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Nov. 17, 2008
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CORRECTION, 11/18/08 - A story in Monday's Business section incorrectly identified the location of an Albertson's store that is closing in December. The store is at Bonanza Road and Lamb Boulevard.

Albertsons closing two LV stores

Union official says no other closures expected; workers to be moved to other outlets

By HUBBLE SMITH
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

This Albertsons grocery store on East Bonanza Road is one of two in Las Vegas that are slated to close. "Store closings are part of the business," a union official said.
Photos by Martin S. Fuentes/Review-Journal.





Albertsons is closing two grocery stores in the Las Vegas Valley and will place about 120 employees from the stores at other locations, a union executive said Friday.

The store at Tropicana Avenue and Mountain Vista Street closed last week and a larger store at Bonanza and Lamb roads is being closed in early December.

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    • Those are the only Albertsons stores slated to close at this time, said Mike Giddings, secretary-treasurer for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 711.

    Albertsons has 520 stores in Nevada, California and the Northwest. It has 38 stores and about 3,000 employees in Las Vegas.

    "Store closings are part of the business," Giddings said. "Store openings are part of the business. There's definitely been more stores opening than closing."

    The Bonanza store is going to be converted to a Hispanic grocery store, an Albertsons shopper told the Review-Journal.

    "It's going to be hard on everyone that lives in this area," said another shopper who would not give her name. "I'll go back to Smith's (at Nellis Boulevard and Stewart Avenue). I'll do it all over there."

    Giddings said these are older stores. The one on Tropicana is small and doesn't have the "look" or format desired by Albertsons.

    "Things kind of go in cycles. Stores get older. They end up getting closed. They remodel sometimes, but that doesn't last forever," Giddings said.

    Retail strip properties, as a whole, have been hurt by the current economic climate, and sellers of grocery strips have had to adjust their expectations, a quarterly report from LoopNet commercial real estate services said.

    Over the 12 months ending in September, grocery strips volume totaled just $4.6 billion, a 72 percent deterioration from the year-ago period. On a quarterly basis, grocery strip volume declined more than 75 percent from third quarter 2007.

    Food stores targeting every consumer demographic have come to Las Vegas in the last 10 years, including Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Fresh & Easy and Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets.

    Save-A-Lot, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Supervalu, opened its first store in Las Vegas on Rancho Drive two years ago.

    Supervalu, which has more than 2,500 stores under a variety of names, acquired Albertsons in 2006. The company's Web site lists a closed Albertsons store at 4730 E. Flamingo Road for sale.

    Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons had acquired Lucky grocery stores for $12 billion in 1999 and changed the name of more than 400 stores in Southern Nevada and California. The FTC ordered that Albertsons sell off some of its stores. Raley's bought 18 of them in Las Vegas.

    Contact reporter Hubble Smith at hsmith @reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0491.

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    mickel wrote on November 19, 2008 02:37 PM: It's about time the Bonanza store closed. The health department should have shut that place down years ago. Items being sold well beyond shelf life. Frozen items with severe cases of freezer burn from being completely thawed then refrozen to appear fresh.


    stevem wrote on November 18, 2008 08:39 AM: meh.

    who cares?


    i go to trader joe's for 95% of my grocery shopping. good prices and i can get in and out in about 5 minutes. who needs 80 different kinds of cereal? 20 kinds of frozen pizza?


    WTF? wrote on November 17, 2008 11:06 PM: "The Bonanza store is going to be converted to a Hispanic grocery store, an Albertsons shopper told the Review-Journal."



    Yeah, that's what America needs. An Hispanic grocery store. United States of F-ing Mexico. Gotta love that. NOT!


    WTF? wrote on November 17, 2008 11:06 PM: "The Bonanza store is going to be converted to a Hispanic grocery store, an Albertsons shopper told the Review-Journal."

    Yeah, that's what America needs. An Hispanic grocery store. United States of F-ing Mexico. Gotta love that. NOT!


    bob ahhab wrote on November 17, 2008 10:32 PM: good one less rip off store . better value at food 4 less. only go there to read not buy magazines and use toliet.
    and that silly card program.


    Victor wrote on November 17, 2008 08:08 PM: Tom in Summerlin-

    That's the price you pay when you live there. Hence why people from Summerlin call themselves Tom in Summerlin, because they are proud to live in that higher scale side of town. I am Victor in Ghetto Northeast. See? Doesn't sound nearly as nice, so i only get Food4Less and Mexican Grocery Stores


    Tom in Summerlin wrote on November 17, 2008 03:56 PM: The Albertson's in Summerlin (on Charleston) has the highest prices I have ever seen at a main stream grocery store. It is a beautiful store, and I used to go there all the time, but the mark ups are way too high now. I go to Smiths all the time now.


    douglas wrote on November 17, 2008 03:26 PM: good riddance.

    2 years ago i picked a 12 oz soda from an end cap cooler at the check out lane. they had just begun that "loyalty card" scam. since i didn't have such a card, i was charged $1.58. this while other major supermarkets sell 2 liter, albeit generic/house label soda, for 50 or 60 cents. obviously had the soda a price sign showing that $1.58, i wouldn't have taken it. that's intentional deception on the part of the store manager. if they steal on so trivial a product, what does the manager cheat on with other products ?

    though i may be in an alberstons a couple of times a week to use the post office express, for the rest of this life, i won't spend a dime with albertson's. thievery cannot be rewarded with future purchases.


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    Sam wrote on November 17, 2008 02:36 PM: GOOD!

    Their store's SUCK!


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