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Kroger is one of the largest U.S. supermarket chains, operating grocery stores and brands like Fred Meyer across the country.
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CJ CheilJedang lifted Bibigo gimbap's US store count 145% to 4,734 while sales rose 59% in the first seven months of 2026. Doors grew faster than revenue, so average sales per store fell by roughly a third and the growth so far comes from new shelves.
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EEOC sued Kroger's Fred Meyer on September 30, alleging a Vancouver store fired two pregnant workers who asked for bathroom access. The complaint places the exposure with store managers who kept issuing attendance warnings after both women said their absences were pregnancy-related.
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Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act in July, halting new electronic shelf labels for a year while the state studies them. Walmart, which promised digital tags in all 2,300 of its US stores by the end of the year, calls the law an overreaction.
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Ryan Mayward, Walmart's head of advertising, says higher-traffic endcap placements are in testing, in a business he puts at more than 70% margins against roughly 5% in core retail. Shoppers surveyed by Grocery TV mind shelf-level screens most.
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A women's advocacy petition and a 732,000-view video have Ulta publicly defending cameras it says sit in fewer than 1% of its stores. So far the record shows reputational pressure, with no clear commercial cost attached.
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The Series D is the headline. The operating record behind it, 85,000 driverless orders at 99% on time on repeating dock-to-store lanes, is the part that priced the round.
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Recall counts are running below 2025 and 2024, yet one supplier's salmonella now clears a dozen finished products at once, and the FDA has deferred the rule that would map the cascade.
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Eleven years of refusal end on 24 August. The announcement lists cash, credit card and Walmart Pay, and never names the wallet that won.
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Jalapenos from a single distributor moved into salsa, guacamole and dressings at five national grocers plus Chipotle and Qdoba. That is a supply-chain mapping problem, not a handwashing one.
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A Utah keto ice cream maker sold at Target, Kroger and Walmart listed $13.78 million in assets against $23.85 million in liabilities weeks after a judge found it copied Van Leeuwen's pints.
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Home Depot, Target and Walmart report on consecutive mornings into a thin data calendar. Their guidance, not the macro releases, is where tariff pass-through shows up first.
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