https://apnews.com/article/kroger-albertsons-79e366723d7287b2df71d96730fba76e
!pnw this is the only time I'll ever ping you with information that's actually useful in real life.
The Albertsons-Safeway merger was a fricking farce. It was obvious to everyone that when they sold the stores to Haggen, that was supposed to be their competitor, that it was a scam. They gave up all the stores they were losing money on to Haggen to be the "competition". Everyone knew that Haggen was about to go bankrupt already. And then, shockingly, it goes bankrupt. A lot of stores get shut down and everyone is fired and some of these places are still vacant to this day like it's goddarn Detroit.
I am still mad about this. I would go as far as to say that this pissed me off more than the ending of Mass Effect 3.
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Thank fricking God. The company that they were going to sell the excess stores to was clearly not big enough to absorb that many locations. My parents live in a town that is only served by a Fred Meyer and a Safeway, well also technically a Grocery Outlet but IYKYK.
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Yeah, the last one was such an obvious fricking scam that I could see it like 1 year in advance that they were dumping the stores on a failing business. I am no business guru but I know when people are obviously trying to make a company go bankrupt that tax fraud or some other kind of fraud is involved.
Grocery Outlet is great, but as I said, not in the same market. You can get really good stuff there sometimes but the whole point of the grocery store is you can rely on it.
But omg they had this frozen jambalaya once for a reasonable price that was actually really good. It must have been the remainders after the company went out of business, which is a shame because it's the best frozen food I've ever had in my life.
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