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Calling the nurse at her doctor's office from work, 38-year Kroger employee Martha Holbein remembers she knew immediately that her biopsy results showed cancer.

A Fairmont resident is being featured on Special K cereal boxes sold at Kroger stores throughout the region in honor of her fellow breast cancer survivors.

At least two large retailers have suspended their business dealings with a large southwestern Michigan blueberry grower after learning that investigators found children working in the grower's fields .

Kroger's new line of its own fresh salads with exclusive technology on the packaging is now available at the 127 Kroger stores in the six-state Mid-Atlantic region.

The Kroger Company has added something new to its line of fresh salads: tracking codes.

CINCINNATI a ' Kroger's new line of its own fresh salads includes new technology on the packaging that enables customers to learn where the produce was grown as part of the company's "Quality You Can Trace" program.

With many families suddenly struggling to feed themselves, the big warehouse clubs known for king-size packages of steak and jumbo boxes of Cheerios are increasingly competing with grocery stores for the 36 million Americans now on food stamps.

ROSELAWN - Cincinnati police are responding to a report of an armed robbery at Key Bank, 7825 Reading Rd., according to emergency communication reports.

Locally based RCG Ventures LLC has purchased a shopping center and two big-box retail properties within the Southeast, bringing its total acquisitions for the year to seven totaling approximately 600,000 square feet.

The Kroger Co. appointed Kathleen S. Barclay Senior Vice President, Human Resources.

DAYTON, Ohio - An Ohio distributor is recalling some Kroger store brand hazelnut spread which may contain peanuts not declared on the label.

Romeo Ramirez knows a thing or two about abuse. Ramirez became a spokesperson for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in the mid - 90s after witnessing a fellow worker being beaten for taking a water break.

Former General Motors executive Kathleen Barclay will join Kroger Co. as senior vice president, human resources, the company said Wednesday.

Cincinnati Kroger said Monday it has bought the Northside Indianapolis office building that has housed its regional offices since 1980, according to a report by IndyStar.com. Kroger occupies the entire 50,000-sq.-ft., building.

Supervalu, one of the largest U.S. supermarket chains, reported Tuesday that quarterly profit fell 42% from a year earlier as it struggled to gain traction with shoppers.

Ice cream swooshes out of metal nozzles and swirls into 38,000 "party pails" a day here, one of many ways Kroger Co.

"Investors need to consider the prospect of structurally high overall unemployment for the next several years and its impact to both sales and any prospect of margin recovery," said Pali analyst Bob Summers in a research note.

Taking a page from its original playbook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com Inc.

CINCINNATI One of Kroger Co.'s convenience-store chain is entering the Ohio market, according to published reports.

The city of Toledo offered Kroger officials an incentive package worth $12 million in grants and low-interest loans to avoid closing the Manhattan Plaza grocery store, but the company refused, Toledo Development Director Ricci Gardner said yesterday.

Kroger is expanding its convenience-store and gas-station offerings in central Ohio by bringing its Turkey Hill Minit Market concept to the area.

In selecting this location, Jean-Robert indicated that it is a wonderful downtown location surrounded by many large and small businesses: Kroger, Federated, LPK, Proctor and Gamble, Two Garfield Suites, and the Boutique Hotel as well as many small businesses in the area which are perfect clients for Jean-Robert's Table.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of 97,000 current and former workers in Iowa over allegations that they were forced to skip breaks or work off the clock.

The Delaware City Council meets Monday night to discuss potential incentives it can offer the Kroger Company to keep a downtown grocery store open.

Kroger CEO Dave Dillon said market share is a very important strength for the grocer.

More than 40 Toledo residents drove to Cincinnati to try to save the E. Manhattan Kroger.

Kroger officials didn't budge from their decision to close the Manhattan Plaza grocery store Saturday, but yesterday the company's chief executive met with a delegation from North Toledo's Lagrange Village Council that traveled to Cincinnati.

Customers will find a fresh new look at one Tri-state Kroger store. The Walnut Hills Kroger store is celebrating the unveiling of its recently updated store with a community celebration this weekend.

Ice cream swooshes out of metal nozzles and swirls into 38,000 "party pails" per day here, one of many ways Kroger Co.

Kroger is building store-ready mixed pallets in an automated environment that streamlines processes in the DC and in the store.

The real estate market may be tough, but Kroger Co. hasn't trimmed its building plans for the region.

The Kroger Co., is donating all proceeds from sale of a limited edition cookbook, Recipes for Hope, to the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute this month.

Special Advisor to the CEO of The Kroger Co. Don W Mcgeorge sells 90,000 shares of KR on 10/05/2009 at an average price of $21 a share.

The Kroger Co. realized nearly a decade ago that to survive it had to put the customer first, and permanently.

More Grocer Kroger cranks up food manufacturing In this photo made Wednesday, Aug.

New Canaan resident Lori Tauber Marcus, an employee of PepsiCo Inc. in Purchase, N.Y., is featured on the company's Gatorade bottles as a breast cancer survivor in Giving Hope a Hand, a nationwide program led by national grocery chain Kroger Co.

The Kroger Co.'s chief executive is defending the nation's largest grocer's decision to close a Toledo grocery as community activists protest.

Before they reach store shelves, food and drinks proposed to be made for Kroger Co.'s brands must pass muster with taste-testers who are paid in nibbles and sips and in-store coupons.

Ice cream swooshes out of metal nozzles and swirls into 38,000 "party pails" per day here, one of many ways Kroger Co.

David Dillon says the Kroger Co. he leads is trying to set itself apart from Walmart and its other competitors in an increasingly competitive market.

The Kroger Co. announced a new fuel incentive program Wednesday that lets its customers save as much as $1 a gallon on gas purchases at any of its 48 Greater Cincinnat, Northern Kentucky and Dayton fuel centers.

Editor's note: This is part of a monthlong series on the battle against cancer. Pink is quickly outpacing the traditional orange and black colors associated with the month of October as stores change their hues in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The U.S. faces the possibility of deflation for the first time since the Eisenhower administration, a threat that may prompt the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates near zero through next year.

The Walnut Hills Kroger store that at one time was slated to close, now has a fresh, new look.

An Ohio union and state legislators on both sides of the aisle are using state data to illustrate how some top private employers have thousands of employees using Medicaid and other benefit programs.