Kroger Elects Elaine Chao to Board of Directors

[bucolic_frolic]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kroger-elects-elaine-chao-board-203000349.html

Mon, August 2, 2021, 4:30 PM·2 min read

CINCINNATI, Aug. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) today announced that Elaine Chao has been elected to the company's board of directors.

"We are pleased to welcome Elaine to Kroger," said Rodney McMullen, Kroger's chairman and CEO. "She's an experienced national and global leader who brings to Kroger's board deep knowledge of corporate governance, strategic and workforce management, and public-private partnerships as well as extensive experience at the highest levels of U.S. government."

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Elaine Chao is both the first Asian-Pacific American woman to serve in the President's cabinet in U.S. history and the longest-serving U.S. cabinet secretary since World War II.

She obtained her Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School after receiving her undergraduate degree in Economics from Mount Holyoke College. Recognized for her extensive record of accomplishments and public service, she is also the recipient of 37 honorary doctorate degrees.

Elaine Chao is elected to serve until Kroger's annual meeting of shareholders in June 2022, at which time she will stand for election by the shareholders.

[DURHAM D]

1. She will not get my vote.

Yes, I have Kroger stock. Just so you know, I did not buy it. I owned stock in another company that was purchased by Kroger.

[Under The Radar]

2. Wait!! Where is the Outrage that Hunter got for being on a board?

What does Elaine know about overpriced groceries?

[CurtEastPoint]

3. this is the POS married to that GD turtleboy? Fuck no.

[elleng]

4. I'm glad there are no Krogers around here.

[cbabe]

5. Kroger's owns QFC.

And yes she's totally corrupt ex sec of transportation married to totally corrupt McConnell.

[Sanity Claws]

12. QFC went downhill after that

[cbabe]

14. True. Funny

how that happens.

RiteAide bought family owned PNW pharmacy chain Bartells.

Severely understaffed including pharmacy. Dirty floors. Chipped paint. Etc.

Used to be friendly helpful community stores. No more. Which is what everyone feared during the takeover. Sad.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Happens after most takeovers and brand buyouts

My favorite is shoes. Big players buy a good brand and want to profit. So they cheapen the product. Was a big thing in the Great Recession because people weren't buying shoes. After they cheapen the product, consumers move on to other brands. Reebok is said to be on the ropes. Florsheim now part of a conglomerate. Some of the brand owners own multi-line shoe stores, and push the brands they own.

I like to look up my favorite brand to see who owns them now.

There's a reason leather is now a veneer, shoes are made of lightweight fabric. They keep making them cheaper so they can make more money.

[Thomas Hurt]

7. hmmm, have Krogers where I am but hardly ever go there, and not all now.

That Krogers card thing annoys the crap out of me.

[SoCalNative]

8. Well

no more shopping at Ralph's for me

[Casady1]

9. Union buster Korger's

hire union buster chao. As an Asian who is pretty close to having my ancestors work on the railroad I find her to be reprehensible. She came here in the sixties and was wealthy. My family took the racism she she could coast by. The fact that she spoke at the Golden Spike celebration for the Chinese who worked on the railroad made me puke.

[doc03]

10. A friend of mine a Trumpster started boycotting Kroger about 3 months

ago because they somehow offended the My Pillow Guy. I wonder if the Trumplicon boycott brought that on?

[AuntieKatie]

11. Screw you, Kroger

[rickyhall]

13. I don't think she's "Fresher Than Fresh" but neither are their veggies.

[niyad]

15. Called kroger main, finally got switched to exec offices, and explained, politely, that since

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the ceo demonstrated such poor judgment in getting that corrupt unethical slimeball on the board, .I have no choice but to go to Costco.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Yeah! That's playin' hardball! /nt

[Grasswire2]

17. what the effing hell!!??

I'd like to picket my local store.

I'd be the only one out there. Most people don't even know who she is.

[SeattleVet]

18. I've avoided spending any money in a Kroger-owned store for several years.

Ever since our local Fred Meyer (A Kroger company) forced our favorite local supermarket to be closed and demolished so they could expand *their* store and add a grocery section. We moved all of the business that used to go to that store to another one of the same (very small, local) chain a few miles away.

I have not spent a nickel in a Fred Meyer since they did that, and we used to be dropping by to get something from that Freddy's at least once a week. Several of the neighbors have also stopped buying things there, also.

[marble falls]

19. Screw Krogers.

[dchill]

21. Really, she should not be employable by anyone.

[multigraincracker]

22. Her married name says enough. I'll never

step in those stores again.