Kroger Is Set to Close 60 Stores
Is your local store on the chopping block?
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Kroger shoppers, take note: The grocery chain is planning to close 60 stores — about five percent of its locations — over the next year and a half. Kroger, which is based in Cincinnati, currently has 1,239 U.S. stores across 16 states.
The forthcoming closures were announced in an earnings report shared by the company on Friday. In the report, Kroger said it anticipated a “modest financial benefit” as a result of the closures and that it was “committed to reinvesting these savings back into the customer experience.”
The company also said it would offer jobs at other Kroger locations to employees working at the stores pegged for closure.
So does that mean your local Kroger is on the chopping block? Should you start shopping around for a new place to shop?
Alas, Kroger isn’t yet saying which stores are slated to close or when — and has said it will not be releasing a list of anticipated closures anytime soon. However, media outlets around the country have tipped off their readers to local closures.
Fast Company has compiled some of these reports, even as it notes that these anticipated store shutterings may or may not be related to this new announcement.
USA Today is also offering a running list of stores “tapped for closure” in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
News of specific closures is also seeping out via labor unions’ social media accounts.
“This morning, Kroger informed UFCW Local 700 that Store #915 in Elkhart, Ind. and Store #901 in South Bend, Ind. are among those impacted and are scheduled to close early August 2025,” UFCW Local 700, which represents grocery store workers in Indiana, said Monday in a Facebook post. “Local 700 leadership has already reached out to Kroger to discuss the effects of these closures on our members. We are actively working to negotiate the terms of these changes, including potential reassignment opportunities to nearby stores and any necessary transportation arrangements.”
If your local store sticks around, perhaps you can take some comfort in Kroger’s concurrent indication that it plans to spend $3.6 billion to $3.8 billion on capital improvements, including renovations and expansions of existing stores and building new ones. So hey, there’s that.
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