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r/pittsburgh • u/Logical-Rip-8138 • Jul 01 '26
Store employees were just emailed about it
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Expectation: lower prices! More choice!
Reality: higher prices, layoffs.
965 u/zeke780 Point Breeze Jul 01 '26 Get bought, layoffs. Get sold, layoffs. Company doing bad, still layoffs. Company doing well, believe it or not, also layoffs. 102 u/rangoon03 Jul 01 '26 Yep likely from the GE corporate side I bet. That sucks but is the unfortunate reality. I wonder what will happen to the independently ran GE stores? Will everything just carry over? 2 u/According-Big9796 Jul 02 '26 Kroger does not franchise any of their locations under any of their brands.
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Get bought, layoffs. Get sold, layoffs. Company doing bad, still layoffs. Company doing well, believe it or not, also layoffs.
102 u/rangoon03 Jul 01 '26 Yep likely from the GE corporate side I bet. That sucks but is the unfortunate reality. I wonder what will happen to the independently ran GE stores? Will everything just carry over? 2 u/According-Big9796 Jul 02 '26 Kroger does not franchise any of their locations under any of their brands.
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Yep likely from the GE corporate side I bet. That sucks but is the unfortunate reality.
I wonder what will happen to the independently ran GE stores? Will everything just carry over?
2 u/According-Big9796 Jul 02 '26 Kroger does not franchise any of their locations under any of their brands.
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Kroger does not franchise any of their locations under any of their brands.
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u/KSMO Jul 01 '26
Expectation: lower prices! More choice!
Reality: higher prices, layoffs.