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Safeway, Inc. is an American supermarket chain. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, delicatessen, floral and pharmacy, as well as Starbucks coffee shops, and vehicle fuel centers. [2]
Skaggs decided that the stores should not carry his name after his eventual death. He first renamed them Skaggs-Safeway, and then he renamed them all Safeway by 1928. [2] In 1931, Skaggs sold controlling interest to Wall Street's Charles E. Merrill, became chief executive of the company, and retired from the Board of Directors in 1941.
The Skaggs Companies, Inc. was the predecessor to many famous United States retailing chains, including Safeway, Albertsons, Osco Drug, and Longs Drugs.The company owned several drugstore chains, but all of them were sold.
Charles Von der Ahe opened a 20-foot wide store named Von's Groceteria in downtown Los Angeles, California, in 1906. The business had grown to 87 stores by 1928, when he sold the operation to MacMarr Stores. MacMarr was acquired by M.B. Skaggs' Safeway in 1930.
For many years they were called Safeway Pay’n Takit. 1930 L.S. is intermountain director for Safeway, residing in Salt Lake City. 1931 Safeway stores in the U.S. and Canada now number 3527. This would be the largest number of Safeway stores. [11] 1932 L.J. Skaggs opens his first self-service drug store, PayLess Drug, in Tacoma, Washington.
Genuardi's Family Markets L.P. was a chain of supermarkets located in the Northeastern United States.The store was family-owned. In 2000, it was purchased by Safeway.Its headquarters was in East Norriton Township, Pennsylvania in Montgomery County.