PLEASANTON, CA
Safeway is closing the doors on two more locations, this time in Arizona.
As we previously reported, the retailer just announced a couple of weeks ago that it is shuttering nine Denver stores, citing that the stores were not profitable.
Now, according to a Phoenix Business Journal Report, the company is moving on to two stores in separate cities surrounding the Phoenix area, one in Peoria and another in Globe, though reasons for this closure have yet to be released.
Right now the company’s priority is reportedly to place employees impacted by the move at other stores nearby. Some 94 jobs will be lost when the stores are permanently closed some time next month. The layoffs were reported to the state of Arizona.
This adds yet another change up to the Phoenix, Arizona, grocery scene where Safeway is concerned, as the stores in the area that the company sold to Haggen are expected to be converted this month as well.
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