{"id":43503,"date":"2024-03-28T23:14:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T03:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=43503"},"modified":"2024-03-28T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T03:14:32","slug":"kroger-is-closing-its-florida-e-commerce-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/03\/28\/kroger-is-closing-its-florida-e-commerce-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kroger is closing its Florida e-commerce operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kroger\u00a0is shuttering three-spoke facilities in its Texas and Florida e-commerce operations, the grocery chain confirmed this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cross-docking facilities \u2014 located in Austin, San Antonio, and Miami \u2014 will be closed at the end of May, a Kroger spokesperson told The Associated Press Thursday, adding that all impacted associates had been offered other opportunities within the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u201cDespite our best efforts, including the support from new customers, learnings from other locations, and the incredible work of our associates, these facilities did not meet the benchmarks we set for success,\u201d Kroger\u2019s spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spokesperson added that that the retailer \u201cremains committed to growing its e-commerce offerings, delivering fresh food to more communities across the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These kinds of spoke facilities extend the reach of Kroger\u2019s network\u00a0with British online retailer Ocado. Ocado\u2019s larger automated facilities assemble orders, which are then shipped to the cross-docking spokes and placed into smaller delivery trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid rising competition in e-commerce particularly seen\u00a0during the pandemic era, Kroger and Ocado have\u00a0continued to expand\u00a0their partnership over recent years \u2014 including through the construction of additional fulfillment centers and the development of in-store order capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cross-docking spokes set to close in Austin and Miami were opened in March and February of last year, according to Kroger\u2019s spokesperson, while the one in San Antonio was opened in August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Austin and San Antonio facilities have been receiving orders from a larger automated shed in Dallas, which was opened in 2022. Another regional shed Groveland, Florida opened in June 2021 has been serving the Miami spoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the Dallas and Groveland facilities will continue to operate. The decision to close the Austin, San Antonio, and Miami spokes will not impact these larger facilities or any other cross-docking locations, Kroger\u2019s spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cincinnati-based Kroger posted earnings of $2.96 per share for 2023, with total company sales hitting $150 billion last year. That\u2019s up from 2022\u2019s earnings of $2.76 per share and $148.3 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent months, Kroger has also made headlines over the prospect of a merger with Albertsons. The two grocery chains, which are among of the largest in the United States, had hoped to complete the $24.6 billion deal this year \u2014 but their plan faces legal challenges that make it look far less likely, at least any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kroger\u00a0is shuttering three-spoke facilities in its Texas and Florida e-commerce operations, the grocery chain confirmed this week. The cross-docking facilities \u2014 located in Austin, San Antonio, and Miami \u2014 will… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[7975],"class_list":["post-43503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kroger-is-closing-its-florida-e-commerce-operations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}