Thursday, March 17, 2016

Haggens rises from the ashes

Haggens will  have half the stores that were sold to Albertsons under  Albertsons management.    The brand will still be visible.     Mostly they will be north and south of here.    This shake up of the industry has been going on for close to two years.    A lot of people lost their jobs and a lot of people have been inconvenienced with closed stores.  Someone wanted to be the biggest in the northwest.  It reminds me of the teenager  that goes through a buffet line and takes all the fruit to prove he's macho and then can't eat all of it.   ......except the reprocussions to other people are far more  out-reaching and devastating.



Albertsons will take over the remaining stores.   This came out of the merger between Safeways and Albertsons.  At this point in time they have slowly incorporated each other's ad campaigns and both ads are virtually identical sans a pic or two.

Of the two stores, Safeways had the best buys and was cleaner in my opinion.   We should see soon how things fall out.

We still have two Kroger stores - QFC and Fred Meyers , Winco, grocery outlet and Costco.   SAMs club is in the next town.    Lately, Winco and Fred Meyers are the best prices.
Our Albertsons is inconvenient to get to.    Safeways is not and th dollar store is nearby.   I like it,when I can clump errands.











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