Supervalu Inc. said Wednesday it is laying off 85 IT employees nationwide, including 50 at its headquarters in Eden Prairie.
The move is part of a restructuring of the grocer’s technology department, which affects a total of 390 employees, Supervalu spokesman Jeff Swanson said in an interview.
In addition to the 50 Twin Cities employees, 20 are being laid off in Boise, Idaho, and 15 in Utah, Swanson said. They will lose their jobs at the end of the month. Swanson said there also are a number of open positions that will not be filled, but he didn’t know how many.
An additional 305 IT employees in 10 states are being moved to new jobs or being given new job descriptions as part of the reorganization, Swanson said. There also will be a few positions created that will demand a high level set of skills.
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The layoffs are in addition to other job cuts Supervalu has announced this year, including eliminating as many as 2,500 Albertsons jobs in California and Nevada. It was one of the biggest mass layoffs in the nation this year.
Other cuts have included eliminating 800 jobs from the grocer’s corporate and regional offices and cutting 39 positions from its marketing department.
The company said on July 11 that it was exploring selling all or part of the company, and then CEO Craig Herkert was fired on Monday and replaced by Wayne Sales, former CEO of Canaidan Tire Corp.
With all of the upheaval, unions are now nervously watching what Supervalu will do next, as 84,000 of the company’s 130,000 employees are represented by United Food & Commercial Workers.