Safeway, Inc. , is an American supermarket chain founded in 1915. It is a subsidiary of Albertsons after it was acquired by private equity investor led by Cerberus Capital Management in January 2015. Safeway's premier operating base is in the western and central United States, with several shops located in the Mid-Atlantic area of ​​Eastern Seaboard. The subsidiary is headquartered in Pleasanton, Alameda County, California, with its parent company headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
Safeway stores operate under the white "S" logo inside a round red box with the slogan "Material for life". Following the organic trend, shops have expanded the number of organic fruits and vegetables in the product section and offer other items under the label "O Organic". The store may have deli counter, meat department, production department, flower department, bakery, pharmacy, liquor section, and/or many gang of non-rotten goods. The stores offer many internal private label brands as well as name brands in all product categories.
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History
In April 1915, Marion Barton Skaggs bought her father's 576 square foot grocery store in American Falls, Idaho, for $ 1,089. The chain, which operated as two separate businesses, Skaggs Cash Stores and Skaggs United Stores, grew rapidly, and Skaggs enlisted the help of his five brothers to develop a chain of stores. M.B.'s business strategy, to value customers and expand by keeping a narrow margin of profit, has proved spectacularly successful. By 1926, he had opened 428 Skaggs stores in 10 states. M.B. nearly doubling the size of his business that year when he merged his company with 322 Safeway stores and was incorporated as Safeway, Inc.
The original slogan is "warning and invitation" to "Driving Safeway; buying Safeway". The essence of the name is a wholesale shop operated in cash-and-take - it does not offer credit, as the wholesalers do. It's a "safe way" to buy because a family can not owe it through grocery bills (as many families did at that time, especially during the Great Depression).
In 1926, Charles E. Merrill, founder of Merrill Lynch brokerage firm, saw an opportunity to consolidate the West Coast grocery industry. Toward this end, he purchased the Safeway 322 chain from W.R.H. Weldon, who wants to get out of retail and concentrate on wholesale. Then, in June 1926, Merrill offered Skaggs either $ 7 million directly or $ 1.5 million plus 30,000 shares in the combined company. Skaggs took the last one. On July 1, 1926, Safeway joined 673 stores from Skaggs United Stores of Idaho and Skaggs Cash Stores of California. After completing the Skaggs/Safeway merger, M.Ã, B.Ã, Skaggs became Chief Executive of the business. Two years later, Skaggs recorded Safeway on the New York Stock Exchange. In the 1930s, Safeway introduced the price of its production to the pound, adding a "sell by" date on perishables, nutrition labeling, and first parking lots.
The merger soon created the largest chain of grocery stores west of the Mississippi. In the 1930s, Charles E. Merrill temporarily left Merrill Lynch to help manage Safeway. At the time of the merger, the company is headquartered in Reno, Nevada. In 1929, relocated to a former wholesale warehouse in Oakland, California. Safeway's headquarters remained there until moving to Pleasanton, California in 1996.
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Expansion
The initial public offering price of Safeway shares was $ 226 in 1927. Five for one split in 1928 brought the price down to below $ 50. Over the next few years, Charles Merrill, with financing supplied by Merrill Lynch, then started aggressively acquired many regional grocery store chains for Safeway in roll strategy. The initial acquisition included an important part of the Piggly Wiggly chain as part of the breakup of the company by Merrill Lynch and Wall Street.
Most transactions involve the exchange of stock certificates, with little money changing hands. Most of the obtained chains retained their own names until the mid-1930s.
In 1929, there were rumors of a Safeway-Kroger merger.
The number of stores reached 3,400 in 1932, when the expansion ceased. The Great Depression eventually impacted the chain, which began to focus on cost control. In addition, many small grocery stores were replaced with large department stores. In 1933, the chain ranks second in the grocery industry behind The Great Atlantic & amp; Pacific Tea Company and in front of Kroger.
In 1935, Safeway sold nine of his stores in Honolulu, Hawaii "... because of the inconvenience of proper surveillance." Also in 1935, independent shopping in California convinced the California legislature to impose a progressive tax on chain stores. Before the move came into effect, Safeway petitioned for the referendum to be passed. In 1936, California voters voted to revoke the law.
In 1936, Safeway introduced a money-back guarantee for meat.
International expansion
The company expanded into Canada in 1929 with 127 stores (which became Canada Safeway Limited and sold to Sobeys in 2013); to England in 1962 (which became Safeway plc); to Australia in 1963 (which became Safeway Australia); and to Germany in 1964. The company also operates in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in a license and management agreement with Tamimi Group during the 1980s. In 1981, the company acquired 49% of Mexican retailers, Casa Ley.
Safeway typically achieves international expansion by acquiring one or more small chains in a country. It expanded to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, however, through a joint venture. The initial core of this store accepted Safeway systems and technologies and then expanded organically. The international chains obtained include:
1940s-1970s
In 1941, Marion B. Skaggs retired from Safeway's board of directors.
In 1947, the company's sales exceeded $ 1 billion for the first time. In 1951, total sales had reached nearly $ 1.5 billion. The company adopted the S logo, which is still in use, in 1962.
In 1955, Robert A. Magowan became Chairman of the Safeway Board. Magowan married Charles Merrill's daughter, Doris. Magowan also assumed the post of President in 1956. He remained President until 1968, and was a board member until 1978. In 1966, Robert A Magowan brought his Star Meat Processing Manager Michael F. Concannon to Oakland to become Head of Meat Processing at North America retired in 1978 as well. Mike was instrumental in opening up a Stockton factory, a Canadian Meat and Processing factory that began in the 1970s.
In 1959, Safeway opened its first store in the new state of Alaska - the first major food retailer to enter the market. The company opened three stores in Anchorage and one at Fairbanks over the next few years. The store in downtown Fairbanks is built in the red light district location, known as The Line, which operates nearly half a century. Most of these stores are in buildings built by Anchorage real estate developer Wally Hickel, who later became Alaska governor and US Interior Secretary.
Also in 1959, the company also opened the first "marina-style" store at Marina in San Francisco. Hundreds of shops in this icon, the style of roofing holes opened during the next decade.
In 1961, the company sold its operations in New York to Finast. In 1963, Safeway re-opened a store in Hawaii, after leaving the market in 1934. It rented a shop in Culver City for animator/filmmaker Don Bluth, who used it as a theater until 1967.
In 1969, Safeway entered the Toronto market in Canada and the Houston market in Texas through the opening of new stores, not by acquisition. The company ultimately failed to fight the deep-rooted competition in both these markets.
In 1977, Safeway's management instituted a program against a fake $ 100 bill by, inter alia, letting employees know that bills that do not have the words "In God We Trust" are fake. Since Safeway did not quite investigate the history of the $ 100 bill, it did not realize that some outstanding bills did not have a phrase. Finally, an innocent shopper is reported incorrectly to the Oakland, California police for passing a "fake" bill. He was arrested and searched before the Oakland police contacted the Treasury and realized the error. The 1981 joint judgment jury and several liabilities of $ 45,000 against the Safeway Shop and Oakland City were upheld by the California Supreme Court on 26 December 1986.
In 1979, Peter Magowan, son of Robert Magowan and grandson of Charles Merrill, was appointed as Safeway Chairman and CEO. Magowan manages Safeway over the next 13 years - leading the company's dramatic drop in store numbers
1980s: Takeover and sale
Following a hostile takeover bid from the company robbers Herbert and Robert Haft, the chain was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (TRC) who acted as a white knight in 1986. With the help of the TRC, the company was taken private and underwent extraordinary debts. To repay this debt, the company began selling a large number of its operations divisions.
The division of Safeway's domestic division proved to be a poisonous cup for almost everyone who earned it. Basically every purchasing entity reaches financial problems and either bankrupt or later acquired. (Hy-Vee and Fareway are exceptions to the location they get, after making them work)
International stores are more successful for their acquirers. British stores, Safeway plc, were sold to Argyll Foods, which was eventually absorbed by Morrisons in 2004. Safeway Australia was sold to Australia-based Woolworths Limited in 1985.
Safeway sold its store in Southern California, including in established markets such as Los Angeles and San Diego, to Vons in 1988 in exchange for a 30% stake in the company. Safeway also reduced operations in Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, and Sacramento. Save Mart Supermarkets purchased some of the remaining Fresno Safeway stores in 1996.
Many stores in the Eastern Division were also closed or sold within the 1987-1989 range, including many recent additions in the DelMarVa Eastern Shore region.
Safeway's national presence is now reduced to several western and northern California states, plus the Washington, D.C. Overall, almost half of the 2,200 stores in the chain were sold.
1990s
The company was reopened in 1990.
Safeway Jordan was sold to the Masri family in 1991. In December 2003, the Masri family sold it to the Kuwaiti Sultan Center.
In the late 1990s, Safeway began again aggressively acquiring regional chains, including Randall's Food Markets in Texas, Carrs in Alaska, and Dominick's in Illinois. The return of Randall's signature marked Safeway to Texas ten years after the original stores in Houston were sold to AppleTree and several Dallas stores were sold to Tom Thumb, which was later acquired by Randall. In 1997, after becoming a minority owner since 1988, Safeway implemented the option to gain complete control over Vons in Southern California.
In 1999, the Safeway chain began selling gasoline at some of its new stores. It started operating the petrol station when purchasing the Randall chain.
2000s and so on
In 2000, Safeway started a food shipping operation.
In 2001, Safeway acquired the Genuardi family chain, with locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Safeway also created subsidiaries of Blackhawk Network, prepaid and payment networks, card-based financial solutions companies, and third-party prepaid card providers.
In October 2003, members of the Food and Commercial Union of Workers at Vons stores in Southern California called strikes. The strike (and lockup at Albertsons and Ralphs) lasted until the end of February 2004.
In July 2007, the company's shares rose on speculation that Sears Holdings Corporation is looking to buy Safeway.
In 2012, the company disbanded the Genuardi chain in suburban Philadelphia through a combination of selling and closing the store. Giant acquired 15 chain stores and made bids for 16 that were instead sold to local networks as part of antitrust settlements. Weis also bought three Genuardi locations. A number of unfavorable Genuardi units have also been closed in 2010 and 2011 as their lease expires. Previously, Zagara's, a small upscale supermarket chain, started by Genuardi in 1990 also closed in 2000, soon after its parent acquisition by Safeway. The only Genuardi in northern New Jersey also closed shortly after the merger with Safeway, and the location in Bensalem, Pennsylvania was sold to ShopRite in 2004.
Genuardi in Wilmington, Delaware, was converted to Safeway's name in 2004 because of legal issues derived from union contracts signed by the early Safeway store management in Delaware that closed in 1982. The current Safeway location in Delaware is served by division offices in the Baltimore- Washington, where Safeway has long been a wholesaler. However, most Safeway stores operate in the Western United States, where chains originate.
In 2011, Safeway signed an agreement with UNFI, for distribution to all Safeway banners in the United States for natural, organic and non-exclusive products in October 2011.
On June 12, 2013, Sobeys announced it would acquire Safeway operations in Canada for CDN $ 5.8 billion, depending on regulatory approval. This move will increase its presence in Western Canada, where Safeway dominates. Sobeys completed the sale five months later while storing Safeway banners in stores he had just acquired while changing private labels to be more in tune with that used by his new parents.
In October 2013, Safeway announced that it would stop operating Dominick stores in the Chicago area in early 2014. The announcement encourages its competitors to locate the desired employees and store locations that they can buy. One location will remain open in Bannockburn, Illinois until January 25, 2014.
On February 19, 2014, Safeway began exploring its own sales. On March 6, 2014 Cerberus Capital Management (which also owns Albertsons rival chain grocery) announced it would buy Safeway for $ 9.4 billion in an agreement expected to close in the 4th quarter of this year.
In January 2015, Bellingham, Washington's Haggen-based shopping chain announced it would buy 146 Vons, Albertsons and Pavilions stores in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and Arizona as part of its anti-monopoly requirements after the merger. Some of the major metropolitan areas affected are Los Angeles, Portland, Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego, Bakersfield, Seattle, and Las Vegas.
On January 30, 2015, the merger between Safeway and Albertsons was completed.
On January 11, 2016, it was announced that the three remaining Albertsons stores in Florida, located in Largo, Altamonte Springs and Oakland Park, would be re-set as Safeway; this marks the first time that the Safeway brand will exist at a supermarket operation in Florida.
On September 7, 2016, it was announced that nine Albertsons stores in the Denver Metro area would again be ruled as Safeway, as Safeway is a stronger brand in the Denver Area. Name change occurred October 19, 2016.
Current operation
In 2014, Safeway has a total of 1,335 stores in the United States and 195 in Mexico in partnership with Casa Ley. The largest concentration of Safeway branches is in Washington with 168 stores and then Colorado with 115.
Chains
- Carrs-Safeway (Alaska)
- Pack 'n Save (California)
- Pavilion (Southern California)
- Randall's (Texas)
- Safeway (Alaska, Arizona, Northern California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Northern Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Virginia , Washington, Wyoming)
- Tom Thumb (Texas)
- Vons (Southern California and Southern Nevada)
Former
- Dominick's (Northeast Illinois) - closed in December 2013
- Genuardi (Pennsylvania, one store opened in Audubon, closed in 2015)
- Omni Superstore (Northeast Illinois) - All locations were closed or converted to Dominick in 1998 after the acquisition by Safeway.
- Simon David (Texas)
- Andronico's (California), 1 closed & amp; 4 converted to Safeway in April 2017.
Private brand
"Signature Select" is a private label signature company that offers a variety of top-class products. The "Primo Taglio" sublabel is used for upscale deli products and "Lucerne" is the main dairy line for companies. In 2006, Safeway introduced an organically processed product line and named "O Organics". A number of ready-to-eat dishes and soups are available at the "Signature Cafe". After being acquired by Albertsons, the joint company adopted the Safeway private label brand program, previously known as "Safeway Select."
Brand list
Some of the brands used are:
Refreshe Brand Cola is produced by Cotts Beverages for Safeway Inc.; it's a bottle in San Bernardino, California. Safeway Refreshing bottled water brand from Advanced H20, LLC in Stockton, California. Safeway closed its bottling plant in downtown Los Angeles in January 2012.
Lifestyle imagery
On April 18, 2005, Safeway started a $ 100 million brand reposition campaign labeled "Ingredients for Life". This is done in an effort to differentiate itself from its competitors, and to increase brand engagement. Steve Burd described it as "branding the shopping experience".
This launch includes a redesigned logo, a new slogan "Ingredients for Life" along with a four-panel life icon to be used across stores and advertisements, and a web app called "FoodFlex" to improve consumer nutrition. Many locations are converted to "Lifestyle" format. The new look is designed by PPC Design based in Michigan. In addition to "inviting decor with warm atmosphere and soft lighting", this step requires redesigning the heavy store layout, new employee uniforms, sushi and olive bars, and the addition of Starbucks stalls inside the store (with cupholders in grocery carts). Changes also involve company differentiation from competitors with promotions based on a large corporate loyalty card database.
By the end of 2004, there were 142 "Lifestyle" stores in the United States and Canada, with plans to open or remodel 300 other stores with this type of theme the following year. The "Lifestyle" stores have seen significantly higher average weekly sales than other stores. In late 2006, stocks rose, proving this rebranding campaign had a huge impact on sales figures.
In 2007, the 1000 "Lifestyle" store was built in Everett, Washington.
Shipping Safeway Ghost
Safeway has been offering online food delivery services in selected markets starting in the Northwest US region in 2000. The service is expanding to deliver in 6 states and the District of Columbia, mostly along the west and east coasts.
Past concepts
Safeway has tried various new store formats over the years, most of which ultimately fail.
In 1963, Safeway developed the format of the Super S - which combines general merchandise and drugstores and a new Safeway supermarket in the same building. The stores share a common entrance, but are operated as separate businesses with their own checkstands. The first outlet opened in Anchorage, Alaska. In 1965, 22 existing Super S stores were sold to the Skaggs Drugstore. Safeway sold the remaining stores in 1971.
In 1964, Safeway opened a two-tier trial of International Stores at 12th and F Street in Washington, D.C., with a conventional Safeway downstairs and a gourmet shop upstairs. Safeway International Store Stores include wild boar pigs, snow bunnies, pigs feeding, and deer steaks.
The company also made a number of attempts to reuse older and smaller store sites, opened Food Warehouse , discount grocery stores, and Liquor Barn, discounted liquor outlets, in the 1970s. Safeway also piloted the Town House in Washington, D.C., a small shop that targets apartment dwellers, and the concept of gourmet stores, Bon Appetit in San Francisco and Tiburon, California.
In 1969, Safeway formed a joint venture with Holly Farms Poultry Industries (now part of Tyson Foods) to open Holly Farms Fried Chicken in an effort to diversify into fast food restaurants and compete with KFC. The first store opened in Colonial Heights, Virginia in August 1969.
Safeway also acquired Pak 'n Save Foods, a box warehouse concept, as part of a 1983 purchase of Brentwood in Northern California.
Logos
The S Medallion (1946 - 1982) - The red "S" part was thinning slightly in the late 1950s, and remained that way until 1982.
Slogan
- "Because We Are Neighbors, Let's Make Friends" (1969-1979) is probably the first Safeway advertising campaign to use jingle singalong. The slogan was used by US stores until July 16, 1979, when the slogan "Everything" was adopted.
- "Everything You Want from the Store and A Little More" (1979 - December 1981) is a campaign launched on July 16, 1979, and adopted, perhaps, to reflect the image of Safeway stores as a "one stop shopping" center. "The campaign was used until December 1981, although it was used in Britain in the 1990s.
- "Safeway Today: Where You Got A Little More" (January 1982 - 1983) was Safeway's first advertising campaign to use the company's new "leaf ribbon" logo.
- "American Favorite Food Store" (1983-1986)
- "I Work on an Honest Day and I Want Honest Deal" (1985-1987) and the tagline "American favorite food store" was used with this campaign until 1986, until purchases and divestments, which reduced the number of stores and made the line "favorite American "is not accurate; it also featured the song.
- "Nobody Does It Better" (1992 - late 1990s) - This campaign is unique because it is adapted from a pop song. In this case, the song became a hit for Carly Simon in 1977. Simon sang it as the theme song for the 1977 James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me . The 1993 version used in advertisements was recorded by R & amp; B Award-winning Grammy Award Patti Labelle.
- "Giving the Best" (2001-2005)
- "Vons is Value" (mid to late 1990s) is only used for Vons stores in Southern California. This is the first Vons ad campaign since Safeway took over the ownership of the chain.
- "Ours Are Bigger Than Yours" (mid-1990s), referring to the expansion of the production department in Northern California.
- "Produce the Best" (late 1990s - 2005) is only used for food delivery
- "Material for life" (2005 - present) * This tag is still used in TV & amp; sign shop for the Colorado/Wyoming Safeway shops. *
- "fresh for your pint" (2012 - present) is only used for food delivery
- "It's Just Better" (2015-present) is used by Albertsons and Safeway as a joint venture.
Highway company information
Safeway ATM Network
Safeway ATM Network, run for Safeway by Cardtronics, operates in Colorado, Oregon, Wyoming and Washington. Typically, one machine is located near the front of each store. Cirrus, Plus, Star, and NYCE are on the network. The network began in late 1998 in Denver and extended to Wyoming, Washington, and Oregon.
Support office
- California
- Pleasanton, California (Head Office), Call Center Company, IT Support Services, Retail Price
- Colorado
- Denver, Colorado (Office, Highway Security, Truck)
- Arizona
- Phoenix, Arizona (Office, Accounting Office, IT)
- Philippines
- Manila, Philippines (IT Support Service)
Safeway Category Optimization Process
Safeway makes the transition from regional controls of its products to a national category management, known as Safeway Category Optimization (SCOP). With all the purchase of a grocery company made from the Pleasanton Safeway office, it is said to increase the representation of producers by experienced sales professionals with extensive product and category knowledge. The company's product purchase office is located in Phoenix, Arizona. This means consistency across the Safeway chain, which means one can go to a store in Winnipeg or San Francisco and find the same product at the same price, because all the negotiations are now done at the company level.
Animal welfare issue
In 2012, Mercy for Animals conducted a secret investigation at Christensen Farms, a supplier of pork for Safeway, Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and Kmart. Prior to the public release of the Mercy For Animals investigation at Christensen Farms, Safeway announced it would begin requiring pork suppliers to stop pregnancy crates.
In 2008, Greenpeace started the ranking of major American supermarket chains in their seafood conservation practices because, according to Phil Radford, CEO of Greenpeace USA, "three quarters of global fish stocks suffer from overfishing, and 90% of marine predators are gone." Criteria include the number of supermarkets of threatened fish species on sale, their purchasing policies for seafood, and the marine legislation policies it supports. The annual report of Greenpeace Carting Away the Oceans (CATO) ranks supermarkets on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the least sustainable with the most sustainable seafood policy and 10 with seafood policy. Safeway was ranked second best (7.1 out of 10) in the CATO Report 2013 by ensuring that tuna cans brands are processed on an ongoing basis and by lobbying a science-based marine conservation policy.
In 2016, parent company holding company Albertsons joins a wave of companies moving toward egg production of "free cages" and announces a planned shift to eggs without cage in 2025 after a campaign by The Humane League, Mercy for Animals, The Humane Society of the United States, and others.
Safeway Music
Safeway Music is provided by InStore Broadcasting Network. Satellite networks also emit advertisements and advertisements for Safeway products and brands that sometimes play music.
See also
- List of supermarket chains in the United States
- Online seller list
References
External links
- Website Safeway, Inc.
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