NATION IN BRIEF
DAYTON, Ohio -- Two competing grocery stores have been creating traffic jams with an old-fashioned gas war -- and old-fashioned prices, as low as a dime a gallon.</br></br>Kroger Co., the nation's largest grocery chain, opened a new store on Thursday about a quarter-mile from a Meijer store. Both stores, as part of a growing trend toward one-stop shopping, have gas pumps outside.</br></br>The price war began heating up within a few hours of the Kroger store's opening. As soon as one station dropped its price, the other countered with a lower price.</br></br>"You have to take advantage of it while you can," Matt Harris said. "Gas may never be this cheap again."</br></br>On Friday morning, the price of gasoline at the Meijer was back up to $1.12 a gallon. But by noon, it was down to 71 cents a gallon, and it fell to 51 cents by early evening.