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Safeway has been in AZ since the 1920s (when it was known as Pay N Takit)...Albertsons has only been here since 1990. Safeway does well here because they are often the only big store in the small AZ towns where Walmart won't go into because of size. Which means the Albertsons name will probably go ...

I thought the Mandeville Albertsons (v1) pulled out with the rest of the NOLA stores in 2002 with the slash-and-burn of the Houston/San Antonio stores. There was another store near New Orleans that was sold to Sav-a-Center, which became Rouses. By 2005 (and Katrina) Albertsons was only in Baton Rouge.

According to Flickr, Several years before buying Safeway, Albertsons (Cerberus) had sold a store near TCU for a new mixed-use development to be built with an Albertsons below it. Instead, the developer ended up selling the land (it was right around the time of the recession) to Kroger (whoops). Albe...

The Max was indeed Albertsons "discount" brand for a while (early 1990s I think?) I'm not too concerned about the demise of unionized supermarkets. I imagine it's very beneficial for some, but it's terrible for low level workers, when I worked at Kroger, getting a union membership would pu...

Not sure about Grocery Outlet's move to the East Coast. Their short time in Texas and the Southwest in the early 2000s didn't go over that well.

Much of the Save-a-Lots are already franchised, spinning off the rest probably comes with still supplying them, and of course, the centers went back with Albertsons. The 2012 factbook of SVU (still up somewhere on the web, found it earlier this week) shows SVU-supplied stores heavily concentrated in...

I've visited an LLC Albertsons and a Safeway (Randalls) in the last few months, here's what I noticed-- - For both, "Signature" brands are rolled in, Essential Everyday and "Safeway" branded products are out. - Both have the same type of yellow signs for sales. - Numerous sales a...

Kroger knows not to operate multiple brands in a single market (I don't think there are any City Market stores in greater Denver for instance), and I think that Albertsons should do the same. I don't have numbers on if the SW division really was the best, but considering the fate of the others... No...

There's slightly more recent news that they sold off another half dozen County Market stores to an independent operator (who will continue to operate 'em) If you're referring to Covington Foods in Indiana/Illinois, they weren't owned by Supervalu, only supplied by them. And the operator that bought...

Looks like Safeway will take this one back...which will close the store for a few days again, and the war continues.