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Within a year of taking their friend's advice, the couple had christened C&G Salsa. Their journey from kitchen to supermarket aisle has paid off handsomely. Crazy Charlie's Salsa--hot, medium and mild--is now in 87 Kroger stores in Indiana and Illinois. Charlie, a 27-year veteran of General Motors, is planning to retire in three years and devote all his energies...
...than 100 animals every year, PETA is equally committed to urging reforms in the meat industry that would not require shutting it down. PETA’s hard-fought campaigns forced fast-food chains McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s and grocery giants Safeway, Kroger and Albertsons to demand significant animal-welfare improvements from their suppliers, and PETA will continue its campaign against KFC until the chain adopts reforms...
Judging from the grim faces of the cashiers, clerks and butchers picketing California supermarkets, you would think we were in a deep economic slump. Golden State grocery workers are on strike for the first time in 25 years, over a plan by Kroger, Safeway and other chains to shift a bigger chunk of the cost of health care to their unionized labor force of some 70,000. Under competitive siege from nonunion superstores like Wal-Mart, whose health packages for hourly workers are stingier, the grocery chains complain that they are paying 50% more on health coverage than they were...
...traditional supermarkets by 25% in L.A. neighborhoods where the two go head to head. Indeed, some of the U.S.-based chains are offering Gigante the sincerest flattery by trying to copy its business model. Last year Albertsons, based in Boise, Idaho, the country's second largest supermarket chain, after Kroger, launched an effort to attract Latinos by revamping three slumping Southern California stores in predominantly Latino areas. The company hung Spanish-English signs over the aisles, expanded produce sections 30%, quadrupled the size of meat counters, piped in Mexican pop music and renamed the stores Super Savers. Business has doubled...
...sales rep stationed at the front door of the Kroger supermarket in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, knew a family of attractive marks when she saw one. Here was a nice-looking young couple with their cooing newborn in the shopping cart: perfect targets for a high-speed spiel. "Have you had a family portrait yet? We're running a special deal this week, one 10 by 13-inch portrait, a $60 value, right now for just $8. Oh, the baby's so cute. Can I sign...