WESTERVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- After 63 years
with Kroger (NYSE: KR), the company's current longest serving
associate, Larry Arnold, announced
he will be retiring at the end of the month. The 79-year-old from
Falls Township in Muskingum County, Ohio, currently works as a
dairy clerk at the Pickerington Marketplace. He started with the
company in 1953, when a week before his 16th birthday he
accepted a job as a clerk at the former Market Street store in
Zanesville.
Arnold decided in December to pass along his title of
longest-serving associate. "It's just a feeling everybody gets," he
said. "They always said you know when you're done, and I knew when
I was done."
"Kroger is grateful to Larry for his decades of service to the
company and its customers," said Kroger Columbus Division President
Joe Grieshaber. "All of us with
Kroger congratulate him and his family on a tremendous career, and
wish him all the best in retirement."
Since the announcement in December, Arnold has been enjoying
some time away from work, but on a visit to the store earlier this
month, he confessed leaving won't be easy, "I will miss the people
— you'll always miss the people — and I'll miss the customers, we
have nice customers up here."
Every day, the Kroger Family of Companies makes a difference in
the lives of eight and a half million customers and 443,000
associates who shop or serve in 2,796 retail food stores under a
variety of local banner names in 35 states and the District of Columbia. Kroger and its
subsidiaries operate an expanding ClickList offering – a
personalized, order online, pick up at the store service – in
addition to 2,253 pharmacies, 787 convenience stores, 324 fine
jewelry stores, 1,439 supermarket fuel centers and 38 food
production plants in the United
States. Kroger is recognized as one of America's most
generous companies for its support of more than 100 Feeding America
food bank partners, breast cancer research and awareness, the
military and their families, and more than 145,000 community
organizations including schools. A leader in supplier diversity,
Kroger is a proud member of the Billion Dollar
Roundtable.
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SOURCE The Kroger Co.