Saturday morning, they went by the Safeway to hear what their congresswoman had to say.
Safeway became the first of the UK's main foodstore chains to report on Christmas trading.
"People tell us it's a godsend, " says Mike Winch, Safeway's director of information technology.
Before joining NetApp, in 2010, she was group vice president, Information Technology, at Safeway Inc.
Instead, her life was tragically cut short in a hail of gunfire outside a Safeway supermarket.
Safeway is the UK's fourth-biggest grocer, but it has been capturing an ever-increasing market share.
Food retailer Safeway similarly moved from Oakland city center to the same city as Chevron.
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Gramblng downgraded both Safeway and Kroger to a sell from neutral on July 25, 2011.
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More significantly, its prices were approaching the levels of competing stores run by Kroger and Safeway.
Safeway, CVS, Walgreens and others now have years worth of my food shopping records.
Earlier this year, Catalina and Safeway began testing a new form of personalization for shoppers.
Strategic deals, like the bid for Safeway, are often the biggest failures of all.
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Calif-based Safeway is his 2013 short pick, which is also in the food retail business.
"We're going to sell Viansa at Safeway, " Sebastiani says Shapiro told him. (Shapiro denies making the remark).
Safeway operates mainly in California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Colorado, Texas, and in Canada.
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The disgruntlement of the staff at Safeway at the way they are treated is almost always visible.
The brands affected include Bertolli as well as own-label sauces made for supermarket chains Sainsbury's and Safeway.
Lampert reportedly owned a significant portion of Safeway earlier in the decade, but had since sold out.
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He saw two or three people holding down Loughner on a sidewalk between a Safeway grocery and Walgreens.
Some of the big retailers, including Tesco, which has 7% of the magazine market, and Safeway, support it.
Safeway, a Britain-based retailer, built a 2-terabyte database with IBM to store almost four years' worth of customer data.
Safeway has also teamed up with Chevron (CVX) to offer its customers in California a fuel rewards program.
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Other competitors in the services sector include: Safeway (SWY), Winn-Dixie Stores (WINN), and Ingles Markets, Incorporated (IMKTA).
Tesco said its offer would be a mix of cash and shares, and would be "compelling" for Safeway shareholders.
The majority of analysts think investors should stand pat on Safeway, with eight of 16 analysts rating it hold.
Safeway, Kroger and Albertson's are also active consolidators, but a link-up with one of them cannot be ruled out entirely.
The court thought that definition was much too narrow: didn't less fancy outlets, such as Safeway, also sell organic food?
With the spin-off, Safeway will work to sharpen its focus on the mainstream retail business and improve its competitive position.
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On Wednesday, the UK's biggest supermarket chain, Tesco, became the sixth business to confirm its interest in bidding for Safeway.
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