The parent company of Chicago-based grocers Dom's Kitchen & Market and Foxtrot was sued after closing stores in the city, Texas and Washington, D.C.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchThere were two Dom's and 15 Foxtrot locations in Chicago.
The closures affected the two Dom's stores and 33 Foxtrots across the Chicago, Austin, Dallas and D.C. areas. Alexandra Meraz said Tuesday that employees were blindsided. She worked at the Foxtrot in Old Town for the past six months. "I'm just really distraught because this was my livelihood; this was my only job," Meraz said. "It was a regular Tuesday, and now it's just you're out of a job."
Meraz said she clocked in to her shift Tuesday morning, and once managers came out of a meeting, she was told the store would be closing immediately, and that she needed to leave.She's now scrambling to apply for unemployment."I'm sorry to see this happening. It's probably going to leave quite a void in storefront spaces, and I'm more concerned about the people who work here," David Anthony Powell said.
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