Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/YKl7C
Kroger Co. has identified the 579 stores (across the US) it plans to sell to C&S Wholesale Grocers (aka Piggly Wiggly and Grand Union) in an effort to get antitrust regulators’ approval for its $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons Cos.
The deal would cover 124 stores across Washington state, including the following 27 stores in Seattle:
- QFC @ 1600 W. Dravus St.
- QFC @ 2500 SW Barton St.
- QFC @ 1401 Broadway
- QFC @ 2707 Rainier Ave. S.
- QFC @ 1531 NE 145th St.
- QFC @ 11100 Roosevelt Way NE
- QFC @ 4500 Wallingford Ave. N.
- QFC @ 9999 Holman Road NW
- QFC @ 500 Mercer St.
- QFC @ 4550 42nd Ave. SW
- QFC @ 417 Broadway E.
- QFC @ 5700 24th Ave NW
- Safeway @ 8340 15th Ave. NW
- Safeway @ 2622 California Ave. SW
- Safeway @ 7340 35th Ave. NE
This deal shouldn’t be approved. At all. We need more competition, not less.