# who owns safeway

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-safeway/190041>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 21, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-safeway/190041 "2003-07-21T23:30:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![lightweight\_traveller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ab097/32.png) [@lightweight\_traveller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightweight_traveller)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-safeway/190041/1 "2003-07-21T23:30:10Z")

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A guy tried to tell me that some order of Nuns owned the huge grocery store Safeway. Doesn’t seem likely…does it?

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-safeway/190041/2 "2003-07-21T23:50:21Z")

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No.

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**Author:** ![WillGolfForFood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/82dd89/32.png) [@WillGolfForFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillGolfForFood)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-safeway/190041/3 "2003-07-22T01:35:27Z")

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You can own a piece of it, if you like.

Safeway is a public company, traded on the New York Stock Exchange (where their ticker symbol is SWY).

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**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-safeway/190041/4 "2003-07-22T14:19:52Z")

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In Britain, Safeway stores are owned by an entirely separate publicly-listed company, [Safeway PLC](http://production.investis.com/safewayplc/whatsnew/), which is also not owned by nuns (although some penguins may hold a few shares in it).

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-safeway/190041/5 "2003-07-22T15:38:13Z")

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Note that the yahoo financial pages, such as Reeder’s summary, also provide listings of the major institutional holders in a company, as well as listings of insiders. Safeway, not surprisingly, has about 40% of its outstanding shares held by its top institutional and mutual fund investors. Fidelity owns almost 7%:

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