Friends,

When workers and communities raise their standards, Kroger lowers theirs. In direct retaliation against the Los Angeles City Council passing a temporary $5 per hour hazard pay ordinance for frontline grocery and drug retail workers, Kroger announced they would permanently close three stores in Los Angeles. 

Kroger can afford hazard pay, but their corporate greed will eliminate the jobs of more than 250 workers. Kroger made more than $2.6 billion in profits last year alone, more than double of what it made before the pandemic. Kroger even announced $1.3 billion in stock buybacks and is situated as the 23rd largest corporation in the nation according to the Forbes 500 list. Closing stores is a bullying tactic meant to intimidate workers, communities, and electeds from protecting frontline workers during a pandemic.

Sign our petition to tell Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen that it is unacceptable to eliminate jobs for predominantly Black and Brown workers in Los Angeles during a pandemic.

Frontline grocery workers continue to show up to work everyday to keep our communities fed despite the risks COVID, variants of the virus, and inequitable vaccine distribution poses to their health. Shame on Kroger for the harm they are inflicting on workers, their families, and for creating food insecurity in communities who relied on these stores for access to food and critical resources.

Support Los Angeles grocery workers by signing our petition to demand Kroger keep the stores open.