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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]
FreshCo Ltd. is a Canadian chain of discount supermarkets owned by Sobeys. [2] It was launched in March 2010. [3] As of September 2024, there were over 125 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.
Sobeys Inc. [4] is a national supermarket chain in Canada with over 1,500 stores operating under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than C$25.1 billion [3] in the fiscal 2019 operating year.
Safeway is leaving the Canadian market. On Wednesday, the American supermarket chain announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Canadian operations to wholly owned Empire ...
Sobeys completed the sale five months later while keeping the Safeway banner on its newly acquired stores while changing private labels to be more inline with those used by its new parent. [ 47 ] In October 2013, Safeway announced that it would close and sell its remaining Dominick's stores in the Chicago area by early 2014.
This location will be the third Safeway store in Elk Grove. The others are located on Laguna Boulevard and on Elk Grove Florin Road, the latter of which also includes a gas station.
Many stores have a pharmacy, and some locations provide other services, including nutrition tours and health clinics, as well as other features such as Starbucks Coffee (all former Safeway locations) or Tim Hortons (some former Sobeys locations) kiosks, juice bars, and departments featuring BC wines. Today, Save-On-Foods operates 177 stores ...
Safeway announced Wednesday after market close that, after "an unprecedented 20 years at the helm," Chairman and CEO Steve Burd has decided to retire as CEO, and will also retire from Safeway's ...