Albertsons

Albertsons Companies, Inc. is an American grocery company founded and headquartered in Boise, Idaho. It is privately owned and operated by investors, including Cerberus Capital Management.

With 2,260 stores as of the third quarter of fiscal 2019 and 267,000 employees as of fiscal 2018, the company is the second-largest supermarket chain in North America after Kroger, which has 2,758 stores. Albertsons ranked 53rd in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. Prior to its January 2015 merger with Safeway Inc. for $9.2 billion, it had 1,075 supermarkets located in 29 U.S. states under 12 different banners.