10 Facts About Lucky Stores

Lucky Stores is an American supermarket chain founded in San Leandro, California, in 1935.

Lucky Stores is currently operated by Albertsons in Utah and Save Mart Supermarkets in Northern California.

Lucky Stores was founded by Charles Crouch as Peninsula Stores Limited in 1931 with the acquisition of Piggly Wiggly stores in Burlingame, San Mateo, Redwood City, Palo Alto and San Jose.

Lucky Stores had a big influence in transitioning from small store to supermarket.

Lucky Stores lacked a distribution center in Washington State and felt that it was impractical to continue to serve the market from Californian distribution and manufacturing facilities.

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Lucky Stores operated 22 Houston-area Eagle Supermarkets until March 1985, when it was decided to exit the market altogether.

In 1998, American Lucky Stores was bought out by Albertsons, which became briefly the largest grocery retailer in the United States, but became second after Kroger acquired Fred Meyer the following month.

District Judge Jeffrey White ruled that Albertsons failed to demonstrate that the use of the Lucky Stores brand demonstrated unfair competition and that the burden to prove otherwise was wholly the responsibility of Albertsons.

In 2018, Lucky entered Utah when two stores in Salt Lake City and West Valley City under Albertsons' no-frills soon-to-be defunct banner Super Saver were converted to Lucky.

Lucky Stores are being redesigned to offer consumers more choices, be a one-stop shop to compete with growing competition and encourage shoppers to venture through the store.