Safeway re-opening Mountain View, CA

[storewanderer]

Another store closed by Albertsons LLC and now they are re-opening. Why did they close it the first time...?

http://mv-voice.com/news/2016/07/01/fre ... ew-safeway

[pseudo3d]

Another store closed by Albertsons LLC and now they are re-opening. Why did they close it the first time...?

http://mv-voice.com/news/2016/07/01/fre ... ew-safeway

Probably the fact that Albertsons NorCal was doing so badly (the LLC divisions were underperformers) that they sold the ENTIRE division to Save Mart less than a year later. 28k square feet is hardly a large space, but you could fit everything in if you made some sacrifices in center store and the size of the perishable departments.

[pseudo3d]

Actually, it looks like it was closed in late 2001, and was a former Alpha Beta turned Lucky (link, don't know why they switched the chronology). Did it remain vacant until Fresh & Easy opened in 2007 at the earliest?

EDIT: As for "why reopening", Albertsons apparently had a long-term lease on the property, which is probably why they're giving it another go (did they lease from themselves?!).