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Miami Herald
02-04-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Kroger adds ‘trendy' private label products, looks to launch 900 items
Dive Brief: Kroger announced Monday the addition of several "exciting, trendy items" to its private brands new items include instant mushroom tea, restaurant-style Italian dressing and kettle-style tortilla chips in a Hatch chile noted it is on track to launch more than 900 new items in 2025. Dive Insight: The additions come as other grocers also look to highlight their store brands through flavor innovation and limited-time offerings in a bid to appeal to consumers who continue to worry about grocery prices. Kroger said that its new "unique" private brand items tie into the quality and affordability of the grocer's store brand offerings. The products also build on Kroger's efforts to expand its private brand assortment, which it sees as a key differentiating factor for customers. "[T]hey offer great flavors at a price point that fits any budget," Mike Murphy, Kroger's group vice president of center store merchandising, said in a statement about the new products. The new items include six Private Selection salad kits with options like cheddar truffle, blueberry, cheddar bacon poblano, sweet onion Gruyere, cherry bacon cheddar and Asian sesame ginger. Private Selection also has new muffins in four flavors: banana bread, blueberry lemon, coffee cake and triple chocolate. Under the Kroger brand, the grocer introduced kettle-style cooked tortilla chips in traditional and Hatch chile varieties and restaurant-style Italian dressing, according to the press release. Following positive feedback from the launch of Simple Truth Organic mushroom instant coffee, Kroger has added two instant mushroom tea blends - black and chai - under that private brand, highlighting mushrooms' "adaptogenic properties and potential to support wellness." During its fourth-quarter earnings call, Kroger executives noted that its private brands portfolio is a "margin enhancer" for the grocer and saw a "strong" quarter with sales outpacing those of national brands, led by growth in Private Selection, Kroger's most premium brand. "Our Brands is an important differentiator for our business, providing Kroger the ability to offer unique and high-quality products at an exceptional value," interim CFO Todd Foley told investors. "We expanded our multiyear Our Brand product portfolio in 2024, resulting in more than 90% of customer households purchasing Our Brands items last year." Kroger's goal to add more than 900 new items in 2025 is on par with its store brand growth last year, which included 370 items in fresh categories. Foley noted that Kroger's proprietary customer insights have fueled its private brand innovation and launches. Last year, Kroger launched a private label produce line called Field & Vine and revamped its pet brand Abound with redesigned packaging and more products. "We look to create destination items that can only be found at Kroger, differentiating ourselves from competitors and national brands," Foley said during the latest earnings call. Copyright 2025 Industry Dive. All rights reserved.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Kroger to offer free food Tuesday and Friday in preparation for daylight saving time
To help customers prepare for daylight saving this weekend, Kroger will offer free Kroger Hour Back Boxes starting at noon ET on Tuesday and free breakfast items starting at noon ET on Friday while supplies last. Get a preview of what is in the hour back boxes and see which Alabama location you can pick yours up at. Each limited-edition box Kroger Hour Back Box is stocked with Our Brands breakfast essentials, including Private Selection™ Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate, Simple Truth™ Oatmilk Creamer and Kroger Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches. Boxes will also include a Boost gift card redeemable for one year of a Kroger Boost membership ($59 value). Starting Tuesday, March 4, customers can head to to grab a special box, available while supplies last. Then, on Friday, March 7, Kroger will give away 39,000 Our Brands breakfast items. Customers must download a one-time, limited-use digital coupon to claim their free items. When you visit the Kroger website, you receive access to simple breakfast recipes, such as at-home coffee recipes and croissant breakfast sandwiches, that will help you start the day right. There are 11 Kroger locations in seven different cities across Alabama: Auburn: 300 N Dean Rd Decatur: 1101 Beltline Rd. SE STE A Hartselle: 241 Highway 31 SW Ste. K Huntsville: 6070 Moores Mill Rd., 2110 Oakwood Ave. NW; 8404 Memorial Pkwy SW; or 7090 Highway 72 W. Lanett: 1401 S Gilmer Ave Madison: 8855 Highway 72 W or 4579 Wall Triana Hwy, Opelika: 2460 Enterprise Dr. Daylight saving time will begin on Sunday, March 9 at 2 a.m., unfortunately leading to a loss of one hour of sleep for Americans as we will be "springing forward". However, most Americans look forward to the extra hour of sunlight, especially with warmer weather and summer on the horizon. Americans will "fall back" an hour in November. Jennifer Lindahl is a Breaking and Trending Reporter for the Deep South Connect Team for Gannett/USA Today. Connect with her on X @jenn_lindahl and email at jlindahl@ This article originally appeared on Montgomery Advertiser: Kroger giving away free food ahead of daylight savings time. How to score
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Daylight saving time change 2025 to spring forward Sunday. Kroger is offering free food for DST
Daylight saving time is this weekend, and it's time to start preparing for the moment we spring forward in the United States. Kroger is offering a limited run of free Kroger Hour Back Boxes on Tuesday and issuing even more free breakfast food on Friday to help customers get ready for Daylight Saving Time. Here's what to know from when DST starts and ends to why it exists and if President Donald Trump is ending daylight saving time. Participating states turn clocks forward an hour on the second Sunday in March during the spring. Daylight Saving Time ends on the first Sunday of November in the fall of each year and that's when states turn clocks back an hour. In the U.S., clocks will officially spring forward at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9, 2025. Countdown Timer Kroger is giving away a limited run of Kroger Hour Back Boxes while supplies last starting at noon ET Tuesday, March 4. and will begin issuing free breakfast food items while supplies last at noon Friday, March 7, 2025. Each limited-edition box Kroger Hour Back Box is stocked with Our Brands breakfast essentials, including Private Selection™ Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate, Simple Truth™ Oatmilk Creamer and Kroger Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches. Boxes will also include a Boost gift card redeemable for one year of a Kroger Boost membership ($59 value). Customers can visit on Tuesday, March 4 to claim an exclusive box, while supplies last. If customers return to the website on Friday, March 7, Kroger will give away 39,000 Our Brands breakfast items. Customers will need to download a limited-time, single-use digital coupon. We lose an hour of sleep when the clocks "spring forward" and are turned ahead at 2 a.m. for one hour when Daylight Saving Time begins. In the fall when DST ends, clocks "fall back" an hour in November. That is when people gain an hour of sleep. Clocks fall back on Sunday, Nov. 2, in 2025. President Donald Trump did not set a date but declared through social media platform Truth Social that he would eliminate Daylight Saving Time − which would also require approval from Congress: "The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation." Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Donald Trump on time change: Says he will push to end Daylight Saving Time In an interview with Time Magazine, author Michael Downing cited his book, "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time," to explain how Amtrak and the railroads were the main reason clocks change at 2 a.m. for DST. There were no trains leaving the station at 2 a.m. on Sundays in New York City when Daylight Saving Time was established. "Sunday morning at 2 a.m. was when they would interrupt the least amount of train travel around the country,' Downing said. As of July 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation noted that only Hawaii and parts of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. The Navajo Nation is the lone exception in Arizona. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also do not participate. According to the website, states may exempt themselves from observing daylight saving time by state law in accordance with the Uniform Time Act, as amended. What is daylight saving time saving? Hint: it may not actually be time or money Visit to see the current time in Louisville. Kentucky first observed daylight saving time in 1918, when the Standard Time Act established daylight saving time to conserve electricity during World War I. After the war was over, daylight saving was no longer national law and became a local option. Between 1918 and today, Kentucky observed daylight saving time for 75 years, according to For a while, cities across Kentucky were inconsistent, with some observing the time change and others not. But starting in 1970, Time and Date AS has tracked observance of daylight saving time in Kentucky every year. Over the years, researchers have tried to tie your body getting an hour less of sleep that night to a variety of issues, including an increase in car crashes and health problems such as heart attacks and strokes. In 2019, Kentucky Republican Reps. Bart Rowland of Tompkinsville and Brandon Reed of Hodgenville pre-filed a bill to do away with resetting clocks every six months and instead use daylight saving time all year long. To do so, however, requires authorization by the federal government. Under federal law, states are allowed not to observe daylight saving time, with Arizona and Hawaii being the lone states to do so. States are not allowed to stay on daylight time throughout the year. Why does daylight saving time exist?: Unpacking the century-long beef over DST The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which was created to make daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time, was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate in 2022 but it was not passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. There is currently no news on when it will be readdressed and then signed into law. Despite the Sunshine Protection Act being unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate in 2022, there is no permanent end in sight. No, according to "Many Americans wrongly point to farmers as the driving force behind Daylight Saving Time. In fact, farmers were its strongest opponents and, as a group, stubbornly resisted the change from the beginning," Catherine Boeckmann wrote for "When the war ended, the farmers and working-class people who had held their tongues began speaking out. They demanded an end to Daylight Saving Time, claiming it benefited only office workers and the leisure class. The controversy spotlighted the growing gap between rural and urban dwellers." Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, March 9, and ends on Nov. 2 in 2025. Chris Sims is a digital content producer for Midwest Connect Gannett. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisFSims. This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Daylight Savings 2025: When time change springs forward, free Kroger DST food
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Kroger to provide free Hour Back breakfast boxes ahead of daylight savings time
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Kroger Company is launching their 'Hour Back Box' containing morning essentials for customers. Carter BloodCare to offer free gifts to donors 'Each limited-edition box is stocked with delicious Our Brands breakfast essentials, including Private Selection™ Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate, Simple Truth™ Oatmilk Creamer and Kroger Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches to provide a much-needed morning pick-me up,' according to the press release. 'The retailer is also helping recipients save during daylight saving and beyond by including a gift card redeemable for a one-year Kroger Boost membership, which includes free grocery delivery, 2X fuel points and more exclusive savings.' A limited amount of Hour Back Boxes will be available for free on a first come, first served basis. Boxes can be claimed starting March 4 at 11 a.m. CST by visiting online while supplies last. Those who miss out on an Hour Back Box can claim one of 39,000 free Our Brands breakfast items starting March 7 at 11 a.m. CST by heading to the above website to download a digital coupon redeemable both in stores and online. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
