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Albertsons Companies, Inc. [1] [2] is an American grocery company founded and headquartered in Boise, Idaho. With 2,253 stores as of the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 and 270,000 employees as of fiscal year 2019, [3] [8] [6] the company is the second-largest supermarket chain in North America after Kroger.
Organization Worth (billion USD) Country Religion/Belief Notes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: 265.0 United States Non-Trinitarian Christianity
The Skaggs Companies, Inc. was the predecessor to many famous United States retailing chains, including Safeway, Albertsons, Osco Drug, and Longs Drugs. The company owned several drugstore chains, but all of them were sold. Skaggs Cos. became American Stores in 1979.
An August 2006 photo of a SuperValu-owned rebranded Lucky store at 1000 E. Valley Blvd. in Alhambra, California. (closed as of February 2010) A 2009 photo of a Albertsons-owned rebranded Lucky store at 4155 Tweedy Blvd. in South Gate, California. (closed as of 2020)
On January 30, 2015, the merger between Safeway and Albertsons was finalized. [54] As part of the merger, Bellingham, Washington-headquartered grocery chain Haggen announced it would buy 146 Vons, Albertsons, and Pavilions stores across Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona as part of anti-monopoly requirements following the merger.
1999 Albertsons acquires American Stores for $12.7B to become the nation's biggest supermarket chain. [21] Prior to this, Albertsons was the nation's fourth largest supermarket chain with 994 supermarkets in 25 states, while American Stores Company was the nation's second largest supermarket chain with 802 supermarkets and 773 stand-alone drug ...
By 1939 Albertson was supervising more than a dozen stores. Wanting to start his own store, Albertson took $5,000 of his own money and $7,500 borrowed from his wife's aunt to open his first Albertsons grocery store in partnership with L.S. Skaggs, a former Safeway division manager, and Tom Cuthbert, Skaggs's accountant. The store, at Sixteenth ...
The chain operates in and around the San Francisco Bay Area under its own banner and its newer banner concept, Lucky California. Lucky is a revival of the original chain (with pictures of its stores from the 1940s) after Save Mart acquired the northern California Albertsons stores from Cerberus Capital Management in 2006, which included the ...