The Kroger Company, America’s largest grocery retailer, is no longer listing the abortion drug Mifepristone on their website.
The Kroger brand includes stores such as King Soopers, Ralph’s, Dillons, Smith’s and City Market.
Prior to this week, company pharmacies were listing the drug for $7 for members of the Kroger Health Savings Club.
Prescription medication at the grocery chain is big business. In 2023, Kroger Pharmacies reported $14.5 billion in revenue.
Walmart’s Sam’s Club, along with CVS and Walgreens stores, have been making the abortion drug available for purchase.
So, what changed from last week to this week for Kroger?
It’s a bit curious.
Our friends at the Family Research Council reached out and received an email response from the company.
“The Kroger Company Family of Pharmacies do not carry Mifepristone, nor do we dispense it,” they wrote.
Only they were advertising the exact opposite. Pressed, Kroger replied:
“The Kroger Family of Pharmacies doesn’t carry Mifepristone and was listed on the Kroger Health Savings Club site in error.”
When Bernard “Barney” Kroger opened his first store in Cincinnati in 1883 with his life savings of $372, he led with a bold but simple motto:
“Be particular. Never sell anything you would not want yourself.”
The pioneering grocer was the first to have a bakery and butcher alongside other household staples. You could say he invented the modern-day supermarket.
As a teenager, Bernard was forced to work in a drug store after his father lost his job. As a member of a church-going family, the young Kroger quit, though, when it was demanded he had to work Sundays. Instead, he began selling tea door-to-door. This set-up allowed him to control his own hours and never miss church.
Barney would credit his believing mother with instilling in him a deep sense of self-discipline, which enabled him to manage and expand his burgeoning company. What might have come of Barney’s career if his mother hadn’t objected to him working on the Sabbath?
As a Christian, Kroger would never have authorized his grocery chain selling the abortion pill. Nor does selling such a drug designed to kill square with the company’s motto of never selling anything you don’t want for yourself.
Since Roe’s reversal in 2022, abortion zealots have been harassing and haranguing companies like Kroger to carry Mifepristone and badgering and bullying insurance companies to cover the deadly pills.
Kroger’s decision is the right, good and moral one, and should also be good for business. For those of us who don’t want to give our hard-earned money to companies that support abortion, we appear to have a friend in the mega grocer.
Don’t fall for the pretty packaging and empty rhetoric of retailers that champion radical policies that claim lives and harm women’s health. No company that supports abortion is family friendly.
Kroger’s new slogan, “Fresh for everyone,” is supposed to underscore the company’s many healthy offerings. But it’s also refreshing to see a major corporation refuse to buckle to the rotten forces undermining the sanctity and beauty of every life.
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