Shaun Bill elected term ended in 2017. He is off the school board.
Clint Heinold elected term ended in 2017. He is off the school board.
Kelly Scarfe elected term ended in 2017. She is off the school board.
Michelle Bernier elected term ends in 2019. [Will she run for reelection after the results of the 2017 election?]
Board decisions have consequences. Elections have consequences.
Note: [ ] = my additions
Roe vs. Wade decided January 22, 1973 = 44 years ago as of January 22, 2017
Over 44 years of government sanctioned murder of our own children. Evil personified!
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Four months after the 44th year of the illegal, unconstitutional Roe vs. Wade decision, approximately 328,767 babies within the womb have been murdered because of federal government sanctioned evil based upon one million murders of babies within the womb per year. And the murders continue day after day. What has Congress done to stop the unconstitutional murder of our own children?
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Petition: http://nationalprolifealliance.com/lacAM_petition.aspx?pid=0219&npla=EH17
Abolishing the murder of babies within the womb by Congressional law will actually be faster and more effective than waiting on the court. Right now there are five justices on the court who support the murder of babies within the womb. The four radical Leftist justices appointed by Democrat Presidents and Justice Kennedy. Therefore, to even have a chance of the court reversing, we need one more Constitutional Justice and the one appointed has to replace one of the five pro-murdering babies within the womb justices. Even then, it would take a couple of years, at least, to get the case through the court system.
Passing a law of Congress is the best way of ending the terror of our American holocaust. The best way to abolish the murder of babies within the womb. The best way to stop any State from passing a law allowing the murder of babies within the womb. And it is also best constitutionally.
Life for all persons within the United States including babies within the womb is guaranteed and protected by the Declaration of Independence, Amendment V of the United States Constitution, and Amendment XIV of the United States Constitution. No court, no government body, no individual can constitutionally sanction the murder of babies within the womb. All such decisions, laws, and regulations are patently unconstitutional and illegal and should be immediately abolished by Congress by law!
Statistically, everyday of delay over 2,700 babies are murdered in the womb through abortion using 1 million abortions a year as a baseline. It is past time to attack the evil of murdering babies within the womb on every front with every legal weapon we can use until the murder of babies within the womb is abolished completely throughout the United States and its territories. Murder of babies within the womb is a horrendous evil that needs to and must be terminated.
Sign the petition to Secretary Price to help put an end to taxpayer funding of Planned Murderhood.
Click here to sign the petition.
http://www.stopp.org/price-petition/
No organization that murders babies within the womb and/or supports and promotes the same should ever receive federal government money either directly or indirectly.
The latest released video exposing Planned Murderhood and the murder of babies within the womb industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1ycCmX3uU
Above video was removed by youtube as it censors video that is in opposition to its LEFTIST agenda.
New link to the video:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=746_1495760241
This one has now been removed too. What does the murder of babies within the womb industry fear? The truth and the truth getting out to the world. No better proof than this censorship.
Newer link to the video:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-need-4-intact-limbs-planned-parenthood-abortionists-describe-beheading-ri
As of 1PM CDT Saturday 5/27/2017 the video is at this link. I do not know how long it will remain. I am listening to it as I write.
As of 3:33AM CDT Sunday 5/28/2017 the video has been removed.
“Sorry
This video does not exist.”
Censorship by the Left reigns supreme in the United States of America.
Preview The Center for Medical Progress
Petition to Defund Planned Murderhood NOW!: https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/congress-must-de-fund-planned-parenthood-immediately.html
NO organization, including Planned Murderhood, which is involved in any way with the sinful, evil, barbaric practice of murdering babies within the womb should ever receive our taxpayer money!
The lies of Planned Murderhood supporters and promoters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJjSPsVuS8g&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Live+Action&utm_campaign=456b90d2cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b50982edcd-456b90d2cd-86729901
DEMAND FULL REPEAL of OBAMACARE
Petition: http://madisonproject.grassrootsaction.us/demand-full-repeal-of-obamacare/
Petition to defund the United Nations:
http://madisonproject.grassrootsaction.us/defund-the-united-nations-h/
The UN is a completely failed organization. It needs to be defunded.
¨ For its attacks on the sovereign State of Israel,
¨ For its promotion of and support for murdering babies within the womb and the radical homosexual agenda.
¨ For supporting and promoting the scientific nonsense of man-made global warming,
¨ And for its call for one world government in direct violation of the sovereignty of the United States of America.
¨ Then, the US needs to get out of the UN and get the UN out of the US.
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A brief quiz on the Constitution:
1) What Article, Section, Paragraph within the United States Constitution gives the federal courts the power to interpret the Constitution of the United States?
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2) What are the constitutional qualifications for individuals appointed to the federal courts?
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Isaiah 1: 1-31 (NIV)
The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem [Applicable to the United States today, in my opinion. GOD is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. HE is righteous, just, and true yesterday, today, and tomorrow!] that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken: ‘I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me [The United States has and is rebelling against GOD!]. The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel [the United States] does not know, my people [the United States] do not understand.’
Woe to the sinful nation [the United States], a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord [the United States]; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel [the United States] and turned their backs on him [the United States] .
Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege. Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom [destroyed by GOD because of homosexual sin!], we would have been like Gomorrah [destroyed by GOD because of homosexual sin!].
[Read Genesis 18 and 19 for the Biblical account. Genesis 19: 23-29 (NIV)]
“By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he [GOD] overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities [A righteous act by a righteous GOD WHO destroyed evil people who refused to repent from their evil. And yes, I believe the account and so did JESUS the SON of GOD. HE referenced Sodom and/or Gomorrah several times. Matthew 10: 15 (NIV) “Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.”]—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he [GOD] brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.”
This is also why homosexual radicals attack Christians who speak out against homosexual behavior. Christians who know the Bible know that homosexual behavior is sin punishable by spiritual death. There is NO “right” to homosexual behavior and people are NOT born homosexual. Homosexual behavior is learned behavior. Therefore, people do not have to be involved in the behavior and people can repent and STOP being involved in the behavior!]
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom [the United States]; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah [the United States]! ‘The multitude of your sacrifices—what are they to me?’ says the Lord. ‘I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations—I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you [the present or the future for the United States?]; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening [the present or the future for the United States?].
Your hands are full of blood [the present for the United States as we as a nation MURDER over a million babies a year through government sanctioned abortions!]!
Wash and make yourselves clean [Will we?]. Take your evil deeds out of my sight [Will we?]; stop doing wrong [Will we?]. Learn to do right [Will we?]; seek justice [Will we?]. Defend the oppressed [Will we? Who are more oppressed than murdered babies?]. Take up the cause of the fatherless [Will we? GOD’S family structure not man’s]; plead the case of the widow [Will we? GOD’S family structure not man’s].’
‘Come now, let us settle the matter,’ says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. If you are willing and obedient [Stop rebelling], you will eat the good things of the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.’ For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her—but now murderers! Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water. Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: ‘Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.’
Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish. ‘You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen. You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.’”
Update:
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/31/planned-parenthood-to-close-three-abortion-clinics-in-california/
“Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] to Close Three Abortion [Murder of babies within the womb] Clinics in California
Micaiah Bilger | May 31, 2017
“Three more Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] abortion [murder of babies within the womb] facilities will close this summer in California, bringing the national total up to 16.
The abortion [murder of babies within the womb] chain has announced quite a few facility closings across the country already this year, including four in Iowa, two in Pennsylvania, one in Maryland, three in New Mexico, one in Wyoming and two in Colorado.
This week, Californians for Life confirmed that the Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] abortion [murder of babies within the womb] clinics in Vacaville, Pittsburg and central Richmond are slated to close on June 30. All three are located in northern California; they did abortions [murders of babies within the womb] on unborn babies up to 10 weeks.”
Planned Murderhood does not provide healthcare video:
https://www.facebook.com/liveaction/videos/10155273054558728/?utm_source=Live+Action&utm_campaign=cb5b583ece-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b50982edcd-cb5b583ece-86729901
“Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] says it needs hundreds of millions in taxpayer funding to help pregnant women. Yet when moms need prenatal care, ultrasounds, and adoption services, Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] turns them away and tells them to ‘Google it.’ How is the abortion [murder of babies within the womb] giant using our tax dollars [Over half a billion dollars of federal money in the last fiscal year and funded by a Republican Congress through the 2016-2017 fiscal year that ends September 30, 2017.]?”
A true maxim is know your opposition. Therefore, a brief background on The Kroger Company.
Kroger is the largest supermarket chain in the United States and the second largest retailer in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger
“The Kroger Company, or simply Kroger, is an American retailing company founded by Bernard Kroger [a true entrepreneur] in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the United States’s largest supermarket chain by revenue ($115.34 billion for fiscal year 2016), the second-largest general retailer (behind Walmart) and the twenty-third largest company in the United States. Kroger is also the third-largest retailer in the world. As of December 2015, Kroger operates, either directly or through its subsidiaries, 2,778 supermarkets and multi-department stores. Kroger’s headquarters are in downtown Cincinnati. It maintains markets in 34 states, with store formats that include supermarkets, superstores, department stores, 786 convenience stores, and 326 jewelry stores. Kroger-branded grocery stores are located in the Midwestern and Southern United States. Kroger operates 37 food processing or manufacturing facilities, 1,360 supermarket fuel centers and 2,122 pharmacies.
Kroger’s employees are mostly represented by collective bargaining agreements (union employees) and many are represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kroger
Bernard Henry Kroger (January 24, 1860–July 21, 1938), better known as Barney Kroger, was an American businessman who created the Kroger chain of supermarkets starting in 1883.
Kroger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the fifth of ten children in a family of German immigrants [My mother’s parents were German immigrants. They came over before World War I. They came over legally.], Mary (Schlebee) and John Henry Kroger. The family lived above a dry goods store that his parents owned. In 1873 due to the economic downturn the family had to close their store. Kroger was forced to go to work at age thirteen to help support his family. He quit his first job in a drug store because his Christian mother objected to his working Sundays [I could not find any information about it in my brief search. However, my educated guess is that, at least in part of his adult life, he also identified as Christian.]. He then worked as a farmhand near Pleasant Plain, Ohio, before contracting malaria and coming home.
Kroger then began working as a door to door salesman for the Great Northern and Pacific Tea Co., eventually ending up at the Imperial Tea Co. The grocery was not doing well, and the two owners made Kroger a manager. When the owners later refused to make Kroger a partner, he used his own money to open his own grocery.
Kroger’s store, The Great Western Tea Co., succeeded despite numerous growing pains and catastrophes. Kroger opened four separate locations within two years. He renamed the company Kroger Grocery and Baking Co. in 1902, later shortened to Kroger, and opened over 5,500 stores by the end of the 1920s. He advertised extensively in local papers, which he thought led to his success. He is credited with introducing the low-cost grocery chain models that persist today (citation needed).
Kroger also invested in the creation of Provident Bank, selling his holdings in the bank in 1928, shortly before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. During a bank crisis in 1933, he converted $15 million of his savings into cash and displayed it at the bank to demonstrate the financial soundness of the bank, averting the crisis locally.
Kroger was also involved in many charitable ventures, including the opening of parks, donations to zoos, and medical research.
Kroger died of a heart attack on July 21, 1938, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, at the age of 78. He was buried in Cincinnati’s Spring Grove Cemetery.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE6D71038EE3ABC4A51DFB1668383629EDE&legacy=true
“B. H. KROGER DIES; CHAIN GROCER, 78; Founder of Business Made Up of 4,844 Stores Succumbs to a Heart Attack BEGAN AS A $9 SALESMAN Once Lost Everything in Ohio River Flood—Cincinnatian Also a Philanthropist Operated 4,844 Stores
Bernard H. Kroger, who founded the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, died tonight of a heart attack at his Summer home at Wianno, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. He was 78 years old.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger
“In 1883, Bernard ‘Barney’ Kroger invested his life savings of $372 (roughly equal to $9,600 as of 2015) to open a grocery store at 66 Pearl Street in downtown Cincinnati. Pearl Street formerly existed between 2nd Street and 3rd Street. The location is now approximately where I-71 passes the Great American Ballpark. In 1884 Kroger opened his second store.
Kroger, the son of a merchant, had a simple dictum: ‘Be particular. Never sell anything you would not want yourself [Very good concept and obviously it was a winning concept.].’ Kroger tried many ways to satisfy customers. He experimented with making his own products, such as bread, so that customers would not need to go to a separate bakery.
In 1916 Kroger company began self-service shopping. Before this all articles were kept behind counters, and customers would ask for them, and then clerks would deliver them to customers.
In 1929, it was rumored that Safeway would merge with Kroger.
In the 1930s, Kroger became the first grocery chain to monitor product quality and to test foods offered to customers, and also the first to have a store surrounded on all four sides by parking lots.”
“Chains
Combination food and drug stores
Baker’s Supermarkets (Omaha, Nebraska)
City Market (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico)
Dillons Food Stores (Kansas, Missouri)
Fry’s Food & Drug (Arizona) [Closest store from our subdivision in Tucson mailing area. We lived in an unincorporated area northwest of Tucson proper. My children could walk to it from our home and did.]
Gerbes Super Markets (Central Missouri)
Harris Teeter (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia)
Jay C (Southern Indiana)
King Soopers (Colorado, Wyoming)
Kroger (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)
Owen’s (Northeastern Indiana)
Pay Less Super Markets (Central Indiana)
QFC (Oregon, Washington State)
Ralphs (Southern California)
Roundy’s (Pick ‘n Save, Mariano’s Fresh Market, Metro Market, Copps) (Wisconsin, Illinois)
Scott’s (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
Smith’s (Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming) [A mile or two east from our home located on the major east-west road. Shopped there also.]
Multi-department stores
Fred Meyer (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington)
Price impact stores
Food 4 Less (Southern California; Chicago, Illinois; NW Indiana) (Food 4 Less stores elsewhere are owned by other companies)
Foods Co. (Northern California)
Ruler Foods (Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee)
Marketplace stores
[From a different section of this article.
“Kroger Marketplace is a chain of big-box stores. The brand was introduced in 2004 in the Columbus, Ohio, area, which lost the Big Bear and Big Bear Plus chains in Penn Traffic’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Kroger Marketplace format is based on the Fry’s Marketplace stores that the Arizona division of Kroger is currently operating.
Similar to rival chains Meijer, Sears, Kmart, Target, Walmart, and Albertsons, and modeled after Kroger-owned Fred Meyer, these stores contain multiple departments. In addition to the grocery department, they usually contain a Fred Meyer Jewelers, Starbucks, Donatos Pizza, and an in-store bank, as well as sections for toys, appliances, home furnishings and bed and bath, something that Big Bear once had in their stores in the Columbus area.”]
Dillons Marketplace
Fry’s Marketplace
King Soopers Marketplace
Kroger Marketplace
Smith’s Marketplace
Jewelry stores
Fred Meyer Jewelers (Ohio, Oregon, Kentucky, Texas and various others)
Barclay Jewelers
Fox’s Jewelers
Littman Jewelers
Convenience stores
Kwik Shop (Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Mississippi)
Loaf ‘N Jug (Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Smith’s Express (Utah)
Tom Thumb Food Stores (Alabama, Texas, Florida)
Turkey Hill Minit Markets (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana)
Convenient care clinic
The Little Clinic (Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Indiana, Arizona, Mississippi, Colorado, Kansas, Virginia)
Former chains
Barney’s Food Warehouse (Ohio) Warehouse stores, closed by Kroger in the 1980s.
Cala Foods and Bell Markets (Northern California) Locations sold to DeLano’s IGA, last Kroger-owned location closed in 2011.
Childs (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana) Acquired July 1955, name phased out in 1966. Henke’s (Texas) Acquired May 1955, name phased out in 1966
Hilander Foods (Illinois) Acquired 1998, sold to Schnucks in 2011.
Kessel Food Markets (Michigan) Acquired and name phased out in 1999.
Krambo (Wisconsin) Acquired June 1955, name phased out in 1966. Withdrew from Wisconsin in 1971.
Market Basket (Southern California) Acquired October 1963, sold in 1982.
Quik Stop (California, Nevada) Transitioned to Loaf ‘N Jug brand.”
“Manufacturing
In addition to stocking a variety of regional brand products, The Kroger Company also employs one of the largest networks of private label manufacturing in the country. Thirty-seven plants (either wholly owned or used with operating agreements) in seventeen states create about 40% of Kroger’s private label products. Similar to most major supermarket retailers, Kroger uses a three-tiered private label marketing strategy. One private brand emphasizes no-frills products at the lowest possible price, another is intended to be comparable to leading national brands but a better value and the third is a premium (often organic) brand.
Manufacturing plants
Dairies
Kroger operates 16 dairies, 1 ice cream plant, and 2 cheese plants:
Centennial Farms Dairy – Atlanta, Georgia
Compton Creamery – Compton, California
Crossroad Farms Dairy – Indianapolis, Indiana
Heritage Farms Dairy – Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Jackson Dairy – Hutchinson, Kansas
Kroger Mountain View Foods – Denver, Colorado
Layton Dairy – Layton, Utah
Michigan Dairy – Livonia, Michigan
Mountain View Foods – Denver, Colorado
Pace Dairy of Indiana – Crawfordsville, Indiana
Pace Dairy of Minnesota – Rochester, Minnesota
Riverside Creamery – Riverside, California
Swan Island Dairy – Portland, Oregon
Springdale Ice Cream & Beverage – Springdale, Ohio – soft drinks, waters, ice cream
Tamarack Farms Dairy – Newark, Ohio
Tolleson Dairy – Tolleson, Arizona
Turkey Hill Dairy – Conestoga, Pennsylvania
Vandervoort Dairy – Fort Worth, Texas
Westover Dairy – Lynchburg, Virginia
Winchester Farms Dairy – Winchester, Kentucky
Bakeries
Kroger operates 6 bakeries, 2 frozen dough plants and 1 deli plant:
Anderson Bakery – Anderson, South Carolina
Clackamas Bakery – Clackamas, Oregon
Columbus Bakery – Columbus, Ohio
Country Oven Bakery – Bowling Green, Kentucky
Indianapolis Bakery – Indianapolis, Indiana
KB Specialty Foods – Greensburg, Indiana
King Soopers Bakery – Denver, Colorado
La Habra Bakery – La Habra, California
Layton Dough Plant – Layton, Utah
Grocery items
Kroger operates 5 grocery and 2 beverage plants:
America’s Beverage Co. – Irving, Texas – soft drinks, waters
Delight Products Co. – Springfield, Tennessee – dry dog and cat foods
Kenlake Foods – Murray, Kentucky – nuts, hot cereal, cornmeal, powdered drinks
Pontiac Foods – Columbia, South Carolina – coffee, seasonings, spices, rice, noodles, sauces
Springdale Ice Cream & Beverage – Springdale, Ohio – soft drinks, waters, ice cream
State Avenue – Cincinnati, Ohio – salad dressings, red sauces, syrups, broths, jams and jellies
Tara Foods – Albany, Georgia – peanut butter, flavorings, steak sauces, vinegar, cooking wines, lemon juice, soy sauce
Meat plants
Kroger operates 2 meat plants:
King Soopers Meat – Denver, Colorado
Vernon Meat – Vernon, California
Private brands
Kroger brand products are produced and sold in three quality tiers:
Private Selection – premium quality brand
Banner Brands (such as Kroger, Ralphs, King Soopers) – the majority of the 11,000 items stocked in stores
Value brand – good quality at an affordable price
P$$t..., Check This Out... and Heritage Farm [Value brand – good quality at an affordable price]
The P$$t..., Check This Out... and Heritage Farm line of products was introduced in 1981 by the name of Cost Cutter and was known for its near-generic product labeling. It was then succeeded by FMV, which was a backronym to mean For Maximum Value, originally meaning Fred Meyer Value. In early 2007, Kroger replaced FMV with the Kroger Value brand. The Kroger Value brand was phased out in 2014. It offers staple products such as sugar, flour, bread and canned goods at the lowest price for that particular product in the store. Though some of these products (such as their cheese made with water and partially hydrogenated soybean oil) use a lower-quality manufacturing process, other products appear to be indistinguishable from their banner brand equivalent (P$$t... sugar and Kroger sugar, for example) other than the price.
Kroger has expanded the line to many other items, such as bread, coffee, tea, ice cream, paper towels, bleach, dog and cat food, and other food and household items. Most Kroger Value brand items were bilingually labeled (in English and Spanish); however, the new P$$t..., Check This Out... and Heritage Farm are not.
Banner Brands
Banner Brands, goods that bear the name of Kroger or its subsidiaries (i.e., Ralphs, King Soopers, etc.) or make reference to them (i.e., Big K) are offered with a ‘Try it, Like it, or Get the National Brand Free’ guarantee, where if the customer does not believe the Kroger brand product is as good as the national brand, he or she can exchange the unused portion of the product with their receipt for the equivalent national brand for free. Many of Kroger’s health and beauty goods, one of the company’s fastest-growing private label categories, are manufactured by third-party providers; these products include goods like ibuprofen and contact lens solution.
Private Selection
Products marked Private Selection are offered to compare with gourmet brands or regional brands that may be considered more upscale than the standard Kroger brand products.
Simple Truth Organic
Simple Truth Organic is a brand offered to compare with other organic brands with often simpler packaging and is becoming larger in 2014 as a part of Kroger’s marketing. For the first time, Kroger is delving into making their own gluten-free products including flour mixes, bread, etc.
Other private label brands
As well as the major grocery brands, Kroger’s manufacturing creates a variety of general merchandise brands. These are featured especially in Fred Meyer stores, where more than half the goods sold are non-food, or in the smaller Fred Meyer-based Marketplace stores. The following brands might be found in various Kroger-owned stores:
Bread
SuperKids – IronKids bread competitor
Dairy
Springdale – milk by the gallon
Mountain Dairy – milk by the gallon (QFC, Fred Meyer, Smith’s, Fry’s, and Ralphs)
Sungold – sweet and unsweet gallon jug tea
Thirst Rockers – imitation juice (water, high fructose corn syrup, 0% juice)
Country Club – butter
Deli
Wholesome @ Home – new name to include all private label products(pizza, pasta, sides, etc.)
Your Deli Selection – baked beans, coleslaw, potato salad
Drug & General Merchandise
HD Designs – upscale home goods
MotoTech – automotive supplies
Office Works – stationery and office supplies
Splash Sport, Splash Spa, and Bath & Body Therapies – bath and body supplies Comforts For Baby – baby and infant supplies, diaper
Frozen Food
Country Club – real butter sticks, half-gallon ice cream/frozen yogurt (Discontinued in Scotts Food and Pharmacy stores)
Old Fashioned – gallon tub ice cream/frozen yogurt
Grocery and General Merchandise
aromaFUSIONS – air freshener supplies, scented candles
Big K – soda, cooler drinks, sparkling water
Crystal Clear – flavored sparkling water
Disney’s Old Yeller – dry dog food
Disney’s Aristocats – wet cat food
Everyday Living – kitchen gadgets & cleaning supplies, furniture
On the House – margarita and other drink mixes
P$$t...Big Savings...Pass it On – bread
Heritage Farms...Fresh Meat
Check This Out – Non Food Items
Pet Pride – dry dog and cat food, cat litter
Tempo – laundry detergent and fabric softener
Whole Health (Nutrition)
Simple Truth – organic and natural foods
Disney Magic Selections
In 2006, Kroger partnered with the consumer products division of The Walt Disney Company to add the Disney Magic Selections line to its private label offerings.
Pharmacy Group
Kroger previously owned and operated the SupeRx drug store chain. In 1985, Kroger outbid Rite Aid for the Hook’s Drug Stores chain, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and combined it with SupeRx to become Hook’s-SupeRx. In 1994, Kroger decided to exit the stand-alone drugstore business and sold its SupeRx stores to Revco, which later was sold to CVS [There is a CVS right next to the Kroger grocery store in Morton. Kroger was built in Morton after I left in 1971 to teach in St. Charles, Illinois. So, the CVS may have been a SupeRx store originally. I don’t know but it seems possible.].
Today, Kroger operates more than 1,948 pharmacies, most of which are located inside its supermarkets. The Kroger Pharmacies continue as a profitable portion of the business and have been expanding to now include pharmacies in City Market, Dillons, Fred Meyer, Fry’s, King Soopers, QFC, Ralphs, Harris Teeter, Smith’s Food and Drug, and Kroger Supermarkets.
Supermarket Petroleum Group
Since 1998, Kroger has added fuel centers in the parking lots of its supermarkets. As of 2015, Kroger operated 1,360 supermarket fuel centers. In 2006, Kroger introduced a new common logo for all of its convenience store chains that is now also used at the fuel centers of all of its supermarket chains—a rhombus with a white, stylized image of the continental United States in the center bordered by four colored areas: dark blue representing the Pacific Ocean, red representing Canada, green representing the Atlantic Ocean, and yellow representing the Gulf of Mexico.
Movie rentals
Most Kroger locations feature Redbox movie rental kiosks. Previously, some Kroger locations featured kiosks from The New Release (aka Moviecube); most of these kiosks have since been replaced by Redbox kiosks. Also, until 2012, Kroger locations in the Columbus, Ohio, area featured kiosks by Blockbuster Express (originally DVD Play).
Distribution and logistics
Food distribution and buying takes place under various subsidiaries and divisions. These include:
Kroger Group Cooperative, Inc.
Kroger Group, Inc.
Peytons
WESCO
Inter-American Products
Kroger operates its own fleet of trucks and trailers to distribute products to its various stores, in addition to contracts with various trucking companies.
Financial services
Kroger Personal Finance was introduced in 2007 to offer branded Visa cards; mortgages; home equity loans; pet, renter’s and home insurance; identity theft protection; and wireless services. In 2011, Kroger dropped its contract with MasterCard and now offers store credit and debit cards through Visa.
i-wireless (Wireless services)
i-wireless is a national private label wireless service provider sold in over 2,200 retail locations within the Kroger family of stores across 31 states. i-wireless allows customers to accrue minutes on their i-wireless phone in exchange for using their shopper’s card on qualifying purchases. The i-wireless service functions over the Nationwide Sprint Network. Customers can choose from monthly, unlimited or pay-per-use plans that do not have contracts, activation fees, or the ability to roam.
Controversies
“In 2008, Greenpeace [An extreme Leftist organization] started ranking America’s major supermarket chains on their seafood sustainability practices because, according to Phil Radford, Greenpeace U.S. CEO, ‘three quarters of global fish stocks are suffering from overfishing, and 90% of top marine predators are already gone [I would not believe anything claimed by Greenpeace. Propaganda is a major practice with this group as with all Leftist groups. They lie. The agenda is way more important than the truth.].’ Criteria included the number of threatened fish species supermarkets sold, their seafood purchasing policies, and ocean legislation policies they supported. In 2013, Kroger was noted for carrying 17 out of 22 red list species, four of which are top-tier red list species [As far as I am concerned, this is a plus for Kroger IF they did not capitulate to Greenpeace. Way too many corporate enterprises capitulate to the bullying tactics and lies of the Left.].
In 2014, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a national gun control organization backed by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg [Another extreme Leftist organization which wants to disarm America in violation of the Second Amendment.], began a campaign that seeks to pressure the Kroger chain to ban the open carry of firearms in all of its stores. The group decided to take action in response to demonstrations by open carry activists in Kroger stores in Ohio and Texas, and after conducting research that identified more than a dozen shootings on Kroger property since 2012 [Is that relevant. If open carry had been barred would the shootings not have occurred? Of course not, there is absolutely no negative correlation between open carry and gun violence. Gun violence is LESS likely to occur when law-abiding citizens are armed by either open carry or concealed carry. Bad guys would rather do their mischief where guns are banned than where guns are allowed. To them it is common sense. Why do a crime where others are armed if you can do a crime where people can not be armed? DUH! Even criminals understand the obvious.]. Kroger rebuffed their demand [As far as I am concerned, this is a plus for Kroger.], stating, ‘If the local gun laws are to allow open carry, we’ll certainly allow customers to do that based on what the local laws are. We don’t believe it’s up to us to legislate what the local gun control laws should be. It’s up to the local legislators to decide to do that. So we follow local laws, we ask our customers to be respectful to the other people they are shopping with. And we really haven’t had any issues inside of our stores as a result of that.’”
Tomorrow, the LORD willing, I will post the second installment.
Restore the Constitution
Take Back the Nation
For Life, for liberty
Don L. Vance
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