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In October 1998, Fred Meyer, parent company of Smith's Food and Drug based in Salt Lake City, announced a strategic merger with Kroger, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. [5] Several months later, in May 1999, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the merger of the two companies, named The Kroger Co. [ 6 ]
Fred Meyer, Inc. is an American chain of hypermarket superstores and subsidiary of Kroger based in Portland, Oregon. [1] The stores operate in the northwestern United States, with locations in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska.
By the mid-1990s, many Hughes store locations were sold to Ralphs, which was soon sold to Fred Meyer, later acquired by Kroger. [14] A new flagship store opened in downtown Kirkland in 2019, with 50,000 square feet (4,600 m 2 ) of space.
A Fred Meyer grocery store is located at 5230 W. Franklin St. in Boise. Fred Meyer and Kroger merged in 1998. Kroger says it plans to buy Idaho’s Albertsons chain.
[16] [17] However on July 11, 2023, the store in Bend was rebranded to Local Acres Marketplace to reflect its local ownership and to differentiate it from the chain owned by Kroger, which owns the Fred Meyer chain in the U.S. Northwest. [18] A Food 4 Less store in Massillon, Ohio, co-owned with local grocery chain Bordner's, closed in 2014. [19]
Earlier, Fred Meyer had closed a full-service store located in Orem that failed to meet expectations. On November 12, 2008, a new Smith's Marketplace store was opened in Lehi, Utah. The store is 170,000 square feet (16,000 m 2). In 2008, Smith's also remodeled the former Fred Meyer store located at 500 East and 500 South in Salt Lake City.
The suspect in the Dec. 4 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was pictured in surveillance images wearing a backpack that has since been identified as one made by San Francisco ...
Packaged food aisles at a Fred Meyer hypermarket in Portland, Oregon. Until the 1980s, large stores combining food and non-food items were unusual in the United States, although early predecessors existed since the first half of the 20th century. [7] The term "hypermarket" itself is still rarely used in the US.