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I am told my local Albertson’s will be changed to a Piggly Wiggly. They closed their stores in California many years ago, but it appears C&S owns that chain so maybe they are coming back.
The better damn well NOT.
This comes after Albertsons acquired Safeway. Monopoly in retail groceries indeed.
Looks like a couple of them in this area are within 2 or 3 miles of a new HEB, so that makes sense.
But another one of them is the “Jewish Tom Thumb” which is really nice and known for its Kosher selection. Looks like they may be keeping their other Kosher location further south.
It does look like they are keeping some marginal Albersons locations that they kept when they pulled back in DFW some years ago and closed their nicest stores.
Read later, although we’ve already lost Albertsons.
All of the Phoenix AZ Safeway store offloads are in the crappiest neighborhoods.
This merger would be an absolute disaster for the consumer, especially in California where these two chains control easily 80% or more of the supermarkets. Is it not strange that while several states are actively opposing this merger, that Gruesome Newsom has been sitting quietly by saying and doing nothing, especially since these are by far the two largest supermarkets in CA?
Kroger already has announced the locations of the stores they would be selling to C&S, which is primarily a wholesale supplier to smaller supermarkets. In my area, one is an Albertson’s which is across the street from a Kroger’s Ralphs, and the second one is a Vons which is owned by Albertson’s. Both facilities are the oldest supermarkets in the area.
Does anyone know CHINA'S involvement in Kroger? I smell a RAT, SUM TING WONG.
Two are in my town, not too far from each other - Vons and Vons Pavilion.
Not sure if the stores will close permanently or be re-branded, hopefully they won’t close. There is a lot of building going on around here - mandated apartments, thousands of them, and we’re gonna need those supermarkets.
Albertson’s owns Safeway.
Kroger owns Harris Teeter, among others.
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