date:Sep 17, 2013
7.5 percent at locations open at least a year in its most recent quarter.
The company said it's still spending about $1.5 billion on health care each year, and that the figure is expected to increase. For the quarter ended Aug. 17, Kroger earned $317 million, or 60 cents per share. That compared with $279 million, or 51 cents per share, in the 2012 second quarter. The results were just above the 59 cents per share that analysts polled by FactSet expected, on average.
The latest quarter includ