date:Dec 06, 2013
re in the latest quarter were 53 cents per share, versus 46 cents a year earlier, Kroger said.
Analysts, on average, were looking for a third-quarter profit of 53 cents per share.
Third-quarter identical-store sales - which include results from stores open without expansion or relocation for five full quarters and are used to gauge a grocer's performance - were up 3.5 percent for the latest quarter, excluding the sale of gasoline.
The company maintained its forecast for full-year identical su