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		<title><![CDATA[Competition Challenging Kroger Strategy in the Recovery]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/retail/10005819/competition-force-kroger-to-revist-strategy-in-the-recovery/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Krogerâ€™s position has deteriorated and that bears watching, particularly if the company doesnâ€™t rebound with the economy. by Mike Duff]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:58:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Competition Key to Kroger's Troubles]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/retail/10005756/competition-key-to-krogers-troubles/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The recession caught up with Kroger in the third quarter to the extent that it changed the format of its latest conference call to spin what happened to analysts.    Mostly what happened to Kroger was competition.    In introducing the companyâ€™s third quarter conference call...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:00:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In Images: Kroger Marketplace Stakes Claim in Texas]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/retail/10004506/in-images-kroger-marketplace-stakes-claim-in-texas/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Texans are supposed to like things bigger, and Kroger delivered last week, opening its first Lone Star State marketplace store in the form of a 125,000 square foot grocery and general merchandise combination outlet on the Grand Parkway in the Houston's  Richmond suburb.    The Houston area...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:59:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger Eludes Recession in Texas Marketplace Launch]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Kroger will open its first marketplace store in Texas as part of it strategy to use stores types and data to more precisely target consumers, while simultaneously capitalizing on an opportunity that the recession hasnâ€™t withered.    The marketplace format store, which combines a full supermarket...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:01:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Giant Supermarkets Seek Advantage of Small Stores]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giant, the Carlisle, Pa.-division of Ahold USA, is building on the work it has done developing a convenience store operation to expand the range of formats it operates, looking in part at smaller concepts that can help it reach more consumers.    To advance its efforts the company...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:08:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger, P&G Evolving as Cross-Town Rivals]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cincinnati Enquirer has a particularly good vantage point on the retail industry, perched, as it is, with a view of two of the most important companies involved in the business, Procter & Gamble and Kroger.    While an evolving situation that the newspaper details in a recent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:51:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger, Macy's May Squeeze Target with dunnhumby Relationship]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A move by dunnhumbyUSA to open New York offices as it expands business with Macyâ€™s could have a significant impact not only on the department store chain but on Target, as well.    The strategic marketing company, which specializes in gleaning information from loyalty card operations, could put...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:53:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In Images: Kroger Combines Concepts for Houston Store]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newly renovated Kroger on Buffalo Speedway in Houston was developed to impress shoppers, including the potential customers of the brand new H.E.B. supermarket across the street, who are passionate about their eats.    Kroger isnâ€™t using the fresh fare designation for the store, which is officially a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:35:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Safeway, Other Traditional Grocers Forced to Push Value]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/retail/10003456/safeway-other-traditional-grocers-forced-to-push-value/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Mid-priced grocers, or the most common supermarkets dotting shopping centers across the country, owned by Kroger, Safeway and other companies, are holding up during the recession, but it's not coming easy. Faced with consumers on increasingly tight budgets and growing competition, they're now forced to compete with deep discounters. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:09:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger, H.E.B. Race for Gourmet Favor on Houston's Buffalo Speedway]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kroger is exploring a wider range of operational niches as it develops new formats, but those retailers who already operate in the sectors tested arenâ€™t letting their rival take business away unopposed, as H.E.B. and Meijer are proving    Meijer, which competes across its Ohio-to-Illinois market range with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:03:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[If Kroger Pattern Remains, Gourmet Expansion May Roll]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/retail/10003353/if-kroger-pattern-remains-gourmet-expansion-may-roll/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Kroger has opened one of it Fresh Fare stores in Dayton, which could be an interesting development if the retailer pursues the same pattern of growth with that format as it did with its marketplace concept.    Marketplace was developed on the periphery of the Kroger universe, in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:34:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger Clobbered in Tainted Food Recalls]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food has become an important category for retailers trying to cope with a tight-fisted consumer in a prolonged recession, but it can be a risky business, particularly as stores take on more direct responsibility for delivering to the public products that can cause serious illness.    Over the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:53:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Small Store Stands Meijer to Counter Kroger Marketplace, Among Others]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If retail success is based, as the saying goes, on location, location, location, then itâ€™s important to fit in a suitable spot, something that Meijer has recognized and Kroger realized some time ago.    Now, though, Meijerâ€™s move to develop a smaller store concept in the Chicago suburb...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:27:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger Appoints McMullen President and Stays the Course]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuity is the word at Kroger and the appointment of Rodney McMullen as president and COO more firmly fixes  in the corporate suite an executive central to the development of recent company strategy.    McMullen succeeds former president and CEO Don McGeorge, who is retiring.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:04:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger Linking Loyalty Card with Wireless Phone Service]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/retail/10002201/kroger-linking-loyalty-card-with-wireless-phone-service/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Kroger has made loyalty card programs particularly important to its marketing function, partnering with strategic research firm dunnhumby to establish dunnhumby USA. by Mike Duff]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:29:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Swine Flu Thrusts Retail Health Initiatives into the Spotlight]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swine flu fears will put retailers who have been expanding health services on the front lines for prevention and treatment, providing their initiatives with new recognition.    Headlines might focus on swine fluâ€™s global advance, but retailers will get the credit where it counts, locally. For example, in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 08:30:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Private Label Rivalries Could Inflame Competition Between Wal-Mart, Kroger, Aldi]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is a private label price war in the making?    Perhaps, if Kroger lives up to suggestions that it will drop prices on private label groceries as commodity costs slide.    Not that everyone is predicting immediate intensification of private label price rivalries. Speaking at Reuters...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:37:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger Customer Focus Carries It Through Tough Times]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kroger is looking to cut prices on private label products in a period of declining commodity costs, Dillon said, adding that producers of big national brands are holding the line on prices by Mike Duff]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:45:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger Proves Recession Doesnâ€™t Stop Grocery Shopping]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kroger, one of the countryâ€™s largest supermarket operators, is proving that consumers arenâ€™t shying away from grocery stores during the recession. In fact, the retailer had what few in the industry can boast -â€" a financial quarter with sales and earnings increases.    The necessity to buy food...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kroger Takes on General Merchandise, Wal-Mart with Marketplace Stores]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Wal-Mart, Target and Costco make headlines for their success in selling food, Kroger has quietly maintained its invasion of their general merchandise territory by adding more of its marketplace stores.    In one of its latest moves, Kroger plans to knock down two existing 70,000 square foot...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:31:35 -0800</pubDate>
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