Oh, they were the purchasers? There were only two stores. They reopened the Wichita Falls store (2720 Southwest Pkwy.) as Cash Saver when it was sold in January 2014, then it closed in January 2019...and United Supermarkets reopened it in May 2023 (oops). 2220 South Bell St. in Amarillo closed late in 2019 and is now a Tru Fit (not even a grocery retailer). So the two divested stores became either the same company that merged, or not a grocery store at all.storewanderer wrote: ↑March 14th, 2024, 6:32 pm I forgot completely about Lawrence Brothers. They received divests in the Albertsons LLC/United purchase. And some of those did indeed fail.
They weren't a great operator...those two were probably their largest stores, and the United purchase stripped out about half of their remaining stores (and it seems they took their time to clear out a few others as well), leaving them with the Cash Saver stores and the smallest, dinkiest stores in the chain (not that the stores that they took weren't already dinky--12k square feet supermarkets, anyone?).
So somebody at the FTC remembered Lawrence Brothers as a divestment, and that was a dud as far as being a competent operator....and C&S seems to be quiet on this whole thing. If they were really intent on running and keeping 400+ stores they'd better make some show of it. (Implying that they'd run some as Piggly Wiggly isn't exactly instilling confidence.)