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Show Safeway Store Head Reveals Increased Beef Sales Sales of beef by Safeway Storer reached an a!l time high in 1955. according to figures released today to-day by W. B. WiWlams, Salt Lake division manager of Safeway. "Our figures show a sales increase in-crease of almost 1,100,000 pounds of beef and veal during 195? when compared with the previous previ-ous year for this Intermountain area," the Safeway head pointed out. . "It Is also interesting to note that this beef sales Increase In this area was made In face of the lowest priced pork In the last decade. In fact, a sales Increase of over 20 was recorded in pork tonnage," Williams added. "Furthermore, "Fur-thermore, lamb sales remained at substantially the same level as a year ago." ; High consumer demand for beef and lower retails prices were t factors to which the Safeway head attributed the sales la-crease. la-crease. "Promotion by producers and newspaper advertising by retailers re-tailers are making consumers more beef conscious. The fact Is that beef today Is the best buy In years," Williams declared. |