Albertsons is an American grocery company. It is based in Boise, Idaho. It has 2,253 stores. It was founded in the year 1939. The grocery company was 53rd in the Fortune 500 list of 2018.[1] The supermarket is the 2nd largest supermarket group after Kroger.[2][3] The group was bought by Safeway in 2015 for 9.2 billion dollars and had 1,075 supermarkets in 29 different US states.[4]