Safeway Inc. is one of the major supermarket chains is a prominent Retail Brand in today's marketing scenario. Safeway Inc. is also the second largest chain in the world of supermarket in North America. At this moment Safeway Inc. has almost 1,750 stores under it. All these retail stores are spread across various corners of the United States of America as well as many places in Canada.
Recently Safeway Inc. has also expanded its limits to the region of Mid Atlanta in Eastern Seaboard. Safeway Inc. is one of the most famous retail brands in the world. The headquarters of this world famous Safeway Inc. is located in Pleasanton, in the State of California.
The origin of this leading retail brand Safeway Inc. takes us back to the era of 1926. The association of Merrill Lynch or Charles Merrill was the founder of this retail company. Initially Safeway Inc. was launched as a merger of the famous pair of Skaggs Stores and Sam Seelig Company. Then gradually the name Safeway came into existence.
Merrill Lynch primarily did the financing of this Safeway Inc. Company. Gradually Safeway Inc. started its grand journey of acquiring various other retail grocery stores and chains. The famous list of Safeway Inc.'s acquired stores includes numerous names such as MacMarr, Daniel Reeves of New York, the Sanitary Grocery Company of Washington D.C., Burd Stores of Kansas City and so on. Then in the year of 1928, Safeway Inc. also possessed a certain portion of the Piggly Wiggly stores.
