Month: March 2019

Join us in support of the Rich Valley Arena – voting starts tomorrow!

Posted on by Sudhanshu Rewari

For the last 13 years, Kraft Hockeyville has launched an annual search for the most deserving hockey arenas in local Communities across Canada that are in need of renovations and repairs.

After reviewing countless submissions, Kraft narrows down the entries to the very best of the best, and four finalists go head-to-head in a final round of public voting to determine who will be crowned the next Kraft Hockeyville. The lucky winner takes home $250,000 to upgrade their local arena and the chance to host an NHL pre-season game. Pretty cool, right?

Even cooler is that our very own neighbour, the Rich Valley Arena, has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 Hockeyville contest! And we can help them win!

Our country’s passion for hockey runs deep in Alberta, and we know how important the Rich Valley arena is to your community. After a heartbreaking season of operational issues and little funds to support repairs, there’s no one more deserving than Rich Valley. We need your help to make sure they come out on top!

Voting opens tomorrow, Friday, March 29 and will remain open until 8:30 p.m. ET this Saturday, March 30. Don’t be shy – you can vote as many times as possible during the voting period!

Click here to cast your vote!

Our Stony Plain, St. Albert and Spruce Grove Safeway stores are also on-board to support and will be driving awareness throughout the voting period with in-store marketing, cashier prompts at point-of-sale, and contest prizing.

We know that the arena has always been a staple in Rich Valley. It is a meeting place – it brings the community together, unities families, and maintains a deep-rooted love for the sport of hockey. We’re confident in the power of our Safeway network and know that we can achieve great things together. Let’s join forces, lend a hand to our neighbours in need and start voting!

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Safeway Alberta stores tap into Maple Month!

Posted on by Sudhanshu Rewari

For 90 years, Safeway has proudly served the distinct needs of Western Canadians. Today, we continue to celebrate our unparalleled ability to unite customers, families and nurture communities across Western Canada. At Safeway, we know there’s no more appropriate way to mark the start of our beautiful Canadian spring season than by celebrating maple month!

After a long Canadian winter, it’s hard for us not to get a little excited about maple month. Maple syrup is one of the first crops of the spring and maple season comes with the promise of warmer weather. Our stores across Alberta have joined forces to host exciting maple events across the province. Celebrating our heritage while highlighting our exclusive product offering, our stores have used their exceptional merchandising skills to create engaging opportunities for our customers to experience a variety of unique maple products. Throughout March, maple products will be aplenty in our stores, with maple donuts, pies, cookies and bagels, fudges and syrups taking centre-stage for our customers’ pleasure.

Way to go to all Alberta Safeway stores who have gone above and beyond to delight our customers and celebrate the sweetest season of the year!

8842: Safeway Glenmore Landing – Calgary

8892: Safeway Northgate Centre – Edmonton

8916: Safeway Montgomery – Calgary

8846 – Safeway Southland Crossing – Calgary

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Safeway stands in solidarity to celebrate International Women’s Day!

Posted on by Sudhanshu Rewari

Safeway stores across Alberta showed their pride and power last week as they united to celebrate International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day (March 8) is a time for us to acknowledge the powerful achievements of women, and spark meaningful conversations on the work still to be done. This year’s International Women’s Day theme was Balance for Better, emphasizing the importance of gender balance in the workplace.

We’re so proud to recognize the outstanding efforts of our Alberta Safeway employees as they joined forced to celebrate International Women’s Day. Stores personalized their celebrations and drove awareness in communities across the province. From bakery, to balloons, to flowers, our store teams went above and beyond to drive meaningful engagement with local customers.

We know that teamwork and shared responsibility drive a diverse and inclusive work culture, and are both proud and grateful for all of our Safeway employees who have joined us in our commitment to gender balance.

Take a look at the photos below to see how just some our stores celebrated. To see more, visit our Facebook group, “Safeway Team: Connecting Our Stores, Our People, Our Communities.”

8874 – Safeway Wye Road – Sherwood Park, AB
8842 – Safeway Glenmore Landing – Calgary, AB
8912 – Safeway Garrison Woods – Calgary, AB
8803 – Safeway Northgate Calgary – Calgary, AB
8903 – Safeway Aspen – Calgary, AB

Safeway is committed to creating an environment where our employees feel included, respected and valued for their unique perspectives. We know that diversity drives innovation and we recognize the power of a balanced team. With the support of our store network, we are dedicated to increasing the representation of women at Safeway as we strive to reflect our customers and our communities.

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Bargaining kicks-off with UFCW 401

Posted on by Sudhanshu Rewari

This week, we sat down with UFCW 401 to begin bargaining.

We are committed to being open with our employees  throughout bargaining and want to share an update on what has happened so far.

At this point, we have exchanged bargaining proposals with UFCW Local 401. We also spent a great deal of time talking about the challenges that we all face given the difficult Alberta economy, extremely competitive grocery industry  and changing customer preferences.

Everyone agreed that we also need to prepare ourselves for the future.

Put simply, we are focused on the future of Safeway as well as meeting customer preferences by  introducing FreshCo to the Alberta market.

Securing a strong future for Safeway includes making sure our collective agreements allow us to compete effectively in the market and operate stores that delight our customers. We’ve made some progress in our Safeway stores in Alberta but there is more work we need to do to attract customers to shop in our stores. We know that if we stay focused as a team we can get there. In bargaining, we are committed to creating conditions that will provide stable jobs and allow our Safeway stores to succeed.

We know Albertans are looking for discount shopping options and because we don’t have a discount format in Alberta, we know they are forced to shop with the competition. By opening discount stores in Alberta we will become more competitive overall.

A competitive Safeway collective agreement and the right foundation for the introduction of a discount format are our two key objectives that go hand-in-hand to secure a strong future for our company.

We wanted to share this with you because our goals are not a secret. We have no hidden agenda. We are simply doing what we need to do to make sure all of us – our employees, our stores and our company – are successful.

Please reach out to your Store Manager along the way if you have any questions. If they don’t have a direct answer for you, we will work hard to get your questions answered.

We’ll keep you updated here on SafewayTalks.ca