Kroger was founded by Bernard Kroger in Cincy, Ohio in this year
1883
Fun fact: B.H. Kroger sells his stock and retires from active management in 1928 (good timing!)
Kroger's latest annual revenue in 2021
$138B
Fun facts: Kroger hits $100B sales in 2014, $10B (?), $1B sales in 1952
CX means Customer Experience, AX means Associate Experience, What does DX means?
Developer Experience
How many states KEA teammates are located?
9
OH, KY, NC, SC, CA, WA, OR, NY, IL
What is the mascot of KEA?
Pineapple
What is the number one sports in the world?
Soccer (aka Football outside US)
Kroger went public in this year
1916
Kroger operates around 2800 store, how many fuel centers does Kroger operate?
1600
Which grocery store chain co-developed and deployed the first UPC scanner technology in the world?
The first automated supermarket scanner was developed for Kroger stores by RCA. The first one was installed at Kroger’s Kenwood Plaza store in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1967.
Project Celeryblue (an eCommerce testing project with grocery and prepared food combine) is tested in this city
Phoenix, AZ
Who hosted the first KEA fun day?
Jay or Matt Daly
Olympic Gold Medals are not made from gold, but from this metal
Sterling Silver
Current Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen started at Kroger at this job
Stock clerk
Kroger have own brands like "Private Selection" and "Simple Truth", how much revenue it generates in 2020?
$26B
What KTD governance bodies in Kroger that KEA typically needs to check before we complete a project?
DSGC (Data Sharing Governance Council)
CIS (ASP and AppScan)
Privacy Assessment Office
KEA's fearless leader, Jay Scherger, has spend a few years in this job before he moves to the business world
High school math teacher
How many babies were born to current and former KEA team members after KEA started in 2020
9
carly, lisa, megan, paul, nick, eron, brian, sara, mike
Which player has appeared in more Super Bowls than any other player in history?
Tom Brady.
Kroger once had 5,575 stores, the most there have ever been in the chain. Do you know which year it has reached this peak store number?
1929
What is Kroger's store Shrink rate?
1-2%
Shrink is a broad term, applying to both theft and operational causes of loss ranging from shoplifting and cashier/vendor theft to poor production planning and lack of rotation.
Fun fact: Costco has almost 0% shrinkage due to its large package and store checkout process
What does the "A" in A-Layer stand for?
"A" is for "App Tier"
KEA's tech partner RapidOps is headquartered in this India city
Ahmedabad, India
KEA has completed a few projects in last mile delivery area, which one below is not related to last mile delivery:
(A) Project Milkman
(B) Project Columbus
(C) Project Cookie
(D) Project Fiesta
(E) Project Sky
(B) Project Columbus is a pilot project we tested constrained assortment strategy to assess impact on Ecomm revenue
Cincinnati Bengals is named after this
a Bengal Stove in original owner Pennington's mother's kitchen
Kroger hits $10B digital sales in 2020, and will strive to reach $20B eCommerce revenue in this year
2023
Kroger stopped selling guns in its stores in this year
2018
Kroger has a data analytics division called 84.51, do you know what it's named after?
Longitude of Cincinnati is 84.51
The name coincides with the location of its Cincinnati headquarters and is a tribute to the longitudinal analytics the company employs.
KEA aims to bring new revenues to Kroger via business innovations and pilot test/learn, which project would you guess it will be most impactful?
(A) Ghost Kitchen
(B) Digital Farmers market
(C) B2B restaurants
(A) or (C)
In KEA's innovation framework, we have identified 3 strategic pillars, please select from below
1. Owning Fresh
2. Owning Health & Wellness
3. Fitting into rhythm of life beyond food
4. Owning Food
5. Owning Ads
1. Owning Fresh
3. Fitting into rhythm of life beyond food
4. Owning Food
Kite flying is a professional sport in this country
Thailand