You have got to be kidding me.
Kroger halts Buy Groceries/Get Gas program
JIM BAINBRIDGE THE GAZETTE
A federal district court ruling in Denver has brought a halt to the Buy Groceries/Get Gas program at 41 King Soopers and City Market stores statewide, including four in Colorado Springs. A pair of independent gasoline dealers in Montrose brought the suit, claiming that the King Soopers and City Market program of selling discounted gas based on grocery purchases violated Colorado’s Unfair Practices Act of 1941. The jury verdict, rendered Nov. 3, awarded the Montrose dealers, Parrish Oil and Ray Moore Tire & Petroleum, $1.4 million in damages. The verdict also order the program be discontinued because it amounted to illegally selling
gas below cost.
see link here for entire story.
And, just when I thought Kroger had a competitive advantage over Wal-Mart, the c-store wins.
I can only wonder how Home Depot's foray into c-storing is going...If you didn't already know, check the excellent article in the San Diego Tribune - "Expanding the Big Box"
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a large discount grocer in new orleans sold liquor below the fair trade in the 50s? and was taken to court he used the whole thing as an advertising plug for the store as a friend of the people business shot up and in a few years he had more stores---he then ran for state rep and won ended up with 7 big box stores and dominated grocery in new o for years bop
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