Super Saver Foods
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Super Saver Foods was an American price-impact grocery franchise. It was owned by Albertsons LLC. It was a no-frills grocery store where the customers bagged their own groceries at the checkout.
History
Acme version
Super Saver was a brand launched by the
American Stores version
In 1994,
In the coming months, American Stores would rebrand these stores as Food/Price Advantage. Finally, American Stores decided to rebrand them as Super Saver, bringing back the familiar logo that had been used decades earlier in Philadelphia.
In 1999,
Albertsons version
In 2003, Albertsons then announced that they would be developing a new Hispanic format in Southern California, and would be calling it Super Saver. A few Albertsons stores converted to Super Saver, as well as a Max Foods location near the Mexico border in San Ysidro.
In 2004, Albertsons announced that they were creating a discount grocery store division that would operate initially in Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. This division would be an independent operating subsidiary of Albertsons known as EXTREME, Incorporated. These stores would be converted poorly performing former Albertsons stores and the name used on the store would be Super Saver. At this time, the Super Saver logo was redesigned. Albertsons also rebranded two former Food 4 Less stores in Utah to Super Saver at this time, but continued to use other names for discount format stores in Colorado and parts of California (Max Foods and Grocery Warehouse). The Super Saver stores offered Acme products for private label goods rather than the Albertsons brand, much as the original Acme Super Saver chain sold the company's Alpha Beta products instead of the Acme Ideal brand of the time.
In 2006, Albertsons was dissolved as a company. The EXTREME group was sold to Cerberus Capital Management, which became known as Albertsons LLC. That same year, Cerberus made a decision to close the entire Super Saver store chain on August 1, except for the two Utah stores.[2] In 2018, the last remaining Super Saver stores in West Valley City and Salt Lake City (which were formerly Food 4 Less) were rebranded to Lucky, bringing an end to the Super Saver brand.
See also
References
- ^ Herbert Fry, C. ""The House that Quality Built" : A Brief History of the American Stores Company". TEHS Quarterly Archives. Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ m/Home/Home_S.las?Date=2006-06-14#A23144 More Albertsons Closings Announced, Morning News Beat, June 14, 2006