really it's the fall, the rise supervalu. falling down to a dollar and change in the fall of 2012, at which point many people were worried about the company's viability as a going concern. over the next few years super through 2013, 2014 and the first few months of 2015 to peak at $12 last april, up 614% from the 2012 lows. well this was looking like an incredible comeback to the moment when it hit a wall in the second half of last year. the stock ultimately finishing down 30%. for 2015, and it's come down nearly another 30% since the beginning of the new year to $4 and change. >>> once again it feels like svu stands for, c'mon, say it with me, special victims unit what made this story fall apart? is there any way it can get the mojo back? let's start with how it could roar higher. the rebound was all about a troubled company that got its act together. back before the agree recession, super valu made a foolish acquisition of albertson's. that was right at the pea of the leveraged buyout boom, something that turned out to be d

that's all supervalu stock could decline down to its 2012 bottom. the turn here started in july of 2012 when supervalu brought in a fellow by the name of wran sales, who was tasked with getting the company back on track. it finally cut bait on al better son's, and if you remember they tried to take the assets public, but the deal got pulled, because nobody wanted to -- i was going to say garbage, but i'm more of a diplomat, how about -- garbage. down to 3 billion, just so you know, that albertson's would have been good, but i think there was some glee involved. one wayne had gotten the company out of hot water, we saw in turn he was replaced by samb duncan, former head of officemax as the next ceo, with a clean slate, supervalu restructured into three segments -- a wholesale foot, the discount chain, and reg lay retail operations under the cub foods, hornback's, shop and save. the progress was slow at first, by february 2014, it was clear the gross margins, what they may on every dollar of sales, were improving dramatically. the same-store sales wen

supervalu was no exception. bucks around october. first ceo sam duncan, who had led the comeback now said he would retire effective february 2016, and he is loved. then to make matters worse, it reported a big miss on both the top and bottom lines. negative same-store sales growth after all of this great turn. the stock plunged 14% in the exits. all that super-valu basically traded sideways. on january 7th, we learned that they planned to spin off the save-a-lot, and while it seemed like a good idea, the timing announcement was awful. investors saw it as a negative. remember there was zero ipos, exactly, in january. the deathblow same? super valu would what weaker than expected sales. hideous same-story sales. regular -- the retail business down 2.6%. save-a-lot down 3.4%. sam dunking in his swan song as ceo painted a grim picture saying we continue to operate in a challenging environment, end quote. stock at the down to $4.10, which brings us to where we are right now. 4.86, but today was obviously a great day for the market. >>> we

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