These days, as regulators scrutinize Albertsons’ plan to merge with its larger rival Kroger to become a coast-to-coast grocery powerhouse, you can’t necessarily blame the retailer for not wanting to be associated with the word “monopoly.”įor the second year in a row – and perhaps permanently – the long-running Monopoly Shop, Play, Win game typically played this time each year at Albertsons, and nearly two dozen Albertsons-owned chains like Safeway, Randall’s, Jewel-Osco and Shaw’s, has been shelved.
