{"id":206294,"date":"2026-03-05T23:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206294\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:03:06","slug":"ca-grocery-chain-to-close-36-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206294\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Grocery Chain To Close 36 Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

California-based Grocery Outlet plans to close dozens of its supermarkets as it charts a path out of financial difficulties.<\/p>\n

The Emeryville-based grocer on Wednesday announced it plans to close 36 stores over the next year as part of an “optimization plan.”<\/p>\n

“We identified 36 stores in the network that we concluded did not have a viable path to sustained profitability,” CEO Jason Potter said on the company’s quarterly earnings call.<\/p>\n

Of those 36 to-be-closed stores, 24 are located in the eastern part of the U.S., where the retailer has recently expanded.<\/p>\n

“It’s clear now that we expanded too quickly, and these closures are a direct correction,” Potter said.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Recent Grocery Store Closings Driven By These Factors<\/a><\/p>\n

Grocery Outlet has 570 stores across 16 states. Around half of its locations are located in California. Grocery Outlet is a discount grocery chain with a unique independent operator business model, which differs from typical franchises in that store managers profit-share with the company based on the store’s performance over time. <\/p>\n

The company has not identified where the 36 stores set to close are located. It’s possible that some of the 12 non-eastern stores set to close are located in California.<\/p>\n

Despite the planned closures, Grocery Outlet is also set to open new locations.<\/p>\n

The company will open “another 30 to 33 net new stores in 2026,” Potter said.<\/p>\n

“We plan to expand with a more clustered model to improve supply chain efficiency and marketing leverage,” he said.<\/p>\n

Grocery Outlet saw net sales increase during the last quarter, up around 11% compared to the same time the year before. But it recorded an operating loss of $234.8 million.<\/p>\n

Potter said increased consumer pressure and competition, along with disruptions to government assistance programs during last year’s government shutdown were partly to blame.<\/p>\n

Grocery Outlet isn’t the only supermarket company eyeing closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California-based Grocery Outlet plans to close dozens of its supermarkets as it charts a path out of financial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-206294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}