The Ohio-based corporation that does business as Krueger—sorry, I mean Kroger—has put two more Fred Meyer's on the chopping board. These ones are in the Seattle area: one in Redmond, the other in Lake City. I visited the former not too long ago to buy wine for a family event. This Fred Meyer's was, on a Saturday, a pretty busy place; and something of a festive atmosphere (people selling this, and people selling that) surrounded it. The store is really huge, and so when it goes under in mid-October, it will leave an equally huge commercial black hole in the neighborhood. Maybe we should start thinking about socializing our crucial food centers? Which politician in America is saying something like that?

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