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...start of this year's strawberry season, which lasts from March till the middle of May, James Morrison petitioned the National Chain Stores Association to forbid its members selling berries at less than 1½? profit a pint, 36? a crate. Last week Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. said it would do as Mr. Morrison's Farmers Union asked...
...Cincinnati 32 truck drivers of the Indianapolis branch of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. and their guests last week celebrated winning the American Trucking Associations' award as the nation's safest fleet in its class at a dinner given by Kroger President Albert Morrill in the big grill room of the Cincinnati Club...
...Wiggly, Mr. Saunders once rushed to Manhattan in a special train with "a bag of gold" estimated at $4,000,000, proceeded to engineer the last great Stock Exchange corner. Shortly thereafter Grocer Saunders lost his fortune, his pink granite palace in Memphis, and Piggly-Wiggly, which went to Kroger Grocery...
...Kroger Grocery & Baking made $4,110,000 in 1935, a little less than the $4,198,000 made in 1934. Kroger complained that its 4% dollar increase in 1935 sales was smaller than the 11.5%, increase in retail food prices, concluded, logically, that "a decline in total tonnage is indicated." The "average" Kroger store had sales of about $1,000 a week, profit of about $1,000 a year. President Albert H. Morrill said that 1935 taxes were about 10% of 1935 sales, which would make taxes equal to a little more than five times profits. Kroger made...
...five years, Col. Sherrill's clean, efficient management of Cincinnati s affairs became an historical example of good city government. A handsome, tactful North Carolinian, he made his decisions carefully, stuck to them. And when he resigned in 1930 to become a vice president of Cincinnati's Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., he was the most famed city manager...