Piggly Wiggly’s parent company inches closer to buying four Harris Teeter stores in Maryland

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Kroger Co. has revealed that four Maryland-based Harris Teeter grocery stores may soon be owned by the chain behind the Piggly Wiggly franchise.

Kroger identified this week the stores — including two Harris Teeters in Montgomery County, one in Calvert County and another and Talbot County — it intends to offload in preparation for a merger with another national grocery giant, Albertsons Companies Inc. If the merger clears the necessary federal and state regulatory hurdles, the four Maryland stores would be taken over by C&S, a private wholesale grocery supply chain that operates Grand Union grocery stores and the Piggly Wiggly franchise.

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