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TYLER, Texas, Sept. 18, 2023 – Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) and Diamond Foods announced today that they have entered into an agreement under which BGC will acquire the Diamond Food Market stores in Henrietta, Mineral Wells and Aubrey, Texas. The location in Mineral Wells will be converted to a Brookshire’s and stores in Henrietta and Audrey will be converted to the Spring Market banner.

“We are very excited about this opportunity to further serve our northwest Texas neighbors,” said Brad Brookshire, Chairman and CEO for Brookshire Grocery Co. “We are celebrating our 95th anniversary this month and are proud to have served Texas since 1928. We look forward to a great future ahead with an expanded team with these Diamond stores. Customers will recognize many friendly faces who will be joining our team to serve our customers with quality products at competitive prices along with outstanding customer service.”

After the closing, it is anticipated that each store will undergo a brief transition period with the goal of re-opening within a few days under the new BGC banner. Following the opening, each location will undergo a remodel process to bring new features and expanded offering to customers. The Food Partners acted as strategic and financial advisor to both companies in the transaction.

All current Diamond employees at these locations are being offered employment with BGC. BGC is hosting a hiring fair from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 25, at the Mineral Wells location to fill numerous new positions.

BGC, as a family-owned and led company, has strived to remain true to the strong values of its founder. These include remarkable customer service, clean stores, fresh products and strong community support. Through the years, BGC has grown to become a leading regional grocery retailer with 17,500 employees and more than 205 store locations in four states. Stores operate under the banners of Brookshire’s, Super 1 Foods, Spring Market, FRESH by Brookshire’s and Reasor’s.

BGC is certified as a Great Place to Work™ since 2020. The company strives to be an employer of choice by offering professional development and comprehensive health benefit plans along with paid time off, stock ownership, a 401K retirement plan, incentives, educational scholarships and an emergency relief fund.

BGC Mission: Brookshire Grocery Co.’s mission is to create and deliver exceptional experiences and value to our customers through the W.T. Brookshire Way.

The majority of these Brookshire pharmacy locations are getting converted to Walgreens pharmacies operating inside of BGC stores, BGC said.

TYLER, Texas — Brookshire Grocery Co. announced Tuesday that its 120 pharmacies across Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas are changing ownership to Walgreens.

The majority of these Brookshire pharmacy locations are getting converted to Walgreens pharmacies that will operate inside of BGC stores, the Tyler-based grocery company said in a statement.

“We are excited to take this next step with Walgreens to strengthen our pharmacies and further our commitment to our employee-partners and customers that make up our BGC family,” said Brad Brookshire, chairman and CEO of Brookshire Grocery Co. “The pharmacy industry has become increasingly complex over the past few years, and it was important to us to find a business leader that has the capabilities to focus on providing exceptional pharmacy services and value to our customers.”

Eligible BGC pharmacy employees are getting employment offers with Walgreens and customers' prescription will be transferred automatically, the announcement read.

Brad Ulrich, vice president of pharmacy and retail operations for Walgreens, said Walgreens looks forward to giving BGC’s customers greater access to a range of trusted pharmacy and healthcare services.

“Our pharmacists are playing a critical role in healthcare today, and we truly value the importance of the pharmacist-patient relationship," Ulrich said. "As part of our commitment to ensuring a seamless transition, we’re excited to also be providing employment opportunities for BGC’s existing pharmacy staff.”

Under this agreement, BGC said a few pharmacy locations will close down and those patient files will go to another in-store pharmacy at BGC’s or a nearby Walgreens retail pharmacy.

BGC said that both companies are committed to finding employment opportunities for pharmacy workers in other Brookshire or Walgreens locations.

The pharmacies in BGC’s Reasor’s stores in Oklahoma are not a part of this transaction and will remain under BGC brand and ownership.

“My grandfather laid the foundation for our core values in 1928 which continue to be supported by our team providing excellent service, showing integrity and doing our best every day. With this next step, we will remain focused on creating and delivering exceptional value to our customers,” Brookshire said.

TYLER, Texas (KETK) – Brookshire Grocery Co. announced on Tuesday they have reached an agreement with Walgreens where they will acquire the company’s 120 pharmacies in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.

Brookshire Grocery said the vast majority of these locations are being converted to Walgreens pharmacies that will operate inside of their stores.

“The pharmacy industry has become increasingly complex over the past few years, and it was important to us to find a business leader that has the capabilities to focus on providing exceptional pharmacy services and value to our customers,” Chairman and CEO of Brookshire Grocery Co. Brad Brookshire said.

Eligible Brookshire pharmacy employees will be offered employment with Walgreens, and the grocery company said pharmacy customers do not need to take any action for their prescriptions to be transferred over.

“Customers’ prescriptions will transfer to Walgreens automatically,” Brookshire Grocery Co. said in a release. “Customers will receive notification in the mail along with details about their prescriptions.”

As part of the agreement, a select few pharmacy locations will close and those patient files will transfer to either another in-store pharmacy at Brookshire’s or a nearby Walgreens retail pharmacy, according to Brookshire Grocery Co. The grocery company said customers at these locations will be notified in the coming weeks and their prescription files will transfer automatically to nearby Walgreens or Brookshire in-store pharmacy locations.

The pharmacies in Brookshire Grocery Reasor’s stores in Oklahoma are not included in the transaction, and the company said they will remain under Brookshire brand and ownership.

“Walgreens has a long history of serving communities throughout the U.S., and we look forward to providing BGC’s customers with greater access to a wide range of trusted pharmacy and healthcare services,” Brad Ulrich, vice president of pharmacy and retail operations for Walgreens said. “Our pharmacists are playing a critical role in healthcare today, and we truly value the importance of the pharmacist-patient relationship. As part of our commitment to ensuring a seamless transition, we’re excited to also be providing employment opportunities for BGC’s existing pharmacy staff.”

If you grew up in East Texas, you know all about Brookshire’s grocery stores, and if your roots are in South and Central Texas, it’s H-E-B you know best.

The two are converging some in Dallas-Fort Worth. H-E-B is expanding in a big way, opening huge supermarkets in Frisco and Plano last year with two more coming soon in Allen and McKinney. Several more are in the works. Brookshire has been around D-FW for a long time.

There’s some overlap in a number of towns circling Dallas-Fort Worth, said Brad Brookshire’s, chairman and CEO of Tyler-based Brookshire Grocery Co.

“H-E-B is (west of Fort Worth) in Hudson Oaks. We have stores in Willow Park, which is five minutes away, and in Weatherford. They’re in Corsicana, and we’re there, too. And we’re both in Granbury.

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“We’re in Palestine. They’re not in Palestine. They’re in Crockett and Carthage, and we’re not. But now they are definitely here. And they have a site in Rockwall.

“They’re a great, great company. We look toward them as an example of how to operate a company.”

H-E-B, more aggressively, and Brookshire’s on the edges, are making inroads into Dallas-Fort Worth’s huge grocery market. Brookshire’s had sales of more than $3.8 billion last year, according to published reports. H-E-B is about 10 times bigger with more than $38 billion in sales last year from its Texas operations. Both are bigger than other well-known grocers.

An annual ranking based on revenue by industry trade publication Progressive Grocer reveals that H-E-B is bigger than Aldi, Walmart’s Canadian operation, Trader Joe’s, Sprouts Farmers Market and WinCo. Brookshire’s has some bragging rights: It’s bigger than Brookshire Brothers, 99 Cents Only, The Fresh Market and Natural Grocers.

The independent survivors

The number of regional grocery chains has dwindled over the years as they were sold off to bigger companies. In Dallas, the Cullum family founded Tom Thumb in 1948 and later sold it to Safeway. The Minyard family opened the first Minyard Food store in 1932, and it was sold to a private equity group.

In Lubbock, it was the Bumstead family that owned United Supermarkets and sold it to Albertsons.

San Antonio-based H-E-B and Tyler-based Brookshire’s remain the two largest family-owned Texas-based supermarket operators.

Brookshire's circles Dallas-Fort Worth

The Tyler-based grocer operates dozens of stores around D-FW. Last year it opened Fresh by Brookshire's in Fate. It just remodeled its Celina Brookshire’s.

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You aren’t the only one wondering why are there two East Texas grocers operating under the same name. In the late 1920s, two branches of the Brookshire family split up.

Wood Brookshire opened a store in downtown Tyler in 1928 and it became the Brookshire Grocery Co., based in Tyler, operating Brookshire’s stores that now have the little green leaf as the apostrophe.

Lufkin-based Brookshire Brothers operate stores under the red-lettered banner of Brookshire Brothers. Brothers Austin and Tom Brookshire opened the first Brookshire in 1921. The chain grew to 33 stores in East Texas and by 1929, Wood Brookshire and cousin W.A. Brookshire withdrew from the company with four Tyler stores. Brookshire Brothers operates 115 grocery stores in Texas and Louisiana and is 100% employee-owned.

Brookshire’s has five concept stores including its namesake store. Its namesake stores and two more, Super 1 Foods and Spring Market, circle the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It purchased Tulsa-based Reasor’s last year. H-E-B operates its namesake stores, Central Market, Joe V’s Smart Shop and Mi Tienda.

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Brookshire Grocery Co. is selling its 120 pharmacies in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas to Walgreens. Most of the locations will be converted to Walgreens pharmacies operating inside the Tyler-based grocer’s stores.

The pharmacy business has become “increasingly complex over the past few years,” said Brad Brookshire, chairman and CEO of Brookshire Grocery.

“It was important to us to find a business leader that has the capabilities to focus on providing exceptional pharmacy services and value to our customers.”

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Staffing shortages and burnout are an issue for pharmacies and some locations are cutting back hours. Pharmacy operations have changed over the years with consumer needs to offer more services such as vaccinations and in-store clinics while coming up against new competition from online pharmacies.

Terms of the sale weren’t disclosed.

CVS paid $1.9 billion for Target’s 1,672 pharmacies in 47 states in 2015. The pharmacies now operate as CVS-branded locations inside Target. More recently, CVS said will close 900 stores through 2024 and several have already closed in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Walgreens promised “a seamless transition,” said Brad Ulrich, Walgreens’ vice president of pharmacy and retail operations. Eligible employees are being offered jobs with Walgreens, he said.

Brookshire’s offers Walgreens access to small towns, rural markets and booming Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs that would be expensive to build out with its own stores. Brookshire’s operates dozens of stores around the D-FW market and is also growing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

The 95-year-old family and employee-owned and operated company has 206 stores in four states operating as Brookshire’s, Super 1 Foods, Fresh by Brookshire’s, Spring Market and Reasor’s.

Customers’ prescriptions will automatically transfer to Walgreens. The 120 pharmacies in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas are in Brookshire’s, Super 1 Foods and Fresh by Brookshire’s stores.

Some Brookshire Grocery pharmacies will close as part of the agreement. Customers will be notified of their patient file transfers to another Brookshire’s supermarket or to a nearby Walgreens.

Walgreens operates pharmacies within health systems and hospitals nationwide and inside some Bi-Mart stores in the Pacific Northwest.

Sidley Austin, LLP acted as lead legal advisor for Walgreens, along with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. The Food Partners served as strategic and financial adviser and Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. and Kilpatrick Townsend, and Haynes and Boone served as legal counsel to Brookshire Grocery.

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