What is "safeway"

Safeway was a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores in the United Kingdom. It started as a subsidiary of the American Safeway Inc., before being sold off in 1987.

Safeway was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Morrisons in March 2004. Most of its 479 stores were rebranded as Morrisons, with others being sold off. The brand disappeared from the UK on 24 November 2005.

Safeway may refer to:

Safeway was the trading name used by Woolworths Limited until 2008 for its supermarkets in Victoria, Australia. Elsewhere in Australia the trading name is Woolworths. In August 2008, Woolworths announced the discontinuation of the Safeway name, rebranding all Victorian stores as Woolworths to match their interstate counterparts.

Safeway (Channel Islands) was a supermarket chain in the Channel Islands. There were two supermarkets, one in Jersey and one in Guernsey.

The chain was founded in 1993, when Argyll Foods's Safeway division acquired them off a local businessman, Mr M D Besan.

Following Morrisons 2004 acquisition of Safeway plc, a local business, CI Traders (now Sandpiper CI), bought the two Safeway supermarkets from Morrisons in 2005 for £51 million.

In 2011 Sandpiper CI sold the stores to Waitrose, ending the Safeway name in the Channel Islands.1

Safeway (also referred to as Canada Safeway) is a Canadian supermarket chain of 213 full service supermarket stores in Western Canada; 199 in-store pharmacies, 62 fuel stations, 10 liquor stores, 4 primary distribution centres and 12 manufacturing facilities.

It began as a subsidiary of the American Safeway Inc., before being sold in 2013 to Canada's second-largest supermarket chain, Sobeys, a division of the conglomerate Empire Company. It is now independent from the American division as a result.