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) is an American retail supermarket chain and parent company of Fred Meyer, founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$76 billion in sales during fiscal year 2008. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and second-place general retailer in the country, with Wal-Mart being the largest - Source: Wikipedia

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