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((Short description|American supermarket chain in Alaska owned by Albertsons Companies, Inc))
((More citations needed|article|date=November 2010)) 
((Infobox company
| name = Carrs–Safeway
| logo = Carrs Safeway Logo.svg
| logo_size = 250px
| type = [[Subsidiary]] of [[Albertsons]]
| foundation = ((start date and age|1950|p=y))
| location = [[Anchorage, Alaska]]
| locations = 24
| industry = [[Retailing|Retail]]
| revenue = 
| num_employees = 
| products = [[Bakery]], [[dairy]], [[delicatessen]], [[frozen food]]s, [[fuel]], [[grocery store|grocery]], [[pharmacy]], [[photographic processing]], [[produce]], [[seafood]], [[snack food]], [[liquor]], [[Floristry|flowers]], [[Starbucks]], and [[Western Union]]
| homepage = ((URL|www.carrsqc.com))
| parent = [[Independent business|Independent]] (1950–1999)<br>[[Safeway Inc.|Safeway]] (1999–2015)<br>[[Albertsons]] (2015–present)<br>[[C&S Wholesale Grocers]] (Sale to C&S Wholesale Grocers pending)
))
'''Carrs–Safeway''' (formerly '''Carrs Quality Centers''') is a [[supermarket]] chain that is based in [[Anchorage, Alaska]], and is a subsidiary of [[Albertsons]]. It was acquired in April 1999 by former parent [[Safeway Inc.|Safeway]] from an employee ownership group, who itself had purchased the company from founder Larry Carr and his partner Barney Gottstein in 1990.

The proposed acquisition led to an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Alaska Public Interest Research Group, which was resolved by a consent decree reached between Safeway and the [[Alaska Attorney General]]'s office which required the company to divest seven stores. Those stores re-opened as the grocery chain Alaska Marketplace, which closed at the end of 2000. One of those stores, the Foodland Shopping Circle in [[Fairbanks]], one of the earliest stores in the Carrs chain, has remained largely vacant since.

As of 2010, there are 24 stores in Alaska, including: Anchorage, Fairbanks (both in multiple locations), [[Juneau, Alaska|Juneau]], [[Kenai, Alaska|Kenai]], [[Homer, Alaska|Homer]], [[Ketchikan, Alaska|Ketchikan]], [[Kodiak, Alaska|Kodiak]], [[Nome, Alaska|Nome]], [[North Pole, Alaska|North Pole]], [[Palmer, Alaska|Palmer]], [[Seward, Alaska|Seward]], [[Soldotna, Alaska|Soldotna]], [[Valdez, Alaska|Valdez]], [[Wasilla, Alaska|Wasilla]] and [[Unalaska, Alaska|Unalaska]].<ref>((Cite web |url=http://local.safeway.com/ak/index.html |title=Safeway Locations |access-date=2013-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606180510/http://local.safeway.com/ak/index.html |archive-date=2013-06-06 |url-status=dead ))</ref><ref>((Cite web |url=http://local.carrsqc.com/ak/index.html |title=Carrs Locations |access-date=2013-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228231920/http://local.carrsqc.com/ak/index.html |archive-date=2012-12-28 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

==History==

===Beginning===
Laurence John "Larry" Carr (July 28, 1929 – May 12, 2011) moved to [[Anchorage, Alaska]], in 1947 after graduating from high school in [[San Bernardino, California]].  After a short stint in management at the [[Alaska Railroad]] commissary, in which he hoped to make enough money to return to California and open a grocery store there, he instead became a competitor in the grocery business in Anchorage.

Carr opened his first store in a [[Quonset hut]], located on the southern end of Gambell Street in the Eastchester (now known as Fairview) neighborhood of Anchorage, in February 1950.  The location would prove to be beneficial, as Gambell Street, which became Potter Road after leaving the townsite limits and dead-ended several miles south of town at a railroad section house, soon became the northern terminus of the [[Seward Highway]].

The name '''Carrs''' was derived from the original operating partnership of Larry Carr and his brother, Bernard Joseph Carr, Jr.  They were joined by their father, Bernard Joseph "Pop" Carr, following his retirement from the [[Santa Fe Railroad]] in 1954.  The senior Carr left the company in 1964 to launch a successful campaign for the [[Alaska House of Representatives]].

Another person involved in the company during its early days was Bernard J. "Barney" Gottstein.  His father, Jacob B. Gottstein, started a wholesale grocery business in Anchorage when the town was founded in 1915.  Carr and Gottstein began their formal business partnership in 1960, integrating retail and wholesale grocery operations and real estate development (particularly construction of [[strip mall|shopping centers]]) into one company.  Carr and Gottstein were also heavily involved during the 1960s in promoting the business and political career of a recent young arrival to Alaska named [[Mike Gravel]].

===1960s–1980s===
The second Carrs location and associated construction, the Aurora Village Shopping Center, was built in 1966.  The Mall at [[Sears]], an enclosed mall with an interior motif resembling a downtown sidewalk, was built the following year.  Both were built along Northern Lights Boulevard, which being a [[Section line road|section line arterial]], was mostly known for illegal [[drag racing]] and associated businesses such as [[drive-in restaurant]]s, as the vast majority of Anchorage's retail landscape was located downtown at the time.  The construction of these two malls, combined with the Northern Lights Center constructed by [[Wally Hickel]] in 1960, started the shift in customer traffic away from downtown and towards the outlying areas of Anchorage.

These two malls began a pattern of Carrs Grocery and strip mall construction which followed for most of the next two decades.  By the mid-1970s, there were Carrs stores throughout [[southcentral Alaska]], as well as the Foodland Shopping Circle in downtown [[Fairbanks]].  Carrs operated a [[warehouse store|warehouse market]] called Prairie Market in the 1970s and 1980s, with two locations close to the Old Seward Highway in Anchorage.

===1990s===
Carrs stores were primarily located throughout the "Railbelt" area of Alaska.  A subsidiary, '''Eagle Quality Centers''', operated in numerous mid-sized and smaller Alaskan communities, both within and outside of the Railbelt.  The company branched out into [[Southeast Alaska]] in the early 1990s, opening stores in [[Juneau]] and [[Ketchikan]].

Carr and Gottstein sold their business in a leveraged buyout to two senior executives of Carr-Gottstein: John Cairns, the company's general manager, and Mark Williams, Carr-Gottstein's vice-president of operations. The price was 250–300 million dollars for 13 Carrs Quality Centers, 15 Oaken Keg liquor stores, 3 Eagle Quality Centers, Gottstein wholesale food business, freight operations, and Carr-Gottstein Properties, a real estate development firm.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/15/Carr-Gottstein-Foods-Co.html|title = Carr-Gottstein Foods Co. - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on Carr-Gottstein Foods Co))</ref>  The company purchased the Fairbanks supermarket chain Super Valu (formerly Market Basket) in 1992.

===Safeway merger===
((Expand section|The 1999 Carrs-Safeway merger|date=May 2011))
In 1999, [[Safeway, Inc.]] acquired Carrs. Due to strong customer loyalty to the Carrs name, the chain was renamed Carrs-Safeway, and customers could opt to use a loyalty card.

===C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC===

On Friday September 8th, 2023 Kroger and Albertsons announced plans to sell off the Carrs brand name along with 14 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC when Kroger and Albertsons merge in Early 2024.

==Fuel stations==
Carrs/Safeway customers receive fuel discounts when shopping at any participating Carrs/Safeway Store,<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.carrsqc.com/ |title=Welcome to Carrs |access-date=2004-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040523003919/http://www.carrsqc.com/ |archive-date=2004-05-23 |url-status=dead ))</ref> They must use a Club Card in order to receive points that eventually over time can turn into a discount unless you spent $100 or over in a transaction.
A Customer earns points every dollar spent, spend $100 in one transaction and receive a discount for 10 Cents off a gallon up to 25 gallons, These discounts then can be racked up over time to save up to $1.00 off per gallon.
Here is an example for points:
~100 Points=10 cents off
~200 Points=20 cents off
~300 Points=30 cents off
and can lead up to 1000 points to equal $1.00 off per gallon at the pump.
You can use your Carrs/Safeway Club Card at any Safeway store including Canada to earn points. 
To locate a Carrs/Safeway Fuel Center please visit the link below or to learn more about Carrs/Safeway Fuel Center

Carrs/Safeway Fuel Rewards<ref>http://www.carrsqc.com/ShopStores/RewardPoints.page?i((Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))</ref> has been effective since mid 2011. Safeway adjusted the program in July 2012 for discounts and dropped the "Always get 3 cents off per gallon" discount as well as made the discount gallons drop from 30 gallons to 25 gallons; limiting customers on fuel.

This information is available at [http://www.carrsqc.com/ShopStores/RewardPoints.page?i CarrsQC Fuel Reward Points]((Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes )).

Since 2007 they have operated the 7 store chain "The Great Alaska Tobacco Co" as stand alone stores it is a division of Carrs.

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
((Portal|Alaska|Companies|Food))
* ((Official website|www.carrsqc.com))
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160317193859/http://mobile.carrsqc.com/ Official mobile website]

((Albertsons Companies))
((Supermarkets of the United States))

[[Category:Retail companies established in 1950]]
[[Category:1950 establishments in Alaska]]
[[Category:Companies based in Anchorage, Alaska]]
[[Category:Safeway Inc.]]

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