PLEASANTON, Calif. — The Safeway Foundation will provide a grant in support of salad bars for schools in the Hemet, Pleasanton and Ventura school districts in California that will enable 6,382 students to increase their consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables at lunch....More
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway here and ExxonMobil have partnered to allow Safeway and ExxonMobil customers to earn fuel reward points for most products purchased at Safeway stores in the Mid-Atlantic region and redeem them at participating Exxon or Mobil locations....More
The impact of the restoration of the Social Security tax and the potential for merger-and-acquisition activity are “wild cards” facing the supermarket industry in 2013, as one analyst described the situation....More
NEW YORK — Safeway, Pleasanton, Calif., has improved the speed and accuracy of its till reconciliation process across its roughly 1,700 stores via the installation of technology, said Steve Rempel, the retailer’s group vice president of application development....More
TORONTO — Recent changes at Loblaw Cos. here have spurred fresh industry speculation about its potential interest in acquiring Safeway’s Canadian assets....More
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Analysts said Safeway here “has some big shoes to fill” in the wake of last week’s announcement that longtime Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Burd plans to retire in May....More
LANDOVER, Md. — United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 here said its executive board has elected Mark Federici as the union’s new president and Lavoris "Mikki" Harris as secretary-treasurer of the 35,000-member union local....More
SN asked 10 experts to make predictions about developments that will have a significant impact on food retailing in 2013. Predictions ranged from the increasing use of environmentally friendly coolants to improved merchandising in the cheese category. View the gallery to see all 10 predictions, and click the related stories to read more about each prediction.
AUSTIN, Texas — Whole Foods Market led the field of food-retailing stocks again in 2012, with a gain of nearly 35% for the year, to close at $91.16 on Dec. 31....More
SAN DIEGO — Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. here said Friday that it has acquired three grocery-anchored shopping centers in Southern California and has an agreement to acquire a fourth....More
As 2012 came to a close, Delhaize America overhauled its top executive ranks, as new Chief Executive Officer Roland Smith shook things up in an effort to reverse sluggish performance at the company....More
Kroger Co. and Safeway will realize gains in sales volume through the downsizing of Supervalu in 2013, said Andrew Wolf, a Richmond, Va.-based analyst at BB&T Capital Markets....More
Mergers and acquisitions remained a part of the supermarket industry during 2012, although as the year neared an end there was a feeling more was still to come....More
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway’s brands of cage-free and organic eggs are now Certified Humane, according to a release from the nonprofit Humane Farm Animal Care....More
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Union workers at Raley’s Supermarkets here are expected to vote in the next couple of weeks to approve new labor agreements following a 10-day strike that ended last week — concluding more than a year of talks with three Northern California chains to negotiate a successor contract to one that expired in October 2011....More
