Kroger Company

Kroger Co operates retail food and drug stores, multi-department stores, jewelry stores, and convenience stores throughout the United States.

The Kroger Company is the largest supermarket chain in the United States, and the second largest retailer (behind Walmart). Kroger is also the fifth largest retailer in the world.

The company operates about 3,750 stores, including some 2,640 supermarkets and multi-department stores, under two dozen banners, in about 35 states.

Kroger also runs more than 785 convenience stores under names such as Quik Stop and Kwik Shop. Kroger's Fred Meyer Stores subsidiary operates 130 supercenters, which offer groceries, general merchandise, and jewelry, in the western US.

Kroger also manufactures and processes some of the food for sale in its supermarkets.