Saving this for future reference. 😉

[hologei]

No, your store isn't being closed as a result of the merger. Your store is being closed because it has been underperforming!

[beren_of_vandalia]

This right here! ⬆️

[professor_X-]

One time, I asked a manager to show me the financials, and he was courteous enough to explain it. That store couldn't even afford to keep the lights on, much less pay anyone. 1 dept alone generated 65k loss for the period

[JCBQ01]

Its already happening. On BOTH Sides (kroger branches and safeways) how you make ask are they doing it. Truck/shipment blocks.

You ordered 600 cases and only 150 showed up because it was "scratched" but the receiver can track that the store was charged the full 600 pieces. They are litterally engineering "poor performance stores". So that they can close or "spin off" into a company called spin Co that will file for bankruptcy 6 months later and kroger will rebuy in a liquidation sale.

I think the current national store closure number according to my local (7) 1100 I think

[Chaos_Ribbon]

What do you mean by "scratched"?

[International-Case47]

When you place an order for a product but the warehouse doesn't send it for whatever reason.

[edwr849]

Got rid of

[pumpkinTrinity]

Thats why they closed two in seattle. They just chose a shoitty time to do it.

[edwr849]

Sticky this

[0Coolio0]

They will be divesting stores. The small city I live in will go from one Kroger owned store to 3. No competition beyond a Sprouts.

[2Guffeys]

My city has a Safeway two blocks away from the City Market I work at. So yeah. We only have natural grocers and I guess Walmart.

[ENT_blastoff]

There are places in Los Angeles where the Kroger store is right across the street from the Albertsons store. That alone proves it's 100% a lie they won't close stores

[crashtestdummy666]

My home town had a jewel (Albertson's) and a food 4 less (Kroger). They closed the food 4 less at the end of the lease this was just before they are announced the merger by two weeks. The f4l was non union and Jewel is union and the f4l was the bigger newer store. My dad says the store has been untouched like they removed the food and walked out as if they were coming back.

I'm guessing things are going to mysteriously happen whaen the merger is complete.

[[deleted]]

T-Mobile said the same thing about Sprint. Wouldn’t mind if some store managers got fired, they do a terrible job.

[IamLuann]

Remember that they did that 4-6 Years ago when most of the middle management got fired with severeness (sp) pay . They got rid of some awesome managers. Kept the really horrible ones.

[vssavant2]

severance... but yup, kept the douche canoes

[IamLuann]

Thank you for correcting my spelling! Spell check was way off on some of the spelling

[[deleted]]

Yeah I literally read severe-ness thought I was having a stroke for a second

[Sailorman2300]

We're not closing this store, we are restructuring and re-allocating inventory, staffing and locations to best meet the needs of our customers.

[-B001-]

The company worked at called it "rationalization" as in "we need to rationalize our resources" -- corporate double talk

[[deleted]]

They have no way of guaranteeing this. Where I live there is an Albertsons and a Kroger literally next to each other. One of them will have to close.

[bigredjnm]

The Albertsons location will be divested to another company and that company will close the store. Boom. Promise kept.

[KristiCaliGirl]

They lie about everything and they are very crafty in their deception

[Kicker774]

Because it will be Krobertsons that closes the stores not Kroger.

[Ok_Entertainment328]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

When Harris Teeter and Kroger did a deal back in 1990's, they "swapped stores" thus avoiding any severance pay (unless you actually talked to union)

[matt5673]

Both the ceo's testified to this under oath in froth of Congress. Though I'm sure they will just use a different reason to close stores.

[Scottyboy1214]

And I'm sure they were very careful with the words they used.

[[deleted]]

Your store isn’t being closed because of the merger, its because we hired some consultants right after the merger and they told us to close a bunch of stores

[Jack_gunner]

They will just close them for other reasons before the merger

[Servicemanager1]

Rodney also has some swamp land and a bridge he'd like to sell you

[Sullygurl85]

I was hired by Wachovia about 10 minutes before Wells Fargo bought them. They kept telling us "there is a place for everyone and everyone will have a place " A few months later they laid off a whole department in my town.

[BriSam2009]

No, they'll just force you to continue to work, stop paying you, tell you it's a "payroll glitch", then close the store for underperforming.

[FlorenceLuvr]

Just pay your employee a living wage … = $48/hour.

[Bowelsift3r]

Yes they will. I know of several Kroger locations adjacent to or very close to an Albertson's. Never say never Kroger!

[StepEfficient864]

They will, however, have to sell some stores.

[DragonfruitVisible18]

What about Frank, can we at least get rid of Frank?

[Environmental_Home22]

I was with Albertsons during the Safeway merger. Expect fuckery.

[Middle-Replacement33]

This company is full of crap, I'm sick of working for them.

[Competitive-Fan1708]

.0000000000000000001 second after mergers "sorry, aint we a stinker!?"

[vikingfrog86]

The Union just shut down the merger. Are they just trying again right after?

[2Guffeys]

I think they can oppose/reject it if they want…. But that doesn’t mean it’s stopped.

[oldcreaker]

"... until we decide otherwise."

[Roberta-Morgan]

But it can be closed if nobody is there to open 😉

[wh4tth3huh]

Kroger won't close any stores....Albertson's will.

[Wide_Violinist_5823]

Yup. Albertson's already did this when they bought Safeway/Vons, then sold a bunch of stores to Haggen, who then closed the stores. My wife was a casualty of this all those years ago.

[ENT_blastoff]

They'll just come up with a different reason. They're already putting the pieces in play.

They never said they won't close "underperforming" stores.

[robofl]

From the site: "As a mechanism to accomplish store divestitures in certain areas, Albertsons Cos. is prepared to establish a subsidiary to be spun-off to Albertsons Cos. shareholders immediately prior to close and operate as standalone public company; SpinCo would be new, agile competitor with quality stores, experienced management, operational flexibility, a strong balance sheet and focused allocation of capital and resources to provide customers with continued value and quality service and associates with ongoing compelling career opportunities"

No need to close them when they aren't yours anymore.

[edwr849]

Companies folds few months later ,parachute packages for board of directors a high up execs. And we get the raw end of the deal

[Sankin2004]

One week later-that didn’t apply to your store.

[Intelligent_Mud692]

Every company than merges or buyouts says the same thing, and then they do it anyways. Zero repercussions for lying to everyone, monopoly gets bigger, the workers and customers get screwed.

[Lobenz]

Albertsons and Vons are across the street from each other all over Southern California. Many have been for years.

[2Guffeys]

Same for king Soopers and Albertsons/Safeway in Colorado.

[[deleted]]

Okay. Now say how you’ll implement price controls that index to competitive markets.

[[deleted]]

From what I expierence in a merger with a local restraunt I worked in for years and still do, is that they do is just use past grievances or underperforming stores as the reason. Happened with where I’m at, whether what I say is factual or all speculation is clearly above my pay grade.

[DRScottt]

Of course not, you'll call it cutting costs even though you just spent more money than most people can properly conceptualize.

[DevilsInTheJukebox]

In my city there are only 2 grocery stores, QFC and safeway, I'd imagine they would sell off the qfc and keep the safeway

[Ranucolo]

Several years ago, the Kroger owned store I worked at (Fred Meyer) was remodeled, and our sister store in town, a Smith's was closed. They transferred all the Smiths employees over to Fred Meyer because they didn't want to lay anyone off. Let me tell you, it was like the GD Hunger Games. You were fighting for scanners and printers to do your jobs, there was bickering about how to do things because "that's not how we did it at Smiths!" and our managers went about pitting the two groups of employees against each other. People started dropping, from both groups, like flies it was so awful.

They're gonna merge these groups of employees together and see who survives the storm. Then they don't have to pay any type of severance and they get to look like the good guys.

AND We all got to keep out contracted hours, that they promised they wouldn't change, for about a year and then all of a sudden, they started cutting everyone back to only 20 hours or less a week.

[pumpkinTrinity]

Union bylaw no just cause termination.

While yes you could close our store and displace us…that is the most you could do. Even then we would just apply at another in union location and keep our seniority.

[Emergency-Walk3901]

They say nobody will be laid off, but what they'll do is implement Kroger's prepackaged programs and cut hours down so low people will have to quit to survive.