public company

Albertsons Companies

Industry Food

A public grocery and pharmacy retailer operating supermarket banners such as Safeway, Albertsons, Vons, Jewel-Osco, and others. Albertsons belongs in grocery comparisons because it sells ordinary staples, but its shareholder governance, consumer-data monetization, and conventional chain-retail labor model hold the score down.

Why this matters: Many shoppers choose among Kroger, Albertsons-family banners, Walmart, Costco, and local alternatives; the directory should show that comparison directly.

Letter grade D Extractive Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1 Last reviewed May 11, 2026

Final Score 1* D - Extractive

DEXTRACTIVE1 pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material18

Bonus+1

Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2

After Cap19

Penalties-18

Private Government badge

Albertsons Companies receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $1.8M on public policy issues.

Evidence: [13]

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Evaluation Overview

D - Extractive

The score turns mainly on Product Integrity, with the largest penalty coming from Policy Capture.

Strengths

Product Integrity3/5
Ownership2/10
Governance2/10

Penalties

Policy Capture-6
Surveillance Capture-3
Ecological Harm-2
High-Carbon Products-2

Evidence state

ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
Linked claims13
Direct axis claims12
Coverage12/18

Scoring Axes

Axis	Score	Why this score
Ownership ? Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.	2 / 10	Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. That keeps Albertsons Companies low on Ownership: decisive control remains with shareholders, private owners, executives, or state insiders rather than affected people. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Linked evidence context Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. [1] Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. [2] context Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. [3] context Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4] context Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5] context Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]
Governance ? Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.	2 / 10	Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. That keeps Albertsons Companies low on Governance: ordinary users, workers, customers, or affected communities cannot change the rules that govern them. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Linked evidence context Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. [1] context Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. [2] context Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. [3] context Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4] context Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5] context Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]
Extraction ? Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.	2 / 10	Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. That keeps Albertsons Companies low on Extraction: the business model makes extraction from workers, users, suppliers, customers, or the public central rather than incidental. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Linked evidence context Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. [1] context Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. [2] context Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. [3] context Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4] context Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5] context Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]
Labor Sovereignty ? Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.	2 / 7	Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. That keeps Albertsons Companies low on Labor Sovereignty: labor remains managerially controlled, replaceable, or exposed to coercive employment and contracting conditions. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Linked evidence context Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. [1] context Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. [2] Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. [3] context Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4] context Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5] context Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]
Solidarity with the Unemployed ? Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.	1 / 7	Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. That keeps Albertsons Companies low on Solidarity with the Unemployed: the model provides little protection for people who leave, are excluded, or cannot bargain from employment. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Linked evidence context Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. [1] context Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. [2] context Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. [3] context Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4] context Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5] context Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity ? Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.	2 / 7	Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. That keeps Albertsons Companies low on Loss-Bearing Fidelity: losses, hazards, or adjustment costs are routinely pushed onto workers, customers, suppliers, communities, or the public. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Linked evidence context Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. [1] context Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. [2] context Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. [3] context Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4] context Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5] context Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]
Market Conduct ? Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.	2 / 5	Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. That places Albertsons Companies in the middle of Market Conduct: the product has real value but still uses meaningful lock-in, gatekeeping, market power, or dependency. The value stays below the top tier because the linked record does not show full democratic control, non-extractive lock-in, or complete stakeholder protection on this axis. Linked evidence context Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. [1] context Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. [2] context Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. [3] context Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4] context Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5] context Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]
Product Integrity ? Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.	3 / 5	Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. That places Albertsons Companies in the middle of Product Integrity: the product has real use value but is compromised by incentives, monetization, lock-in, quality degradation, or risk. The value stays below the top tier because the linked record does not show full democratic control, non-extractive lock-in, or complete stakeholder protection on this axis. Linked evidence Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. [1] context Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. [2] context Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. [3] context Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4] context Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5] context Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]
Scale Integrity ? Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.	2 / 5	Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. That places Albertsons Companies in the middle of Scale Integrity: scale brings useful reach but also weakens accountability, transparency, or local constraint. The value stays below the top tier because the linked record does not show full democratic control, non-extractive lock-in, or complete stakeholder protection on this axis. Linked evidence context Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services. [1] context Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities. [2] context Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control. [3] context Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4] context Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5] context Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]

Penalties

Penalty	Applied	Why this penalty
Human Harm ? Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense, reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to 0.	-1	The competitor-coverage pass applies a Human Harm penalty because the cited record connects the entity to material public-health, safety, or consumer harm beyond ordinary market inconvenience. The competitor-coverage pass applies a Human Harm penalty because the cited record connects the entity to material public-health, safety, or consumer harm beyond ordinary market inconvenience. That warrants a limited Human Harm penalty because ordinary operation, documented misconduct, or institutional power creates serious injury, deprivation, abuse, or foreseeable human damage. The value is limited because the linked record shows a real problem but not one that dominates the profile on this axis. Linked evidence The competitor-coverage pass applies a Human Harm penalty because the cited record connects the entity to material public-health, safety, or consumer harm beyond ordinary market inconvenience. [8]
Ecological Harm ? Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale, including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.	-2	Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. That warrants a limited Ecological Harm penalty because the institution causes or defends ecological damage that is more than incidental to the model. The value is limited because the linked record shows a real problem but not one that dominates the profile on this axis. Linked evidence Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return. [6]
Policy Capture ? Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes, enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental, healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.	-6	OpenLobby records ALBERTSONS COMPANIES INC. lobbying on food, agriculture, healthcare, law enforcement, trade, budget, and other issues with about $1.8M in spending across 18 filings; the… OpenLobby records ALBERTSONS COMPANIES INC. lobbying on food, agriculture, healthcare, law enforcement, trade, budget, and other issues with about $1.8M in spending across 18 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role. That warrants a substantial Policy Capture penalty because private institutional pressure is being applied to public rules while affected people cannot democratically govern that agenda. The value is substantial but not at the floor because the linked record shows serious conduct without the strongest aggravating factors on this axis. Linked evidence OpenLobby records ALBERTSONS COMPANIES INC. lobbying on food, agriculture, healthcare, law enforcement, trade, budget, and other issues with about $1.8M in spending across 18 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role. [11]
High-Carbon Products ? Core products, services, financing, or supply chains that materially depend on fossil-fuel combustion, high-emissions transport, industrial animal agriculture, meat, dairy, or other unusually carbon-intensive activity. This is scored separately from general ecological harm so ordinary consumers can see carbon-intensive product exposure directly. Range: -10 to 0.	-2	The company sells mixed grocery, restaurant, or packaged-food products where meat, dairy, refrigerated logistics, or high-carbon ingredients are material but not necessarily the entire business model. Linked evidence Albertsons Companies has mixed food exposure high-carbon product exposure based on its listed business model and current profile description: A public grocery and pharmacy retailer operating supermarket banners such as Safeway, Albertsons, Vons, Jewel-Osco, and others. Albertsons belongs in grocery comparisons because it sells ordinary staples, but its shareh… [12]
Toxic Products ? Current sale of products whose ordinary use, exposure, ingredients, residues, packaging, or formulation creates toxic, addictive, or consumer-safety risk. Food products receive at least light scrutiny for artificial colors, artificial flavors, petro-derived additives, pesticide residues, contaminants, endocrine-disrupting packaging, and ultra-processed formulation. Ordinary adult nightlife or alcohol service is not penalized by itself without evidence of predatory marketing, youth targeting, addiction-extractive design, or unusual product-safety misconduct. Range: -5 to 0.	-1	The competitor-coverage pass applies a Toxic Products penalty because the cited record ties the entity to products whose ordinary sale, use, misuse, or exposure creates material toxic, addictive, or safety risk. The competitor-coverage pass applies a Toxic Products penalty because the cited record ties the entity to products whose ordinary sale, use, misuse, or exposure creates material toxic, addictive, or safety risk. That warrants a limited Toxic Products penalty because ordinary use, exposure, ingredients, residues, packaging, or formulation creates material toxic, addictive, or consumer-safety risk. The value is limited because the linked record shows a real problem but not one that dominates the profile on this axis. Linked evidence The competitor-coverage pass applies a Toxic Products penalty because the cited record ties the entity to products whose ordinary sale, use, misuse, or exposure creates material toxic, addictive, or safety risk. [9]
Accountability Opacity ? Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.	-2	Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. That warrants a severe Accountability Opacity penalty because material facts, risks, conflicts, ownership, or accountability information are obscured from the public. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Linked evidence Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase. [5]
Surveillance Capture ? Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.	-3	Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. That warrants a substantial Surveillance Capture penalty because customers, workers, users, bystanders, or the public are exposed to invasive tracking, biometrics, or behavior scanning. The value is substantial but not at the floor because the linked record shows serious conduct without the strongest aggravating factors on this axis. Linked evidence Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes. [4]
Ideological Disavowal ? Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.	-1	The competitor-coverage pass applies an Ideological Disavowal penalty because the entity presents ordinary investor-centered market governance, surveillance, or risk-pricing choices as… The competitor-coverage pass applies an Ideological Disavowal penalty because the entity presents ordinary investor-centered market governance, surveillance, or risk-pricing choices as neutral service administration rather than as contested institutional choices. That warrants a limited Ideological Disavowal penalty because the institution presents situated, contested choices as neutrality, expertise, inevitability, safety, or common sense. The value is limited because the linked record shows a real problem but not one that dominates the profile on this axis. Linked evidence The competitor-coverage pass applies an Ideological Disavowal penalty because the entity presents ordinary investor-centered market governance, surveillance, or risk-pricing choices as neutral service administration rather than as contested institutional choices. [10]

Bonus Credits

Bonus	Credit	Why this credit
Good Deal ? Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.	1 / 3	The competitor-coverage pass gives limited Good Deal credit because the entity provides broadly useful, price-competitive, or practically necessary service compared with adjacent competitors, while still lacking stakeholder control. The competitor-coverage pass gives limited Good Deal credit because the entity provides broadly useful, price-competitive, or practically necessary service compared with adjacent competitors, while still lacking stakeholder control. That supports partial Good Deal credit because ordinary users receive unusually fair value, durability, access, or surplus. The value remains partial because the linked record does not show the practice as comprehensive, durable, or central enough for full credit. Linked evidence The competitor-coverage pass gives limited Good Deal credit because the entity provides broadly useful, price-competitive, or practically necessary service compared with adjacent competitors, while still lacking stakeholder control. [7]

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 74/100

12 verified linked claims 12 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 12/18 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 15/20

12 verified linked claims

Source quality 15/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

12 direct claims across 18 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 7/10

12/18 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending

VerificationUnverified

ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)

ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)

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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

1Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Star Market, and others, selling food, household goods, pharmacy items, and digital grocery services.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

AI scaffold

Albertsons annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
Albertsons Companies websiteGeneral web source · 58%

2Albertsons is a shareholder-governed public company, so formal control is not held by workers, customers, or local communities.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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Albertsons annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%

3Albertsons has unionized grocery labor in many markets, but worker power is mediated through bargaining rather than built into ownership or board control.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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Albertsons annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%

4Albertsons' privacy-policy materials assign an estimated monetary value to consumer data and describe collection and sharing of purchasing, account, device, and related information for business and advertising purposes.

Surveillance Capture Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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Albertsons Privacy Policy PDFOfficial self-description · 68%

5Albertsons' data practices are formally disclosed, but the commercial value and advertising use of grocery data are difficult for ordinary shoppers to evaluate at the point of purchase.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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Albertsons Privacy Policy PDFOfficial self-description · 68%

6Albertsons' food retail, refrigeration, logistics, packaging, and fuel-adjacent operations create ordinary large-supermarket ecological burdens without stakeholder governance that locks ecological limits above investor return.

Ecological Harm Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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Albertsons annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%

7The competitor-coverage pass gives limited Good Deal credit because the entity provides broadly useful, price-competitive, or practically necessary service compared with adjacent competitors, while still lacking stakeholder control.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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Albertsons annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
Albertsons Companies websiteGeneral web source · 58%

8The competitor-coverage pass applies a Human Harm penalty because the cited record connects the entity to material public-health, safety, or consumer harm beyond ordinary market inconvenience.

Human Harm Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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Albertsons annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
Albertsons Companies websiteGeneral web source · 58%

9The competitor-coverage pass applies a Toxic Products penalty because the cited record ties the entity to products whose ordinary sale, use, misuse, or exposure creates material toxic, addictive, or safety risk.

Toxic Products Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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Albertsons annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
Albertsons Companies websiteGeneral web source · 58%

10The competitor-coverage pass applies an Ideological Disavowal penalty because the entity presents ordinary investor-centered market governance, surveillance, or risk-pricing choices as neutral service administration rather than as contested institutional choices.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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Albertsons annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
Albertsons Companies websiteGeneral web source · 58%

11OpenLobby records ALBERTSONS COMPANIES INC. lobbying on food, agriculture, healthcare, law enforcement, trade, budget, and other issues with about $1.8M in spending across 18 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role.

Policy Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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OpenLobby — ALBERTSONS COMPANIES INC. lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%

12Albertsons Companies has mixed food exposure high-carbon product exposure based on its listed business model and current profile description: A public grocery and pharmacy retailer operating supermarket banners such as Safeway, Albertsons, Vons, Jewel-Osco, and others. Albertsons belongs in grocery comparisons because it sells ordinary staples, but its shareh…

High Carbon Products Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 11, 2026

Albertsons Companies public siteGeneral web source · 58%
Our World in Data: Environmental Impacts of Food ProductionGeneral web source · 58%

13Albertsons Companies receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $1.8M on public policy issues.

Private Government Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

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OpenLobby — ALBERTSONS COMPANIES INC. lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%

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