Safeway Inc. Board of Directors Declares Quarterly Dividend

Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) announced that its Board of Directors met yesterday and declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share. The cash dividend will be payable on April 15, 2010 to stockholders of record at the close of business on March 25, 2010.

Safeway Inc. is a Fortune 50 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America based on sales. The company operates 1,725 stores in the United States and western Canada and had annual sales of $40.9 billion in 2009.