Kroger recently announced plans to close four stores where UFCW Local 400 members work, along with dozens of others around the country.
We’re collecting signatures on petitions to demand Kroger keep these stores open! Scroll down to add your name now!
The four stores include:
- Kroger #739 (2908 State St, Gassaway, WV 26624) – Closing August 22, 2025
- Kroger #239 (1904 Emmett Street, Charlottesville, Va 22901) – Closing August 22, 2025
- Kroger #255 (466 South Cummings Street, Abingdon, Va 24210) – Closing September 19, 2025
- Kroger #328 (1664 East Stone Drive, Kingsport, Tn 37660) – Closing September 19, 2025
Our communities rely on Kroger to provide fresh groceries and good union jobs. If these stores close, our customers will have fewer choices of where to shop and what to buy. Our members will be forced to transfer to other stores or risk losing their livelihoods. And our communities will be left with fewer good, union job opportunities.
This is all part of a corporate plan to shut down stores across the country in order to provide Wall Street investors with – in Kroger’s words – a “modest financial benefit.” They’re abandoning our communities just so shareholders can make an extra buck. After investing billions of dollars in buying its own stock to inflate its share price, and paying millions in legal fees for a doomed merger with Albertsons, plus millions more in compensation for corporate executives, Kroger is forcing hard-working store associates and the customers who depend on us to pay the price for their decisions.
As the union of Kroger workers, we won’t take this sitting down. Add your name to our petitions and demand Kroger stay open!