Massive grocery chain closes more supermarkets, lays off 100s

Major supermarket chains, which person been battling big-box retailers, specified arsenic Walmart and Target, for the nation's market business, are closing underperforming stores, arsenic good arsenic fulfillment centers and warehouses that they nary longer need.

The Kroger Co. said it volition adjacent 3 store locations successful California successful March and laic disconnected 171 workers, according to WARN notices filed with the California Employment Development Department.

Kroger successful November 2025 besides closed 9 fulfillment centers crossed the state and eliminated astir 1,700 jobs. The company, which operates astir 2,700 supermarkets crossed 35 states and Washington, D.C., besides revealed successful June 2025 that it would adjacent 60 stores implicit 18 months.

Another large supermarket concatenation owner, Ahold Delhaize USA, said that its Giant Food and The Giant Company supermarket chains would adjacent six centralized e-commerce fulfillment centers located successful Pennsylvania and Virginia successful aboriginal 2026, arsenic the market chains modulation to a local, store-first fulfillment network.

Albertsons Companies Inc. has been closing stores arsenic well, arsenic it filed notices with the authorities of Texas and its employees, notifying them that it volition adjacent 2 North Texas supermarkets and laic disconnected 138 workers by April 25.

The Boise, Idaho-based supermarket concatenation filed Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification notices connected March 25 with the authorities for Store No. 4286 successful Fort Worth, Texas, and Store No. 106 successful Euless, Texas, asserting the stores volition close.

In the Euless notice, the institution said it informed employees connected March 9 that it would adjacent its 1155 N. Main Street store and laic disconnected 82 employees by April 25.

"On Monday, March 9, 2026, we had meetings to notify our associates of the closure of Albertsons Store No. 0106," the institution wrote successful the notice, WFAA-TV reported.

The Fort Worth announcement said the institution volition adjacent its store astatine 6700 W. Freeway and laic disconnected 52 workers connected oregon earlier April 25.

"Opportunities for continued employment astatine different institution locations are disposable and it is our intent to spot arsenic galore associates arsenic possible," the institution wrote successful the notice.

Albertsons closed 2 Tom Thumb market locations successful Plano and Allen, Texas, successful 2025, but besides opened a Tom Thumb store successful Denton, Texas, successful December 2025.

"In specified a competitory environment, the institution indispensable sometimes marque the pugnacious determination to adjacent an underperforming store portion reinvesting successful the remaining stores successful the marketplace," an Albertson's spokesperson told The Dallas Morning News.