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...Hudson and Safeway -- shaken up by his Dart Group (1987 revenues: $406 million), based in Landover, Md., has earned Haft and his eldest son Robert, 35, Dart's president, a reputation as two of the most feared raiders on the roiling retail scene. Just ask the 2,257-store Kroger grocery chain...
...YOUR CHANGE TO MAKE A CHANGE, urge check-out-counter signs at 32 Cincinnati-area Kroger supermarkets. When customers fork over a $20 bill to pay a $19.24 charge, they can donate the difference to the grocery's fund to provide fresh food for the hungry...
...most food programs you wind up with canned goods," says Kroger Vice President Jack Partridge. After studying food banks, Kroger found that poor people's diets often lack fresh fruit, milk, bread and potatoes. The customer donations defray Kroger's cost of issuing food stamps for twelve such selected perishables to needy recipients. Since it was launched in March, the program has dispensed about $5,000 a week in food...
...share bid last month. After Sperry balked again, Burroughs said it would make a tender offer directly to shareholders. Finally Blumenthal made Sperry an offer almost impossible to refuse: $76.50 a share. At a rancorous meeting last week, Sperry's board accepted the offer. President Joseph Kroger led the opposition to the merger and did not appear at the press conference, but he is expected to head the Sperry division of the company, at least for the time being...
...Kroger supermarket chain eagerly boosted the effort; it offered to distribute the brochure and agreed to weigh out dieters as well as their vegetables. Some 12,000 hopeful pound shuckers herded through the chain's groceries during the first weekend. Material on the rotation diet may become available soon to supermarkets throughout the country. The plan restricts women to 600 calories for each of the first three days, 900 during the next four, then 1,200 over the following seven. The third week repeats the first. (Men get an additional 600 calories daily.) To soothe hunger pangs, dieters can munch...