Albertsons Buys Safeway in $9 Billion Deal

In a nine billion dollar deal the owners of Albertsons bought out Safeway.

The buy out was unanimously approved by Safeway's board.

Safeway's holdings also include the Vons and Pavilions chains.

All involved companies will retain their names, in the merger.

With the acquisition Cerberus Capital Management now controls the second largest grocery chain, in the US. Previously, Safeway had been second, with Albertsons fifth.

Kroger, which itself owns multiple other chains, such as King Soopers and Farmers Market, maintains it's spot as the largest grocery chain.

At this time, the company has no plans of closing any stores, however locations which are too close to each other may see one closed to avoid competing with each other.

RightChange Steals SooperMexican Meme

SooperMexican's original meme

On Wednesday evening, a conservative political page called RightChange posted what has become a very popular meme.

The meme mocks a phone call between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Over the last twenty-four hours it has received over forty-six hundred shares and seventeen thousand likes.

However, one problem, the meme is stolen.

It was originally posted on the night of Saturday, March 1, by conservative blogger, SooperMexican.

RightChange used the exact same photos and exact same wording, but changed the fonts, removed SooperMexican's logo, and placed their own on it.

SooperMexican quickly found out and reacted on his own blog.

"This is not a small thing – stealing an image steals my work and lets them benefit from my talent, and it happens to all artists, but it should absolutely NOT happen in the conservative community where we’re supposed to be about private rights as one of our philosophical pillars."

He did try discussing things with RightChange, as did we at this site, but they simply aren't responding.

Join us, and SooperMexican, in calling for them to take down the stolen meme, replace it with SooperMexican's original, and if you are supporting RightChange please withdraw that support.