Safeway for Sale: Company Confirms It’s Entertaining Offers
Safeway confirms that it’s considering buyout bids for some 1,300 Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Randalls and Tom Thumb stores.
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Safeway’s “Poison Pill” and What it Means for You
(March 6, 2014 update: Safeway announces $9 billion sale to Cerberus). When you’re just trying to save some money and feed your family, the goings-on in the boardrooms and backrooms of those who run your local grocery store are probably of little concern. So if you skimmed over the story about Safeway in the financial pages of your local paper[Read More…]
How to Scam Another Shopper Into Paying for Your Groceries
You can’t beat this deal – in exchange for scanning and bagging all of your own groceries, you get to take everything home for free! Pity the poor person in line behind you who gets stuck with your bill, though. That’s what was apparently happening to many shoppers, before a southern California grocery chain and a local TV news investigation[Read More…]
Double Coupons: Dying Like Dinosaurs?
If you still expect your grocery store to turn that 50-cent coupon of yours into a dollar-off discount, one retailer says you might as well be living in the Stone Age. The “practice of double-couponing has become a marketing tool of the past,” a spokesman for southern California supermarket chain Vons tells the Orange County Register. Ouch. Tucked away at[Read More…]
