Could your Safeway be sold soon? See 89 Colorado stores on planned sale list
By Samantha Jarpe | Fox 31 News
Albertsons Companies, which owns 103 Safeway stores in the state of Colorado, released a list of 91 stores across the state it plans to sell if a planned merger between the company and Kroger is approved.
Of these, two are Albertsons-branded stores and 89 are Safeway-branded stores. With 103 Safeway stores in the state, that means that all but 14 Safeway stores in the state would be sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers, a New Hampshire-based company.
This includes all locations within Denver, Aurora and Boulder, among many more.
According to a divestiture plan released by the two companies in April, C&S Wholesale would license the Safeway brand in Colorado, meaning the stores would likely not have to rebrand if the deal goes through.
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