Albertson's for sale

[Gunslinger]

Just saw on the news that a the supermarket chain, Albertson's is for sale.  You may or may not have them in the area but they are all over the midwest and south east.  This kinda of sucks because they are close to us and I kinda like going there.

Anyone care to guess why?  The grocery store workers Union strike that happend not to long ago.  The company never fully recovered from it.  Yup, union workers strike and will probably no longer be workers.  of the 256 stores in the local S. cal area at least half are predicted to close.  kinda sucks

[indy007]

All the Albertsons in Houston closed down over 2 years ago.

[SOB]

This has been in the works for a little while.  Albertsons sucks anyhow, which is what I believe is a far more likely explanation of their problems than just blaming the union.

[Krusher]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
Just saw on the news that a the supermarket chain, Albertson's is for sale.  You may or may not have them in the area but they are all over the midwest and south east.  This kinda of sucks because they are close to us and I kinda like going there.

Anyone care to guess why?  The grocery store workers Union strike that happend not to long ago.  The company never fully recovered from it.  Yup, union workers strike and will probably no longer be workers.  of the 256 stores in the local S. cal area at least half are predicted to close.  kinda sucks

Savon bought a large chunk of the DFW Albertsons market.

[Gunslinger]

savon is owned by albertson's

Some of their stores are crappy some are the best in the area.  It all depends on where you go.

Ok, here's my main motivation for this post (SOB you'll appreciate this)

I live on a military installation wich is at least 16 miles to the nearest civilization.  The "shoppette" as their called (or class 6 store, basically the place that sells all the booze on base) has outragous prices because AAFES (the corrupt nazi organization that governs military exchanges and stores) has no competition close by so their prices are horendous (yes on a military base, it happens, only advantage is no sales tax)

Ok, they have this thing called a "price challenge"  basically if I bring in an add from a "local" store I get it for the same price.  I usually save a ton of money this way considering we get adds from all the major chains at least once a week.  "Why don't you just go their gunslinger?"  Good question, picture the moon, then add roads (think this was MT's line) and you have were I live, like I said 30 mile round trip to go shopping minimum.  stater bro's. is 64 miles away.  

So if albertson's goes away that's one less place to send me beer adds and they usually have GREAT prices on liqure.  Last week it was 2 for $12 domested 12 packs.  This week its 20pk bottles for $10.99.  

So screw the union I want my cheep beer prices.  

[GtoRA2]

I agree they suck, but atleast they dont load their deli meat with MSG like the safeway. (trust me I can tell, BOY OH BOY can I tell)


Other then the deli meat thing they are about the same as safeway but with fewer clerks.

they put in self checkers, and I though great, well that was before they cut back the live checkers by half lol.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Gunslinger

Anyone care to guess why?  The grocery store workers Union strike that happend not to long ago.  The company never fully recovered from it.  Yup, union workers strike and will probably no longer be workers.  of the 256 stores in the local S. cal area at least half are predicted to close.  kinda sucks

That wasn't a strike. That was a lockout. IIRC.

[SOB]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
"Why don't you just go their gunslinger?"  Good question, picture the moon, then add roads

LOL.  OK OK, mourning the loss of a crappy store due to the potential loss of a cheap booze supply is noble.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Sandman
That wasn't a strike. That was a lockout. IIRC.

I pretty sure they were striking.  They were hiring temp casheirs at the time for $20 an hour.  People were picketing the stores all over the place.

thanks for the sympothy SOB.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
I pretty sure they were striking.  They were hiring temp casheirs at the time for $20 an hour.  People were picketing the stores all over the place.

thanks for the sympothy SOB.

Here's what happened. On October 21, 2003, the UFCW went on strike after negotiations failed with Vons.

Then, Albertson's locked out the UFCW, followed by Ralphs also with a lock out.

source

[SaburoS]

Safeway has Union employees. How are they doing?

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by SaburoS
Safeway has Union employees. How are they doing?

I'm sure it hurt them just as much as albertson's.  Pssst read my second post

[Skilless]

Originally posted by Sandman
Here's what happened. On October 21, 2003, the UFCW went on strike after negotiations failed with Vons.

Then, Albertson's locked out the UFCW, followed by Ralphs also with a lock out.

source

Thanks for knowing and speaking the truth.

[Hawklore]

We had one  close done, and auction off their junk..

Albertsons sucked, dirty, poor service...

Publix is allright, just too ritsy for me..

[Suave]

HEB has pretty much ran every other grocery store chain in Texas out of business. I haven't seen an Albertsons in Texas since about 1998.