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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 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 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 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 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 ...
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”
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 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 also purchsed the New Jersey-based National Grocery Co. in 1941, giving it a few stores in Staten island. Safeway’s time in New York was brief and apparently not too successful; in 1961, the division was sold to First National Stores. After the sale, the stores briefly operated as Safeway – First National before rebranding as Finast.
A&P and Safeway also entered Canada in the late 1920s and joined Loblaws and Dominion Stores as the major players at mid-century. Suburbs and Shopping Centers (1950s and 1960s): By the 1950s, the transition to supermarkets was largely complete, and the migration to suburban locations was beginning.