In the US, there's been a lot of supermarket consolidation over the years. For example, T̶o̶m̶ ̶T̶h̶u̶m̶b̶,̶ ̶A̶l̶b̶e̶r̶t̶s̶o̶n̶'̶s̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶K̶r̶o̶g̶e̶r̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶m̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶a̶n̶y̶. My guess is this is a situation like that. The stores near you all picked the same company/tech to do credit card payments. Maybe because they are all owned by the same company.
Ah, yeah, I apparently missed with Kroger there. Market Street, Randall's, Von's, United, Safeway, Tom Thumb, and Albertson's are apparently the same company.
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In the US, there's been a lot of supermarket consolidation over the years. For example, T̶o̶m̶ ̶T̶h̶u̶m̶b̶,̶ ̶A̶l̶b̶e̶r̶t̶s̶o̶n̶'̶s̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶K̶r̶o̶g̶e̶r̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶m̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶a̶n̶y̶. My guess is this is a situation like that. The stores near you all picked the same company/tech to do credit card payments. Maybe because they are all owned by the same company.
This is not true.
Ah, yeah, I apparently missed with Kroger there. Market Street, Randall's, Von's, United, Safeway, Tom Thumb, and Albertson's are apparently the same company.
See: https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/home/default.aspx
They can still be different companies but choose the same provider regionally for their payment processing.
There are many third party vendors that depend on this business to provide entry points for merchants to the VISA network.