Laid off from Kroger.

Previous rounds

Kroger layoff history

Which part of Kroger you worked for decided most of what happened next. The company made cuts to three separate workforces starting in June 2025, and treated them nothing alike. Our tracker holds 46 all-time Kroger filings, and 29 filings covering 2,118 jobs since the start of 2025, across nine states, and the five largest filings in that stretch are all fulfillment network sites. The warehouses are where the public record is thick. The corporate cuts and the store closings left much less behind.

The warehouse shutdown arrived as a press release that never mentioned a job. On November 18, 2025 Kroger announced updates to its eCommerce plan and said it had identified opportunities to optimize its fulfillment network by closing facilities in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, Frederick, Maryland and Groveland, Florida in January. Ron Sargent, the chairman and chief executive, said the company was taking decisive action to make shopping easier and offer faster delivery times. The headcounts showed up separately, in state filings. Our tracker holds the Groveland notice at 935 jobs, Tampa at 234, Pleasant Prairie at 211 and Jacksonville at 181, and Florida reporting described the Groveland workforce as mostly delivery drivers and personal shoppers.

What those workers were offered is thin, and all of it sits in the notices. A notice to Jacksonville employees said all associates would continue to receive their regular pay and benefits and would remain employed until February 1, 2026, when their employment would terminate. Wisconsin's notice said the 211 people at Pleasant Prairie would be paid and covered through the beginning of February. A Kroger spokesperson said the Florida employees weren't represented by a union and had no bumping rights, and the Tennessee notice covering 132 workers in Nashville said the same. No severance terms are on record for any of these closings. An employee at the Oklahoma City site, speaking anonymously to a local station, said they got laid off by a recording by some guy in Ohio, an employee account Kroger hasn't confirmed.

The corporate round is the only one of the three carrying a severance number. Kroger's filings say that during the second quarter of 2025 it approved and implemented a plan to reduce its corporate administrative team by nearly 1,000 associates, and recorded a charge for severance and related benefits of $47 million, $37 million net of tax. That's an accounting total for a whole group rather than anyone's offer, with no formula or per-person terms published. Reporting on the round said interim chief executive Ron Sargent announced it in an internal memo aimed at simplifying the organization, and that a company spokesperson said it didn't include any in-store, manufacturing facility or distribution center staffers. A warehouse or store worker cut in the same year sat outside the population that charge covers.

The store closings came with a different promise. Kroger's first quarter results on June 20, 2025 recognized a $100 million impairment charge for the planned closing of approximately 60 stores over the next 18 months, and said it would offer roles in other stores to all associates then employed at affected stores. It said something similar about the newest entry in our tracker, an announced Flint Township closing effective September 30, 2026, where it said it would again offer affected associates a transfer. The money moved on a different scale from the people. Kroger told investors in November to expect roughly $2.6 billion in impairment and related charges, and the audited figure came in at $2,497 million, $1,908 million net of tax, including a cash termination payment to Ocado of approximately $350 million.

Your own paperwork settles more than any of this does. Kroger's annual report says it employed more than 403,000 full-time and part-time people at the end of January 2026, and that more than two-thirds of its associates were covered under approximately 350 collective bargaining agreements. The fulfillment sites that closed were reported as carrying neither union representation nor bumping rights. So settle first whether an agreement covers you at all, and what it and your separation paperwork say, before you sign anything. A notice can also pull in help. The Tennessee notice for Nashville said a regional rapid response team had been notified to coordinate services with the employer and affected employees. Oregon's coordinating commission says its rapid response team delivers pre-layoff sessions covering unemployment insurance, WorkSource Oregon services, health insurance exchange information and Trade Act or union information. Our WARN filing tracker will tell you whether a notice was filed for your site and what headcount it carried.

Reporting on previous Kroger layoff rounds

• September 2026, the Flint Township store · One Michigan store, announced for closing on September 30, 2026, and the newest Kroger entry in our tracker.

  Terms not published. Kroger said it would offer each impacted associate the opportunity to transfer to a new location.

• January and February 2026, the automated fulfillment network · Automated centers at Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, Frederick, Maryland and Groveland, Florida, with the smaller sites feeding them closing alongside. Our tracker holds Groveland at 935 jobs, Tampa at 234, Pleasant Prairie at 211, Jacksonville at 181 and Nashville at 132.

  Terms not published. The notices said associates would keep their regular pay and benefits until employment terminated on February 1, 2026. Florida and Tennessee notices said those workers weren't union-represented and had no bumping rights.

• Second quarter 2025, the corporate administrative team · Nearly 1,000 associates, in what Kroger's filings call a plan to reduce its corporate administrative team. A company spokesperson said the round didn't include any in-store, manufacturing facility or distribution center staffers.

  Kroger recorded a charge for severance and related benefits of $47 million, $37 million net of tax. That's the group total as the filings state it, and no per-person terms are on record.

• June 2025, about 60 stores · Kroger recognized a $100 million impairment charge for the planned closing of approximately 60 stores over the next 18 months.

  Terms not published. Kroger said it would offer roles in other stores to all associates then employed at affected stores.

What to do after being laid off from Kroger

1. File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Kroger's biggest hubs: Florida, Wisconsin, Tennessee. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
2. Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Kroger's hub states run: Florida, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and every other state is here.
3. Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
4. Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
5. Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.