Albertsons Companies Inc. filed Friday to withdraw its plan for an initial public offering, because of its deal to merge with Rite Aid Corp. RAD, -1.09% , which was announced in February. The food and drug retailer said the registration statement for the IPO, which was last amended in November, had not yet been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In November, the company had not yet set terms of the IPO. The withdrawal comes at a time that the Renaissance IPO ETF IPO, +1.90% has lost 0.3% over the past three months while the S&P 500 SPX, +1.05% has shed 3.5%.