Major grocery store chain to close 60 locations by year’s end across 15 states

After announcing plans to close 60 stores nationwide by the end of 2026, Kroger has already shuttered 39 locations — leaving 21 more to go.

The shutters could harm some areas and create what experts call a food desert — where communities have little to no access to stores with affordable, healthy or fresh food.

Save A Lot supermarkets are vital for food access in many of the communities they serve, providing an array of discounted goods in low-income, urban, and rural areas where grocery stores might otherwise be scarce. But Save A Lot locations have been disappearing at an unsettling rate, with store closures impacting doze