Safeway is a grocery store chain in the United States. It is a subsidiary of Albertsons. As of February 2015, it operates 1,671 stores in the United States.
Safeway was founded in 1915 in American Falls, Idaho by Marion Barton Skaggs. Skaggs was the son of a grocer and he bought his father’s small grocery store when he turned 21. He later bought 26 other small groceries in the area and merged them into one company, Safeway.
The first Safeway store in California was opened in 1926 in Modesto. Safeway now has stores all over California, including in major cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Yes, there are Safeway stores in California.
