Ralphs Grocery Co. has lowered prices on thousands of staples in what it said was a response to rising food and gasoline prices facing its Southern California consumers. But it's also an apparently company-wide strategy across many Kroger units to gain market share. How much louder is the "value" message resonating these days?

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