Kroger operates a number of different store brands, in addition to Kroger stores:
—Fred Meyer hypermarkets in the northwest
—Ralph’s supermarkets in southern California & Las Vegas
—Fry’s supermarkets in Arizona
—Smith’s supermarkets in Idaho and Utah
—King Soopers supermarkets in Colorado
—Food4Less discount stores in California and other states
==Harris Teeter supermarkets in North Carolina, Virginia & DC
—Dillon’s supermarkets in Kansas
—Roundy’s supermarkets in Wisconsin & Illinois
—Mariano’s in the Chicago area (upscale, like a smaller Wegmans)
—QFC in Seattle and Portland
It is interesting that while Kroger is an Ohio based company (HQ in Cincinnati), they don’t have operations in the Cleveland market, having ceded the field to operators such as Giant Eagle, Marc’s, Heinens, Meijer, Walmart and Target.
Kroger has its name at the University of Kentucky: “Kroger Field at Commonwealth Stadium”.
Would you want to go up against Giant Eagle? lol. The managers mop the floors.
Rumor is that the vastly-tentacled Kroger is eyeing Publix when the economy craters in the next year, when we will see the craziest conglomerate consolidation in American history -- an attempt to prop a failing stock market as the Boomer Curve collapses on itself -- that will likely fuel both hyperinflation and another "Great Recession".
Think of all the drive-thru chicken shacks out there right now -- nearly 20 -- and maybe 6 surviving consolidation.