The Kroger Company is an American retailer founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the country's largest supermarket chain by revenue ($103,033,000,000 for 2014), second-largest general retailer (behind Walmart), and twenty-third largest company. Kroger is also the fifth largest retailer in the world. , Kroger operates, either directly or through its subsidiaries, 2,620 supermarkets and multi-department stores. Kroger's headquarters are in downtown Cincinnati. It maintains markets in 34 states, with store formats that include supermarkets, superstores, department stores, 786 convenience stores, and 326 jewelry stores. Kroger-branded grocery stores are located throughout the Midwestern and Southern United States. Kroger operates 37 food processing or manufacturing facilities, 1,360 supermarket fuel centers and 2,122 pharmacies.

Kröger or Kroeger is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adolph Ernst Kroeger (1837–1882), American translator
• Arthur Kroeger (1932–2008), Canadian academic and civil servant
• Bernd J. Kröger (born 1959), German phonetician and professor
• Berry Kroeger (1912–1991), American actor
• Catherine Clark Kroeger (1925–2011), American writer
• Chad Kroeger (born 1974), Canadian musician, lead vocalist and guitarist of Nickelback
• Erhard Kroeger (1905–1987), German SS officer
• Ernst R. Kroeger (1862–1934), American composer
• Gary Kroeger (born 1957), American actor, former cast member of Saturday Night Live
• Henry Kroeger (1917–1987), Canadian politician
• Herman Kroeger (1831–??), politician from Wisconsin
• Josh Kroeger (born 1982), American baseball player
• Jürgen Kröger (1856–1928), German architect
• Karl Kroeger (born 1932), American composer and music professor
• Matthias Kröger (born 1969), German motorcycle racer
• Meike Kröger (born 1986), German track and field athlete
• Uwe Kröger (born 1964), German musician
• Wolfgang Kröger, professor