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| Company type | Subsidiary of Albertsons |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Headquarters | Anchorage, Alaska |
Number of locations | 24 |
| Products | Bakery, dairy, delicatessen, frozen foods, fuel, grocery, pharmacy, photographic processing, produce, seafood, snack food, liquor, flowers, Starbucks, and Western Union |
| Parent | Independent (1950–1999) Safeway (1999–2015) Albertsons (2015–present) C&S Wholesale Grocers (Sale to C&S Wholesale Grocers pending) |
| Website | www |
Carrs–Safeway (formerly Carrs Quality Centers) is a supermarket chain that is based in Anchorage, Alaska, and is a subsidiary of Albertsons. It was acquired in April 1999 by former parent Safeway from an employee ownership group, who itself had purchased the company from founder Larry Carr and his partner Barney Gottstein in 1990.
The proposed acquisition led to an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Alaska Public Interest Research Group, which was resolved by a consent decree reached between Safeway and the Alaska Attorney General's office which required the company to divest seven stores. Those stores re-opened as the grocery chain Alaska Marketplace, which closed at the end of 2000. One of those stores, the Foodland Shopping Circle in Fairbanks, one of the earliest stores in the Carrs chain, has remained largely vacant since.
As of 2010, there are 24 stores in Alaska, including: Anchorage, Fairbanks (both in multiple locations), Juneau, Kenai, Homer, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Nome, North Pole, Palmer, Seward, Soldotna, Valdez, Wasilla and Unalaska.[1][2]
- ^ "Safeway Locations". Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
- ^ "Carrs Locations". Archived from the original on 2012-12-28. Retrieved 2013-05-28.