“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 spectaculary
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. 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, opening dating on perishables to
assure freshness, nutritional labeling, even some of the first parking lots.
Today M.B. Skagg's value vision still drives
Safeway, though on a dramatically larger scale. There are 1,702 Safeway stores
across the US and Canada. These
include 312 Vons stores in Southern California and Nevada,
112 Randalls and Tom Thumb stores in Texas, 37
Genuardi's store in the Philadelphia area, as
well as 17 Carrs stores in Alaska.”.
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