[5][6] In 2018, Albertsons divested its 49% share to Tenedora CL del Noroeste, ending the company's international operations.

[7] The company originally started as a small village shop in the mining town of Tayoltita, where Ley offered his goods to the gold and silver miners of the San Luis Mining Company.

The family moved to Culiacán, and in September 1954 the company Casa Ley was born.

Casa Ley's flagship format conceptualized as a hypermarket with 3,500 to 11,000 square meters of sales floor, whose sales system is retail, which handles a wide assortment in the grocery, perishable food, prepared food, and selection of general merchandise and clothing.

As a hybrid format between a hypermarket and a self-service warehouse, its main competitors are: They are supermarkets created with the objective of offering consumers quick purchases as well as quality and freshness in their departments within a sales floor of between 1,000 and 3,500 square meters, through which they offer daily consumption products such as groceries, perishable foods and prepared food.