Reported Shooting Incident at Kroger in Little Rock
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KATV.com ^
| April 4, 2024 | Scott Solomon
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — UPDATE: Two Kroger customers are being charged with battery after a disagreement led to a shooting inside the grocery store on Wednesday evening. According
to a report by the Little Rock Police Department, the incident began at 9 p.m when 48-year-old Yusuf Muhammad began harassing 43-year-old Shearee Jones in the checkout aisle. Witnesses stated that Muhammad was visibly aggressive towards Jones and that she asked him to stop. The report says that he continued after this and assaulted her, leaving an abrasion. In response, Jones brandished a firearm and struck Muhammad with multiple rounds. The report...
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FULTON COUNTY - Man stole Xanax from metro Atlanta Kroger at knifepoint two days in a row, police say
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WSBTV ^
| March 12, 2024 | WSBTV.com News Staff
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Johns Creek police say a man tried to steal Xanax pills from a Kroger pharmacy at knifepoint after coming in for what he said was a walk-in COVID-19 vaccine appointment. He
tried to rob the same pharmacy two days in a row, according to police. According to the Johns Creek Police Department, Steven Albert went to the Kroger on State Bridge Road around 2:35 p.m. on March 6. Albert gave the pharmacy employee his name and date of birth and “was accepted for the vaccination,” but once he was in the vaccination room, alone with the...
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FTC and 9 State AGs Strike Back With Suit to Block the $25B Merger of Giant Grocery Chains Kroger and Albertsons
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Red State ^
| 02/26/2024 | Becca Lower
In October 2022, I shared a big announcement in the retail world: Two massive, U.S. grocery store chains, Kroger and Albertsons, had agreed to merge, in a deal worth nearly $25 billion:CNBC:Rival grocers Kroger and Albertsons on Friday announced plans to team up.The companies said Kroger agreed to buy Albertsons for $34.10
a share in a deal valued at $24.6 billion. Albertsons shares had closed Thursday at $28.63 after surging on reports that a deal was imminent.Kroger is the second-largest grocer by market share in the United States, behind Walmart, and Albertsons is fourth, after Costco. Together, Kroger and Albertsons...
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FTC sues to block Kroger's $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons over monopoly concerns
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Just the News ^
| 2/26/24 | By Madeleine Hubbard
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced that it filed a lawsuit to stop Kroger Company’s proposed $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons Companies, Inc. over concerns that the merger would create a monopoly. The
FTC said that the deal, which is the largest proposed supermarket merger in U.S. history, is "anticompetitive" and will end competition between the two chains, which would lead to higher grocery prices and lower quality products. "Kroger’s acquisition of Albertsons would lead to additional grocery price hikes for everyday goods, further exacerbating the financial strain consumers across the country face today," FTC's Bureau of Competition Director...
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Washington state sues to block Kroger-Albertsons merger, says deal would raise prices, limit options
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Fox News via MSN ^
| 01/18/2024 | Daniela Genovese
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit to block the proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons because of the negative ramifications he says it would have for residents, such as fewer options and higher prices. In
the suit, filed on Monday, Ferguson argued that the proposed $24.6 billion merger, announced in October 2022, "will likely substantially lessen supermarket competition or tend to create a monopoly in many Washington communities," where both companies currently compete. This would likely increase prices of food and other grocery products in supermarkets offered to Washington consumers while simultaneously decreasing "the quantity and quality...
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'They were laughing the whole time': 2 adults, 1 minor charged in beating death of father of 3 outside Ohio Kroger
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Post Millenial ^
| 12/23/2023 | Thomas Stevenson
As the assault was taking place, a witness with a firearm stepped forward and demanded they stop. At
that point, the three suspects fled and drove off in a red car.
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Moment Detroit woman, 20, 'knocks out female Kroger worker, 49,' in front of her one-year-old daughter
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Daily Mail UK ^
| December 8, 2023 | Dolores Chang
A 20-year-old Detroit mother allegedly punched and knocked out a female Kroger worker as her one-year-old child watched from a shopping cart. Shelby
Parham, from Detroit, Michigan, has been accused of attacking a 49-year-old Kroger worker who lost consciousness and suffered a head injury after the assault. The wild beating was captured on nearby security cameras at a Kroger in St. Clair Shores on Tuesday. In the video, Parham can be seen walking up to the unnamed clerk and punching her in the face, sending her flat to the ground, while her one-year-old baby witnessed the incident from a shopping...
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Disturbing video shows mom knocking out Kroger store clerk in front of 1-year-old daughter
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NY Post ^
| 12/08/2023 | Pilar Arias, Fox Business
A 20-year-old Michigan mother has been charged with assault after police say she punched a grocery store clerk in front of her 1-year-old daughter. Surveillance
video caught the incident unfolding Tuesday at a Kroger store in St. Clair Shores. Police say Shelby Parham was in the self-checkout area before walking up to a 49-year-old clerk and hitting her in the face. The woman was knocked flat on the ground, rendered unconscious, and suffered a head injury. “It’s obviously very clear-cut. There’s no questions as to who’s at fault here,” St. Clair Shores Police Detective Gordon Carrier told FOX 2 Detroit.
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Surveillance video shows Ta'Kiya Young putting liquor bottles in her bag inside Ohio Kroger store
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WSYX ABC 6 channel at YouTube ^
| September 8, 2023
Newly-released store surveillance video shows Ta'Kiya Young putting liquor bottles in her bag inside a Kroger store shortly before she was shot in the parking lot by a Blendon Township police officer.
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Teamsters Union says ‘no’ to Kroger, Albertsons merger: Merger of Two Supermarket Giants Await FTC Regulatory Approval
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Supermarket News ^
| 06/13/2023 | Bill Wilson
Opposition to the $24.6 billion Kroger, Albertsons merger does not appear to be dying down as the Teamsters union announced they oppose the deal. The
Teamsters, a labor union representing members in the U.S. and Canada, said that some 22,000 of their members work for Kroger and Albertsons, across the companies’ stores, distribution centers, and manufacturing plants. The Teamsters said they had been engaging in talks with both Kroger and Albertsons over the last few months, but little progress was made regarding some of the concerns the union had around the merger deal, including job security. “In our discussions with...
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Kroger hires Boehner in lobbying push to secure mega-merger
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The Hill ^
| 03/09/2023 | KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM
Kroger is contracting with former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a lobbying push to win approval of its proposed merger with Albertsons, the company said in a press release. Boehner,
who works for law and lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs, will “provide strategic counsel” to Kroger executives and won’t register to lobby. Squire Patton Boggs’ Tommy Andrews and David Schnittger, two former Boehner aides, and Caren Street, former chief of staff to then-Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, will lobby on Kroger’s behalf. Kroger is hiring several well-connected lobbyists as it seeks to dissuade...
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South Carolina wife, mother shot to death in front of young children in Kroger parking lot
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Foxnews ^
Tyler Borys said his wife, 26-year-old Alexandria Cress Borys, was loading groceries into her car at the Kroger in Irmo, South Carolina, when she got into an argument with a woman she didn't know, according to FOX 57 Columbia. After the argument was over, the stranger, later identified by Irmo police as
23-year-old Christina Harrison, allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Borys in the back. The couple's children, a 2-year-old and an infant, were in the car when she was shot.
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Tom Cotton drops mic on woke Kroger CEO for running to Republicans to save merger from Democrats: 'Best of luck'
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The Blaze ^
| December 7, 2022 | CHRIS ENLOE
If Kroger and Albertsons thought Republicans would rescue their plan to merge, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) made it clear last Tuesday that support for the merger among Republicans is anything but certain. What
is the background? Kroger announced in October plans to acquire Albertsons for $24.6 billion. The plan was not exactly celebrated. Instead, it triggered immediate antitrust concerns, especially among Democrats who are suspicious of massive corporations. After all, Kroger is the nation's second-largest grocery store chain and Albertsons is the fourth-largest. If the acquisition were approved, Kroger could potentially rival Walmart. What happened with Cotton? At a hearing...
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Watch: Tom Cotton Hits Woke CEO with 9 Brutal Words After Kroger, Albertsons Come Crying to GOP
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thefederalistpapers.org ^
| December 7, 2022 | Elizabeth Stauffer
Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights questioned the woke CEOs of grocery store giants Kroger and Albertsons about their proposed $25 billion merger last week. Fearing
this deal will “raise prices, cut jobs and exacerbate inequality in food access through the closing of more locations,” unions and progressive advocacy groups oppose the deal and have lobbied the Biden administration to stop the planned merger, according to The Hill, During his questioning of Kroger CEO William Rodney McMullen, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican, delivered one of the best legislative smackdowns I’ve seen in...
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Senators grill Kroger and Albertsons CEOs over grocery megamerger
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The Hill ^
| 11/30/2022 | BEN JOHANSEN
The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate’s antitrust committee led a grilling of the CEOs of Kroger and Albertsons on Tuesday over their planned $25 billion grocery megamerger, which comes after months of rising inflation that has hit consumers hard. “The
companies assure us that this is the merger that will make everything better,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights.
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Kroger to Pay $180,000 for Firing Christian Employees Who Opposed LGBT Rainbow
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Christian Headlines ^
| 11/2/22 | Michael Foust
Kroger has agreed to pay $180,000 to settle a lawsuit that involved two employees who say they were fired for refusing to wear LGBT-themed aprons due to their religious beliefs. The
lawsuit was filed on behalf of the women by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the final months of the Trump administration. The EEOC is a bipartisan commission that includes appointees of both President Biden and former President Donald Trump. According to the suit, a Conway, Ark., grocery store “engaged in religious discrimination when it disciplined and ultimately fired the employees for refusing to wear an apron...
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Bernie Sanders blasts Kroger’s $24.6B Albertsons deal, calls it ‘absolute disaster’
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Fox19 ^
| 10/15/2022 | Victoria Moorwood
The combined sales of the two grocery store chains are nearly $210 billion, putting Kroger about $10 billion shy of U.S. food sales at Walmart, the world’s largest grocer. Kroger
and Albertsons are expected to divest 100 to 375 stores to pacify antitrust concerns, leaving Kroger to operate more than 4,500 stores nationwide, according to the Enquirer. Albertsons’ investors will own a separate company that includes the divested stores. Both stores currently employ a combined 710,000 associates and operate 4,996 stores, 66 distribution centers, 52 manufacturing plants, 3,972 pharmacies and 2,015 fuel centers in 48 states and Washington D.C.
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Kroger ‘Allyship Guide’ Tells Employees to Celebrate Trans Holidays, Support Bail Fund
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Breitbart ^
| 9/31/2022 | SPENCER LINDQUIST
The Kroger Company, a supermarket giant, published an “allyship guide” that told employees to use “inclusive language,” celebrate transgender holidays, and even support an organization that bails violent criminals out of prison.
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Harris Teeter, Kroger face backlash for pulling pro-America items after complaints: 'Get woke, go broke'
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Fox Business ^
| June 21, 2022 | Lawrence Richard
Companies said they were recalling 'Freedom Series' items labeled 'Made in USA' and feature guns and eagles Harris Teeter and Kroger are facing backlash for a decision to remove patriotic products after people complained. A
customer took to Twitter Monday to complain about Harris Teeter selling some pro-America items — that read "Give me liberty or give me death" and "America, love it or leave it" — saying they were insensitive as mass shooting incidents happen around the country. "Why are you allowing this type of item to be sold at your grocery store in Huntersville NC? Clearly in light...
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Lawsuit breaks down how longtime Michigan Kroger worker confronted shoplifter before being fired
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ClickOnDetroit ^
| 5/5/2022 | Staff
LINCOLN PARK, Mich.–A lawsuit filed by a woman who worked at a Michigan Kroger store for 31 years described in detail how she confronted a shoplifter and was praised as a “hero” by coworkers before being fired because of the incident. Beverly
Bennett, 61, of Dearborn Heights, worked at the Kroger store at 2060 Dix Highway in Lincoln Park for 31 and a half years, according to the lawsuit. Bennett was working as a cashier on Sept. 16, 2021, when a man took a cart full of liquor outside the automatic doors and tried to leave the store, the lawsuit...
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