It’s business as usual.
Rumours have been circulating about changes to the Canada Safeway store in Salmon Arm, but those rumours are unfounded, say company officials.
Betty Kellsey of public affairs for Safeway told the Observer Friday that she can’t confirm any plans.
“There are no plans or announcements for the foreseeable future to make any changes to the Salmon Arm Safeway,” she said.
In June 2013 a deal was announced in national media that Sobeys Inc. was buying Safeway Inc.’s Canadian division for $5.8 billion.
In mid-February of this year, in response to a ruling from the federal Competition Bureau that Sobeys must sell off 23 of its 223 stores in connection with its Canada Safeway purchase in order to prevent undue restriction of competition, Sobeys said it would sell 30 stores.
Jim Pattison’s Overwaitea Food Group, which includes Save-On-Foods and Cooper’s Foods, was to pick up 15 of the locations, Federated Cooperatives, 14, and an unnamed retailer was to take over a Winnipeg Price Chopper location.
Salmon Arm was not one of the 29 locations listed.
