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Safeway (also referred to as Canada Safeway) is a Canadian supermarket chain that operates 135 full-service locations, mostly in the country's Western provinces.It was established in 1929 as a subsidiary of the American Safeway chain before being sold in 2013 to Sobeys, a division of the conglomerate Empire Company and Canada's second-largest supermarket chain. [1]
49th Parallel Grocery; A&P; Best for Less; The Barn Fruit Markets; Canadian Tire (short-lived rollout) Commisso's Food Markets; Cooper's Foods; Darrigo's; DiPietro's; Dominion Stores; Dutch Boy; Eatons Supermarket (Winnipeg) Econo-Mart; Food Barn (Manitoba) Food City; Food for Less (Calgary) Galati Brothers; Garden Market IGA; Gordons; Hudson's ...
The company expanded into Canada in 1929 with 127 stores (which became Canada Safeway Limited and which was sold to Sobeys in 2013), [23] into the United Kingdom in 1962 (which became Safeway plc), into Australia in 1963 (which became Safeway Australia), and into West Germany in 1964.
In February 2014, the company announced it was taking over 14 stores on Vancouver Island owned by Sobeys, mostly under the Safeway and Thrifty Foods banners. [6] It was also announced that Overwaitea would convert 11 of its PriceSmart Foods locations to the Save-On-Foods brand. [7]
As of 2023, this is a list of supermarket chains, past and present, which operate or have branches in more than one country, whether under the parent corporation's name or another name. For supermarkets that are only in one country, see the breakdown by continent at the bottom of this page.
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June 2013 Empire buys all of Safeway Canada's stores for $5.8 billion; September 2018 Empire announces intent to buy Farm Boy stores in an $800 million deal. [6] March 2021 Empire announces it will buy 51% stake in Longo's and its Grocery Gateway e-commerce business for $357 million. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of Empire ...
FreshCo Ltd. is a Canadian chain of discount supermarkets owned by Sobeys. [2] It was launched in March 2010. [3] As of September 2023, there were 100 FreshCo stores. In December 2017, Sobeys Inc. announced plans to re-brand up to 64 stores in western Canada currently under the Safeway and Sobeys names into the FreshCo banner.