{"id":1043549,"date":"2026-10-15T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043549"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:12:01","slug":"37-corporate-staff-out-largest-us-grocery-giant-announces-historic-layoffs-bets-big-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/37-corporate-staff-out-largest-us-grocery-giant-announces-historic-layoffs-bets-big-on-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"37% corporate staff out: Largest US grocery giant announces historic layoffs, bets big on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kroger Co., the largest standalone US supermarket chain, announced plans to cut about 3,000 roles across its corporate workforce over the next three years as the company embraces a massive operations overhaul under newly appointed chief executive Greg Foran. The major announcement was laid out in a company memo to employees, as seen by Reuters and Bloomberg. <\/p>\n<p>The latest cuts are shaping up to be one of the biggest overhauls in the company\u2019s 143-year history. Accounting for more than one-third, or 37%, of the grocery giant\u2019s corporate jobs, the recently announced layoffs follow a previous round in June 2025 that impacted about 1,000 corporate roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kroger Co., the largest standalone US supermarket chain, announced plans to cut about 3,000 roles across its corporate workforce over the next three years as the company embraces a massive operations overhaul under newly appointed chief executive Greg Foran. The major announcement was laid out in a company memo to employees, as seen by Reuters and Bloomberg. The latest cuts are shaping up to be one of the biggest overhauls in the company\u2019s 143-year history. Accounting for more than one-third, or 37%, of the grocery giant\u2019s corporate jobs, the recently announced layoffs follow a previous round in June 2025 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043572,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043549\/revisions\/1043572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}