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Smith's Food and Drug, or simply Smith's, is an American regional supermarket chain that was founded by Lorenzo Smith in 1911 in Brigham City, Utah.Headquartered in Salt Lake City with stores in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, Smith's became a subsidiary of Kroger in 1998.
Associated Food Stores was founded in 1940 by Donald P. Lloyd, president of the Utah Retail Grocers Association along with 34 Utah retailers. Concerned with the effect that large corporate stores would have on small independent retailers, he felt the only way these small businesses could survive is if they united and faced the competition as one, therefore increasing their collective buying power.
Its store formats include 134 multi-department stores, 2,273 combo stores, 191 marketplace stores, and 121 price-impact warehouse stores. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Kroger operates 33 manufacturing plants, 1,642 supermarket fuel centers, 2,254 pharmacies, 225 The Little Clinic in-store medical clinics, and 127 jewelry stores (782 convenience stores were sold ...
Kroger Co. and Albertsons Companies have released the long list of stores the companies plan to sell, should a multi-billion dollar merger between the two grocery chains be approved by regulators ...
Kroger has merged with or acquired several stores in the past, according to its 2023 Fact Book. Among those are 20 stores in Detroit from Farmer Jack in 2007; 227 stores in multiple locations from ...
Among the Albertsons stores to be sold are: 283 Safeways (in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington); 99 Albertsons (in Arizona, California, Colorado ...
Kroger – Besides the parent company, stores operate under these brands: Baker's (Nebraska) City Market (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming) Dillons (Kansas) Food 4 Less (California, Illinois, Indiana) Fred Meyer (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska) Fry's (Arizona) Gerbes (Missouri)
City Market and King Soopers became part of The Kroger Co. when Dillon and Kroger merged in 1983. Since the merger, City Market and King Soopers have been a separate division of Kroger. It currently operates 38 stores in western and central Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. [2]