While we had absolutely nothing to do with it, we felt like we needed to wipe the sweat off our brow when the saga of the Albertsons-Kroger Merger finally fell through in December.
The day that news broke, we felt this immense sense of relief. Why? Because, in order to appease regulators the chains had to agree to spin off a pretty significant amount of their stores in markets where the brands overlapped. Of the 579 set to be sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers, 10 of them were located in Idaho.
One of those stores happened to be the Albertsons location on Parkcenter that we’ve been shopping at for 15 years. We love the staff there. We know the store layout like the back of our hand. We didn’t want our favorite grocery store to change at all…