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(105,036 posts) Fri Mar 21, 2025, 12:10 PM Mar 21

America's Top Grocery Chain Laying Off Employees Left and Right [View all]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/america-s-top-grocery-chain-laying-off-employees-left-and-right/ar-AA1Boajf

Story by Evan Paul • 3h

There are some major changes brewing at Kroger. The grocery chain laid off employees in February and just issued another round of roughly 200 layoffs this week.

According to Supermarket News, Kroger has gone for a second round of layoffs, confirming to the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper that they let go of more corporate workers and members of their data analysis and engineering teams.

But if Kroger is the No. 1 grocery-only chain America — they employ more than 400,000 people — why are they making such drastic cuts across the board in 2025?

Kroger says that the layoffs are part of an “efficiency” drive to better serve customers.

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America's Top Grocery Chain Laying Off Employees Left and Right [View all] Omaha Steve Mar 21 OP

Liars atreides1 Mar 21 #1

Maybe they have learned something that most corporations do not learn. Corporate workers do not make the money LiberalArkie Mar 21 #2

Agreed MichMan Mar 21 #5

Right, that's why you couldn't find a cashier at Kroger for 2 years. louis-t Mar 21 #8

The cuts they made were described in the OP MichMan Mar 21 #12

200 out of 400,000 doesn't seem like drastic cuts MichMan Mar 21 #3

Oh, well, then it's okay! At least they aren't adding staff. AllyCat Mar 21 #11

Judging by the second paragraph there, this is almost certainly because of AI. But most companies highplainsdem Mar 21 #4

Yup, a lot of that going on.... getagrip_already Mar 21 #7

Ah yes, that old "better serve customers" routine. louis-t Mar 21 #6

MBAs are killing businesses. multigraincracker Mar 21 #9

We avoid our local Kroger store like the plague. AllyCat Mar 21 #10