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The Ohio-based supermarket chain is asking customers to refrain from openly carrying firearms in its retail locations. The request was made hours after Walmart made a similar request.

Fox News reported:

“Kroger is respectfully asking that customers no longer openly carry firearms into our stores, other than authorized law enforcement officers,” Jessica Adelman, group vice president of corporate affairs, said in a statement.