February, Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal were on sale in a few Kroger stores; last week in 1,459; next month in 350 more. Each magazine is rolled inside a wrapper bearing the Kroger name...
...Sears Roebuck (to Sept. 10) 251,637,498 269,113,582 -6.5 Kroger Groc. & Bak. (to Sept. 27) 196,479.070 209,552,933 -6.2 F. W. Woolworth 196,466,061 205,042,307 -4.1 Montgomery Ward 191,153,122 193,698,785 - 1.3 *Safeway Stores 165,447,527 159,374,501 4-3-8 *J. C. Penney 130,414,312 132.380,338 -1.4 American Stores 104,701,956 104,661,761 + 0.03 *S. S. Kresge Co 101,015,229 104,303,598 -3.1 *First National Stores (to Sept. 27) 82,374,588 71,699,833 + 14.8 *MacMarr Stores...
...chain store is the outstanding development of the last 20 years in merchandising. We are now facing a crisis, due to the unwarranted attacks of a militant minority." So last week spoke Albert Henry Morrill, President of National Chain Store Association, President of Kroger Grocery & Baking Corp. His speech, opening the N. C. S. A. convention in Chicago, sounded the defensive note that rang forth again & again throughout the meeting...