---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001771515-25-000087"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GO"
cik: "0001771515"
company_name: "Grocery Outlet Holding Corp."
filed_at: "2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T13:14:23.142333+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grocery Outlet Q1 net loss $23.3M; COO and Chief Stores Officer to depart

## Summary
- Net sales $1.13B (+8.5% YoY); comp store sales +0.3%; gross margin 30.4% vs. 29.3%.
- Net loss $23.3M ($(0.24) diluted EPS) vs. net loss $1.0M last year; adjusted EPS $0.13.
- Operating loss $22.5M includes $33.9M restructuring charges; adjusted EBITDA $51.9M (+31.7%).
- EVP COO Ramesh Chikkala to depart ~June 6, 2025; EVP Chief Stores Officer Pamela Burke ~Oct 6, 2025.
- Both executives receive separation benefits per Executive Severance Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001771515-25-000087
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GO
- cik: 0001771515
- company_name: Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151525000087/0001771515-25-000087-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151525000087/go-20250505.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001771515-25-000087
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001771515-25-000087.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001771515-25-000087.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Pamela B. Burke departed as Executive Vice President, Chief Stores Officer at Grocery Outlet Holding Corp..
  - Action: will depart
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Stores Officer
  source text: On May 5, 2025, the Company and each of the following named executive officers agreed upon a departure from the Company: (i) Ramesh Chikkala, Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer, on or around June 6, 2025; and (ii) Pamela B. Burke, Executive Vice President, Chief Stores Officer, on or around October 6, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151525000087/0001771515-25-000087-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ramesh Chikkala departed as Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer at Grocery Outlet Holding Corp..
  - Action: will depart
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer
  source text: On May 5, 2025, the Company and each of the following named executive officers agreed upon a departure from the Company: (i) Ramesh Chikkala, Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer, on or around June 6, 2025; and (ii) Pamela B. Burke, Executive Vice President, Chief Stores Officer, on or around October 6, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151525000087/0001771515-25-000087-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.