Need something to make for dinner, but you don’t pass a grocery store on your way home from work? Need to pick up a prescription but don’t want to have to make a separate stop for groceries? The country’s largest supermarket chain and one of the largest drug store chains think they have the solution.

Kroger and Walgreens this morning announced a new pilot program in which several Walgreens locations will feature a Kroger store-within-a-store, offering everything from fresh food to frozen and packaged products, to meal kits. “Kroger Express” is already up and running in a Walgreens location in Florence, Kentucky, and a dozen more will open in the new year in various Northern Kentucky Walgreens stores, just over the Ohio River from Kroger’s Cincinnati headquarters.

Kroger Express is an expansion of a pilot partnership first launched in October. That’s when the same 13 Northern Kentucky stores began offering what Kroger and Walgreens promoted as “one-stop shopping”, albeit in a more modest form. The initial announcement said that various Kroger-branded items would be available inside the Walgreens stores, which would also serve as alternate pickup locations for Kroger shoppers who ordered their groceries online. Entire Coupons in the News article here.