CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – National grocery store Kroger, which has had a location in the Barracks Road shopping center since the center opened in 1959, has not decided the future of the company’s Barracks Rd. location once its current lease expires in 2028.

“We do not have the store scheduled for closure,” company spokesperson James Menees told Cville Right Now on Wednesday. “We’re kind of working through that.”

The company alerted staff that the lease is ending in 2028, which led some of the 79 workers at the location to assume the store would be closing.

“We’re figuring out what the future is at that location,” Menees said.

The store underwent a renovation that was completed in 2013.

In August 2025, Kroger shut down its 1904 Emmet St. location, just off Hydraulic Rd. That left the Barracks store and the Kroger in the Rio Hill shopping center as the chain’s only area outpost.

Kroger is owned by The Kroger co., which also purchased Harris Teeter in 2014 for a reported $2.5 billion. There are three Teeters in the area, including one at Barracks. Another is in the Hollymead Town Center off 29 North, while the third is in Crozet.