Kroger Co. is getting a new competitor from an unlikely source.
Fast-food chicken restaurant Chick-Fil-A plans to test meal kits in Atlanta, where the chain is based, beginning next month.
Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR), the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, has made big moves into the meal kit business over the past year.
It agreed in May to invest $700 million in the concept by buying Home Chef, the Chicago-based company that’s the U.S.’s largest private meal…