Talk:Safeway/Archive 1

Healthy Measures Employee Insurance Plan

This whole section sounds ripped from the employee hand book complete with corporate spin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.254.84.254 (talk) 12:33, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Starters

here is some starters:http://shop.safeway.com/superstore/default.asp http://shop.safeway.com/offers/vons/default2.asp?CMP=PRMX_GOOG_MILK_0438 http://news.google.com/news?q=Vons&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn

http://news.google.com/news?q=Safeway%20Inc&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wn

Meh

The reckoning link at the bottome of the page is kind of POVie. Meh. Skrew ball 07:25, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There aren't that many good references on the internet - leave it for now? Coriolis (talk) 09:48, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm slowly working on researching and improving this whole article. I now have all annual reports 1926-2007. Coriolis (talk) 09:48, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

--- The slogan that was used prior to the current one was "Giving our Best". I am unsure if it dates back to 1992, though.

Strike

I believe there was a major strike against the Safeway Corp. in 1978. I'll see if I can dig anything up on it.--Rockero 02:42, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Safeway, like most major US grocery chains, has faced a large number of strikes over its history - which spans the formation of the labor movement in the US. It might not make sense to list them all. Coriolis (talk) 09:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Slogans

IIRC,"Nobody Does It Better (for Less)" actually lasted until the late 1990's...Ranma9617 00:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This was what I originally thought too. Can anyone confirm this?

There was also in the late 1980's or early 1990's "The Best of Everything(in Just One Place)" Ranma9617 08:30, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, I tagged parts of the section as needing verfication... Ranma9617 01:21, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Two other slogan, probably for Canada: "We bring it all together." (late 1980s) "Today's Better Way." (early 1990s)--PsychoJason 23:40, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I recall "Right down the street at Safeway" back in the '70s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.121.14.11 (talk) 18:09, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brands

Cragmont (soda) is the former brand that sticks in my mind more than Townhouse, Empress, or Scotch Buy. Could it be added in the future? 76.191.199.85 (talk) 22:32, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added Open Nature under brands [[1]] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.245.27.141 (talk) 22:00, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Technology

Should there be a mention of the year when Safeway began offering online groceries shopping and van deliveries? Club cards too, perhaps?

Safeway also owns Blackhawk Corp. One of the largest distributors of 3rd party gift cards in North America.

Safeway does not have a data center in Pleasanton.

Second largest?

It says Safeway is the second largest in North America.... Then who is first? --Sofeil 12:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kroger. Clipper471 14:27, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe supervalu Inc. is the second largest and Safeway is third largest--Micheal21 01:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wal-Mart is the first, no? Dmarquard (talk) 06:47, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia Section

The trivia section in this article bothers me for a few reasons One it is stated that trivia should be avoided in the guidelinesWP:TRIV Two this is a practice done is more than just Washington DC and for more than just safeway so the uniqueness implied is not correct. Three if we want an article section like this it should be retitles to reflect it as something other than trivia and to include examples from more than just Washington DC based on the same fact we aren't supposed to write or title articles from just one country's perspective. Shimonnyman 19:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Safeway in Saudi

I lived in Saudi up until 1993, and the Safeway in al-Khobar was definately there up until then. Anyone know what happened to it and the other stores since then? --Zilog Jones 14:47, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not owned by Safeway, Inc [2] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.245.27.141 (talk) 22:02, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Suitability of the "Environmental issues" section?

Not that I would want to dismiss the problem of plastic bags, but I wonder how the contents of that section relates to Safeway in particular. It sounded a newspaper report on a Annapolis hearing that relate to no retailer in particular and Safeway should not be singled out-- it is been clear that Safeway is neither instrumental or the worst offender in plastic bag pollution; it is, after all, not any bigger than Kroger or SuperValu or Wal-Mart. --Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 08:55, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to say the same thing. Coriolis (talk) 07:41, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the whole section. Why? (1) Unclear why this is a Safeway specific issue - wouldn't it make more sense under "plastic bags". (2) Some clear bias in the text. (talk) 03 November 2008

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International

No mention I could see of the many UK stores. Did they sell these off? Een so they should be mentioned. Johnbod (talk) 13:49, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just did a search of wiki but added UK and I got this. Looks like the company is no longer. --CubBC (talk) 10:18, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks - I see now both acquisition & disposal of the UK business are mentioned in the article. Johnbod (talk) 13:16, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

nicknames

The nickname section is very funny! Not very encyclopedic with only references for the latter sentences.

It's so funny that it almost deserves a keep. Seriously, it's got to go or citations need to be found. Presumptive (talk) 03:35, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The nicknames are hilarious! Where might one find a resource for this? Dmarquard (talk) 06:46, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Franchise

Thank you for your time and energy! Does anyone know of the best way to go about opening a Safeway Franchise? I am new to this and so any advice is welcome. :D I live in Burbank Washington. The county is Walla Walla County. The town is unincorporated and so I think I have to go through the county for everything. HERE (16 acre green farm field, between HW 124 and I 12) is where my intent is. I have already began contacting Walla Walla County and Safeway. I also contacted the local college in hopes that I can find some studies and such that already have been done. What I hope for is that someone can give me advice on the best way to go from here. I seriously have never done this before and anyone who has is not known to me either. Thank you again for your time and energy! :D

--Spike (talk) 23:51, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Safeway is not a franchise. --70.108.232.148 (talk) 17:36, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a franchise system. The company directly operates all its stores. --Coolcaesar (talk) 09:08, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Products?

Under the "Products" section on the right side of the article, Western Union is listed as being one of Safeway's products offered. Can one really consider a wire transfer to be a product? It's more like a service. Dmarquard (talk) 16:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quality

Needs to state that Safeway is notorious of treating employees very badly. They are a very bad company to work for. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.116.254.4 (talk) 21:43, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion! Not my experience with Safeway —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.245.27.141 (talk) 22:05, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Texas acquisitions

Safeway bought a very prestigious chain of stores in Houston in the 70's. It was a complete failure. The same stores were later sold to Apple Tree. I can't remember the name of the chain, but they were Houston's equivalent of Dallas' Tom Thumb.

The recent acquisition of Randall's seems to be following a similar path. The first thing they did was close some very popular Randall's stores. DaveCrane (talk) 20:25, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hawaii

There are seventeen Safeway stores in the State of Hawaii. This can be verified by accessing the Safeway homepage and searching for stores in Hawaii72.235.31.198 (talk) 09:13, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MOVE article to Safeway

As I'm unable to do it myself, and rather cautious too, I'm appealing to administrators.

The current Safeway article would be better used as a disambiguation page (I notice the Safeway (disambiguation) article redirects there). All other Safeway supermarket chains have been defunct for at least two years (The Australian Safeway brand disappeared in '09, the others disappeared around 2004). When people search Safeway I believe they're looking for this article.

If someone wants to create a vote for this then please do, I see no good reason for not having this article under the 'Safeway' heading. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quackth (talk • contribs) 20:02, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2011 Tucson shootings section

I have deleted this section as the location of the shootings being a Safeway is irrelevant to the event. It did not affect Safeway Inc, nor did Safeway Inc have any influence on the shooter's actions. Katie-e (talk) 03:00, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Animal Welfare Concerns

I had trimmed down a lot of the sensationalism of this section to make it fit a WP:NPOV; but the fundamental story here is that even before the results of the investigation was published, Safeway had changed their sourcing policies. While it may be a notable program to the article for Mercy for Animals, I'm not seeing a strong reason to leave the material in this article. It became a non-issue (for Safeway) before it was even published. Anyone else feel the section should just be removed from this article? --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:12, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why there's so few Safeway stores in Idaho.

Safeway has two locations in Coeur D'Alene, one in Sandpoint, one in Lewiston, one in Bonners Ferry and one in Moscow, ID. There used to be many more of them, especially in the Boise area. Why that changed was in the 90's the company wanted to build a new store in Boise close to a school. The city council denied the permit because it was too close to the school and there were "safety concerns" about students crossing roads to go to Safeway. Then Albertson's was granted a permit to build on the location that Safeway was denied. In response, Safeway closed all but their most northern stores in Idaho and has not opened another store in the State since. It's a bit ironic now that they're owned by the same conglomerate as Albertson's. I've been searching for information related to this event, I remember it from local news reports, but like so many things pre-WWW it's hard to locate. Bizzybody (talk) 06:24, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lots of material - flows erratically in places as if pieces were just inserted willy nilly -June 2014

Sorry, I will not read again and make detailed notes.

I just thought maybe it would be good to hear the impression of someone not associated with this material who just read the entire article.

Generally I like the accumulation of information. However, there are places where it reads as if someone inserted a sentence in the middle of a flow of information or that someone decided to add to the flow of information after someone else entered slightly off topic information.

Disjointed flow of thought.

There is also some strange and illogical reads around the discussion of the years of sales and mergers in the early years relating to the number of locations sold and by whom. Very difficult to get a clear mental image of the entire process because it just does not seem to add up based on how it reads ... from my perspective.

All in all it reads a bit more like a story that was outlined then handed out to several people who each took turns at interjecting thoughts here and there. Or, maybe it was longer and trims of info were made that negatively impacted the original flow of the information.

Would be nice if one of the authors would take the time to read through the entire article from start to finish with an open mind and try to determine if the information passes the logic test. 166.191.141.20 (talk) Just a friendly passer by looking for knowledge — Preceding undated comment added 06:06, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Groceryworks

I can't seem to edit the Groceryworks entry in the cross reference box at the bottom. It should say Groceryworks.com (Joint Venture with Tesco)

Also, the whole article could do with dedicated section about online. --176.25.141.37 (talk) 22:22, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Pak 'n Save information

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Albertson's Merger

The FTC approved the merger on January 27th 2015 followed by the merger finalizing completely on January 30th 2015. Safeway was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and is now a privately held company. The new company agreed to sell 168 stores for the FTC approval.

The drop down for Safeway, Inc was changed to Albertsons Companies to reflect the merger, someone just needs to input Albertsons companies other info besides banners into the drop down. Also there should also be a differentiation between national banners (Albertsons & Safeway) and regional banners (others). — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Green Arrow1 (talk • contribs) 11:00, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Relation to Indiana Safeway?

There used to be many locations all over Indiana. Now there are only five, and they are concentrated in Indianapolis. A few of them were named Preston's Safeway, though those locations have closed. I can't seem to find any history on these stores. I was always under the impression that they were once part of the national chain, but through mergers and sell offs, somehow are no longer affiliated with the national chain. But I have no sources to back up that assertion. The five remaining Indiana stores use this website: https://www.shopsafeways.com. These Safeway stores use a logo that was in use in the late 1980s. Not sure when that logo was first in use, or if the national Safeway chain has ever used that logo. - Cali, 73.146.110.137 (talk) 05:47, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 29 November 2022

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Tol (talk | contribs) @ 15:45, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Safeway Inc. → Safeway – The contemporary United States grocery chain is clearly the primary topic relative to defunct groceries of the same name in other countries and smaller companies with similar names. –CWenger (^ • @) 19:35, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Pageview analysis shows that the US grocery chain has a substantial lead in pageviews over the sum of other competing titles. Further, as the nom mentions, the other grocery chains are all defunct; when factoring them out, only the insurance group is still competing for the "Safeway" spelling, and it gets a tiny fraction of the US grocery chain's views. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 20:00, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Also, as an addendum – if this move goes through, the page currently titled Safeway will need to be moved to Safeway (disambiguation). ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 20:00, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for pointing that out. Wasn't sure if this qualified as a multi-page move or if moving the disambiguation page is just assumed. –CWenger (^ • @) 20:07, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, it does count a a multi page move. See WP:RM#Request all associated moves explicitly. ^Clyde!_Franklin! 09:41, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. The fact that the other chains are all defunct means they'll unlikely to gain notability and the insurance group mostly markets under a natural disambiguator of "Safeway Insurance". So move this to the base name and current Safeway over the existing redirect of Safeway (disambiguation). Skynxnex (talk) 20:07, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I agree with User:Skynxnex's cogent analysis. Whenever any English speaker today refers to shopping at Safeway, they are nearly almost always referring to the U.S. Safeway (either because they live in the company's territory or they are or were visiting). --Coolcaesar (talk) 02:40, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Move Safeway to Safeway (disambiguation). Shwcz (talk) 13:18, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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