Day: August 30, 2026

Safeway in the 1960s San Francisco began the 1960s with 32 Safeway stores, some dating from the late 1930s. Over the course of the decade, 15 of these older stores closed, while 7 new ones opened, leaving a net total of 24 San Francisco stores in 1970. Safeway operated a virtual museum of supermarket history in San Francisco at this point.