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“Safeway lets us know how we’re doing and how
we can contribute to the company’s success.’’
JOHN CHAVEZ, TRUCK DRIVER, THE VONS COMPANIES, INC.
TAKING CARE OF EM PLOYEES
With more than 193,000 employees across North
America, communicating our vision, values and priori-
ties throughout the organization is one of our greatest
challenges. It’s also one of our biggest opportunities.
During the year we launched several initiatives
to improve internal communications and training.
Knowledgeable, well informed employees take pride
in their work and enjoy their jobs. Of equal impor-
tance, motivated employees are highly productive
and helpful to our customers. To attract and retain
such people, we try to cultivate an environment in
which work is challenging, satisfying and fun.
As we build more new stores and remodel existing
ones, we create greater career advancement opportuni-
ties for our employees. Excluding acquisitions, we
added almost 1,400 new retail jobs during 1999.
In addition to their pay and benefits, many of our
people share in the company’s success as stockhold-
ers. More than 25% of eligible employees participated
in our payroll-deduction stock purchase plan in 1999.