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The first store opens at 66 East Pearl Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
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Barney Kroger buys out his partner and opens a second store. |
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| Kroger is the first grocery company to operate its own bakeries. |
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| With 40 stores and $1.75 million in annual sales, The Kroger Grocery and Baking Company is incorporated. |
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| Kroger buys 14 Nagel meat markets and a packing house. Meat and groceries are sold under one roof for the first time. |
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| During the severe winter, Barney Kroger donates 300 loaves of bread a week to the poor. |
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| On the company's 25th anniversary, 200 horses and wagons are making regular store deliveries, and Kroger's growing chain numbers 136 stores in Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and northern Kentucky. |
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Kroger replaces horses and wagon teams with 75 Model T trucks. |
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| Self-service is tried for the first time and the food store as we know it today begins to take shape. |
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Kroger erects a new warehouse on State Avenue to serve Cincinnati stores. |
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