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It was the "safe way" to buy food because a family could not get into debt via its grocery bill (as many families did at the time, a contributing cause of the Great Depression in the United States). [8] Thus, the original slogan was: "Drive the Safeway. Buy the Safeway". [8]
Safeway already had stores of its own in southern Delaware. There were issues and local outrage over the Safeway takeover due to claims of price increases, the changeover of many products to Safeway's own brands, and the use of a loyalty card, which was not needed under Genuardi's previous ownership. Except for the Safeway conversions, Genuardi ...
Safeway later acquired Pay and Take It Stores from Loronzo L. Skaggs in 1928. [4] Safeway is considered the main successor to Skaggs, and despite the Skaggs Companies later being bought by Albertsons, Safeway was also acquired by Albertsons, thus bringing the Skaggs history full-circle.
Some big changes might be happening at your neighborhood marketplace. HLN reports two of the country's biggest grocery stores are merging. 'Do you have an Albertsons or a Safeway near you?
Grocer Safeway (NYS: SWY) reported higher second-quarter earnings that beat Street estimates. However, its shares plunged by more than 9% on the day of the report as it forecasted low same-store ...
Safeway (NYSE: SWY) is out to prove that the term "private label" is up for a revised, new and improved, economy edition. The chain yesterday announced that it had reached agreements to market its ...
Safeway retained the Randalls name in Houston and Austin and the Tom Thumb name in Dallas/Fort Worth but replaced many of the Tom Thumb/Randalls "Remarkable" and President's Choice store brands with Safeway private label items. Randalls Food Markets became Safeway's Texas division, which today is legally known as Randalls Food & Drugs.
Supermarket chain Safeway announced today that the Canada Competition Bureau has entered into a consent agreement with Sobeys, a Canadian food retailer and wholly owned subsidiary of Empire ...