[catnipman]

Here are the details:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/01/ftc-requires-albertsons-safeway-sell-168-stores-condition-merger

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/haggen-wants-to-close-100-additional-stores/

Eight months from the forced divestiture by the obama administration until most of those stores were closed.

[PAR35]

Here’s the money quote from the story:

“union leaders estimate that about 8,000 workers could be affected in California alone.”