The company has stores across the country, but is prolific in the Midwest, along the Atlantic seaboard and in the South outside of Florida.The companies said they have 85 million customers combined signed up for their loyalty programs.The two companies will have nearly three-quarters of a million employees and Kroger is the largest unionized supermarket chain in the country.
If put together, that would give it the largest market share of any grocery chain in the area with 28%, Those percentages were how the grocery landscape looked before popular Texas grocer H-E-B entered the market withH-E-B opens in Frisco with a crowd of 1,500 people waitingAlbertsons and Kroger have a combined portfolio of 34,000 private-label products, including lines of natural and organic items. They make a lot of those items, too, at 52 manufacturing plants.
Areas such as Colorado and Washington could see the majority of stores being spun off. In Washington, Kroger has stores such as Fred Meyer and QFC, while Albertsons has its own Albertsons stores and Safeway. One analyst pointed out that the company could have a market share of more than 40% in those two states.
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