2012
Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY), a
Fortune 500 company, is North America's
second largest supermarket chain
after The Kroger Co., with, as of
December 2010, 1,694 stores located throughout the western and central United States and western Canada.[3] It also operates some stores in the Mid-Atlantic
region of the Eastern
Seaboard. The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Supermarket News ranked Safeway No. 4 in the 2011 "Top 75 North American
Food Retailers" based on 2010 fiscal year estimated sales of $41 billion. Based on 2009 revenue, Safeway is the 11th largest retailer in the United States.