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Photo of the Randalls at 1525 S. Mason Road, Katy Texas prior to it's closing shot on Friday, January 13, 2017 in Katy Texas.
Photo of the Randalls at 1525 S. Mason Road, Katy Texas prior to it's closing shot on Friday, January 13, 2017 in Katy Texas.
Photo: Wilf Thorne / For The Chronicle
Photo of the Randalls at 1525 S. Mason Road, Katy Texas prior to it's closing shot on Friday, January 13, 2017 in Katy Texas.
Photo of the Randalls at 1525 S. Mason Road, Katy Texas prior to it's closing shot on Friday, January 13, 2017 in Katy Texas.
Photo: Wilf Thorne / For The ChronicleRandalls will close five grocery stores in Clear Lake, Kingwood and The Woodlands next month, continuing its retreat from the region’s hyper-competitive grocery market.
According to an internal memo circulated Friday to employees, the Houston-based company will be closing its stores at 4540 Kingwood Drive and 600 Kingwood Drive in Kingwood; 2250 Buckthorne Place in Spring, 4775 West Panther Creek in The Woodlands and 2323 Clear Lake City Boulevard in Houston.
Liquidation sales will start Jan. 15, and the stores will close Feb. 15, the memo said.
“While the decision to close stores is extremely difficult, it will allow us the opportunity to reinvest in our existing store base and build a stronger district and division,” the memo said.
Randalls, a unit of the national supermarket company Albertsons, has struggled in recent years to compete with regional and national chains offering lower prices and wider selections. The Houston chain closed six stores last year, and after the five closures next month will bring its local footprint to 13, down from 51 locations in 2005.
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Today, the grocer has less than 4 percent of the local grocery market share while market leaders H-E-B, Kroger and Walmart each have about a quarter, according to Shelby, a grocery industry research firm.
Randalls for decades was a leading upscale supermarket chain in Houston catering to the upper-middle class. In 1991, the grocer had more than $1 billion in revenue, and was one of the fastest-growing companies in the city.
Over time, however, Randalls was eclipsed by competitors such as H-E-B, whose 100,000-square-foot supermarkets dwarfed Randalls’ 50,000-square-foot stores.
At the same time, Randalls’ ownership changed hands from local to national operators. Safeway acquired Randalls from the Onstead family in 1999. Albertsons acquired Safeway and the Randalls brand in 2015. The new owners swapped out high-end products, such as Boar’s Head deli, from Randalls and replaced them with generic products.
Randalls in recent years has tried to lure back customers by remodeling stores and introducing online ordering, curbside pickup and home delivery services.
Randalls Closures since 2017:
Montrose store: 2075 Westheimer
The Woodlands store: 9420 College Park Drive
Sugar Land store: 5800 New Territory Blvd.
Cypress store: 12220 Barker Cypress
Stafford store: 11711 West Bellfort
Garden Oaks store: 5264 W. 34th St.
Distribution center: 10700 Telge Road
Kingwood store: 4540 Kingwood Drive
Kingwood store: 600 Kingwood Drive
Woodlands store: 2250 Buckthorne Place
Woodlands store: 4775 West Panther Creek
Clear Lake store: 2323 Clear Lake City Boulevard
Staff reporters Nancy Sarnoff and Dwight Silverman contributed to this story.
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