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- In 1915, Marion Barton Skaggs purchased his father's 576-square-foot (53.5 m2) grocery store in Amer
- In 1915, Marion Barton Skaggs purchased his father's 576-square-foot (53.5 m2) grocery store in Amer
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In 1915, Marion Barton Skaggs purchased his father's 576-square-foot (53.5 m2) grocery store in American Falls, Idaho, for 1,089. By 1926, he had opened 428 Skaggs stores in 10 states. In the 1930s Safeway introduced produce pricing by the pound, adding “sell by” dates on perishables to assure freshness, nutritional labeling, even some of the first parking lots. Today, Safeway rakes in annual sales of an estimated sales $41 billion. After merging with...