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The Big Merger. In 1926, an investment group organized by Merrill, Lynch, and Co., purchased 80% of the outstanding stock on Safeway Stores for $3.5 million, and Charles Merrill began looking for a merger partner and possible CEO for his new grocery chain. He found both in Marion Skaggs.
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 UK. Posted on January 26, 2009. A great photo of a 1960s Safeway in Blackfen, in southeast London, sent to me by Nic Ayling. It’s rare to find photos of UK Safeway stores from this era. He also included some interiors (of a different store, I believe) that demonstrate how Safeway was using more or less the same designs on both sides ...
Safeway Stores divisions from 1932 as noted in Uno Animo, the company’s employee magazine. Salt Lake City Division. Salt Lake District (Safeway, Pay‘n Takit, Piggly Wiggly) Billings Distrct (Safeway, Pay‘n Takit, Piggly Wiggly) Boise District (Safeway, Pay‘n Takit) Butte District (Safeway, MacMarr, Piggly Wiggly) Cheyenne District ...
Safeway Divisions, 1929. Posted on July 5, 2010. 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 ...
Kansas City Area. Kansas City is fascinating in that it was served for decades by all of the “big three” (A&P, Kroger, and Safeway) and in that all three chains pulled out in about a ten-year period starting in the late 1970s. After this, KC was left with one local chain on the way down (Milgram) and a collection of independents, franchises ...
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 History. The 1930s. Combined Operation. At the dawn of the 1930s, Safeway Stores, Inc., was operating 2695 units under the Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Sanitary and Pay ‘n Takit names, among others, with sales of $219 million. The closely related MacMarr chain, also assembled by Charles Merrill boasted 1400 stores and sales of $86 million.
Safeway, 7th Avenue, San Francisco (1959-2007) One of my favorite Safeway locations in San Francisco apparently closed last night. The small-scale Marina-type store on Seventh Avenue is to be torn down and replaced with a new “lifestyle” format store with rooftop parking. This location opened in 1959, and was probably less than 12,000 ...
Safeway History. The 1940s. New prototype. At the dawn of the 1940s, Safeway was operating hundreds of older units in taxpayer strips or on the first floors of apartment or commercial buildings, most of which were a fraction of the size of the new supermarkets that were opening around the country. Some of which dated from the 1920s self-service ...