it not fair. >> reporter: kroger says the extra $5 for l.a.'t for the workers, if it wasn't for all of us, he would not be making $21 million. >> reporter: he's talking about the kroger ceo whose salary in 2019 was $21.1 million while his workers average 27,000. that's almost 800 times what his workers make on average. mcmullin and s&p 500 ceos made more money on average during the pandemic than before. data from my logic shows in 2020 while the u.s. hit record unemployment, ceos got paid about $14 million, an 11.5 increase from 2019. pay com software paid its ceo 3,000 times more than the average worker. general electric about 1400 times more. starbucks, 1200 times more. while workers say ceos certainly have tough jobs, they're not the ones that put their lives on the line working during the pandemic. she still fears bringing covid home from work and infecting her young children. grocery workers nationwide have died from covid. she wishes her ceo would think about that more. >> maybe he can put his hand on his heart and think a little bit abo

matt: if i look at the stock prices of kroger, i grew up in ohio, so i went to kroger for everything.are doing fantastically well. investors are betting on these supermarkets, on the other hand, restaurants start reopening and more people get vaccines, i think a lot of people are going to go back to eating out, maybe not as much as they used to. but certainly more than they did in january. how does -- how is that going to affect business? lindsey: we are watching that to see how it is going to affect our business. the truth is, we believe there has been to some degree a culture shift. we have become less of an eating culture and bar of a cooking culture. we think to some degree that trend will continue. of course the opportunity to be out and about and attending restaurants and other events away from home are things we will engage in. but the truth is our customers tell us they have enjoyed being able to be home and learning to cook. while we are certainly not expecting the kind of business we have had over the course of the past year, we are certainly expecting that we will continue

in town, and after previously having worked at the texas roadhouse, now at the kroger and also townauditor and recovering huge local tax fraud by his predecessor on the job and brings his town a lot more money this way a and all these plans for the town. i find such hope in these people, and that's why i actually love reporting, is that you always are going to find these people, and that's why i actually don't get too down about all this, because you actually need the people and see the lying in -- the light in them and the spirit, and that is completely restorative and really is what keeps me going, and what fuels know find even more of those people. >> fantastic. great note tend to only. i'm going to turn it over to town hall to take out. thank you for staying up late with is, alec macgillis. >> thank you both so much with appreciate you spending this evening with us and talking with us, interesting topic. and also thank you to everyone who is watching from home. if you'd like to pick up a copy of the book, please do so through our book store partners third place book, there's a r

you go to kroger and buy -- show an id. you go to kroger and buy a lighter, you have to show an id. why is it so hard for the american people to understand that id is not impossible to achieve and have? [indiscernible] the only thing we have to control our government. [indiscernible] out-of-state people and illegal aliens, they can vote if they have got an id which they can buy at some of the patrol officers. host: is that happening? caller: voter fraud is extremely rare. jason is a clever guy and knows our elections are safe, secure, and accessible. conservatives say the quiet part out loud and admit they cannot win if too many people vote. two weeks in oral arguments before the supreme court on march 2, an attorney for the republican party offered a reason for the voting restrictions and said the measures would disadvantage republicans. last june, then president trump said the biggest risk to his reelection was mail-in voting. they quietly -- say the quiet part out loud and admit the real motivations for this voter id justification. host: jason, a viewer from colorado says he prim

a lot of people in texas are still wearing masks and a lot of businesses such as target, walmart, krogerre still requiring people to wear masks when they walked in. so it's hard to simply say, hey, there's no masks and cases are going down. >>> as for people looking to travel overseas, don't get your hopes up. the state department is expanding its do not travel guidance to 80% of all countries due to covid. >>> time now for a look at your tuesday weather. >>> the snow that created a real mess for denver's afternoon commute finally lets up today. the spring storm brought up to two inches of snow per hour. denver got up to 6 inches and higher elevations saw more than that. and while that snow ends today, there is more in the forecast for tomorrow. checking today's high temperatures, denver climbs to 40 degrees after near record cold temperatures this morning. 40s around the great lakes. 70s from the gulf coast up to new england. >>> coming up, a potential move by the courthouse to change how cigarettes are made. >>> but first the effort to save a child who fell on the tracks just as the tr

there at the same time kiev accuses moscow of increasing its military presence near the border the kroger responded by stating it can do what it wants within its own boundaries. c.n.n. has now deleted the photograph of the tanks from its website the video report can still be found online we have contacted the network asking for comment legal and media analyst lionel lopes says it's likely c.n.n. will turn a blind eye to the mistake. it's pathetic it is journalistic malpractise nonfeasance misfeasance there is no excuse to get the the only innocent 2 parties to get them correct i mean this is the they should be if this was the real world they should be horrified heads should roll but you know what's going to happen. nobody cares you know why and this is very interesting because it's c.n.n. is there ineptitude is there excuse it's there they're kevil are there they're there i guess their immunity if they're getting that wrong something a vat grave nature think of the little things they're getting wrong that they're paying absolutely no way tension to. japan is to dump contaminated radio on

look at these things, kroger has a 375,000 square-foot facility in ohio.the fulfillment facility can pick a 50 item order in 5 minutes. much faster than a human would. even the best worker. kroger doubling down on these warehouses the cost $50 million, planning to double the company's $10 billion, $10 billion in digital sales by 2023. we talked about this a lot, the online battle, the digital battle between the major grocery chains is revving up, to see the technology being used. stuart: those robots absolutely remarkable. that is what is happening. now this, people are waiting weeks and in some cases months furniture deliveries, grady trimble at the hickory chair furniture company manufacturing facility in north carolina. what is the hold up? >> they don't have the supplies they need, not nearly enough of them. this is the furniture capital of the world, the supplies come from all over the country and all over the world and don't have enough of them. the cost of wood has gone up, the cost of metal has gone up in the biggest shortage they are dealing with

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i'm an assistant manager for kroger. i work for kroger.re are a half-million people who work for kroger. all of our subsidiaries, we have a lot of people. we deal with a lot of drug addicts coming in. how is raising the minimum wage for drug addicted people who aren't working right now, how is raising the minimum wage going to change anything? host: give us a sense of what crime is or the level of concern you have over crime there where you live area -- where you live? caller: you can take the guns away. take away all the ammunition. people are still going to find something to hurt somebody with if that is their intent. you can kill somebody with a cup , a plate, or a butter knife. what are we going to do? just move the plastics? host: if it's not an economic issue, what do you think is the resolve? caller: the problem is get the democrats out of control of the cities. st. louis has not had a republican mayor since 1949. you tell me. host: what does a person in a certain political party do to change that? caller: it's not a matter of a pol

. -- the grocery store kroger offering employees $100 to get vaccinated, increasing vaccinations amongs. patty young owns a hair salon in springfield, ohio. she is also dedicated to getting customers and employees vaccinated. when they leave the saloon -- the salon -- they may be going to the saloon, i don't know -- but when they leave the salon, the receptionist helps sign you and your family up to get a covid vaccine. they have scheduled more than 200 shot so far. businesses and employers like patty should be supported for doing the right thing, so to make sure this policy comes at no cost to small or medium-sized businesses, fewer than 500 employees, the irs is posting instructions for how employers can get reimbursed for the cost of providing paid leave for employees to get vaccinated and recover from the side effects if they have any. that reimbursement, which come through a tax payment, is thanks to a program i launched in the american rescue plan. so again, every employee can get paid leave to get a shot and businesses should know that they can provide it without a hit to their

names like dollar general, kroger, cvs, wall greens those are staples names but names that were playedmic trade as beneficiaries of the pandemic, essential retailers allowed to keep their doors open during the early pretty scary days. and amazon, we talk about it all the time it's the company that changed retail and other industries forever it's actually within the top 15 laggards for retailers over the last 12 months it's still up 40% in a year. and take a look at some of these p/e rations. kroger's forward 12-month pe about 13 times looking relatively cheap when you look at the overall market maybe it's time to revisit some of these early pandemic plays as time to go in. again as opposed to some of the other names that seem more obvious when we're talking about the denim trade so much with a levi or an american eagle, for example. >> mom jeans i'm not for it i realize that's the fashion now, but i'm just -- i'm just holding off on it. i'm already a suburban soccer mom. i don't like the mom jeans >> i am too. >> i don't think those are flattering >> as we head to a quick break, a look

you go to kroger and buy -- show an id. you go to kroger and buy a lighter, you have to show an id.hy is it so hard for the american people to understand that id is not impossible to achieve and have? [indiscernible] the only thing we have to control our government. [indiscernible] out-of-state people and illegal aliens, they can vote if they have got an id which they can buy at some of the patrol officers. host: is that happening? caller: voter fraud is extremely rare. jason is a clever guy and knows our elections are safe, secure, and accessible. conservatives say the quiet part out loud and admit they cannot win if too many people vote. two weeks in oral arguments before the supreme court on march 2, an attorney for the republican party offered a reason for the voting restrictions and said the measures would disadvantage republicans. last june, then president trump said the biggest risk to his reelection was mail-in voting. they quietly -- say the quiet part out loud and admit the real motivations for this voter id justification. host: jason, a viewer from colorado says he primar

. >> caller: my question is about kroger i'm up 25% in the stock over the last three months. coupled with the dividends the company paid and the recent announcement from the investor day, do you think -- >> i thought that -- i thought that rodney did a great job on the investment day i thought he had a lot of great things to say and what i was struck by is how little the analysts believed in what he had to say i'm with you doing a good job i like the presentation and i like the stock i find the supermarkets are questionable, questionable investment i need to go to jill in massachusetts, jill? >> caller: hi, jim thanks for taking my call. my husband george and i love your show. >> thank you thank you, jill. >> caller: you're very welcome awhile back you had on the ceo of bill.com. i really liked his story and bought a small position but the stock is mostly been on a downward trend since february. do you think it's a buy, sell or hold >> it just became one of those stocks people decided on mass that it was too expensive. i look at their product and look at it as a way to play t

the grocery store kroger's offered employees $100 to get vaccinated.shed the vaccination rates from 50% to 75% among their associates. patty young owns a hair salon in springfield, ohio. she's also dedicated to getting her customers and employees vaccinated, that when they leave the salon, re -- the saloon? maybe they're going to a saloon, i don't know, but when they leave the salon -- [ laughter ] -- the receptionist helps sign you our your family up a covid vaccine and where to get it. they have scheduled more than 200 shots so far. businesses and employers like patty should be supported for doing the right thing. so to make sure this policy comes at no cost to small or medium-sized businesses, with fewer than 500 employees, the i.r.s. is posting instructions for how employers can get reimbursed for the cost of providing paid leave to the employees to get vaccinated and recover from the side effects, if they have any. that reimbursement, which comes through a tax payment, is thanks to the program i launched in the american rescue plan. so, again, eve

and puerto rico are pausing the vaccine so the department of defense, walgreens, cvs and kroger's are among the national pharmacies that will pause j&j as well. so you might as well view it as a pause nationwide. australia already canceled plans to buy doses of the only one-shot vaccine on the market. this is what makes this potentially so devastating globally. johnson & johnson announced today it is delaying its own vaccine rollout in europe. so let's try to understand what happened. joining me now is dr. ka vida patel, former health care director of the obama administration and also with me rehema ellis, at the javits center, and they had to abruptly stop administering j&j's vaccine today and move to another one. thank you both for being here. rehema, i want to start with you before i get to dr. patel and the science today. i think the concern is perception in some points as much as reality. the perception of the j&j vaccine when you talk to people today, did it have people nervous? did it have them upset? did it have them patient? what did you come across? >> chuck, what i came acr

edge by central also found that e-commerce will account for 29% of us retail chain sales by 2025 kroger, by the way, slated to hold on to that 3rd spot as the largest retailer. it will pretty and building the new world's largest cruise ship. it's called the wonder of the see the ship will begin sailing from shanghai and hong kong beginning in march. it's 1200 feet long. 200, 15 feet wide. 236,000 tons and can accommodate almost 7,000 people overnight. the cdc says the cruise lines may be able to resume sailings in july from us ports. but it depends on passengers and crews being vaccinated. it's been a difficult year for students and teachers and parents as they've all that quickly technology. so that's why warren green felt it. say it now it's working with facebook messenger to allow people to record a message of gratitude to a teacher or anybody that has had an impact on their life. >> i took a yearlong journey to express gratitude to people have been important in my life and i learned the power that comes from doing that. >> teacher appreciation day is may 4th. you can find out more a

announcing it has expanded its food offeringsing in multiple retailers including target, albertson's and krogere headed to the public market. reuters reporting that the faux meat maker is exploring a potential ipo or spac deal in the next 12 months that could see the company valued at right around $10 billion. that's at lot of meatballs. >>> a booming year for e-commerce, by the way, means a lot of boxes being sent out as everyone orders everything online which is now translating boo record high prices for corrugated packaging which is a fancy term for a cardboard box. companies are now finding out they're worth, well, their weight in gold. so the question is, will consumers pay the price? jeff flock joins us live from elkhart, indiana, next to a huge roll of paper. jeff. [laughter] >> reporter: don't we always pay the price, ashley, somehow in the end? yes, giant rolls of the paper that makes -- and you're absolutely right. if you were here, they would love you, because you can't call it cardboard. it's corrugated material. those big rolls weigh about six tons, go into that machine behind it.

orb that's just going to sit there empty and inevitably cause traffic delays "honey, i'm going to kroger'sme milk. i'll back in about two hours - the road leads to nowhere. i got to go around the giant orb. what do you mean which giant orb? the foxconn orb. turn off the hair dryer if you want to have this conversation." so, as biden talks up his infrastructure plan which would raise corporate taxes in order to make direct investments and workers to build things we actually need, the foxconn scam is a cautionary tale about what republicans would have us do with that money instead. they want to shovel handouts to giant corporations already flush with cash. and all the while they are ludicrously trying to rebrand themselves as a party of pro-work populists say what you will about a scam like this but one thing's for sure >> they wouldn't have done it here except that i became president. >> seth: this has been "a closer look." ♪ we'll be right back with elisabeth moss ♪ >> announcer: for more of seth's "closer looks," be sure to subscribe to "late night" on youtube. weakness or discomfort in y

. >> alternative to the vaccine mandate is what kroger grocery store did, offer bonuses for those, the proactive way. major league baseball is trying to say, hey, you want your privileges to play cards again, get to 85% vaccination as a team. are there some of those methods that may be even government can use -- even the government can use? i remember not being in school when i was in the second grade because they didn't have the exact data when i got vaccinated for certain vaccines. i know public schools can make this mandate. >> indeed, whether they can before a formal approval, i'm not sure. but for diseases a lot less threatening for this one. i know people don't like mandates, and believe me, i hear about this all of the time. that invades people's liberties. but when you're thinking about public health and how to save lives, you got to think about all of the things that can get us there as quickly as possible. we don't want this virus running wild for months to come. as you said in the opening, that's how other variants appear and those variants might ultimately make the vaccine

the grocery store kroger is offering employees $100 to get vaccinated. among their associates. patty young owns a hair salon in springfield, ohio. she's also dedicated to getting her employees vaccinated, that when they leave the salon -- the saloon, the salon. they're maybe going to the saloon, i don't know, but when they leave the salon, the receptionist helps sign you or your family up to get a covid vaccine and where to get it. they've scheduled more than 200 shots so far. businesses and employers like patty should be supported for doing the right thing. so to make sure this policy comes at no cost to small or medium-sized businesses with fewer than 500 employees, the irs is posting instructions for how employers can get reimbursed for the cost of providing paid leave for their employees to get vaccinated and recover from the side effects if they have any. that reimbursement, which comes through a tax payment, is thanks to the program i launched in the american rescue plan. so, again, every employee should get paid leave to get a shot, and businesses

. >> target, kroger's, chico's, all the retail. i have waitressing background.ings where you're on the treadmill. just trying to really literally make ends meet. >> reporter: she now lives on the road, hawks inspirational cards online, has posted hundreds of videos to her youtube channel, up to nearly 30,000 subscribers. >> i'm thinking more people are feeling stuck right now and making a plan when they can that leave the traditional lifestyle. >> reporter: how's your youtube channel doing in terms of income? >> income has has really, it has exploded over the last couple months. i was averaging you know, $600 a month and i'm over two grand for this month. >> reporter: steve turtle gives his youtube followers the down and dirty on “workamping”-- working seasonal jobs while camping, that is. >> i'm gonna show you how i clean toilets. that's how you clean a south carolina toilet right there! >> reporter: turtle's been hamming it up for over two years. >> and youtube rewards you for people watching your videos and the commercial. >> reporter: carol meeks has a youtu

kroger shuts down two grocery stores in southern california over hero pay.rdnance was passed in long beach earlier this year and requires workers to pay an extra $4 an hour during the pandemic. workers who have a higher risk of getting covid-19 deserved higher wages. kroger says the two stores were underperforming and that the ordinance made impossible to keep open. up, up and away. nasa controlled the flight on the red planet with the ingenuity helicopter. the first flight was a 30 second spin up. mars perseverance rover. the small aircraft equipped with computers, navigation, censors and cameras. that is a look at your headlines. send it back to you. brian: that is nothing short of amazing. fantastic. '. ainsley: thank you so much, jillian. don't blame her for doing a bad job. chicago's mayor lori lightfoot says rumors that she is resigning are racist. plus the city of nashville lighting up as country music stars taking center stage at the academy of country music awards. here is thomas rhett performing last night ♪ everybody got a small town anthem ♪ ever

kroger said we thought each men an angel and a giant one at that.ey were massive compared to our malnourished men in camp. now several priests fell to their knees in prayer which caused one paratrooper to touch one of the pre-shoulders and said come on, father. let's get the hell out of here. another trooper was surprised when he rushed into the barracks and a woman asked if he was a marine he said hell, no, i'm a paratrooper. and then she replied with disappointment all my days at los banos. i have dreamed of being rescued by a marine and you're not a marine. course he helped her anyway. another internee cried out. it's been a long time we have waited for just such hollywood american stuff. well stories like these abound but it wasn't long after that. somebody shouted japanese tanks, which of course got every raiders attention, but luckily it was just the amtraks which had finally arrived carrying the bulk of first battalion which which unloaded to help the internees get moving, but the former prisoners were a little busy they were they were celebr

when i go to walmart or kroger, i vote on what i want. is the consumer driven capitalist way when we vote in the economy. when the government doesn't, bernie sanders decides. the one thing we have to know if we're concerned about carbon footprint, one sort of industrial decision has accounted for more reduction in carbon than any decision in the history of this movement. that is fracking. so they're against the one thing that actually has reduced the carbon footprint. we converted to natural gas, we reduced the carbon footprint. almost entirely from fracking that every democrat speaks out against. so let's be honest about this. if you really want to lower carbon front print, you have to be for more fracking and introducing it around the world. instead they're trying to stop it. >> sandra: i want to get to maxine waters comments. some of your party have pushing to hold her accountable for what they said is incitement of violence. standing in brooklyn center saying "get confrontational." do you believe her purpose was to incite violence? >>

i'll say i love what krogers is doing. providing paid time off if you get both doses but zero dollars to get one dose. get the full 80 to $100 i believe it is with two doses and show documentation of that. i think we need more incentives. >> i want to ask you about something you have been talking about on this show for many, many, many, many months and it is young people getting really, really sick with covid. this reporting in "the new york times." michigan's covid wards are filling up with young patients. it is now younger and middle-aged adults who are taking up the michigan hospital beds. a 37-year-old on a ventilator after giving birth. a 41-year-old father. we're so beat down said an intensive care nurse. quote every time we get a call or every time we hear another 40-year-old that we don't have a circuit for it is just like, you know, we can't save them all. are you surprised that we are here? that we have a vaccine available to all adults in this country and every state and in this hospital at least in michigan the

i saw the ceo of kroger saying he thought it would be one% to 2%, you may see as much is mid-single digitis private label replace the branded share. what consumers could do is trade down a little bit on the private label and look for details but buy in bulk or larger sizes which tend to be cheaper, maybe change the places they shop more to the discount stores and more traditional retailer, from a manufacturing standpoint, take pricing as much as you can depending on elasticity of the business but then start cutting costs and it gets painful. >> then your tax rate is going up or likely to go up and that is a double whammy for corporation. potentially an inflationary tie. >> there are a couple aspects of this. many food companies particularly those headquartered in the us are multinational companies and as a consequence of that they will get a double whammy with the changes being proposed about how you repatriate profits from international markets and the second thing gets past on to consumers, we talk about corporations being entities and it doesn't matter if you tax them but those costs a

the grocery store kroger's offered employees $100 to get vaccinated.ed getting her customers and employees vaccinated that when they leave the saloon, receptionist -- the saloon, the salon. maybe going to a saloon, i don't know -- [laughter] but when they leave the salon, the receptionist helps sign you or your family up to get a covid vaccine and where to get it. they've scheduled more than 200 shots so far. businesses and employers like patty should be supported for doing the right thing. so to make sure this policy comes at no cost to small or medium-sized businesses with fewer than 500 employees, the irs is posting instructions for how employers can get reimbursed for the cost of providing paid leave for employees who have been vaccinate and recover from side effects if they have any. that reimbursement, which comes through a tax payment, is thanks to a program i launched in the american rescue plan. so again, every employee should get paid leave to get a shot. and businesses should know that they can provide it without there is no excuse for not g

grocery store kroger's offered to employees $100 to get vaccinated, it pushed the vaccination rates from75% among associates. patti young bones eight hair salon in springfield, ohio, she is she is dedicated to getting her employees vaccinated. when the leave -- when they leave the salon, the receptionist helps sign you or your family up to get a covid vaccine. and where to get it. they have scheduled more than 200 shots. businesses and employers like patty should be supported for doing the right thing. to make sure this comes at no cost to small or medium-size businesses with your than 500 employees, the irs is posting instructions for how employers can get reimbursed for providing paid leave for employees to get vaccinated or recovered from the side effects. that reimbursement which comes from a tax payment is thanks to a program i learned in the american rescue plan. -- i launched in the american rescue plan. every american should get paid leave to get a shot. businesses should know that they can provide it without a hit to their bottom line. there is no excuse. host: even with a numbe

as the state weekly positive cases are lower than 10% latest state to list restrictions, walmart kroger- we are inching back toward normalization what do you say to skeptics who say no, no, no it is too soon even president biden saying yesterday we want to reinstate any mask mandates that were taken down. >> thank you, maria, and you are right, bit by bit we are opening up actually never shut down our economy in arkansas, but all the restrictions, on businesses are off, we are open. and i told ouro arkansans a month ago if we met certainly criteria the we had low cases reduced hospitalization we would lift the mask mandate all of those goals were met, we lifted it but, as you said, now you have, independent decisions private sector can continue to require masks in their restaurant the hospitals can cities have authority if they sea cases go up to act as well this is a step forward in getting more back to normal as we get our vaccinations out which is going very, very well. and we want to be able in the fall, to have razor back stadium and our other athletics venues at full capacity we'v