I'm surprised that Gerbes is the largest Kroger brand in Missouri. They only have five or six stores.
In other words, Kroger barely exists in Missouri.
There’s only 3 in the entire state. There is one in the next town over from where I grew up and it hasn’t been really updated since I first visited as a kid. My hometown is pretty rural and would die without the military base, but we have Walmart, Price Cutter (pretty similar to Kroger), and Country Mart (looks as it sounds). If you’re willing to drive 30 mins, there’s an Aldi the next town over, which also happens to have one of those three Kroger.
Wow I had no idea there are only six gerbes. Funny thing is when I shop gerbes things are often rung up or charged as Dillons. The grocery carts even say Dillons sometimes.
Their own websites say 55 QFCs and 59 Fred Meyers. Afaik, QFC basically only exists north of Tacoma, while the rest of the state has Fred Meyer. Makes sense that it would be close since QFCs are smaller, but *far* more of the state by area has Fred Meyer.
Fascinating. I literally live there and had no idea. It's kind of on the south side of town and I never go through that particular part of it. That's pretty funny.
One of the perks of living in Central Texas is HEB. When living in other states using the regional chains was always so expensive and miserable. Especially Safeway brands. Kroger was bad in DFW too, but definitely a step up from Safeway/Tom Thumb/Randall's. The area I lived in California had mostly Safeway and a few Lucky's. Had to shop at Trader Joes even though their selection is very limited for raw goods.
IIRC Kroger used to own the Turkey Hill convenience store brand, which would have given them a major presence in Pennsylvania (I am going solely off of what the logo on my key tag bonus card was so someone please correct me if I’m off on this)
All of the Baker's in Nebraska are in the Omaha area. The stores carry several Dillons branded items. It's kinda weird. They are also the only place that carries Spumoni that I know of, so that's something.
I was confused by SC because I live nearish to several Krogers but have never seen a Harris Teeter. Turns out Columbia is the one exception for some reason and everywhere else has Harris Teeter.
Kroger is a grocery store company. They started as the specific Kroger chain but then they bought up a bunch of smaller regional chains around the country. So for example WA doesn't have any Kroger brand stores but they have Fred Meyer, which has the same ownership.
So this is a map of which Kroger-owned store brand has the most presence in each state.
Pretty sure this level of consolidation is a uniquely awful American thing.
It's like a few companies own everything. The big guys put the small guys out of business. That's Amazon's business model: charge less until the competitor goes broke, then buy them.
I used to be surprised that no one knew what a Ralph’s was when I went anywhere but California. Now I’m a Fred Myers state and I never go to Fred Myers.
Just to be confusing, my town (in Washington) has a store called Ralph’s Thriftway, which is part of a small local chain unconnected with the Kroger Ralph’s.
I'm from Missouri. What the fuck is a gerbes. We have regular Kroger's there. Only like three of them but they're there. I've never seen or heard of Gerbes before in my life.
It looks like Kroger announced they intended to merge with them back in 2022 but that doesn't seem to have gone through yet. The FTC sued to block the transaction, which seems like a death knell and I totally get it. That'd corner an unreasonable amount of the grocery market.
They're bad, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them "the devil" like Amazon or Walmart. At least they let their employees unionize, for example. But, like, they're a "do the bare minimum to avoid too much scrutiny and not look like a total shithead" type of company. That's likely why they thought they could do this massive merger and nobody would object. Walmart or Amazon tries this and it doesn't even last a week before everyone and their grandmother sues.
FTC sued to kill the deal and several states have been advised by various watchdog type groups to also reject the deal themselves, which would also help kill the deal. I don't see it happening at this point.
Albertsons is/was a different chain (for now). I lived in Montana up until early last year and Smith's was the Kroger brand, there was also Albertsons but that's still separate, though Kroger is trying to acquire Albertsons right now.
It doesn't surprise me that Smith's is the most common Kroger store, but I only know of 1, in Great Falls.
Albertsons definitely has the most grocery stores in the state but, as others said, is a different company. My favorites are Safeway and Albertsons a few blocks away from each other in Helena and Hamilton.
Edit: there are apparently 4 Smiths, GF, Bozeman, Kalispell, and Columbia Falls.
King Soopers represent!
Did not know that's only in CO.
There's one King Soopers in Wyoming, but aside from that it's only Colorado.
Could be in other states, too. This is just a map of the most common Kroger brand per state.
Don't get me wrong, I love King Soopers, but what is that name!?!?
I’ll keep this map handy for when people mention Kroger and I go, ??? (I Live in Northeast)
Regional brands are too strong. I had no idea what any of the stores were. All felt Italian themed
If someone mentioned Fry’s I would probably think they were making a Futurama joke. Never heard of it before
Electronic store
MB and Hannaford my beloved
For a while I didn’t know about Hannaford either
Cause its only in VT,NH and Maine. Even then its mostly just in maine
In New York now I think.
It's in upstate NY too. I grew up in the Albany area and it was either Hannaford or Price Chopper (now Market 32)
There were Hannafords in MA. I lived near one. To be fair, it started as a Victory and is now a Shop N Save.
I'm surprised that Gerbes is the largest Kroger brand in Missouri. They only have five or six stores. In other words, Kroger barely exists in Missouri.
There’s only 3 in the entire state. There is one in the next town over from where I grew up and it hasn’t been really updated since I first visited as a kid. My hometown is pretty rural and would die without the military base, but we have Walmart, Price Cutter (pretty similar to Kroger), and Country Mart (looks as it sounds). If you’re willing to drive 30 mins, there’s an Aldi the next town over, which also happens to have one of those three Kroger.
Wow I had no idea there are only six gerbes. Funny thing is when I shop gerbes things are often rung up or charged as Dillons. The grocery carts even say Dillons sometimes.
TIL Kroger owns Ralph’s
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I think they are limited to Southern CA. I grew up in Northern CA and have never seen any up here.
That may have to do with where you lived. Ralphs is pretty much only in Orange County, San Diego County, and Riverside/San Bernardino.
Freddie Kroger would be a horror show.
What about QFC?
I looked it up out of curiosity, and Fred Meyer just barely outnumbers them. 59 to 55.
Yeah this map is wrong. QFC is more common in WA than Fred Meyer - by a lot.
Their own websites say 55 QFCs and 59 Fred Meyers. Afaik, QFC basically only exists north of Tacoma, while the rest of the state has Fred Meyer. Makes sense that it would be close since QFCs are smaller, but *far* more of the state by area has Fred Meyer.
Olympia/Lacey has a QFC, but it’s probably the southernmost one.
Fascinating. I literally live there and had no idea. It's kind of on the south side of town and I never go through that particular part of it. That's pretty funny.
Why would you include a color and not put it in your legend? I assume it’s for no Kroger stores but seriously?
I'm genuinely quite surprised there are so many states without a Kroger of any kind.
No Kroger land represent
Don't worry, soon you will. Kroger will merge with Albertsons
Boo! That would put almost all the grocery stores in my area under one conglomerate. No, thanks!
Far from a sure thing at this point, thankfully.
I agree man I was just yelling CO but from a corporate grocer level I’m with you!
One of the perks of living in Central Texas is HEB. When living in other states using the regional chains was always so expensive and miserable. Especially Safeway brands. Kroger was bad in DFW too, but definitely a step up from Safeway/Tom Thumb/Randall's. The area I lived in California had mostly Safeway and a few Lucky's. Had to shop at Trader Joes even though their selection is very limited for raw goods.
one thing I really miss about Texas is HEB. And the freeway road infrastructure is pretty cool too.
Oklahoma has Kroger delivery if that counts. No stores that I’m aware of.
I like how Oklahoma is like a little island of non-Kroger
I've never seen any of these stores in my area of California because it's only Food's Co or Food 4 Less
Both of those are also owned by Kroger.
IIRC Kroger used to own the Turkey Hill convenience store brand, which would have given them a major presence in Pennsylvania (I am going solely off of what the logo on my key tag bonus card was so someone please correct me if I’m off on this)
Kroger sold them in 2019.
All of the Baker's in Nebraska are in the Omaha area. The stores carry several Dillons branded items. It's kinda weird. They are also the only place that carries Spumoni that I know of, so that's something.
Bakers is a division of dillons, so its not that weird
TIL Ralph's and Harris Teeter are Kroger brands
I was confused by SC because I live nearish to several Krogers but have never seen a Harris Teeter. Turns out Columbia is the one exception for some reason and everywhere else has Harris Teeter.
What does this even mean? I'm commenting as part of the 95.8% of the worlds population that is not from the USA.
Kroger is a grocery store company. They started as the specific Kroger chain but then they bought up a bunch of smaller regional chains around the country. So for example WA doesn't have any Kroger brand stores but they have Fred Meyer, which has the same ownership. So this is a map of which Kroger-owned store brand has the most presence in each state. Pretty sure this level of consolidation is a uniquely awful American thing.
OK, that makes some sense.
It's like a few companies own everything. The big guys put the small guys out of business. That's Amazon's business model: charge less until the competitor goes broke, then buy them.
Good thing we have robust antitrust regulations! /s
Not sure why you got down voted, it's true. Now Kroger and Albertsons (the other major grocer) are merging.
And will face competition from Amazon fresh rapidly expanding 😵
What’s happening in northern Utah? Haha
Missouri is Gerbes? I've never even heard of that store, where are they all at?
Only 6 of them, all in the mid mo region and by the lake.
I used to be surprised that no one knew what a Ralph’s was when I went anywhere but California. Now I’m a Fred Myers state and I never go to Fred Myers.
Just to be confusing, my town (in Washington) has a store called Ralph’s Thriftway, which is part of a small local chain unconnected with the Kroger Ralph’s.
A what now?
Northeast, land of no Kroger. Yay Ahold.
I'm from Missouri. What the fuck is a gerbes. We have regular Kroger's there. Only like three of them but they're there. I've never seen or heard of Gerbes before in my life.
Are all of your versions as shitty as our Pick n Saves?
I like conglomerates
Montana has to be Albertsons, which isn't even on the list
This map is Kroger-owned brands/subsidiaries. Albertson's is not connected to Kroger in any way.
Yeah, this map reminded me that Safeway/Albertson's is not part of Kroger.
It looks like Kroger announced they intended to merge with them back in 2022 but that doesn't seem to have gone through yet. The FTC sued to block the transaction, which seems like a death knell and I totally get it. That'd corner an unreasonable amount of the grocery market.
Yeah, Kroger is the devil
They're bad, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them "the devil" like Amazon or Walmart. At least they let their employees unionize, for example. But, like, they're a "do the bare minimum to avoid too much scrutiny and not look like a total shithead" type of company. That's likely why they thought they could do this massive merger and nobody would object. Walmart or Amazon tries this and it doesn't even last a week before everyone and their grandmother sues.
Didn't Kroger buy Albertsons in 2022?
I believe there are antitrust lawsuits that have put that on hold for the time being.
Oh, my bad then, hadn't heard that
FTC sued to kill the deal and several states have been advised by various watchdog type groups to also reject the deal themselves, which would also help kill the deal. I don't see it happening at this point.
Albertsons is/was a different chain (for now). I lived in Montana up until early last year and Smith's was the Kroger brand, there was also Albertsons but that's still separate, though Kroger is trying to acquire Albertsons right now.
It doesn't surprise me that Smith's is the most common Kroger store, but I only know of 1, in Great Falls. Albertsons definitely has the most grocery stores in the state but, as others said, is a different company. My favorites are Safeway and Albertsons a few blocks away from each other in Helena and Hamilton. Edit: there are apparently 4 Smiths, GF, Bozeman, Kalispell, and Columbia Falls.