Employer · WARN Act history · Retail Trade
Kroger Food Stores
295 workers across 4 WARN notices, primarily in VA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 295
- Workers cut
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- WARN notices
- 1
- State
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- Avg / notice
Kroger Food Stores has 4 recorded WARN filings affecting 295 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Kroger Food Stores has 4 recorded filings covering 295 workers across 1 state, primarily VA, the 716th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Kroger Food Stores is a minor share of Retail Trade WARN activity — 0.2% of the sector's 135,000 workers across 330 employers, ranking #43 in Retail Trade.
How 295 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
Kroger Food Stores city concentration · lead-city
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
Richmond leads at 34.2% of named-city WARN workers across 4 cities (295 workers with a city on the filing).
Lead city Richmond · 34.2% · 4 named cities · top-3 share 82.4%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer KROGER-FOOD- · Kroger Food Stores 295 workers · 4 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-MID · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-SINGLE · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-LIGHT 4 filings
- WORK-MID #716
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 63d
- STAT-SINGLE VA
- BOOK-SINGLE 1 agency
- TYPE-MIX 3C/1L
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Kroger Food Stores WARN filings · notice runway
Top 4 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Richmond, VA · Closure · Retail Trade 101 workers · filed Sep 22, 2011 · 71d runway
- Farmville, VA · Layoff · Retail Trade 80 workers · filed Mar 19, 2013 · 63d runway
- Martinsville, VA · Closure · Retail Trade 62 workers · filed Jan 23, 2012 · 60d runway
- Galax, VA · Closure · Retail Trade 52 workers · filed Jan 17, 2014 · 63d runway
Median forward runway across 4 dated filings: 63 days (0 under 60d · 4 at/above 60d ).
Employer Profile
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Jan 2014.
WARN Notice History
2014
Galax, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 21, 2014
52
workers
Filed Jan 17, 2014
2013
Farmville, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: May 21, 2013
80
workers
Filed Mar 19, 2013
2012
Martinsville, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 23, 2012
62
workers
Filed Jan 23, 2012
2011
Richmond, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: Dec 2, 2011
101
workers
Filed Sep 22, 2011
Questions about this Kroger Food Stores record
What is the largest Kroger Food Stores WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the facility closure filed for Richmond, VA on Sep 22, 2011, covering 101 workers in Retail Trade.
Where were Kroger Food Stores's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Galax, Farmville, and Martinsville, among 4 named cities; together they form 3 facility closures and 1 mass-layoff filing sourced from Virginia Works. States represented in this record: VA.
Where is Kroger Food Stores's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Richmond leads at 34.2% of named-city WARN workers across 4 cities (295 workers with a city on the filing).
Does Kroger Food Stores's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2011 through 2014 across 4 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Kroger Food Stores's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway clears the federal 60-day baseline; use the dated filing history to see which location and event produced it.
See also: VA WARN filings · Retail Trade industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Kroger Food Stores notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.