Item 16. FORM 10-K SUMMARY

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Not Applicable.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.


	THE KROGER CO.

Dated: April 1, 2020	/s/ W. Rodney McMullen
	W. Rodney McMullen
	Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
	(principal executive officer)

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Company and in the capacities indicated on the 1st April 2020.


/s/ Gary Millerchip		Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Gary Millerchip		(principal financial officer)

/s/ Todd A. Foley		Vice President & Corporate Controller
Todd A Foley		(principal accounting officer)

*		Director
Nora A. Aufreiter
*		Director
Anne Gates
*		Director
Susan J. Kropf
*		Director
Karen Hoguet
*		Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
W. Rodney McMullen
*		Director
Jorge P. Montoya
*		Director
Clyde R. Moore
*		Director
James A. Runde
*		Director
Ronald L. Sargent
*		Director
Bobby S. Shackouls
*		Director
Mark S. Sutton
*		Director
Ashok Vemuri

* By:	/s/ Christine S. Wheatley
	Christine S. Wheatley
	Attorney-in-fact

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