Albertsons/Safeway 2018 & 2019: Openings and Closings
Posted: December 31st, 2017, 11:59 pm
Last year, I made a thread for the openings and closings of stores in the Albertsons family and for 2018 I intend to do the same. Also like last year, there is a * if it takes over and converts (closes) an existing functional store, similarly for the closing stores (replacements, if there is an immediate replacement). The dates for closing are what the company says so they'll probably close a few days sooner. Not listed are temporary closures unless they have different addresses. Additionally, on 1/6 Pavilions on 14845 Ventura Blvd. closed (Sherman Oaks), though it will be only added to the list if it gets a new address.
Projected for 2019:
ACME, 4001 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA1 (The Fresh Grocer)
Albertsons, East Amity Road & South Eagle Road, Meridian, ID
Albertsons, West Deer Springs Way & North Hualupai Way, Las Vegas, NV
Andronico's, 900 Lighthouse Avenue, Monterey, CA (Nob Hill Foods)
Jewel-Osco, East 61st Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, IL
Market Street Idaho, 3499 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian, ID (Shopko)
Tom Thumb, Cedar Springs Road & North Akard Street, Dallas, TX
1 - Assuming the judge won't rule in Fresh Grocer's favor or if ACME loses interest. As of this writing, the case is ongoing.
Openings:
1/12 - Randalls, 5721 Williams Drive, Georgetown, TX
1/26 - Market Street, 4268 Legacy Drive, Frisco, TX (Walmart Neighborhood Market/Albertsons)
5/25 - Market Street, 3145 East Broad Street, Mansfield, TX
12/4 - Safeway, 18495 E Queen Creek Rd, Queen Creek, AZ
Closures:
1/22 - Safeway, 1298 West Capitol Avenue, West Sacramento, CA
2/8 - Star Market, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA
2/16 - Vons, 2401 North Chester Ave, Bakersfield, CA3
2/24 - Albertsons, 10665 N. Tatum Blvd., Phoenix, AZ
2/24 - Safeway, 5415 Main Street, Springfield, OR
3/27 - Safeway, 7625 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD
4/7 - Albertsons, 1219 South Broadway Avenue, Boise, ID4
4/7 - Albertsons, 6727 Evergreen Way, Everett, WA
4/15 - Vons, 1390 Allen Avenue, Pasadena, CA (Stater Bros.)4
4/15 - Randalls, 11711 West Bellfort Ave., Stafford, TX (El Rancho Supermercado)
4/15 - Randalls, 5264 West 34th Street, Houston, TX (El Rancho Supermercado)
4/20 - Vons, 8201 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, CA
4/30 - Albertsons, 1545 S. Prairie Ave., Pueblo, CO5
5/4 - Vons, 31564 Grape Street, Lake Elsinore, CA
5/26 - Safeway, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD
5/26 - Safeway, 3129 Marshall Hall Road, Bryans Road, MD
6/8 - ACME, 320 West Dekalb Pike, King of Prussia, PA
6/8 - ACME, 1150 Welsh Road, Lansdale, PA
6/8 - ACME, 1001 North Dupont Highway, Dover, DE
6/9 - Safeway, 11919 N. Jantzen Ave., Portland, OR
6/15 - Albertsons, 2630 East Workman Avenue, West Covina, CA
6/16 - Albertsons, 13050 Aurora Ave. N, Seattle, WA
6/16 - Safeway, 8704 Greenwood Avenue N., Seattle, WA
6/30 - Randalls, 12312 Barker Cypress Rd., Cypress, TX
6/30 - Albertsons, 6363 E. 22nd Street, Tucson, AZ6
7/11 - Safeway, 8021 N. 35th Ave., Phoenix, AZ9
7/30 - Safeway, 3131 E. Thunderbird Road, Phoenix, AZ6
7/30 - Safeway, 5860 W. Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ6
8/18 - Safeway, 221 NE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR
8/24 - Safeway, 10500 Ulmerton Road #800, Largo, FL (Publix)
8/24 - Safeway, 503 East Altamonte Drive, Altamonte Springs, FL (Publix)
8/24 - Safeway, 950 NE 50th Street, Oakland Park, FL (Publix)
8/31 - ACME, 2497 Brunswick Avenue, Lawrenceville, NJ4
9/14 - Vons, 3855 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA (Bristol Farms)
10/12 - Safeway, 2522 Foulk Road, Wilmington, DE7
10/12 - Vons, 2101 W. Imperial Hwy., La Habra, CA
10/31 - Albertsons, 2315 Richmond Road, Texarkana, TX
12/1 - Albertsons, 10800 N. Beach St., Fort Worth, TX
12/1 - Albertsons, 1300 W. Belt Line Road, DeSoto, TX
12/1 - Tom Thumb, 2600 Flower Mound Road, Flower Mound, TX
12/1 - Tom Thumb, 820 S. Macarthur Blvd., Coppell, TX
12/1 - Randalls, 5800 New Territory Blvd, Sugar Land, TX
12/1 - Randalls, 2075 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX
12/1 - Randalls, 9420, College Park Dr, The Woodlands, TX
1/30/19 - Randalls, 1525 S. Mason Road, Katy, TX
The two Albertsons stores are at in Fort Worth and 1300 W. Belt Line Road in DeSoto. The Tom Thumb stores are at 2600 Flower Mound Road in Flower Mound and 820 S. Macarthur Blvd. in Coppell.
2 - Guess, since it was announced in December.
3 - The newspaper misprinted the address.
4 - Closing date approximate.
5 - Newspaper article says it will "close in April", so likely earlier than this date
6 - From what I saw, the Albertsons closes earlier than the Safeway stores.
7 - There was an ACME across the street.
8 - Listed as available 1/1/19.
9 - Destroyed by fire, and announced not to be rebuilt.
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Edit 1 (1/4) - IT BEGINS! Northern California leads the race with a Safeway to close January 22nd. Also added Randalls' Georgetown address and a Market Street. Because of the addition of Market Street to "predicted", the "Projected Ratio" is still the same, though it will surely plummet.
Edit 2 (1/12) - Randalls in Georgetown has opened! However, we also learned of two closures in the meantime, a Star Market and a Vons. Due to the somewhat confusing way I calculated the ratios, there's three numbers, the "Actual Ratio" to show what has opened and closed so far as of this writing (it's +1 due to the new Randalls and no store closures), the "Projected Short-Term Ratio" to account for stores with known opening and closing dates (it adds a Market Street but incorporates the three closing stores), and the "Projected Long-Term Ratio" that incorporates all the stores known to open this year. Barring acquisitions, the Long-Term will go down further.
Edit 3 (1/27) - With the closure of Safeway in Sacramento and the opening of the new Market Street, the Actual Ratio is still +1. However, there were several closures announced in the meantime. In addition to the fact that I don't see Durant, OK opening by year end (unless I see some more information on it, seems like last time they had some property acquisition issues) and one of the Boise stores is replacing another meaning it won't affect the ratio positively (as 1219 Broadway will be closed), there were several further reported closures have caused the short-term ratio to plummet to -5. The addition of a Las Vegas Albertsons has changed the ratio to +3 long-term. The rebrand of the Pavilions at 2938 Tapo Canyon Road in Simi Valley, California has added +1 for Vons and -1 for Pavilions. This does not affect the other ratios for obvious reasons.
Edit 4 (2/9) - Changes made to account for a second Vons/Pavilions name switch (see the thread for more info), the actual closure of Star Market, and "Market Street Idaho". Added clarification for Oildale store. The actual ratio of opened stores to closed stores this year is officially zero.
Edit 5 (3/11) - The Bakersfield Vons, the Springfield Safeway, and the Phoenix Albertsons have all closed, pushing us to -3 in terms of "real ratios". Two more Albertsons closures have been discovered. Short Term (now 4/30) is -8, Long Term is +1 which by now confirms that Albertsons will have less supermarkets by December 31, 2018 than December 31, 2017 unless they buy any more supermarkets from independents/others. Of course, this was all written before they announced they were buying Rite Aid, which would really change things if it goes through.
Edit 6 (4/21) - Added Randalls closures (due to the amorphous closing date, will be written as 4/15 though they might've closed sooner) which means Randalls is now negative. Vons Canoga Park closed (date from article) and Lake Elsinore is apparently closing, so with Canoga Park gone Vons' ratio is equalized. The two Eastern Division Safeway stores have been added. The Market Street Idaho brands have also been updated for recent changes.
Edit 7 (5/6) - Three ACMEs and another Safeway in Oregon have been announced for closure. With this, short range (moved to 6/30) is now at a whopping -19 and long range is -10. As Vons in Lake Elsinore has closed, Vons is -2 for actual, and actual is -11. The prognosis for new stores looks pretty bad at this point, though the new Albertsons in Boise should be opening soon. The Rite Aid merger unfortunately is probably going to be a distraction that could be spent opening new stores, despite the fact that SuperValu and SEG may want to offload some decent stores...a dozen stores between them could really impact the numbers for the positive.
Edit 8 (6/21) - More closings have been added in their respective divisions including Seattle (2), the Randalls store on Barker-Cypress and 290 (sigh), West Covina Albertsons, Santa Barbara's Vons, and three stores in the Southwest Division. At least Mansfield opened. Removed the Store Breakdown list because it got a bit complex calculating what actually opened and what has since closed. It will return next month. No news yet on The Fresh Grocer in Philly, even though the trial was supposed to start by now...if it's a win, then it will probably have an opening date, if not, gone from the list.
Edit 9 (10/4) - Updated after a long absence. More store closures, but I've decided not to include the store branding flips or the ratios (it's a BIG loss, not even close!). 1219 Broadway Avenue was removed from the list entirely as it had the same address and reopened within months. The former Nob Hill store is going to become Andronico's.
Edit 10 (1/1/19) - Updated after another long absence. Tell me if I missed anything...
Projected for 2019:
ACME, 4001 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA1 (The Fresh Grocer)
Albertsons, East Amity Road & South Eagle Road, Meridian, ID
Albertsons, West Deer Springs Way & North Hualupai Way, Las Vegas, NV
Andronico's, 900 Lighthouse Avenue, Monterey, CA (Nob Hill Foods)
Jewel-Osco, East 61st Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, IL
Market Street Idaho, 3499 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian, ID (Shopko)
Tom Thumb, Cedar Springs Road & North Akard Street, Dallas, TX
1 - Assuming the judge won't rule in Fresh Grocer's favor or if ACME loses interest. As of this writing, the case is ongoing.
Openings:
1/12 - Randalls, 5721 Williams Drive, Georgetown, TX
1/26 - Market Street, 4268 Legacy Drive, Frisco, TX (Walmart Neighborhood Market/Albertsons)
5/25 - Market Street, 3145 East Broad Street, Mansfield, TX
12/4 - Safeway, 18495 E Queen Creek Rd, Queen Creek, AZ
Closures:
1/22 - Safeway, 1298 West Capitol Avenue, West Sacramento, CA
2/8 - Star Market, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA
2/16 - Vons, 2401 North Chester Ave, Bakersfield, CA3
2/24 - Albertsons, 10665 N. Tatum Blvd., Phoenix, AZ
2/24 - Safeway, 5415 Main Street, Springfield, OR
3/27 - Safeway, 7625 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD
4/7 - Albertsons, 1219 South Broadway Avenue, Boise, ID4
4/7 - Albertsons, 6727 Evergreen Way, Everett, WA
4/15 - Vons, 1390 Allen Avenue, Pasadena, CA (Stater Bros.)4
4/15 - Randalls, 11711 West Bellfort Ave., Stafford, TX (El Rancho Supermercado)
4/15 - Randalls, 5264 West 34th Street, Houston, TX (El Rancho Supermercado)
4/20 - Vons, 8201 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, CA
4/30 - Albertsons, 1545 S. Prairie Ave., Pueblo, CO5
5/4 - Vons, 31564 Grape Street, Lake Elsinore, CA
5/26 - Safeway, 927 West 7th Street, Frederick, MD
5/26 - Safeway, 3129 Marshall Hall Road, Bryans Road, MD
6/8 - ACME, 320 West Dekalb Pike, King of Prussia, PA
6/8 - ACME, 1150 Welsh Road, Lansdale, PA
6/8 - ACME, 1001 North Dupont Highway, Dover, DE
6/9 - Safeway, 11919 N. Jantzen Ave., Portland, OR
6/15 - Albertsons, 2630 East Workman Avenue, West Covina, CA
6/16 - Albertsons, 13050 Aurora Ave. N, Seattle, WA
6/16 - Safeway, 8704 Greenwood Avenue N., Seattle, WA
6/30 - Randalls, 12312 Barker Cypress Rd., Cypress, TX
6/30 - Albertsons, 6363 E. 22nd Street, Tucson, AZ6
7/11 - Safeway, 8021 N. 35th Ave., Phoenix, AZ9
7/30 - Safeway, 3131 E. Thunderbird Road, Phoenix, AZ6
7/30 - Safeway, 5860 W. Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ6
8/18 - Safeway, 221 NE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR
8/24 - Safeway, 10500 Ulmerton Road #800, Largo, FL (Publix)
8/24 - Safeway, 503 East Altamonte Drive, Altamonte Springs, FL (Publix)
8/24 - Safeway, 950 NE 50th Street, Oakland Park, FL (Publix)
8/31 - ACME, 2497 Brunswick Avenue, Lawrenceville, NJ4
9/14 - Vons, 3855 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA (Bristol Farms)
10/12 - Safeway, 2522 Foulk Road, Wilmington, DE7
10/12 - Vons, 2101 W. Imperial Hwy., La Habra, CA
10/31 - Albertsons, 2315 Richmond Road, Texarkana, TX
12/1 - Albertsons, 10800 N. Beach St., Fort Worth, TX
12/1 - Albertsons, 1300 W. Belt Line Road, DeSoto, TX
12/1 - Tom Thumb, 2600 Flower Mound Road, Flower Mound, TX
12/1 - Tom Thumb, 820 S. Macarthur Blvd., Coppell, TX
12/1 - Randalls, 5800 New Territory Blvd, Sugar Land, TX
12/1 - Randalls, 2075 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX
12/1 - Randalls, 9420, College Park Dr, The Woodlands, TX
1/30/19 - Randalls, 1525 S. Mason Road, Katy, TX
The two Albertsons stores are at in Fort Worth and 1300 W. Belt Line Road in DeSoto. The Tom Thumb stores are at 2600 Flower Mound Road in Flower Mound and 820 S. Macarthur Blvd. in Coppell.
2 - Guess, since it was announced in December.
3 - The newspaper misprinted the address.
4 - Closing date approximate.
5 - Newspaper article says it will "close in April", so likely earlier than this date
6 - From what I saw, the Albertsons closes earlier than the Safeway stores.
7 - There was an ACME across the street.
8 - Listed as available 1/1/19.
9 - Destroyed by fire, and announced not to be rebuilt.
Edit 0 - Post created.
Edit 1 (1/4) - IT BEGINS! Northern California leads the race with a Safeway to close January 22nd. Also added Randalls' Georgetown address and a Market Street. Because of the addition of Market Street to "predicted", the "Projected Ratio" is still the same, though it will surely plummet.
Edit 2 (1/12) - Randalls in Georgetown has opened! However, we also learned of two closures in the meantime, a Star Market and a Vons. Due to the somewhat confusing way I calculated the ratios, there's three numbers, the "Actual Ratio" to show what has opened and closed so far as of this writing (it's +1 due to the new Randalls and no store closures), the "Projected Short-Term Ratio" to account for stores with known opening and closing dates (it adds a Market Street but incorporates the three closing stores), and the "Projected Long-Term Ratio" that incorporates all the stores known to open this year. Barring acquisitions, the Long-Term will go down further.
Edit 3 (1/27) - With the closure of Safeway in Sacramento and the opening of the new Market Street, the Actual Ratio is still +1. However, there were several closures announced in the meantime. In addition to the fact that I don't see Durant, OK opening by year end (unless I see some more information on it, seems like last time they had some property acquisition issues) and one of the Boise stores is replacing another meaning it won't affect the ratio positively (as 1219 Broadway will be closed), there were several further reported closures have caused the short-term ratio to plummet to -5. The addition of a Las Vegas Albertsons has changed the ratio to +3 long-term. The rebrand of the Pavilions at 2938 Tapo Canyon Road in Simi Valley, California has added +1 for Vons and -1 for Pavilions. This does not affect the other ratios for obvious reasons.
Edit 4 (2/9) - Changes made to account for a second Vons/Pavilions name switch (see the thread for more info), the actual closure of Star Market, and "Market Street Idaho". Added clarification for Oildale store. The actual ratio of opened stores to closed stores this year is officially zero.
Edit 5 (3/11) - The Bakersfield Vons, the Springfield Safeway, and the Phoenix Albertsons have all closed, pushing us to -3 in terms of "real ratios". Two more Albertsons closures have been discovered. Short Term (now 4/30) is -8, Long Term is +1 which by now confirms that Albertsons will have less supermarkets by December 31, 2018 than December 31, 2017 unless they buy any more supermarkets from independents/others. Of course, this was all written before they announced they were buying Rite Aid, which would really change things if it goes through.
Edit 6 (4/21) - Added Randalls closures (due to the amorphous closing date, will be written as 4/15 though they might've closed sooner) which means Randalls is now negative. Vons Canoga Park closed (date from article) and Lake Elsinore is apparently closing, so with Canoga Park gone Vons' ratio is equalized. The two Eastern Division Safeway stores have been added. The Market Street Idaho brands have also been updated for recent changes.
Edit 7 (5/6) - Three ACMEs and another Safeway in Oregon have been announced for closure. With this, short range (moved to 6/30) is now at a whopping -19 and long range is -10. As Vons in Lake Elsinore has closed, Vons is -2 for actual, and actual is -11. The prognosis for new stores looks pretty bad at this point, though the new Albertsons in Boise should be opening soon. The Rite Aid merger unfortunately is probably going to be a distraction that could be spent opening new stores, despite the fact that SuperValu and SEG may want to offload some decent stores...a dozen stores between them could really impact the numbers for the positive.
Edit 8 (6/21) - More closings have been added in their respective divisions including Seattle (2), the Randalls store on Barker-Cypress and 290 (sigh), West Covina Albertsons, Santa Barbara's Vons, and three stores in the Southwest Division. At least Mansfield opened. Removed the Store Breakdown list because it got a bit complex calculating what actually opened and what has since closed. It will return next month. No news yet on The Fresh Grocer in Philly, even though the trial was supposed to start by now...if it's a win, then it will probably have an opening date, if not, gone from the list.
Edit 9 (10/4) - Updated after a long absence. More store closures, but I've decided not to include the store branding flips or the ratios (it's a BIG loss, not even close!). 1219 Broadway Avenue was removed from the list entirely as it had the same address and reopened within months. The former Nob Hill store is going to become Andronico's.
Edit 10 (1/1/19) - Updated after another long absence. Tell me if I missed anything...