Since one of my first jobs was at Kroger, I’ve always been intrigued to see what happens with them. (I can even still go back almost 30 years later and still have some of the General Managers at my old store come out and remember me.) So, I was initially intrigued a few weeks ago [...]
Here we go again, half off of the $4.00 prescriptions already offered by Kroger, Walmart and others. This may not sound like a big deal if you are already paying $4.00 but your data and prescription refill information is like gold and part of the reason for new programs emerging all the time to...
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Kick everyone else, well it appears they have a much stronger hold on this project than any other efforts I have seen out there when it comes to working with their customers and addressing these issues, and they use technology to do this. Kroger, however, is no stranger to healthcare as they have...
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I thought this study was very relevant to the recent tainted peanut case that has been all over the news and FDA for the last number of months. If eating nuts is a food that can help with controlling diabetes, well let’s get with it and make sure they are not tainted. On the blog, I keep...
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This is a great example of using technology with tainted products, first of all, the recalled products wouldn’t scan at check out, and if you were identified by use of your Kroger card, you would get a message on your receipt that you had purchased a product that had in fact been recalled and an automated...