Warren Buffett's Firm Again Increases Its Stake In Kroger Grocery Stores
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said in a quarterly update with regulators Monday that it picked up nearly 11 million shares of Kroger stock during the second quarter.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said in a quarterly update with regulators Monday that it picked up nearly 11 million shares of Kroger stock during the second quarter.
Incentives to get vaccinated for COVID-19 continue and the country's largest grocery chain, Kroger Co., is sweetening the pot with chances to win free groceries and millions in cash prizes.
If you shop at Kroger, you can forget your mask when grabbing your grocery list.
Kroger is offering $100 to each of its 500,000 workers who gets vaccinated against COVID-19.
Restricted travel has meant less opportunity for the flu virus to spread into Texas so far this winter.
As COVID-19 infections surge in Texas and across the country, sales at Kroger grocery stores are surging as Americans restock their pantries.
The free flu vaccinations are available through the end of 2020.
Kroger is only allowing customers to buy two of certain items like toilet paper and disinfecting wipes, supplies that were flying off store shelves as people panicked earlier this year.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen in Texas and across the country, a number of grocery store chains are again putting purchasing limits on items like disinfectants and paper goods.
Their collaborative effort will have the capacity to administer up to 600 vaccinations during the one-day event, according to Kroger.
Police said the crimes happened at a Brookshire's Food Store and several Kroger grocery stores.
Fort Worth detectives are investigating after a shooting in a Kroger parking lot sent two store workers to the hospital.
"We are taking this extra step now because we recognize additional precautions are needed to protect our country," the company said.
Don't expect to receive change in coins when you go to one grocery store. Kroger, a supermarket chain with hundreds of locations in Texas alone, has stopped giving customers coin change, citing the nationwide shortage.
Kroger has had a change of heart over what it recently deemed "overpayments" to quarantined workers on COVID-19 emergency leave.
The coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 1,000 Texans rages on, but Kroger is already ending a modest "hero bonus" for the supermarket chain's workers.
The free testing in Fort Worth begins Thursday, May 7 at J. P. Elder Middle School. The one in Dallas begins Saturday, May 9 at CitySquare.
Some supermarket chains in Texas are now limiting how much meat shoppers can purchase during the coronavirus pandemic.
Kroger is now only allowing one customer for every 120 square feet. Walmart is allowing one customer for every 200 square feet.
Albertsons, Kroger, Tom Thumb and Walmart are all installing sneeze guards at checkout lanes and customer service counters to help protect customers and their employees from the spread of the coronavirus.
Police confirm the person who was killed was the suspect police were pursuing in a stolen vehicle out of Granbury.
Supermarket chain Kroger and drugstore chain Walgreens announced Monday they would discontinue sales of e-cigarettes at their stores nationwide.
Kroger will start selling longer-lasting avocados in nearly half of its 2,800 grocery stores starting this month.
Pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens are now asking customers to not openly carry firearms inside their stores in states where it's legal, joining Walmart and Kroger who also made the public appeal.
Despite Open Carry being law in Texas since 2016, Kroger is now asking customers not to carry guns into its stores.
