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Of the 62 stores that would be sold Oregon, one Safeway is in Salem and an Albertsons and Safeway are in Eugene. A third of the stores that would be sold in the state are in Portland (21).
Most of the Northwest stores affected currently are under the brand of Safeway, Haggen or QFC. All 579 stores would come under the ownership of C&S Wholesale Grocers based in Keene, N.H.
Sep. 8—The nation's two largest grocery store chains announced a $1.9 billion divestiture plan on Friday that includes the sale of 14 Albertsons-owned stores in Alaska to a New Hampshire-based ...
The stores shared a common entrance, but operated as separate businesses with their own checkstands. The first outlet opened in Anchorage, Alaska. In 1965, 22 existing Super S stores were sold to Skaggs Drug Stores. Safeway sold the remaining stores in 1971. [76]
Albertsons merged with Safeway in 2015 in a $9.2 billion deal which included an FTC requirement to spin off 168 stores to stop the new company having a monopoly in certain markets. [7] The commitment was the largest ever divestiture of supermarkets at the time.
Some stores were sold to his brother Samuel "L.S." Olnie Skaggs (then an executive at Safeway) along with some colleagues. L.J. Skaggs retained California Pay Less Stores, which became part of Thrifty PayLess, and which are now owned by Rite Aid. The remaining Pay-Less stores were renamed Skaggs Drug Stores in 1948, Skaggs Drug Centers in 1965.
Under the proposal, the stores would be sold to New Hampshire-based C&S Wholesale Grocers, an independent operator to maintain competition. A shopper walks towards an Albertsons in Phoenix in 2023.
The store was family-owned. In 2000, it was purchased by Safeway. Its headquarters was in East Norriton Township, Pennsylvania in Montgomery County. [1] [2] [3] After many of its remaining stores were sold or closed, there was a Safeway-owned store under the former chain's name located in Audubon, Pennsylvania that remained open until May 2015. [4]