Skip to main content

Sobeys

  • What Target’s annual meeting venue says about CityTarget future

    Target’s annual shareholders’ meeting will be held June 9 in downtown Chicago at the location of a soon-to-open CityTarget store on State Street. The venue is an interesting choice that speaks volumes about the potential for the new urban format.

  • Animal welfare group praises Safeway's goal of sourcing gestation-crate-free pork

    PLEASANTON, Calif. and WASHINGTON — The Humane Society of the United States is praising Safeway's efforts to establish a gestation stall-free supply chain.

    Safeway annnounced Monday that, due to concernes over animal welfare, it is working toward the goal of purchasing pork from producers that have made commitments to decreasing gestation stalls in their breeding facilities.

  • What Target’s annual meeting venue says about CityTarget future

    Target’s annual shareholders’ meeting will be held June 9 in downtown Chicago at the location of a soon-to-open CityTarget store on State Street. The venue is an interesting choice that speaks volumes about the potential for the new urban format.

  • Retail clinics poised for dramatic expansion

    San Jose, Calif. -- Retail clinics and big-name medical centers are poised for dramatic expansion, according to two well-known speakers at the American Telemedicine Association's annual meeting in San Jose this week.

  • Safeway CEO to analysts: Grocer is not bracing for a buyout

    PLEASANTON, Calif. — Recent events, which have driven Wall Street analysts to speculate that Safeway is a buyout target, are not interrelated, Safeway chairman and CEO Steve Burd assured analysts Thursday morning during the grocer's first-quarter conference call.

  • Safeway profits soar in Q1; 10 Lifestyle stores on tap in 2012

    Pleasanton, Calif. -- Safeway Inc. reported Thursday that net income for the first quarter rose to $81.6 million, from $25.1 million in the year-earlier period.

    Sales edged up 2.4% to $10 billion, from $9.8 billion last year. Same-store sales were flat.

    “We continue to believe sales will grow as our new marketing initiatives take hold," said Steve Burd, chairman and CEO.

  • Safeway profits up in Q1, opening more Lifestyle stores

    PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway's first quarter net income rose to $81.6 million, from $25.1 million in the year-earlier period. Sales edged up 2.4% to $10 billion, from $9.8 billion last year. Same-store sales were flat.

  • PFresh express rolls on at Target

    MINNEAPOLIS — Another 90 Target stores are slated to receive fresh food in June as part of a major remodeling initiative that has become known simply as PFresh.

X
This ad will auto-close in 10 seconds