An aerial view of a Grocery Outlet store on Feb. 25, 2025 in San Rafael, Calif. In these tough times, some discount chains have been thriving, but California’s Grocery Outlet has been closing stores as it tries to remedy a hangover of overexpansion. Grocery Outlet did not say which stores would close, but the advisory firm Gordon Brothers, the chain hired to handle its leases, listed 36 stores “available for sublease.”AdvertisementSix Southern California stores appeared on the list: Azusa, Brawley, El Cajon, La Habra, Ontario and Poway. Outside California, Grocery Outlet appears to be closing eight stores in Maryland, six in New Jersey and six in Ohio, as well as a few in Pennsylvania and Idaho. Grocery Outlet is hoping to turn things around by closing struggling stores to focus on building clusters around its high-performing ones, said Catherine Douglas Moran, an editor at the trade publication Grocery Dive.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 30, 2026 20:32 UTC