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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Keep calm and carry on.

What if you don't have a choice ?

(@ our local newspaper Wikipedia)
Albertsons LLC is an American grocery company founded and based in Boise, Idaho.
In July 2014, it acquired Safeway Inc for $9.2 billion.[5]
The newly merged company has more than 2,400 stores and over 250,000 employees,[6]
which makes it the second largest supermarket chain in North America after The Kroger Company,
which has 2,424 stores.


Haggen Food & Pharmacy is the largest independent grocery retailer in the Pacific Northwest.
Haggen, Inc. began in 1933 in the midst of the great depression ...in downtown Bellingham, Washington.
Haggen, Inc. announced on February 17, 2011 that ... had sold a controlling shareholder interest to The Comvest Group.

In late 2014, Haggen agreed to purchase and rebrand 146 West Coast Safeway and Albertson's locations over the next year, including at least 20 in Oregon, as part of anti-monopoly requirements following the Albertson's-Safeway merger. This increases the chain's locations from 18 to 164, and its employees from about 2,000 to about 10,000.

(@ our local newspaper the Review)
Albertsons is closing its store on South State Street, the company said Wednesday,
leaving only one supermarket in Lake Oswego's downtown core.
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With the closing of Wizer’s in 2013 and the pending closure of Albertsons' State Street location,
there will be only one grocery store left in downtown Lake Oswego — Safeway,
located on A Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets.

If you cannot see where this is heading, the answer is in signature line below.
... and we can all sing along with Ernie Ford