Kroger Co. can never rest comfortably. If it isn’t Walmart — its chief rival — cutting prices, it’s Amazon.com diving deeper into the grocery business in an effort to steal market share.
For a notoriously low-margin business, the supermarket industry sure does attract a lot of players. That’ s largely because so much is spent on groceries and everyone needs them.
That means Kroger — the 10th largest employer in the Memphis area, according to MBJ research — is always working to identify the next big thing, if it’s not catching up to what others are already trying. Here are a handful of areas Kroger will emphasize as the calendar turns to 2020:
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