Strikes outside of King Soopers stores in Colorado could be coming to an end as King Soopers and its employees continue negotiations.

After two weeks of striking, around 10,000 unionized Colorado grocery workers are heading back to work at King Soopers, a Kroger-owned regional chain. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 and King Soopers signed a return to work agreement late Monday night and secured to a 100-day period of labor peace while contract negotiations continue.

The strike against King Soopers lasted 12 days — at least for now. It was longer than the metro Denver area strike against the grocer in 2022 and it sought to hurt the Colorado grocery chain owned by Kroger on Super Bowl Sunday and Valentine’s Day,

All King Soopers stores in Colorado are expected to resume normal operations on Wednesday after an ongoing workers strike came to an end.

A return-to-work settlement has been secured for all striking King Soopers workers across Colorado, meaning the ongoing strike will end on Monday night at midnight. A long-term deal, however, has still been reached.

United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 7 (UFCW7)-- the union representing local King Soopers employees-- says

McMullen’s departure comes months after Kroger’s failed two-year effort to merge with another supermarket giant, Albertsons.

The shooting that happened at the King Soopers in Monument on Friday is now being investigated as a murder-suicide.

King Soopers and the union agreed late Monday night to return to the bargaining table, ending 12 days of a strike against the supermarket chain in the Denver area and Pueblo.

A deadly shooting that happened Friday in the parking lot of an El Paso County King Soopers was a murder-suicide, the sheriff’s office announced Saturday.