[grundle]

How did Obama do such a thing? He has no say with anyone outside of the Executive Branch.

One of the cited articles says:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-haggen-california-20150924-story.html

Albertsons and Safeway were ordered by federal regulators to divest those locations

[GingisK]

Thanks for that link. Obama really didn’t force them to leave. They mismanaged their company and had to comply to bankruptcy laws.