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#2, does that imply that American Stores bought into Skaggs Albertsons when Albertsons pulled out, or were they partnered alongside Albertsons prior to its respective split from Skaggs? Not too sure about #3 because there were "Skaggs Alpha Beta"-branded stores in California, where Jewel-...

This seems to be a rather confusing history of mergers and the like. First; how did Skaggs Albertsons become Skaggs Alpha Beta? Was there any transaction made, or was Alpha Beta another arm of Albertsons at the time? Then since the Jewel-Osco rebrand was completed before they were bought by Ralphs ...

That's correct. From what I read, American Stores was ruled to have an unfair advantage with both Alpha Beta and Lucky in California, so they converted a handful to Lucky (probably already having unified systems, so the transition was presumably easy and seamless) but divested the rest, and eventua...

https://www.winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/eda-six-grocery-store-chains-express-some-interest-about-locating-in-frederick-county/article_b8eeed16-3369-57c0-8972-f270abffdf69.html Late but here are some interesting revelations along these lines. Publix, Kroger, Wegmans, Whole Foods among others h...

Now that Wegmans has opened, they are getting quite dense in the Washington Area. What do you expact to happen next?

Not sure if this is the place for it, but how's Albertsons doing in other regions of the country? I'm just curious what's going on in other divisions that I don't get to observe on the ground all the time. I'm in northern New Jersey, and the very rapid renovations that were sweeping through the ACM...

And in Southern Cal, it is Round 2 for Kroger with ownership of Ralphs’/Food 4 Less, they owned the Market Basket chain in LA until the mid 80s. Even offered Tenderay brand beef and a few Kroger branded products. (But no Top Value stamps-they offered Blue Chips like almost every other LA chain) Int...

Looks like these stores were oversized clothing shops so much so they had to do this.

Not sure if this is the place for it, but how's Albertsons doing in other regions of the country? I'm just curious what's going on in other divisions that I don't get to observe on the ground all the time. I'm in northern New Jersey, and the very rapid renovations that were sweeping through the ACM...

MicroCenter is slow growing for a reason---they once had over 100 stores and now have just 25. They nearly went out of business about 10 years ago. They straddled the hobby market and broader consumer market, but had problems once PCs became commodity items and it no longer paid to build your own w...