Kroger plans timely job fair amid Marsh’s closing spree
Kroger said it didn’t plan the event to take advantage of the Marsh closings, but it welcomes the local grocery chain’s former employees. The grocer is looking to fill more than 300 positions.
Kroger said it didn’t plan the event to take advantage of the Marsh closings, but it welcomes the local grocery chain’s former employees. The grocer is looking to fill more than 300 positions.
If Marsh’s two downtown stores close, as the struggling grocer has warned could happen within two months, the locations likely would attract interest from rival supermarket operators.
The Marsh chain continues to downsize amid growing competition. The store on East 86th Street has struggled to attract customers since a Kroger opened across the street in 2010.
The Cincinnati-based supermarket operator—the No. 1 grocery player in the Indianapolis area— said Friday it was hurt by falling prices of eggs, meats and other products, forcing it to lower its earnings guidance for the year.
Eric Halvorson, who lost his job at WISH-TV late last year after 32 years an anchorman and reporter, has been hired by the Kroger Co.
The supermarket chain will make naloxone available in its pharmacies across Ohio and northern Kentucky, a region hard-hit by deadly heroin.
The possible acquisition is not a complete surprise. Fresh Market has been trying to get someone to save it for months now, and Kroger has been on an aggressive acquisition spree.
The Fishers-based grocery chain did not say how much it would spend to "remodel and upgrade" 30 of its 73 stores.
Hotel Tango’s products, including its gins, vodkas and rums, will be available in 20 of the supermarket chain’s central Indiana and Bloomington stores.
Kroger will add about 150 stores in Wisconsin and Illinois with acquisition, expanding its already sizable presence in the Midwest.
Kroger is among several grocery stores that are testing or using online ordering systems in various markets.
Marsh, which has retrenched repeatedly since being acquired by Sun Capital Partners in 2006, now must weather even more competition from Kroger.
The Cincinnati-based grocer on Wednesday revealed further details of a four-year strategy to solidify its place in the Indianapolis-area market, including new, expanded and remodeled stores.
Valet service in central Indiana has expanded beyond upscale restaurants and luxury hotels to hospitals, casual eateries and even a grocery store.
Kroger Co.’s store at 116th Street and Olio Road in Fishers has a date with the wrecking ball—as soon as its super-sized replacement ready to open.
A nearly 100,000-square-foot Kroger grocery store is set to anchor a major development in an area on the southeast side that’s been void of much commercial activity.
Kroger Co. is resurrecting plans to replace its busy Olio Road grocery in Fishers with a 123,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace store.
Kroger Co., the leading grocer in Indianapolis in terms of market share, on Thursday reported earnings of $347 million in its fiscal second quarter, exceeding analyst expectations.
The mother of an Indianapolis man shot at a Kroger by a store manager in what police said was an attempted robbery filed the suit in 2012.
Because Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle wants to enter the Indianapolis market, you'd think it would initiate discussions to buy Marsh Supermarkets, which has been hanging a for-sale banner for years. But a Giant Eagle spokesman said there have been no discussions.