Kroger closes down two stores in retaliation to Lon Beach Hazard Pay policy

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Friends,

In direct retaliation against the City of Long Beach for passing a $4 per hour temporary hazard pay ordinance, Kroger announced they would permanently close two stores in Long Beach.

On the same day Kroger closed these two stores in Long Beach, they donated $3 million in the name of racial equity. Kroger cannot claim to care about eliminating food deserts, as their charitable giving to Everytable or LISC would indicate, while they create new food deserts in predominantly Black and Brown Long Beach communities. Shame on Kroger for gaslighting the public at Black and Brown workers' expense.

Sign our petition to tell Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen that it is unacceptable to eliminate jobs for predominantly Black and Brown workers in Long Beach during a pandemic. ([link removed])

This move is especially shameful given it happened at the start of Black History Month. Kroger more than doubled their profits in 2020, even spending $1.3B on stock buybacksPaying Long Beach workers' hazard pay—per the policy they claim will cause irreparable harm—would only cost Kroger approximately $550,000.

Support Long Beach grocery workers by signing our petition to demand Kroger keep the stores open. ([link removed])
In Solidarity,

Roxana Tynan,
LAANE Executive Director

LAANE is a leading advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy for all. Combining dynamic research, innovative public policy and the organizing of broad alliances, LAANE promotes a new economic approach based on good jobs, thriving communities, and a healthy environment.
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