Haggen (supermarket)

Haggen, Inc.
Company typeDivision
IndustryRetail (grocery)
Founded1933 (91 years ago) (1933) in Bellingham, Washington, United States
FateAcquired by Albertsons
Headquarters
Bellingham, Washington
,
United States
Number of locations
15
ProductsBakery, dairy, deli, flowers, frozen foods, grocery, liquor, lottery, pharmacy, photographic processing, produce, seafood, snacks and Western Union
ParentAlbertsons (2016–present)
Websitewww.haggen.com

Haggen Food & Pharmacy is an American regional chain of grocery stores located in the state of Washington. It was founded in 1933 by Ben Haggen, Dorothy Haggen, and Doug Clark in Bellingham, Washington, where they opened first store on Bay Street. For the majority of its history under the ownership of Haggen, Inc., Haggen was the largest independent grocery retailer in the Pacific Northwest, with locations in Washington and Oregon. From 1982 through 2014, the company also operated the Top Food & Drug chain.

In late 2014, Haggen agreed to purchase and rebrand 146 West Coast Vons, Pavilions, Albertsons, and Safeway Inc. locations. This expanded Haggen's territory in Oregon, and to southern California, Nevada and Arizona, increasing the chain's locations from 18 stores with 16 pharmacies to 164 stores with 106 pharmacies, and the number of its employees from about 2,000 to about 10,000.[1][2] On September 1, 2015, Haggen filed suit against Albertsons for false representations and anti-competitive practices,[3] and on September 8, 2015, Haggen Food & Pharmacy filed for bankruptcy.[4] Subsequent to the bankruptcy filing, Haggen announced that they would abandon the new stores and revert to operating as a strictly Washington state grocery chain.[5]

On March 11, 2016, Albertsons reached an agreement to acquire the 29 remaining "core" Haggen stores for $106 million.[6] After this agreement, only 15 stores, all of them in Washington, retained the Haggen branding, though owned by Albertsons. The former holding company was subsequently dissolved in 2019.

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  6. ^ "Haggen to sell 29 stores to Albertsons for $106 million, close Oregon City store". Oregon Live. March 12, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2016.