City Bound: Mat-Su Chains Make Inroads in Anchorage and Fairbanks
Two Matanuska-Susitna Borough businesses are extending their reach into Anchorage: Three Bears Alaska in Eagle River and Little Millers in Midtown.
Two Matanuska-Susitna Borough businesses are extending their reach into Anchorage: Three Bears Alaska in Eagle River and Little Millers in Midtown.
Three Bears Alaska has acquired Alaska Ship Supply, a general store, and Captains Bay, a convenience store, in Dutch Harbor.
What retailers choose to stock at their remote Alaska stores—food, snowmachine or boat parts, fuel—could mean survival for residents of small villages.
The fourteen Carrs/Safeway stores in Alaska would be sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers to clear the way for their parent company’s acquisition by the owner of Fred Meyer.
The Three Bears Alaska grocery and retail chain began as an unassuming roadside store and has blossomed over the decades.