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Under the amended agreement, C&S will license the Albertsons banner in California and Wyoming and the Safeway banner in Arizona and Colorado. In these states, Kroger will re-banner the retained Albertsons and Safeway bannered stores following the closing of the merger. Kroger will maintain the ...

That looks very similar to some of the original California builds which were usually on gas station corners. They probably had some sort of signage and/or architectural restrictions in this location. It also looks very suspiciously like a former bank. It was built as a local pharmacy from the groun...

Does Walgreens typically keep non-descript buildings when they buy out smaller pharmacies? I've never seen one like this anywhere else. I've heard of them taking smaller pharmacies and moving their prescriptions over to their locations, but this tiny green-roofed building with white WALGREENS letter...

Albertsons took back Baker City. Maybe they'll take this one back. I'm very surprised this still ran as USA. The other USAs that 7-11 got were hastily rebranded to Speedway Express, there was something in the sale agreement that 7-11 had to stop using Marathon brands within 90 days of the transacti...

Absolutely. Kroger and other retailers have been able to drive sales quite well with the lure of fuel discounts. By divesting these locations, they lost their own network to try to incentivize with. Plus, they had decent pricing compared to the surrounding stations and actually were stocked pretty w...

It's almost comical how much 7-Eleven seems to hate Wyoming. They had a pretty long history of stores in the state, but those were sold off to Kum & Go during the big 1998 selloff: https://theindependent.com/news/7-eleven-stores-sell-to-kum-go/article_5ce710ba-b03c-530d-8996-ea09dafab08f.html Th...

There’s another one…

Wellington, Colorado.

You can go to www.nrc.com and sign up and view the list. Some surprises in my opinion in TX. Some new build Corner Store sites are going. Maybe one new build Circle K. Does not seem to be a case of selling redundant locations off. I think it must be location performance based. Also didn't know ther...

The franchisee in the Southern Colorado market didn't bother to pay his taxes, so the state seized all of them, and they never re-opened. 8 locations if I remember correctly. http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Dennys-restaurants-suddenly-close-across-Colorado-Springs-426656441.html https://gazette.com...

However, at one point, the Albertsons and Safeway stores were two different companies. They technically have stolen some business simply by merging. Sure, one could definitely say that. However, the merger happened; that is over and not at play here. The only thing at play is whether two separate b...