A newspaper report that Wal-Mart’s UK subsidiary ASDA is plotting a £2.8bn (US$4.4bn) takeover of struggling sector rival Safeway prompted the latter’s shares to open 5% higher this morning [Friday].

Safeway workers in Colorado reached an agreement with Albertsons on Saturday, ending a two-week strike after local union leaders met with Safeway and its parent company on July 4. The two sides held ...

The world's largest retailer, US-based Wal-Mart , is believed to be eyeing the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, Safeway , as a potential takeover target. Safeway's fortunes have turned around in ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- UFCW Local 5 and UFCW Local 648 have reached a tentative agreement with Albertson's Companies which owns Safeway, averting a planned strike that would have been the first regional ...