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What is interesting is how the shopping center stayed relatively occupied despite losing Vons and Wal Mart. I wonder if this would still be open as Vons, had Albertsons/Vons not been merged...... What killed both stores was the years long project to rebuild and reconfigure the off-ramps from I-15 N...

Union: Kroger, Albertsons merger is another Haggen, maybe worse.

President and member responds to SN's Scott Moses' claim

Jan 17, 2024

https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail- ... aybe-worse

Just looking at their own store locator, yes there are plenty of holes in it. There are gaps all along I-15 all the way through Temecula (where Albertsons has a 2 to 1 store ratio in the entire valley for example). Are there some areas where there's concentration? Sure. But there are plenty of spot...

This former Vons store will become an EōS Fitness location this year. The Walmart in the same shopping center, which relocated 2 exits north at the end of March, 2021 in a new build space and upgraded to a Walmart SuperCenter, will become a boat dealership. https://patch.com/california/lakeelsinore-...

WA lawsuit filed. CNBC reporting a joint statement from Kroger, Albertsons, and C&S announcing that the merger close is now delayed and "they expect it to close by the first half of Kroger's fiscal year." Which would mean if they got approval they now would not close until at least mi...

In the areas where Albertsons is strongest in the IE Stater has holes in their network of stores. They're only saturated in San Bernardino County where Ralphs is virtually non existing and Albertsons is weak. Many Stater gaps in Riverside County where it appears they're second place to Albertsons. ...

Yet the FTC has indeed allowed a lot of other silliness over the last two decades that has not been allowed before. I would wait before you automatically write this one off. I know it would create a giant monster, but the government loves giant monsters these days. I work for the government. I alre...

I am going to slightly disagree about divestitures to Stater Brothers being negative to competition in the broad IE. On the whole, yes, they are fully deployed in the IE, but just a little east of there in the Coachella Valley, they have no coverage in the submarkets along 111 (essentially no store...

Scoop: FTC unlikely to weigh in on Kroger-Albertsons before February

https://www.axios.com/pro/retail-deals/ ... =editorial

Yet the FTC has indeed allowed a lot of other silliness over the last two decades that has not been allowed before. I would wait before you automatically write this one off. I know it would create a giant monster, but the government loves giant monsters these days. I think there are many legitimate...