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One independent grocer has a third Piggly Wiggly in the works and that huge grocery deal — Kroger’s pending acquisition of Albertsons — may resurrect The Pig.
At its peak in 1932, the company operated 2,660 stores. It was later divided and sold off by region. It was franchised in the 1960s and had another heyday. C&S Wholesale Grocers, which is based in Keene, N.H. ended up with Piggly Wiggly when Fleming Cos. filed for bankruptcy in 2003. Fleming moved the headquarters of Piggly Wiggly out of Memphis for a short time to Lewisville where Fleming was based.
Soto has licensing agreements with Piggly Wiggly for each of his three stores, but there are no geographic restrictions, he said. “C&S would be able to bring Piggly Wiggly to North Texas.”One of the largest grocery suppliers in the U.S., C&S Wholesale Grocers is also Piggly Wiggly’s owner, and may soon own stores in Texas.as part of its efforts to get its huge $26.4 billion acquisition of Albertsons through the antitrust review of federal regulators.
The two chains have some overlap in Houston where Albertsons operates Randalls. Kroger doesn’t operate in Austin or San Antonio but is delivering groceries there from its new Dallas automated e-commerce facility. When C&S’s pending deal with Kroger was announced earlier this month, Kroger believed it had alleviated concerns about selling stores to weak buyers and elevated its prospects to clear the antitrust review. The pending merger has been clouded by the aftermath of the Albertsons acquisition of Safeway in 2015 which left neighborhoods with fewer competing grocers when stores were closed.
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