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| Lyle Everingham is named Kroger President and CEO and Kroger opens Tara Foods, a peanut butter processing plant in the heart of Georgia peanut country. |
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| Kroger becomes the nation's second-largest food retailing company. |
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 The specialty departments within Kroger are continually being refined, modernized and expanded, offering customers a wide selection of products and services from fresh seafood to the finest fragrances. |
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 Company sales top $10 billion. |
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| Kroger introduces Cost Cutter brand products. |
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| Kroger opens unique frozen dough and hearth bread bakery in Bowling Green, KY. |
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| Kroger merges with Dillon Companies, Inc. and begins a new era as coast-to-coast operator of food, drug and convenience stores, and the manufacturer of more than 4,000 food and non-food products. |
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 Kroger begins its 100th anniversary with theme, "Where New Ideas Come to Life." |
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 Tom Thumb Food Stores purchased by Dillon (86 stores). |
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| M&M Super Markets, Inc., Savannah, GA purchased by Kroger (11 stores). |
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| To fend off a hostile take over, Kroger restructures, borrowing more than $5 billion and issuing to stockholders a $40 dividend and a five-year note valued at $8.69 (at the time). Stock trades for around $9 a share after the restructuring. |
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 Joseph A. Pichler elected Chairman of the Board and CEO June 17, 1990. |
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