Kroger Company

Kroger turns spoiled food into electricity; how do you reduce waste?

2013-05-16 15:55:00

As supermarkets try to figure out how to cut down on waste and experiment with alternative forms of energy,� Kroger Co. says it's doing both simultaneously by turning landfill-bound organic matter into electricity that powers its stores, The Times'...

A powerful use for spoiled food

2013-05-15 18:40:00

What happens to the 40% of food produced but never eaten in the U.S. each year, the mounds of perfect fruit passed over by grocery store shoppers, the tons of meat and milk left to expire? At Ralphs, one of the oldest and largest supermarket chains on...

Tesco to pull out of U.S. and sell Fresh & Easy markets

2013-04-17 16:49:00

The British are leaving. Five years after launching the Fresh & Easy grocery chain in the U.S., Tesco of England is abandoning its nearly $2-billion gamble. Once called "foolhardy" by investment guru Warren Buffett, the ambitious experiment joins a...

Giving a charge to grocery shoppers: More places to plug in

2013-04-08 10:54:00

San Francisco-based Ecotality Inc., which operates the nation's second-largest network of public electric charging stations for vehicles, announced today that it plans to install 225 new chargers at Kroger Co. stores in California and Arizona. Kroger is...

Wal-Mart, Kroger said to be bidding for Twinkies maker Hostess

2012-12-14 08:17:00

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Ralph’s owner Kroger Co. and Sara Lee parent Grupo Bimbo are all said to be in the running to buy up assets from liquidating Twinkies maker Hostess, according to a report this week. The companies, along with Midwest baked...

There's little privacy in a digital world

2011-10-01 16:22:00

During his two-hour morning bike ride, Eric Hartman doesn't pay much attention to his iPhone. But the iPhone is paying attention to him. As he traverses the 30-mile circuit around Seal Beach, Hartman's iPhone knows precisely where he is at every moment,...

'Pink slime's' Beef Products Inc.: Hard knock for a good company?

2012-03-26 12:20:00

Beef Products Inc. told the Associated Press on Monday that it’ll shut down operations at three of the four plants where it makes the meat product that critics have nastily taken to calling “pink slime.” But some food industry experts...

Ralphs supermarkets fined over pricing discrepancies

2012-05-01 16:34:59

Southern California Food 4 Less workers authorize Kroger strike [Updated]

2011-12-09 16:34:35

Tensions mount as Southern California grocery workers protest outside employers' offices

2011-06-28 21:34:36

Grocery workers give notice to cancel labor contract [Updated]

2011-09-15 21:35:21

Grocery strike avoided; deal called 'win-win' for both sides

2011-09-19 16:35:07

Ralphs unloading dock associate Eddy Calhoun participates in a demonstration during a tour of Kroger Co.'s new facility in Compton that takes spoiled food that can't be sold or donated and turns it into electricity.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

said today it is recalling select packages of pet food sold in some of its retail stores because the products may contain aflatoxin, which poses a health risk to pets.

2010-12-21 06:31:38