- U.S. headquarters location: Cincinnati, Ohio Kroger is the largest supermarket chain in the United States by revenue, operating nearly 3,000 stores spanning 35 Midwestern and Southern states, as well as Washington D.C. Bernard Kroger opened his first store in 1883, making Kroger one of the...
With annual sales of more than $121 billion and almost 2,800 stores, Kroger is a retail grocery giant. The first Kroger store, which opened in 1883 in Cincinnati, pioneered baking its own bread and making some of its own products. In the 1970s, the grocery retailer pioneered using electro...