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The Best Deals And Discounts May No Longer Be At The Grocery Store
Savvy shoppers have always said you can save the most money on your groceries by combining coupons and sales at the grocery store. But try telling that to half the country, as the majority of shoppers...
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Kroger, Albertsons To Sell 413 Stores Ahead Of Merger
Hundreds of Kroger and Albertsons-owned stores – possibly one in your neighborhood – may no longer be Kroger or Albertsons stores at all in the near future. The two grocery chains have announced the...
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What’s Really Going To Become Of Your Kroger Or Albertsons Store?
A couple of decades ago, when a grocery wholesale company acquired and quickly sold off more than 100 grocery stores, the company insisted “we don’t intend to shift our emphasis to retailing.” A...
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Kroger Coupon Confrontation Ends In Cashier’s Arrest
You might consider it the coupon news equivalent of “man bites dog.” There have been plenty of criminal cases involving couponing customers charged after confrontations with cashiers. But in Ohio this...
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Shoppers Say This Grocery Chain Is Best at Providing Personalized Savings
A good grocery shopping experience doesn’t have to be an anonymous, one-size-fits-all endeavor. These days, we’re told, it’s all about personalization. But what exactly does personalization entail?...
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The Year In Coupons: The Top Stories of 2023
2023 may be remembered as the year that inflation really took a bite out of our grocery budgets. Could it also be remembered as the year that coupons finally started to get just a little better?...
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Here’s How Couponing Will Change in 2024
Yesterday, we took a look back. Today, we look ahead. As we near the end of 2023, we’ve already reminisced about the major coupon-related news stories of the past year. But what coupon-related news...
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“We All Know Prices Will Not Go Down”: Kroger-Albertsons Merger Is Delayed
Could an Albertsons executive’s own words help to sink the retailer’s proposed merger with Kroger? Internal skepticism about the impact of the deal features prominently in a new lawsuit filed by...
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Lower Prices, More Promotions: Grocery Competition Reaches “An All-Time High”
Grocery shopping has been anything but normal in recent years. First came Covid, then inflation, leaving shell-shocked shoppers without a lot of time to sit back and ponder which grocery store they...
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Satisfied Shoppers Celebrate “Better Sales And Promotions”
Apparently, we’re grocery shopping like it’s 2018 again. Having a pleasant shopping experience while saving money has been difficult to do in recent years. But a new annual survey finds our...
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Deal-Seekers Have A New “Most Trusted” Grocery Store
Tired of seeking out coupons, waiting for sales and then rolling through the endless aisles of some megastore to do your grocery shopping? Apparently many of your fellow shoppers are, too. BrandSpark...
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Kroger Promises Lower Prices After Albertsons Merger
In case you didn’t get the message the first time Kroger mentioned it 16 months ago, its planned merger with Albertsons won’t result in a monopolistic, competition-destroying behemoth, but better...
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“Collusion Is More Profitable Than Competition”: Another State Challenges...
Kroger says its planned merger with Albertsons will result in lower grocery prices. A second state where the retailer does business now begs to differ. Colorado has become the latest state to file a...
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Kroger-Albertsons Combination In Jeopardy As Feds Sue To Stop It
In a widely-expected move, federal regulators – joined by nine states – are suing to block Kroger’s planned acquisition of Albertsons, calling the proposed combination “anticompetitive” and bad for...
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Critics Cheer Challenge to Kroger-Albertsons Merger
Kroger and Albertsons say they’re prepared to fight back against an effort to block their proposed merger. But their supporters appear to be few, as critics present a united front against a grocery...
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Our Grocery Visits Are Now “All About Value”
When you can’t find good deals on your groceries, just shop wherever the groceries are cheapest. That seems to be what many of us are doing these days, based on a new analysis of our shopping habits....
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Shoppers Who’ve Never Been To Kroger Aren’t Interested In Buying From Kroger
Kroger doesn’t have any stores in Texas outside of the Dallas and Houston areas, and it doesn’t have any stores in Florida, save for a single Harris Teeter a stone’s throw away from the Georgia...
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