Village Super Market, Inc. (VLGEA)

ShopRite supermarkets, 7,200 employees, 91% union. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending July 26, 2025, filed October 9, 2025. Ranked 25 of the 71 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A supermarket operator whose filing states 7,200 employees, 70% part-time and 91% union, and nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce is read at food and beverage retailers.

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, 20% people work and 57% 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), 12% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

7,200 employees as of July 26, 2025 (stated). The filing describes only its supermarkets in New Jersey, Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania, so the U.S. share is recorded as 1 with a flag; no count by country is stated.

The filing: “As of July 26, 2025, the Company employed approximately 7,200 persons with approximately 70% working part-time.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 7,200 persons as of July 26, 2025 (7,300 a year earlier), about 70% part-time; about 91% covered by collective bargaining agreements with seven unions expiring between March 2025 and June 2028, about 28% under contracts expired or expiring within a year.

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
• Ingles Markets, Incorporated (IMKTA, 25,551 employees)20% now, 23% by 2028
• Weis Markets, Inc. (WMK, 22,000 employees)20% now, 23% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

0 sentences in the filing name AI. No sentence in the filing names AI.

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.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. stores; it states no count by country.
• The human capital excerpt is the labor section around the headcount.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000103595-25-000015, 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.