Kroger: A Case Study

The Dollar General is an American wholesale company that was first initiated in Scottsville, Tennessee by Turner and Cal Turner. Its headquarters are located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The mission statement of the Dollar General is "Serving Others." This mission statement helps to bring out the innate requests and intentions of the company in the United States of America and other countries in the world. The company has a vision that describes how it manages to cater for four different types of people. These four groups of people include the customers, the community, employees, and shareholders. Within these categories of people, Dollar General aspires to serve others through deliver of price quality and terrific prices for customers, opportunity, and respect for employees, a superior return for shareholders and a better life for the communities.

Gordon Food Services, known as GFS Canada distributes fresh foods, canned and dry foods, fresh and frozen meats, seafood and poultry, special orders, equipment supplies and cleaning chemicals across all provinces of Canada. GFS Canada is one of the largest foodservice distributors in Canada.

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, The Kroger Company is one of the largest supermarket retailers across the United States. Founded in 1883, Barney Kroger invested his life savings of $372 to open his first grocery store at 66 Pearl Street in downtown Cincinnati. (Kroger, 2011). Barney was quite proud. He was the first grocer ever to have a bakery, to sell meat, and to sell other groceries all in one store. From the start, Barney operated his business with a simple motto: “Be particular. Never sell anything you would not want yourself.” (Kroger, 2011). Today, one hundred and twenty-eight years later, the Kroger Company is still following Barney’s motto.

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The Kroger Company grew in 128 years from one store to over 3,500 stores of various banners and products. The Kroger Company is the largest food and drug retailer in the United States and is growing constantly with diversity in the retail market, dealing in food, pharmacies, apparel, jewelry and fuel. Kroger is governed by a 14 member Board of Directors including a Chief Executive Officer. Kroger is a leader in Corporate Social responsibility by maintaining environmental consciousness, social awareness and energy conservation awareness. Kroger is committed to customers, builds diversity and focuses on growth. The company operates a large part of it’s own manufacturing and distribution to increase profit

Upon information and belief, on or about January 27, 2014 Defendant Dillon Companies, Inc. d/b/a King Soopers, Inc. (hereinafter “King Soopers”) occupied the premises with regards to the King Soopers at located at 1575 W. 84th Ave., Federal Heights, CO 80260 (hereinafter “Premises”).

Kroger is the largest grocery chain in the world. Kroger is known for their friendly associates, their fast checkout and their fresh product. In order to keep their great image, new process and improved process have to be implemented. As a member of management for the Kroger Company, there a few performance gaps that needs to be bridged. “It has been recognised that the competitive advantage of a company is important, and so is the way of managing it. Related to this are the issues of company performance (the ultimate measure), organizational effectiveness (an internal interim measure), and the processes/enablers for delivering these - a key consideration for the latter is how teams are managed (such as team strategy), which is a core focus of the present journal - Team Performance Management.” (Chau Sum, 2008) As a competitive company, we are currently experiencing

Kroger’s star business units would be nonperishables and perishables. Nonperishables consist primarily of groceries, general merchandise, health and beauty care and natural foods; this segment accounted for $44.62 billion for the company in 2014. Perishables consist primarily of floral, produce, meat, seafood, bakery, and deli, accounting for $17.53 billion for the company in 2014 (10-K. Kroger Co. 2014. 41). Consistently, since 2010, the nonperishable business unit has accounted for over 50% of Kroger’s sales revenue, and the perishable business unit has accounted for over 20%. Within the nonperishable and perishable units, corporate brands are a large driver of sales and give the company a competitive advantage. In 2014, 25.5 % of sales dollars came from Kroger’s corporate brands (“Kroger Fact Book 2014”). Nonperishable have seen constant growth from 2010 to 2014. The most significant jump in sales revenue derived from nonperishables was seen from 2013 to 2014, with an increase of over $5 billion which can be seen in figure 3-2. The fact that Kroger is seeing such a large market share, over 50% of their revenue, coming from the nonperishable segment and 20% coming from the perishable segment, means that these are their stars due to their generation of considerable income.

Wal-Mart and Kroger are the two largest chains in the industry and they both were located across the street from one another, 10 miles from Bob’s Hanover location. Chain locations like Wal-Mart Supercenter offered far more than just groceries, they also offered clothing and apparel, pharmacy and merchandise (Parnell, 2014). Also while Bob’s was only open from 7:00am to 10:00pm, Wal-Mart is open 24 hours a day, thus capable of servicing consumers with more options and extended hours. Kroger is also 24 hours and has a customer loyalty program that offers customers discounts on items. Because these locations are so close to Bob’s many consumers are able to constantly shop with these household names and purchase everything they will need at one location, anytime of the day (Parnell,

The main competitor of Whole Foods Market is Kroger Co. and Sprouts Farmers Market. These two companies are also providing organic foods of high quality.

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that made the first Kroger store successful in 1883 – service, selection and value – continue to

The Kroger Company is an American retailer established by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Ohio USA. It’s the country 's biggest supermarket chain and second biggest general retailer (after Wal-Mart). Kroger is also the fifth biggest retailer in the world as of 2013. Kroger operates 2,625 stores across the USA with its headquarters in downtown Cincinnati Kroger. It operates 40 plants for manufacturing, mostly bakeries and dairies. Additionally they are operating 777 convenience stores and 374 jewelry stores through various subsidiaries. Kroger also oversees 87 convenience stores, which were operates through franchise agreements. It operates in the markets of 31 states.

Linda began her career with Kroger in May of 1977 as a Courtesy Clerk at store #160. Since then she has held the roles of Cashier, Front End Manager, Closing Manger, CAO Coordinator, Store Manager, Shrink Manager and her current position as the CAO Manager. She was able to become a first-time Store Manager by age 25, and has continued to grow her career upwards.

CKE Restaurants, Inc. is a quick service restaurant that operates in 42 states and 28 countries. The company operates their own restaurants, while also offering franchises and licenses. Revenue for the company is generated through franchisee fees, licensee fees, sales at company owned restaurants, sale of food and packaging products, rental revenue, and equipment sales. CKE Restaurants, Inc. (CKE) operates under four brands: Hardy’s, Carl’s Jr., Red Burrito, and Green Burrito. Over the past year, the company has renovated a number of restaurant locations and combined dual-branded restaurants. By combining brands, CKE has been able to reduce the general selling and administrative expenses by 5.1% this year. Even though CKE is consolidating its resources, the company suffered a decrease in sales this past year at the various restaurants and an overall decrease in revenue. However, the decreases did not negatively affect the net income of CKE since it increased and allowed the company to pay a dividend of $0.24 per share outstanding. Then, on February 26, 2010 CKE announced a possible merger agreement with THL. In order to acquire CKE, THL was willing to pay $11.05 per share of stock. However, the merger did not take place and on April 26, 2010 CKE announced it was no longer going to be acquired by THL and was now moving forward with an acquisition by Apollo Global Management.