Show Safeway History Is Tied To Western States The opening of the new Safe-wey store in Roosevelt on January recalls the fact that Safeway itself was born in the West in neighboring Safeway's first Roosevelt which was the first in the Uintah was operated as Skaggs Cash Store and has occupied the same building since its opening in the late Until the new store was opened in Vernal about three years Roosevelt had the only outlet for Safeway in the In 1915 M. B. opened the first Safeway store at American All of the early expansion of the great Safeway organization occurred in the Intermountain In the early the stores were operated under the name of Skaggs United In 1925 the Skaggs United Stores combined Skaggs Cash Stores at that were well established in Utah and The name Safeway Stores adopted in 1926 Western in Safeway is still principally a Western It is one of the few national organizations still retaining its headquarters in the being located in The vast majority of the company's stores are located in the Western |