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The former Skaggs stores were to be operated for a time under the Skaggs-Safeway name, while the southern stores remained simply Safeway. At the time of the merger, the new chain totaled 750 grocery stores, 114 meat markets, and 5 bakeries, with annual gross sales approaching $50 million.
Safeway has recovered from its problems during the 1990s, and is now aggressively remodeling and expanding, building new stores, and acquiring chains around the country. Interestingly, the company seems to be moving back into many of the very areas it devested in the 1950s and 1980s, with Randalls and Tom Thumb in Texas, and Genuardis in the ...
Safeway Division The districts noted “also Piggly Wiggly” have stores listed as being in the Piggly Wiggly Division as well as stores in the Safeway Division. Safeway and Piggly Wiggly seem to have operated side by side in many districts with no distinction between the two names; the organizational structure seems to have been based on a ...
Too bad Safeway no longer exists in the UK. One of our local supermarkets used to be a Safeway until 1998 — now it’s a Sainsbury’s. I wish I could remember what the Safeway looked like before it changed hands and got re-modelled, but alas, I didn’t pay attention to supermarkets back then they way I do now.
Eugene District (Safeway, MacMarr. Pay‘n Takit) Klamath Falls District (Safeway, MacMarr. Pay‘n Takit) Kansas City Division. Kansas City District (Piggly Wiggly, Safeway) Wichita District (Safeway) Omaha District (Safeway, Piggly Wiggly) Grand Island District (Safeway, Pay‘n Takit, Piggly Wiggly) Joplin District (Safeway, Piggly Wiggly)
Later a Safeway went in across 23rd Street and that was the end of that. I was extremely interested in the Safeway at 5629 and 5631 Truman Road in Kansas City, MO because I worked there through college–withdrawn member of Retail Clerks International Union #782.
Safeway News (September 1956) Safeway News (September 1957) Safeway News (November 1957) Safeway News (July/August 1960) Safeway News (January 1963) Safeway News (July 1969) Safeway Stores, Inc. Annual Reports: 1926–1985, 1990, 1993, 1997–2012 (offsite link) Safeway UK 1999 Annual Report. More Information: Blog posts tagged “Safeway”
Safeway was perhaps somewhat conservative in the move to supermarkets; A&P closed or consolidated more than half its 15000 stores during the 1930s, while Safeway’s store count dropped by only about a quarter. The first Safeway supermarket units were also somewhat smaller than those of some competitors.
Safeway also purchsed the New Jersey-based National Grocery Co. in 1941, giving it a few stores in Staten island. Safeway’s time in New York was brief and apparently not too successful; in 1961, the division was sold to First National Stores. After the sale, the stores briefly operated as Safeway – First National before rebranding as Finast.
The casualties included many older Safeway locations as well as nearly all of the former Piggly Wiggly, Public, and Mutual/MacMarr stores. As the 1940s ended, none of the city’s original 1920s Skaggs or Safeway locations remained in operation, although one 1928 Piggly Wiggly on Castro Street still bore the Safeway name. The Skaggs era ends