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The year before, however, Albertsons had merged with another industry giant, American Stores, more than doubling its size. Stoddard was made an integration project manager, tasked with implementing best practice solutions to the new company's printing and supply needs. In 2000 and 2001, he was busy figuring out all the ways that the American Stores five chains accomplished this, and comparing it to the legacy Albertsons methods.