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Uhh Safeway’s headquarters are here in California. It’s publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Act on this information in accordance to your preference.
I think “Safeway” in Canada is different. Sobey’s bought the brand a while back.
So the money is going to a Canadian billionaire asshole instead of an American one. I mean, I’ll take it but I’m not happy about it either. Shop local.
It pleases me to no end how anal Canada has gotten about rejecting American goods.
I was a little baffled when Safeway had Oreos with the maple leaf
Huh, they actually do have a plant making them in Ontario
There almost needs to be another item in that list that is “Made in Canada by Canadians, with Canadian ingredients, but the company is not Canadian-owned” - i.e. Canadian Lay’s chips are 100% made in Canada, so they get to put that label on their products, but the money still goes to PepsiCo.
It’s still great that the supply chain is in Canada, though. Of course, there could still be better options.
I agree with you, though - the Buy Beaver app actually breaks it down by manufacturing location, materials/ingredients and ownership, which is great. Although, I do question some of the user-provided ratings in the app, it’s a good start.
I’m gonna need this printed on a little business card for reference cause I’m gonna forget the details every time.
They should just put like 65% made in Canada = two thirds of ingredients and labor was canadian
Safeway? The American supermarket chain? Or does Canada coincidentally have a supermarket with the same name?
The Canadian Safeway brand was sold to Sobeys, a Canadian company, back in 2013
This isn’t directed at you, but I fucking despise the quiet ownership of companies. Names offer so little information, nowadays.
Thankfully the internet offers the ability to drill down and find out who owns what.
Similar to A&W, the Canadian version is separate from the US version
Thank you!
At least in ON a lot of products don’t really say where they are from. I avoid those products nowadays, but I never understood why it’s allowed in the first place. In the place where I’m from all products say so.
I want that in the EU
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Sometimes its the only option for a supermarket in a small community (see: Alaska). Smithers has 5300 people, I doubt there’s anything but the Safeway.
Oh, it’s not the same Safeway anymore. wikipedia says: Safeway (also referred to as Canada Safeway) is a Canadian supermarket chain that operates 135 full-service locations, mostly in the country’s Western provinces. It was established in 1929 as a subsidiary of the American Safeway chain before being sold in 2013 to Sobeys, a division of the conglomerate Empire Company and Canada’s second-largest supermarket chain.
ed: you asked and I answered before scrolling to see the other “safeway, the american grocery chain?” thread lol
