36 Facts About Safeway Inc

Safeway Inc is an American supermarket chain founded by Marion Barton Skaggs in April 1915 in American Falls, Idaho.

Safeway Inc stores operate under the logo of a stylized white "S" inside a rounded red square with the slogan "Ingredients for life".

Safeway Inc described selling items on credit as "the growing evil of installment purchasing".

Safeway Inc was an early proponent of the self-service concept.

Safeway Inc headquarters remained there until the move to Pleasanton, California in 1996.

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In 1935, Safeway sold its nine stores in Honolulu, Hawaii "because of the inconvenience of proper supervision".

In November 2016, Safeway Inc agreed to buy Andronico's remaining stores, which were based primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In February 2019, Safeway Inc said that it was considering bringing back the Andronico's name.

Safeway Inc has operations in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in a licensing and management agreement with the Tamimi Group during the 1980s.

Safeway Inc usually achieved international expansion by acquiring one or more small chains in a given country.

Safeway Inc remained President until 1968, and a member of the board until 1978.

In 1959, Safeway Inc opened its first store in the new state of Alaska—the first major food retailer to enter that market.

Safeway Inc opened three stores in Anchorage and one in Fairbanks over the next several years.

In 1963, Safeway Inc again opened stores in Hawaii, having exited this market in 1934.

In 1969, Safeway Inc entered the Toronto market in Canada and the Houston market in Texas through opening new stores, rather than by acquisition.

In 1977, Safeway Inc management instituted a program to fight counterfeit $100 bills by, among other things, telling employees that bills that lacked the words "In God We Trust" were counterfeit.

Safeway Inc was arrested and strip-searched before Oakland police contacted the Treasury Department and realized the error.

Safeway Inc Australia was sold to the Australian-based Woolworths Limited in 1985.

Safeway Inc scaled back its operations in Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, and Sacramento.

The late 1990s and early 2000s saw Safeway Inc rapidly expand into new territories under a variety of regional names.

In 1997, Safeway Inc bought out the rest of The Vons Companies, giving it Southern California stores once more.

The purchase of Randalls started the practice of Safeway Inc-owned gas stations, as Randalls already had stations at their stores.

In 2000, Safeway Inc started grocery delivery operations and in 2001 acquired the family-owned Genuardi's chain, with locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

In 2011, Safeway Inc signed an agreement with UNFI, for the distribution to all of Safeway Inc's banners in the United States for non-proprietary natural, organic and specialty products effective October 2011.

In October 2013, Safeway Inc announced that it would close and sell its remaining Dominick's stores in the Chicago area by early 2014.

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Safeway Inc has begun to replace most of its lighting setup in favor of LEDs.

Safeway Inc activated QR payments and digital receipts with the updated mobile app.

In 2006, Safeway Inc introduced an organically grown and processed line of products named "O Organics".

Safeway Inc closed its water bottling plant in downtown Los Angeles in January 2012.

Safeway Inc has offered online grocery delivery service in select markets starting in the American Northwest region in 2000.

In early 2020, Safeway Inc began offering deli department items and prepared-to-order sandwiches on DoorDash, and eventually began offering grocery delivery as well once they introduced DoorDash Marketplace.

In 1963, Safeway Inc developed the Super S format—which combined a general merchandise and drug store and a new Safeway Inc supermarket in the same building.

In 1964, Safeway opened a trial two-level International Store at 12th and F Street in Washington, D C, with a conventional Safeway downstairs and a gourmet store on the upper floor.

In 1969, Safeway Inc formed a joint venture with Holly Farms Poultry Industries to open Holly Farms Fried Chicken in an effort to diversify into fast food restaurants and compete with KFC.

Safeway Inc acquired Pak 'n Save Foods, a box warehouse concept, as part of the 1983 purchase of Brentwood in Northern California.

Safeway Inc transitioned from regional control of its product assortments to national category management, known as the Safeway Inc Category Optimization Process .