Ingles Markets, Incorporated (IMKTA)
Supermarket chain, 25,551, 92% in stores. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 27, 2025, filed November 26, 2025. Ranked 15 of the 34 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
25,551
Leading staffing pattern
Food and Beverage Retailers (4451 and 4452 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now20%
- End of 202723%
- End of 202823%
- End of 203023%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 77%
- Becomes checking a model's work 11%
- Handed over with lighter checks 11%
A supermarket chain whose filing states its total, the share in stores and the part-time share, so the stores are counted and the rest read as its distribution center by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 20% now, 23% at the end of 2027, 23% at the end of 2028, 23% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 23% desk work, 19% people work and 58% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 77% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 11% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
25,551 employees as of September 27, 2025 (stated). The filing's excerpts give no count by country; the company is a southeastern U.S. supermarket chain with no operations stated abroad.
The filing: “Human Capital At September 27, 2025, the Company had approximately 25,551 associates, of which 92% were supermarket personnel.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Food and Beverage Retailers (4451 and 4452 only) | 92% | Counted (a): the filing states that 92% of its 25,551 associates are supermarket personnel, and supermarkets are grocery retail. |
| Warehousing and Storage | 8% | The stated remainder (a) of 8%, read by description (c) as the distribution center the filing names, with the dairy plant and the office associates it says work remotely inside it, since none of them is counted. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 25,551 associates as of September 27, 2025, 92% supermarket personnel; about 57% of supermarket personnel work part-time (about 52% of all associates); labor relations described as good.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Food and Beverage Retailers (4451 and 4452 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Kroger (KR, 403,000 employees)19% now, 23% by 2028
- Albertsons (ACI, 280,000 employees)20% now, 23% by 2028
- Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (SFM, 36,000 employees)20% now, 23% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-27 | 25,551 | 2025-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-28 | 26,360 | 2024-12-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 26,420 | 2023-11-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-24 | 26,000 | 2022-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-25 | 26,000 | 2021-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-26 | 27,000 | 2020-12-08 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-28 | 27,000 | 2019-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-29 | 26,000 | 2018-12-07 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 25,000 | 2017-12-06 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-24 | 26,500 | 2016-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-26 | 25,000 | 2015-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-27 | 23,000 | 2014-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-28 | 23,000 | 2013-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-29 | 20,800 | 2012-12-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-24 | 19,600 | 2011-12-02 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-25 | 18,800 | 2010-11-30 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-26 | 18,600 | 2009-12-07 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-27 | 19,000 | 2008-12-01 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-29 | 17,000 | 2007-11-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 16,100 | 2006-12-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-24 | 15,200 | 2005-12-08 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-25 | 14,700 | 2005-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-27 | 14,800 | 2003-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-28 | 14,500 | 2002-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-29 | 14,600 | 2001-12-20 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-09-30 | 14,300 | 2000-12-20 | 10-K |
| 1999-09-25 | 13,500 | 1999-12-23 | 10-K |
| 1998-09-26 | 13,000 | 1998-12-21 | 10-K |
| 1997-09-27 | 11,888 | 1997-12-22 | 10-K |
| 1996-09-28 | 10,662 | 1996-12-23 | 10-K |
| 1995-09-30 | 10,010 | 1995-12-15 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-09-24 | 9,952 | 1994-12-21 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The 8% outside the stores is read as one warehousing pattern by description: the filing counts neither its distribution center, its dairy nor its office staff.
- No U.S. share is stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000050493-25-000019, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Ingles Markets, Incorporated's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Ingles Markets, Incorporated's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Ingles Markets, Incorporated employ?
- 25,551 as of September 27, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 27, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Ingles Markets, Incorporated's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Food and Beverage Retailers (4451 and 4452 only); by those patterns the work is about 23% desk work, 19% people work and 58% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Ingles Markets, Incorporated's annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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