Safeway Inc. to Participate in Goldman Sachs Fifteenth Annual Global Retailing Conference

Business Wire, August 28, 2008

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc.'s (NYSE:SWY) Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Steve Burd, will address investors at the Goldman Sachs Fifteenth Annual Global Retailing Conference in New York on Thursday, September 4th at 9:30 am eastern daylight time.

The Safeway presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet at http://www.safeway.com/investor_relations. Click on 'Webcast Events' to access the event. The presentation will be available in an archived format for approximately one week following the event.

Safeway Inc. is a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America, based on sales. The company operates 1,740 stores in the United States and western Canada and had annual sales of $42.3 billion in 2007. The company's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SWY.