Word: krogers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work: The Sunday Times, which was interested, was dissuaded by a threat of prosecution under the British government's Official Secrets Act. In view of the lack of buyers, Philby proposed to hand over his masterwork for free if the British would agree to release Peter and Helen Kroger, two convicted Soviet spies now serving 20-year terms in Wormwood Scrubs. His generosity went unappreciated. The British turned him down...
...another test, the Department of Agriculture last July examined non-federally inspected processed meat products on grocery-store shelves-including Atlantic & Pacific, Kroger and First National Stores-in 38 states. Of the 162 samples tested, only 39 were able to meet federal standards. In most cases, the products contained more than the specified amounts of water, binder, cereals and nonfat dry milk, additives that do not necessarily injure health but do devalue the meat...
Like many another grocery chain, Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. is usually far too busy stocking its shelves to expend much effort on law enforcement. Yet various forms of larceny are a serious problem (TIME Essay, Sept. 9). The company loses more than $8,000,000 annually from customer shoplifting, employee thefts, and the filching of some 10,000 shopping carts. Deciding that stealing has gone far enough, Kroger's management last week called on one of the U.S.'s top cops for help. Cincinnati's Police Chief Stanley Schrotel, 52, quit his municipal job to become head...
...lure Schrotel into private business, Kroger gave him a raise of more than $7,000 above the $18,000 paid him by Cincinnati. As chief company cop, he will head a team of security officers responsible for 1,458 stores spread over 24 states. His duties will range from advising management on security policies and investigating major thefts to planning such seemingly simple preventive measures as how to keep a store's back door effectively locked...
...dairy chains, Foremost, Borden and Beatrice, to divest themselves of small companies they had acquired. It recently ordered Grand Union Stores to get rid of nine stores, and Consolidated Foods to spin off three chains as well as a dairy and a bakery; it is still investigating the Kroger Co. for 42 chain-store acquisitions dating all the way back to 1928. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., by far the largest food chain, twelve years ago signed a consent decree ending buying practices that had led to extensive investigation and Justice Department antitrust charges, but second-ranked Safeway...