Options Brief: Safeway Inc. (SWY)

Shares of Safeway Inc.

are higher on the session by 1.51%, trading at $23.52. Overall call volume is now running at 2.21x the daily average, with 81% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 2,651 contracts have traded on the session so far. Safeway Inc. is a food and drug retailer in North America. As of September 11, 2010, the company operated 1,702 stores in the Western, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in Western Canada.