 It is Mexico's largest privately held supermarket chain, and is 49% owned by Albertsons Companies, Inc., which acquired Safeway Inc.'s shares of the chain after its acquisition by Albertsons in 2015.The company originally started as a small village shop in the mining town of Tayoltita, where Ley offered his goods to the gold and silver miners of the San Luis Mining Company.In 1948, a theft by a close friend and colleague forced Ley to eventually close his shop and leave the town, in search of a new location.