Why Big Alcohol is Upset With Kroger Supermarkets

Kroger is shaking up the way it shelves alcohol, and the booze industry isn’t happy about it. The major grocery store chain plans to hire a private distributor to oversee how it distributes shelf space to alcohol brands, according to The Wall Street Journal. That distributer, Southern Wine & Spirits, would unseat big producers like Anheuser-Busch InBev, which serve as “category captains” that advise Kroger in its arrangement of brands on store shelves.