In 1983, The Kroger Company gained Dillon Companies basic need chain in Kansas alongside its auxiliaries (King Soopers, City Market, Fry's and Gerbes) and the comfort store chain Kwik Shop. David Dillon, a fourth-age relative of J. S. Dillon, the originator of Dillon Companies, turned into the CEO of Kroger.

In northeastern Ohio, Kroger had a plant in Solon, Ohio, which is a suburb of Cleveland, until the mid-1980s. At the point when that plant close down because of high nearby Union work costs,Kroger shut its northeastern Ohio stores in the Cleveland, Akron, and Youngstown regions. A portion of those previous Kroger stores were assumed control by stores like Acme Fresh Markets, Giant Eagle, and Heinens.

Kroger opened and had around 50 stores in St. Louis until the point when it exited the market in 1986, saying that krogerfeedback.com its stores were unfruitful. A large portion of its stores were purchased by National, Schnucks, and Shop 'n Save.

Kroger likewise encountered a comparative withdrawal from Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1989. A significant number of these stores were sold to the nearby basic supply chain Red Food, which was thus purchased by BI-LO in 1994. Today, Chattanooga is the main metropolitan market in Tennessee in which Kroger does not work.

In the 1990s, Kroger gained Great Scott (Detroit), Pay Less Food Markets, Owen's Market, JayC Food Stores, and Hilander Foods. Furthermore, the Houston showcase was fortified when Kroger purchased a few stores from AppleTree Markets, which were previous Safeway stores in mid 1994.

In 1998, Kroger converged with the then fifth-biggest basic need organization Fred Meyer, alongside its auxiliaries, Ralphs, QFC, and Smith's.

In the late 1990s, it gained numerous stores from Super Fresh as it left numerous business sectors in the South.

Kroger additionally swapped every one of the ten of its Greensboro, North Carolina-territory stores in 1999 to Matthews, North Carolina-based Harris Teeter, for 11 of that organization's stores in focal and western Virginia. Kroger still keeps up a North Carolina nearness in the Raleigh-Durham territory. In the Raleigh-Durham region, Kroger shut its North Raleigh store in the Wakefield Commons strip mall on July 9, 2011, in light of the fact that the area neglected to meet deals desires. After the conclusion, Kroger will work 16 stores in the Triangle. Kroger had a store in Greenville from the 1980s until the point when 2010 when it sold it to Harris Teeter.A store in Wilson opened in 2002 yet shut two years after the fact.

Long the predominant merchant in western Virginia, Kroger entered the Richmond, Virginia, advertise in 2000, where it contends with showcase pioneers Martin's (counting previous Ukrop's stores) and Food Lion. Kroger entered the market by buying Hannaford stores that either as of now existed or were being worked in Richmond. Hannaford buys additionally incorporated the focused Hampton Roads advertise, where it currently contends with Farm Fresh, Harris Teeter (which is possessed by Kroger), and Food Lion.