Albertsons said on Monday that its CEO Vivek Sankaran would be retiring and insider Susan Morris would assume the role, effective May 1.

Its planned merger with Kroger over, Boise’s Albertsons supermarket chain is getting a new CEO. Vivek Sankaran, who has run the nation’s second-largest traditional grocery company since September 2019,

The CEOs of both Kroger Co. and Albertsons Companies Inc., the two grocery giants that were involved in a failed mega-acquisition attempt, are both leaving their respective companies. Cincinnati-based Kroger announced Monday morning that Rodney McMullen resigned from the company “following a board investigation of his personal conduct that,