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Albertsons Companies, Inc. – ‘10-Q’ for 9/12/20 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Wednesday, 10/21/20, at 4:44pm ET   ·   For:  9/12/20   ·   Accession #:  1646972-20-54   ·   File #:  1-39350

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10/21/20  Albertsons Companies, Inc.        10-Q        9/12/20   52:7.4M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    804K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     25K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     26K 
 4: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
11: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     69K 
12: R2          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML    117K 
13: R3          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     51K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
14: R4          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations     HTML     98K 
                and Comprehensive Income                                         
15: R5          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows     HTML    110K 
16: R6          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders'  HTML     92K 
                Equity                                                           
17: R7          Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant    HTML     84K 
                Accounting Policies                                              
18: R8          Fair Value Measurements                             HTML     82K 
19: R9          Derivative Financial Instruments                    HTML     35K 
20: R10         Long-Term Debt and Finance Lease Obligations        HTML     38K 
21: R11         Stockholders' Equity and Convertible Preferred      HTML     35K 
                Stock                                                            
22: R12         Employee Benefit Plans                              HTML     78K 
23: R13         Commitments and Contingencies and Off Balance       HTML     44K 
                Sheet Arrangements                                               
24: R14         Other Comprehensive Income or Loss                  HTML     67K 
25: R15         Net Income Per Class A Common Share                 HTML     81K 
26: R16         Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant    HTML     56K 
                Accounting Policies (Policies)                                   
27: R17         Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant    HTML     61K 
                Accounting Policies (Tables)                                     
28: R18         Fair Value Measurements (Tables)                    HTML     77K 
29: R19         Derivative Financial Instruments (Tables)           HTML     35K 
30: R20         Long-Term Debt and Finance Lease Obligations        HTML     36K 
                (Tables)                                                         
31: R21         Employee Benefit Plans (Tables)                     HTML     67K 
32: R22         Other Comprehensive Income or Loss (Tables)         HTML     66K 
33: R23         Net Income Per Class A Common Share (Tables)        HTML     79K 
34: R24         BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT    HTML    119K 
                ACCOUNTING POLICIES - Narrative (Details)                        
35: R25         BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT    HTML     43K 
                ACCOUNTING POLICIES - Sales Revenue by Similar                   
                Products (Details)                                               
36: R26         FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS - Schedule of Assets and    HTML     48K 
                Liabilities Measured at Fair Value (Details)                     
37: R27         FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS - Narrative (Details)       HTML     22K 
38: R28         DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS - Narrative        HTML     21K 
                (Details)                                                        
39: R29         DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS - Schedule of      HTML     24K 
                Cash Flow Hedges (Details)                                       
40: R30         LONG-TERM DEBT AND FINANCE LEASE OBLIGATIONS -      HTML     73K 
                Narrative (Details)                                              
41: R31         LONG-TERM DEBT AND FINANCE LEASE OBLIGATIONS -      HTML     52K 
                Schedule of Long-term Debt (Details)                             
42: R32         Stockholders' Equity and Convertible Preferred      HTML    133K 
                Stock (Details)                                                  
43: R33         EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS - Schedule of Components of  HTML     46K 
                Net Pension and Post-retirement Expense (Details)                
44: R34         EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS - Narrative (Details)        HTML     56K 
45: R35         COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES AND OFF BALANCE       HTML     18K 
                SHEET ARRANGEMENTS - Guarantees (Details)                        
46: R36         COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES AND OFF BALANCE       HTML     31K 
                SHEET ARRANGEMENTS - Legal Contingencies (Details)               
47: R37         OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME OR LOSS - Changes in     HTML     69K 
                the AOCI Balance (Details)                                       
48: R38         Net Income Per Class A Common Share (Details)       HTML     84K 
50: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     90K 
10: XML         XBRL Instance -- aci-20200912_htm                    XML   1.84M 
49: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     74K 
 6: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- aci-20200912_cal                XML    182K 
 7: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- aci-20200912_def                 XML    578K 
 8: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- aci-20200912_lab                      XML   1.34M 
 9: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- aci-20200912_pre               XML    751K 
 5: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- aci-20200912                          XSD    114K 
51: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              329±   473K 
52: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001646972-20-000054-xbrl      Zip    284K 


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