KROGER

Through its partnership with tech startup Nuro, the maker of fully unmanned vehicles, Kroger is shipping groceries to customers using driverless cars in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Kroger buying the files from 42 of Green Bay, Wis.-based Shopko’s stores in five states.

Kroger and GoodRx are partnering to bring affordable prescriptions to Kroger patients, who can pay an annual fee to be part of the Kroger Rx Savings Club.

Kroger’s total sales decreased 0.3% to $27.67 billion, same-store sales — excluding fuel — rose 1.6%, and digital sales grew over 60%.

The expansion will bring Kroger Express — a 2,300-product assortment that includes and Home Chef meal kits and products from national brands and Kroger's own brands — to 13 Walgreens locations in Northern Kentucky.

See photos from inside the first store featuring the new format being piloted by Kroger and Walgreens.

Kroger has unveiled the location of its first customer fulfillment center — an automated facility that will use digital and robotic capabilities and mark the first effort in the grocer’s partnership with U.K. online grocer Ocado.

Kroger announced that it will sell Geoffrey’s Toy Box brands that were once exclusive to Toys “R” Us for the upcoming holiday season in nearly 600 locations.