Albertsons plans to cut spending by $1.5 billion over the next three years, and those cuts have begun to roll out in the form of nearly 400 layoffs of Safeway corporate employees and more than 100 associates at a Safeway store in San Francisco.
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices filed in California and Arizona on Jan. 14 show that Albertsons, the Idaho-based parent company of Safway, plans to cut 225 positions in Phoenix and 156 across two locations in Pleasanton, California.
Those layoffs are set to take place on Feb. 22…