Close 35 stores across the footprint
Delivered by the deadline
AI-assessed · human review in progress Found and assessed by AI from the cited sources. Shown with its evidence; it is not counted in any Kept Score until confirmed.
- Announced
- 5 Mar 2020
- Due
- 31 Dec 2020
- Delivered
- by 31 Dec 2020
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“related to the planned closing of 35 stores across the footprint in 2020.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Kroger's 2021 10-K filing confirms that the 35 planned store closures were included in their 2019 impairment charges, indicating the closures were part of their 2020 transformation efforts.
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A Kroger 10-K filed 2021-03-30
“This 2019 impairment charge included the 35 planned store closures across our footprint in 2020 related to our transformation efforts.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -6.5% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (29 Mar 2021 to 1 Apr 2021). What this measures
Checked 18 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Facility other
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- 35 stores
- Target
- 35 stores
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “no_evidence”.
- Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the second check.
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