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March 7, 2011
Healthy living initiatives are made 'Simple' for Safeway shoppers

Over the past seven years, Safeway has demonstrated a list of accomplishments aimed at healthier living, including launching its O Organics line of USDA certified-organic foods, removing added trans-fats from all of its private-label products and launching Eating Right for Kids, a line that contains no high fructose corn syrup. Today, the effort shows little signs of slowing as the chain kicked off 2011 with two new initiatives: SimpleNutrition and Open Nature.

March 7, 2011
Pharmacy Saver at center of Hy-Vee's wellness business

Few supermarkets make health and wellness as central to their business as Hy-Vee, a West Des Moines, Iowa-based chain.

In December 2010, the chain announced it would become one of a number of retailers — including Kroger and Safeway — to participate in Pharmacy Saver, a new program offered in collaboration with UnitedHealthcare, the country’s largest Medicare Part D insurer. The program was launched, in part, as a response to the Humana Walmart-Preferred Rx Plan, launched in late September 2010.

March 4, 2011
ReportersNotebook — Consumables, 3/14/11

SUPPLIER NEWS — Juicy Fruit has expanded its sugar-free gum offerings with new mystery-flavored Juicy Secret gum. The gum builds on the 2009 launch of Juicy Fruit’s foray into sugar-free treats with its pellet gum, available in parent company Wrigley’s Big E-pak. Juicy Secret will be available in a 15-stick slim pack nationwide.

February 28, 2011
Safeway promotes Mir Aamir to customer loyalty, digital technologies president

Safeway has promoted Mir Aamir to lead Safeway’s loyalty programs and oversee digital and mobile efforts related to loyalty.

February 24, 2011
Safeway's EPS above analyst expectations

Safeway surprised analysts Thursday morning with fourth-quarter earnings per share of 62 cents, well above a consensus of 57 cents among analysts.

February 17, 2011
Soon after Valentine’s, food stores foster romance

The Washington Post on Thursday morning tagged the Wegmans in Lanham, Md. — a suburb of Washington — as "Club Wegmans," the latest hot spot to meet singles.

February 16, 2011
Safeway launches 'at-the-shelf' SimpleNutrition program

Safeway on Wednesday introduced its new SimpleNutrition program, an in-store shelf tag system that makes it easier for shoppers to find better nutrition choices among foods and beverages.

February 15, 2011
Publix, Walgreens deliver highest customer satisfaction scores

Customer satisfaction as measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index has not improved since the middle of 2009, and on Tuesday it registered its biggest drop in two years; for fourth quarter 2010, the index fell 0.5% to 75.3.

February 2, 2011
Safeway expanding store presence

Safeway's plans to open stores in the San Francisco Bay Area are under way, according to published reports.

February 1, 2011
Generics discounts ignite Medicare Rx competition

Just when you thought the low end of the generic drug price spectrum couldn’t get any more commoditized, the $2 price point debuted with a big splash in September 2010.


January 26, 2011
Safeway expands health-and-wellness brand portfolio with Open Nature

Building on the success of its store brands O Organics and Eating Right, Safeway is boosting its portfolio with a new line of healthy, nutritious food.

January 14, 2011
Safeway to donate funds to Tucson shooting victims

Safeway announced that it has formed a fund to aid the victims of the recent shooting that occurred in one of its Tucson stores.

December 16, 2010
ECRM launches Promotional Reflections reports

ECRM on Thursday announced the launch of a series of reports and a new blog on retail circular ads. The new resources provide a unique perspective on retail promotions from Walmart, Kroger, Walgreens, Safeway, Best Buy, OfficeMax, Aldi and 160 additional retailers in the United States and Canada.

December 13, 2010
UnitedHealthcare's Pharmacy Saver program expands

More retailers have joined UnitedHealthcare's prescription savings program that caters to Medicare Part D members.

December 8, 2010
Safeway declares quarterly dividend

Safeway's board of directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 12 cents per share. The cash dividend will be payable on Jan. 13, 2011, to stockholders of record at the close of business on Dec. 23.

December 7, 2010
Kroger, Safeway strike back against Walmart/Humana Part D drug plan

MINNETONKA, Minn. — Could the economy and the bare-knuckles competition that now defines pharmacy retailing lower the price bar even further for widely used generic drugs? It’s already happening.


November 24, 2010
UnitedHealthcare partners with Kroger, Safeway on $2 generic Part D plan

UnitedHealth Group will start a program next year that it said can reduce drug costs to as low as $2 per script, the company said Tuesday.

November 7, 2010
Skinny Water hits Big Y shelves

A zero-calorie enhanced water brand will be available at 55 Big Y Foods in Massachusetts...

November 4, 2010
Report: Giant-Carlisle buys two stores from Safeway

Safeway will sell two stores in the Philadelphia area to one of Ahold’s supermarket banners,...

October 26, 2010
Four Canada Safeway stores to receive Tim Hortons coffee outlets

Canada Safeway will be introducing four store-within-a-store Tim Hortons coffee outlets in December here and...

October 19, 2010
Mars Advertising, Safeway win In-Store Marketing Institute award

The In-Store Marketing Institute announced the gold award winner for its “Design of the Times”...

October 13, 2010
Safeway's Q3 down 4.5%

Safeway on Thursday reported net income of $122.8 million for the third quarter ended Sept....

October 12, 2010
Safeway pharmacies offering pertussis booster vaccine

Safeway pharmacies in California are responding to the state's whooping cough (pertussis) emergency and now...

October 3, 2010
Safeway kicks off 10th annual breast cancer awareness initiative

Safeway kicked off its annual breast cancer awareness initiative for the 10th year in a...

September 13, 2010
Safeway offering Fluzone High-Dose to seniors

Safeway on Tuesday announced that all Safeway pharmacies in the United States now have a...

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