■ 세이후웨이(Safeway) / 미국, 제2위의 슈퍼마켓체인

■ 세이후웨이(Safeway) / 미국, 제2위의 슈퍼마켓체인

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•본사 : 캘리포니아주를 본거지

•미국 제2위의 슈퍼마켓체인.

 

메릴린치사가 1926년 아이다호주에서 1915년에 창업해, 미국 서해안 북부를 중심으로 673 점포를 전개하고 있던 슈퍼마켓 「Skaggs Stores」와 로스앤젤러스에서 1920년에 창업해, 남 캘리포니아를 중심으로 322 점포를 전개하고 있던 슈퍼마켓 「Sam Seelig」를 합병시켜, 슈퍼마켓·체인 「세이후웨이」가 설립되었다.

 

그 후, 메릴린치의 자금을 배경으로 급속히 규모를 확대해, 피크시의 1931년에는 3,527 점포를 가지고 있었다. 미국외에도 점포를 펼쳐 1929년에는 캐나다, 1962년에 영국, 1963년에 호주, 1964년에 독일에 진출하는 등 있다.

 

Safeway, the Start-Up

 

 

In 1915, M.B. Skaggs, an ambitious young man in the small Idaho town of American Falls, purchased a tiny grocery store from his father. M.B.'s business strategy, to give his customers value and to expand by keeping a narrow profit margin, proved spectacularly successful. By 1926 he was opening 428 Skaggs stores in 10 states. M.B. almost doubled the size of his business that year when he merged his company with 322 Safeway (formerly Selig) stores and incorporated as Safeway, Inc. Two years later M.B. listed Safeway on the New York Stock Exchange. M.B. did not let the difficulties of the Great Depression dilute his pioneering focus on value for customers. In the 1930s Safeway introduced produce pricing by the pound, adding “sell by” dates on perishables to assure freshness, nutritional labeling, even some of the first parking lots.

Safeway Expands

M.B. Skagg’s value vision still drives Safeway, though on a dramatically larger scale. There are now over 1,300 Safeway stores across the US. These include 266 Safeway stores in Northern California and Hawaii, 273 Vons stores in Southern California and Nevada, 107 Randalls and Tom Thumb stores in Texas, as well as 28 Carrs stores in Alaska.

Safeway Today

M.B. Skagg’s value vision still drives Safeway, though on a dramatically larger scale. In January 2015, our parent company, AB Acquisition LLC, and Safeway completed a merger that created one of the largest food and drug retailers in the country, with over 2,200 stores in 33 states and the District of Columbia, and employing approximately 265,000 people. With Safeway stores in 19 states, our Safeway teams are proud to carry on the tradition that M.B. Skaggs began nearly 100 years ago in that small Idaho town. 

All of our stores were founded around the philosophy of offering customers the products they wanted to buy at a fair price, with lots of tender, loving care. We still open our doors every day today with that in mind, and because of it, we run really great stores.