Unified Grocers

Unified Grocers, originally Unified Western Grocers, was a retailer-owned wholesale grocery

Unified Grocers was the largest retailer-owned wholesaler in the western United States. They served more than 3,000 retail stores and recorded annual sales over $4 billion in 2009.[3] There were over 500 co-op members and customers.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2017, the company announced that it had entered into a merger agreement with SuperValu, in which SuperValu would acquire Unified Grocers, at a cost of around $375 million.^[1] Unified is now a wholly owned subsidiary of SuperValu. The transaction was completed on June 23, 2017.^[1] Bob Ling who was the CEO at the time took a multimillion-dollar payout after his expansion of Haggen grocery stores was one of the most colossal failures in the history of the grocery industry.

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