Is Safeway Going to Take on Tesco in Small-Format Stores?
December 11th, 2007
SupermarketNews.com writes that the retailer has reportedly hired Cornish & Carey Commercial, a Santa Clara, CA-based real estate brokerage, to find 20,000-square-foot locations in the San Jose area. In September, Steve Burd, Safeway chairman, president and chief executive officer, said that his company would monitor Tesco’s experience with the small-store format and consider a competitive response. Supermarket News (Dec. [...]