Tag: Albertsons
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Safeway workers in Colorado Springs vote to authorize a strike
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs Safeway workers are poised to join statewide strikes. Local members, representing 12 stores in the Colorado Springs area, voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The vote did not mean picket lines would be going up at local Safeway stores Tuesday night, but rather…
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Safeway workers begin striking at 4 Colorado locations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Employees at four Colorado Safeway locations went on strike Sunday, forming picket lines after negotiations between their union and the grocery store chain broke down. The labor action, organized by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, began at 6 a.m. Sunday at stores in…
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Are Colorado’s King Soopers and Safeway stores both at risk of a strike?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Two of Colorado’s largest grocers are at risk of facing a workers’ strike. The union representing Colorado grocery workers has not reached an agreement with either Kroger’s King Soopers and City Market leadership or Albertsons’ Safeway for new employee contracts. The United Food and Commercial…
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Albertsons will have a new CEO. She’s from Denver.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Albertsons, the parent company of Safeway, will soon have a new CEO who’s grocery career began in Denver. The company’s Chief Operating Officer Susan Morris will succeed Albertsons’ current CEO Vivek Sankaran, the grocer announced Monday. Sankaran plans to retire and Morris will take over May…
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Cucumber products recalled in grocery stores across Colorado after possible salmonella outbreak
Albertsons Companies has initiated a voluntary recall of some store-made deli and produce items containing bulk cucumbers associated with a recent illness outbreak, according to a Tuesday news release. The items were available for purchase at Safeway and Albertsons stores in several states in the West and Midwest regions of the U.S., including Colorado, officials…
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Colorado Kroger, Albertsons stores pursued illegal no-poach agreements, lawsuit claims
Two of the nation’s larger grocery store companies are the subject of a new class action lawsuit in Colorado alleging they entered illegal “no-poach” agreements with each other during a union strike in 2022. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 (UFCW) on Monday filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court against Kroger and Albertsons…
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Colorado judge temporarily blocks Kroger, Albertsons merger
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado judge issued an order temporarily blocking the proposed $25 billion merger between Kroger and Albertsons following a lawsuit from the state, according to court documents. Kroger is the parent company of King Soopers in Colorado, while Albertsons runs the Safeway chain in the…
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Kroger and Albertsons plan to divest 91 stores in Colorado if controversial merger goes through
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As Kroger and Albertsons — the parent companies of King Soopers and Safeway — brace for court battles on the future of its potential merger, the grocers released Tuesday the official list of stores it plans to divest. The grocers announced in April it plans…
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Denver court dismisses Kroger’s plea to drop Colorado anti-merger lawsuit
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s lawsuit against the proposed Kroger and Albertsons merger worth $24.6 billion will carry on, a Denver District Court judge ruled Wednesday. The grocery stores operating the King Soopers and Safeway brands in Colorado asked the court to drop the case brought forth by Attorney…
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Kroger plans to sell Safeway brand in Colorado to help secure merger with Albertsons
Under pressure from government regulators, Kroger and Albertsons have decided to sell nearly 600 stores across the country, including the Safeway brand in Colorado, in an effort to get their proposed $24.6 billion merger through. Kroger said it will sell 579 stores across the country to New Hampshire-based C&S Wholesale Grocers — 116 more than originally planned, including 91 Albertsons-owned…