Kroger SVP Jabbar retires after 38 years.

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    "excerpt": "Kroger SVP Jabbar retires after 38 years.\n\nShare via:\n\nThe Kroger Co. has announced that Valerie Jabbar, SVP of retail divisions, retired in May after 38 years of service.\n\nJabbar began her career with Kroger's Fry's division in 1987 as a clerk. Over the decades, she held a range of leadership roles including assistant store director, category manager, drug/general manager coordinator, general office seasonal manager, assistant director of drug/general manager, director of drug/general manager and district manager in the Fry's Division.\n\nIn 2012, she relocated to the Mid-Atlantic Division in Virginia as VP of merchandising. The following year, she moved to the Ralphs Division in Southern California as VP of merchandising, and in 2016, she became division president of Ralphs. In 2018, Jabbar was promoted to group VP of center store merchandising at Kroger's Cincinnati headquarters, where she led center store teams for grocery and natural foods, adult beverage, general merchandise and health and beauty across Kroger's 2,700 stores nationwide. She served as an executive member of the merchandising leadership team, influencing strategy, planning, execution, staffing, sourcing, category management and budgeting. In 2021, she assumed her most recent role as SVP of retail divisions.\n\n\"Val's journey from store clerk to SVP is a testament to what's possible at Kroger,\" said Ron...",
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