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That does not ring true for any of the places I've lived.
I don't know how they counted (percent of population near store? Total store count? Gross revenue per state?), but I think cities distort things. By way of example: I lived in Seattle and couldn't find a Safeway anywhere. Grew up in a different NW town that had no Safeway, yet I suspect they are right. It's a big state.
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I wonder if they aggregate up to parent company. Carrs is very popular in the PNW and it's owned by Safeway. Same might go for some of the others.
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144 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 22h
If they do that, it's not done consistently, as many of these are subsidiary brands of larger corporations:
Albertsons = Safeway = ACME = Jewel-Osco Kroger = Fry's = King Soopers = Dillons = Harris Teeter (Ahold Delhaize) = Giant = Food Lion = Stop & Shop = Hannaford
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OK, I think what happened though, in the case of Safeway in particular, is that it bought out the most popular chain of stores and eventually changed the name.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 19h
Yeah, most of these have been "centralized" through M&A.
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