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CONTINUED PERFORMANCE
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During the past seven years, Safeway has consistently ranked among
the industry’s leaders in the following key measures of financial performance:*
• Sales growth
• Expense ratio reduction
• Working capital management
• Operating cash flow margin
• Earnings per share growth
We have achieved these results by focusing on the three priorities
detailed on the following pages.
*Based on latest available information