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4 unusual facts about Safeway


Carrs-Safeway

The Mall at Sears, an enclosed mall with an interior motif resembling a downtown sidewalk, was built the following year.

The senior Carr left the company in 1964 to launch a successful campaign for the Alaska House of Representatives.

Like Larry Carr, he took a store in a location whose main attraction was being located along a highway (at the time, South Cushman was the northern terminus of the Richardson Highway), and parlayed the store into a local retail and real estate empire.

Southern California Supermarket strike of 2003-2004

On the management side, it involved the supermarket chain companies Albertsons (then an independent company), Ralphs (owned by Kroger) and Vons (owned by Safeway).


Attensity

Corporations that use or have used Attensity software include Airbus, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, HP, JetBlue, Lloyds Banking Group, Safeway, Siemens, StubHub, TiVo, Travelocity, Unilever, Walgreens, Wells Fargo and Whirlpool.

Aurora Organic Dairy

The company supplies and packages private-label, store-brand, organic dairy products for many of the country's largest grocery chains, including Wal-Mart, Safeway, Target and Costco.

Casas Adobes, Arizona

The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, and the murders of chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona, John Roll, and five other people on January 8, 2011, occurred at a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes.

Columbus Salame

Their products are sold at supermarkets locally and nationwide, including Costco, Safeway, Cost Plus and Trader Joe's.

East Malling and Larkfield

Following the demise of Safeway in 2004, it changed several times in quick succession, becoming first a Morrisons for a short time, as part of that company's purchase of the bulk of the Safeway estate, before being sold to Somerfield, and in 2009, re-opening, fully refurbished, once again as a Morrison's.

Eastmont Town Center

Eastmont's primary anchor tenants were JCPenney, Mervyns, Woolworth's (including a lunch counter), Safeway, Pay 'n Save and Kinney Shoes, one of the nation's leading shoe retailers at the time.

KMSB

The station was owned and operated by out of town investors, including Danny Thomas and Monty Hall, and had its facilities in a former Safeway Supermarket on Tucson Blvd, just north of Grant Road.

Loyalty program

These include Smith's, Kroger and Safeway (each through both its own name and many of its regional chain names), Winn-Dixie, Harris Teeter, Ingles, Giant Eagle, Tops, Price Chopper, ShopRite, A&P and its related chains Pathmark, SuperFresh and Waldbaums, Wegmans, Stop & Shop and sister chains Giant-Carlisle and Giant-Landover, Rite Aid, Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy.

Market Basket

During the 1980s, two new stores were constructed, and the chain grew with the acquisition of 14 more stores formerly operated by Piggly Wiggly, Safeway, Theriot’s, Winn-Dixie, and Weingarten's.

Martell, California

Martell is where the major retail outlets for Amador County are located, including Kmart, Wal-Mart, Safeway and Lowe's in a shopping center.

Matzo Shortage of 2008

A number of chain grocery stores were reported to have run dry including Safeway, Whole Foods, Lunardi's, Lucky and Mollie Stone.

Medicine Hat Mall

The mall has more than 100 stores and services including The Bay, Target, Sears, Safeway and Galaxy Cinemas.

Mochi ice cream

Mikawaya's mochi ice cream products are now sold in major American supermarkets, including Albertsons, Trader Joe's, Ralphs, and Safeway.

Northtown Plaza

Also located nearby was the Safeway (later demolished for a warehouse complex) where the crime beginning the case of Shaka Sankofa occurred in 1981 as well.

Omni Superstore

Omni would eventually be phased out by Dominick's and Safeway for various reasons ranging from consumer preference to responding to competition from new stores such as Meijer, Whole Foods and Wal-Mart entering the Chicago market.

Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit

The video was filmed in the vacant offices of, what used to be, the headquarters of the Safeway supermarket chain at Hayes, Hillingdon.

Roundy's

Rumors have swirled regarding a possible sale of Roundy's to Cincinnati-based Kroger in conjunction with some or all of Safeway-owned and Chicago-based Dominick's stores.

Skaggs family

1938 Joe Albertson, a district manager for Safeway, enters into partnership with L.S. Skaggs and the latter’s accountant, Tom Cuthbert, and opens first store in Boise, Idaho.

Tillicum Centre

Built in 1982, and expanded several times since, the shopping centre currently offers over 50 shops and services including Target, Home Outfitters, Old Navy, Safeway, Winners, Petcetera, and London Drugs.

University Heights Suburban Centre, Saskatoon

The development consists of several strip-mall buildings anchored by Shopper's Drug Mart, and Safeway.

Watergardens Town Centre

Built in Mid 1997, this shopping centre contained 178 businesses, including two supermarkets (Coles and Safeway), a discount department-store (Target), and two Terry White Chemist's in both sections of the centre as well as a Hoyts Cinema.


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