SN Top 10: Kroger, Walmart, Costco top the week’s headlines

In this week’s recap of the Top 10 most popular Supermarket News articles, the top story was Kroger adds 166 stores to divestiture plan for Albertsons acquisition deal. Kroger’s new plan adds 166 more stores to the original divestiture proposal, bringing the total number of divested stores to 579. That includes selling banners QFC, Mariano’s, and Carrs, which were included in the original divestiture plan, and adding the Haggen banner. 

Among other top stories:

• Walmart removes self-checkout from two more stores
• Grocers could be hit hard by new L.A. County worker ordinance
• Outfox Hospitality closing Foxtrot, Dom’s
• 5 things: Here comes Amazon…again

In other news, an employee who was laid off Tuesday when Outfox Hospitality very abruptly shuttered its Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market stores has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company on behalf of himself and other affected employees.

Urban convenience-store and delivery chain Foxtrot Market had 33 locations in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Dallas and Austin, Texas. Dom’s, a small-format grocery chain, had two locations in Chicago.

More top stories:

• Grocery sales will go down over the next five years, but ecommerce will dominate
• Costco workers make historic move to join union
• Earth Day finds retailers taking on plastic bags
• Albertsons reports $18B in revenue ‘amidst a difficult industry backdrop’