United Supermarkets reopening Wichita Falls Albertsons
Posted: April 29th, 2022, 8:14 am
In many ways a bit of a repeat to what happened to Haggen several years ago, United Supermarkets is reopening a store that was forced to be divested when they merged with Albertsons. The Albertsons in Wichita Falls was one of the older Albertsons stores in the state, opening as a Skaggs Albertsons in 1976 and converting to Albertsons in the late 1970s when the brand was discontinued. In January 2014 the store was closed as part of the divestiture deal and reopened as Cash Saver, which closed in 2019.
(News article, archived)
United at least seems to be opening stores at a semi-reasonable pace for a division, opening Pecos in 2020 and a new store in Lubbock in 2021. I wish South would get the message and at least start at least defending the stores back in Austin and Houston. Since the merger, Austin has opened a few stores but still lost a net of one store, Houston is looking pretty meager these days, and even Louisiana has lost both the 2011 Denham Springs store and the nice Mandeville store, which was effectively evicted for a Whole Foods Market and never replaced.
(News article, archived)
United at least seems to be opening stores at a semi-reasonable pace for a division, opening Pecos in 2020 and a new store in Lubbock in 2021. I wish South would get the message and at least start at least defending the stores back in Austin and Houston. Since the merger, Austin has opened a few stores but still lost a net of one store, Houston is looking pretty meager these days, and even Louisiana has lost both the 2011 Denham Springs store and the nice Mandeville store, which was effectively evicted for a Whole Foods Market and never replaced.