Kroger, the largest grocer in America, is transforming its retail experience to meet growing customer demand for omnichannel shopping. The company's data architecture plays a crucial role in this transformation, requiring flexibility and scalability to support new experiences such as curbside pickup and at-home delivery. To achieve this, Kroger has adopted an open source database called YugabyteDB, which provides a transactional distributed SQL database built for resilience and scale. This allows the company to integrate with legacy systems while serving data quickly to customers. Kroger's journey to the cloud also enabled scalability and flexibility, enabling the business to run applications on multiple clouds such as Azure, GCP, and on-prem. The adoption of YugabyteDB has been instrumental in powering Kroger's shopping cart application and search functionality, and the company is now looking to innovate in other layers such as analytics and search capabilities.