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Speaker 2: Let's move over to talk a little bit about food.

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Speaker 2: I love to talk about food here, and we're talking

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Speaker 2: about the grocery.

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Speaker 3: Industry is growing.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I need too, So this is very timely here.

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Speaker 2: But apparently we're seeing through Kroger's results here that it's

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Speaker 2: attracting value seeking customers who are now opting to eat

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Speaker 2: clearly the street likes what Kroger has to say here.

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Speaker 2: We're seeing shares that are up as much as four

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Speaker 2: point two percent in trading today, now trading about one

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Speaker 2: point five percent higher. It's really been a great year

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Speaker 2: for Kroger. They're up about eleven percent year to date.

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Speaker 2: But we are joined by somebody who's able to break

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Speaker 2: Bartash's She has Bloomberg intelligenc Andior analysts of retail staples

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Speaker 2: and packaged food here to break down these earnings for us. Jen,

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Speaker 2: talk to us about what you're seeing from this report.

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Speaker 2: Are people apparently cooking more well?

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Speaker 4: It would it would appear so, especially with middle and

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Speaker 4: it's just self induced. People are trying to live healthier

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Speaker 5: So when you look at comparable sales, Coger's saying that

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Speaker 5: move higher. Jen, what does Kroger's future look like overall?

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Speaker 5: Because not so long ago it was trying to get

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Speaker 2: I want to move on to a conversation in the

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Speaker 2: consumer space. Let's talk about CBS and ALTA and how

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Speaker 2: they can spur growth by connecting wellness with beauty. We're

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Speaker 6: Hi, Nora, thanks for having me. The wellness market is huge,

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Speaker 6: four hundred to five hundred billion dollars at least, that's

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Speaker 5: Let me ask an obvious question, lindsay, what is the

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