Amendment No. 3 to Form S-1 Table of Contents AB ACQUISITION LLC AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and have previously accepted a tender offer of the merger consideration of $34.92 per share acquisition consideration, which stops statutory interest from accruing on the amount of any recovery. If the remaining petitioners are successful in the appraisal proceeding, they could be entitled to more for their stock than the per share acquisition consideration payable in the acquisition, plus statutory interest on that additional amount. As of February 28, 2015, the Company has recorded a liability for these remaining petitioners. Security Breach: On August 14, 2014, AB Acquisition announced that it had experienced a criminal intrusion by installation of malware on a portion of its computer network that processes payment card transactions for retail store locations for its Shaw's, Star Market, Acme, Jewel-Osco and Albertsons retail banners. On September 29, 2014, the Company announced that it had experienced a second and separate criminal intrusion. The Company believes these were attempts to collect payment card data. The Company, relying on its IT service provider, SuperValu, took immediate steps to secure the affected part of its network. The Company believes that it has eradicated the malware used in each intrusion. The Company has notified federal law enforcement authorities, the major payment card networks, and its insurance carriers and is cooperating in their efforts to investigate these intrusions. As required by the payment card networks, the Company retained a firm to conduct a forensic investigation into the intrusions. Recently, the firm issued a report for the first intrusion (a copy of which has been provided to the card networks), finding that, although the Company's network had previously been found to be compliant with payment card industry data security standards (PCI DSS), not all of these standards had been m