City Bound: Mat-Su Chains Make Inroads in Anchorage and Fairbanks
Two Matanuska-Susitna Borough businesses are extending their reach into Anchorage: Three Bears Alaska in Eagle River and Little Millers in Midtown.
Two Matanuska-Susitna Borough businesses are extending their reach into Anchorage: Three Bears Alaska in Eagle River and Little Millers in Midtown.
The journey of Zip Kombucha into coolers at Carrs/Safeway, Fred Meyer, Costco, and Walmart stores is an example of the path that Alaska-made products take from small-batch sales to national retail shelves.
The fourteen Carrs/Safeway stores in Alaska would be sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers to clear the way for their parent company’s acquisition by the owner of Fred Meyer.
Kroger and Albertsons, the owners of the Fred Meyer and Carrs/Safeway supermarket chains, have agreed to a merger worth $24.6 billion.