The deal value and the number of stores included in the transaction could not be immediately learned. C&S lost one of its largest customers, Ahold Delhaize, when the supermarket group decided to transition to self-distribution in 2019. Bloomberg News, which first reported the talks, said that C&S could announce the deal to acquire most or all of the stores that the supermarket operators are unloading for antitrust reasons as soon as this week.