Albertsons

Specialties

We specialize in offering our customers friendly and helful associates and high quality fresh products.

Our location has an amazing cake decorator that can make your special occasion even more special with a custom cake to go with any theme!

Our Deli specializes in fabulous party trays that are guaranteed to please your guests at your next party or special event.

Our in store Pharmacy will help you with all of your pharmacy related questions. Whether it is an over the counter medicine question or a question about a new prescription. Our Pharmacy staff is more than happy to help you with your pharmacy related questions.

History

Established in 1939.

When Joe Albertson opened his first grocery store in Boise, Idaho, in 1939, he called it «Idaho’s largest and finest food store.» Joe was innovative. He had one of the first magazine racks in the country. He offered his customers hot, buttered popcorn, roasted nuts, and double-​dipped home-​made ice cream cones, plus one of the first scratch bakeries. From the beginning, his philosophy was to «Give the customer the merchandise they want, at a price they can afford, complete with lots of tender, loving care.»

Today, in all of its 600+ stores from California to Florida and with over 60,000 associates, Albertsons still practices this same philosophy. The organization has evolved from that corner store into a chain spanning several states, but its focus continues to be on the customer, and on becoming the favorite neighborhood food and drug retailer in every market where it does business.

Meet the Business Owner

Joe A.

Business Owner

In 1929, Joe Albertson was a college student who had spent two years studying business when the Great Depression sent the country into a tailspin. Joe decided that he would leave school and enter the grocery business, holding onto the philosophy that in good times or in bad, people had to eat, so he figured a grocery store was a good business.

Joe spent ten years working his way up at Safeway, but he knew that ultimately, he would open his own store. In July 1939, he did just that. With $ 5,000 of his own money and a $ 7,500 loan from his wife’s aunt, Albertsons Store 101, at 16^th and State Streets in Boise, Idaho, opened with new services that customers hadn’t seen in a grocery store before. He introduced things to shoppers like a scratch bakery, an automatic doughnut machine and one of the first magazine racks in the country. He also sold big, double dip ice cream cones, fresh popcorn and roasted nuts, which all became a hit with shoppers.