Kroger to sell 6 DC-area Harris Teeter stores in Albertsons merger

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Kroger to sell 6 DC-area Harris Teeter stores in Albertsons merger
Jeff Clabaugh | [e-mail]

July 10, 2024, 8:17 AM

Kroger and Albertsons have released a final list of the hundreds of grocery stores they plan to divest as part of their $24.6 billion merger, despite the legal challenges and union opposition they face.

The stores proposed for sale include six Harris Teeter locations in the D.C. area — in Germantown and Olney in Maryland; Alexandria, Arlington and Purcellville in Virginia; and in D.C.’s Navy Yard. Kroger owns Harris Teeter and Albertsons owns Safeway, but no Safeway stores in the D.C. region were on the divestiture list, which includes almost 580 stores in 19 states.

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Jeff Clabaugh
Jeff Clabaugh has spent 20 years covering the Washington region's economy and financial markets for WTOP as part of a partnership with the Washington Business Journal, and officially joined the WTOP newsroom staff in January 2016.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Fewer and fewer producers/sellers of everything. Private equity or behaving like it

We are so screwed. The melting away of the state, we are ants to an anteater

[bottomofthehill]

2. Well, that sucks

I shop at 2 on that list.

[CanonRay]

3. The Safeway in my little town is on the list.

[nitpicked]

4. I know where the Arlington, Alexandria and Navy Yard stores are

Fortunately, my local one is not on the list (yet).

[IronLionZion]

5. It would be interesting if those stores became Piggly Wiggly

Unless they will stay Harris Teeter branded.