One of the major brand names in Chicago’s grocery landscape will change hands as giants Kroger and Albertsons shed stores in hopes of securing federal approval for their megamerger. The companies announced Friday they would sell off more than 400 grocery stores, including 14 in Illinois, to C&S Grocery Wholesalers for $1.9 billion. The companies also said they would sell off the Mariano’s .
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Kroger, the largest traditional grocery chain in the nation, is reportedly in talks to buy Albertsons, creating a supermarket behemoth with nearly 5,000 stores.
A potential Kroger-Albertsons supermarket megamerger would create the largest pure grocery chain in the nation, and put Chicago rivals Mariano’s and Jewel in the same basket.