Where I am in California there are six Safeways (owned by Albertsons who is merging Kroger) in a two mile square. At least here, we aren’t short of grocery stores, and these aren’t being shuttered anyway, they’re being sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers . The issue is this massive monopoly, not really being mitigated by the anti trust regulators making them give up a tiny percentage of their kingdom in order to vastly increase their strangle hold on US grocery stores and ability to artificially inflate food prices.