CINCINNATI -- The Kroger Co., the nation's largest traditional grocery retailer, has expanded its ATM management services agreement with Cardtronics Inc., the world's largest retail ATM owner. Building on a 2010 agreement with Kroger, Cardtronics has added 350 ATMs to both its retail ATM footprint and Kroger relationship, with such additions occurring in Ralphs, Food 4 Less and Foods Co. grocery stores in California and Nevada, as well as Tom Thumb convenience stores in Florida and Alabama.
As the largest single provider of ATM services to the Kroger family of stores, Cardtronics [image-nocss] now manages ATMs in more than 1,150 Kroger-owned grocery and c-stores, with that total spread across 32 states and 13 of Kroger Co.'s local banner names.
The stores are Kroger, Dillons, Food 4 Less, Foods Co., Fred Meyer, Gerbes, JayC Food
Stores, Kwik Shop, Loaf 'N Jug, Quik Stop, Ralphs, Smith's and Tom Thumb.
"Within a year of establishing an ATM services relationship with Cardtronics, Kroger has elected to extend our ATM management services across a wider cross-section of its family of well-known grocery and convenience store chains," said Rick Updyke, president of the U.S. Business Group at Cardtronics. "With Cardtronics' size, scale and coast-to-coast service coverage, we've made it logistically and financially prudent for Kroger to consolidate multiple ATM service provider relationships with us."
Houston-based Cardtronics is the world's largest retail ATM owner. It operates more than 37,100 ATMs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico and the Caribbean, primarily with retailers such as 7-Eleven, Chevron, Costco, CVS/pharmacy, ExxonMobil, Hess, Rite Aid, Safeway, Target and Walgreens. Cardtronics also assists in the operation of approximately 4,300 ATMs under managed services contracts with customers such as Kroger, Travelex,and Circle K. In addition to its retail ATM operations, the company provides services to large and small banks, credit unions and prepaid card issuers, allowing them to place their brands on 14,900 Cardtronics' ATMs and providing surcharge-free access through Cardtronics' Allpoint Network.
Cincinnati-based Kroger is the nation's largest traditional grocery retailer, with 2,470 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 31 states under two-dozen local banners, including Kroger, City Market, Dillons, Jay C, Food 4 Less, Fred Meyer, Fry's, King Soopers, QFC, Ralphs and Smith's. The company also operates 909 supermarket fuel centers and 784 convenience stores in the United States. The c-stores are in 16 states: Loaf 'N Jug in Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming; Turkey Hill Minit Markets in Pennsylvania; Crestview, Fla.-based Tom Thumb Food Stores in Florida and Alabama; Kwik Shop in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska; and Quik Stop Markets in California and Nevada.
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