Ahold buys US grocery chain
Friday 18 December 2009
Supermarket group Ahold is taking over 25 stores from privately-owned US supermarket chain Ukrop's for $140m.
Ahold already owns the Giant supermarket group with 150 stores in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia and books over half group turnover in the US.
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Perhaps Ahold will start importing back some of the quality and choice of US grocery stores. It blows my mind that the Dutch accept such poor quality and choice in their supermarkets in Holland. They are shocked to hear how much better Dutch owned supermarkets are abroad than at home.
By Quest | December 18, 2009 11:52 AM