A Kroger employee was arrested following the “vigilant” actions of a co-worker who shared concerns with police in Michigan, authorities say. The employee, 37-year-old Jonathan Stieber, made threats that he would shoot co-workers and customers at the Kroger store in Westland where he worked, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in an April 17 news […]
The Powerball grand prize has swelled to more than a billion dollars, but someone who recently bought a ticket at a grocery store in South Carolina nearly captured the game’s jackpot. In Saturday’s drawing, a ticket bought at a Kroger missed the jackpot by one number, South Carolina Education Lottery officials said in a news […]
Kroger, one of the largest supermarket chains in the country, will suspend its home delivery service to South Florida on May 25 after just two years, the company announced. In an email to consumers who used the service after it launched in May 2022, the supermarket chain said it planned to close its South Florida […]
Kroger announced it will be donating $10,000 to the Second Harvest Food Bank to assist with tornado relief. >>PHOTOS: Sky 7 drone footage shows Clark County tornado damage >>PHOTOS: Storm Damage from across the Miami Valley The money comes from the Kroger Foundation to assist with recovery efforts after last week’s tornado, according to a […]
Mar. 2—By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON — United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400 Union announced Friday that Kroger union members have voted in favor of authorizing a strike at 38 stores in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, but a store in Mercer County is not among them. The announcement means the union […]
A woman being helped at a pharmacy counter was attacked by another customer who thought she cut him in line, Indiana police said. Officers were called to a Kroger pharmacy Feb. 12 in Columbus, Indiana, where they spoke to a woman who said the man grabbed her by the throat during an argument, according to […]
Hello! I’m Alex Coolidge, and I’ve written about most of the region’s major corporations and the local economy since 2005. This week, I wrote about the danger posed by the Washington Attorney General’s lawsuit to kill the proposed $25 billion supermarket merger of Kroger and Albertsons. The grocery industry has waited more than a year for […]
More than two years after a man was killed in the parking lot outside of a Kroger in Sandy Springs, the man police say is responsible has been arrested. Davonte Lavonne Childs, 27, was found hiding in Euclid, Ohio and arrested on Thursday, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Euclid is located about 10 miles […]
Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones announced a deputy-involved shooting at the Kroger along Interstate 55 in Jackson on Friday evening. Jones posted his announced to the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, around 9 p.m. Friday. The Hinds County Sheriff’s Department was on the scene. A male victim was shot and transported to […]
A Warren County man has been indicted after allegedly grabbing a 5-year-old boy, pulling down his pants and underwear and touching him inappropriately. >> Several firefighters respond to local house fire Timothy Franklin Back, 22, faces a felony kidnapping charge and a felony gross sexual imposition charge, according to court documents filed in the Lebanon […]
MONROE COUNTY — Area Kroger stores will be collecting food for Gleaners The Kroger Co. of Michigan and Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan are holding food collection events at southeastern Michigan Kroger stores this month. Several area stores are taking part. Food collected during a previous Monroe County food drive is shown. Kroger and Gleaners are collecting food at the Monroe and […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – California filed a lawsuit against Kroger Co subsidiary Ralph’s Grocery Co on Thursday, accusing it of violating state law by screening out hundreds of job applicants based on their criminal history. The lawsuit, filed in state court by the California Civil Rights Department (CRD), accuses Ralph’s of flouting a 2018 […]