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These excerpts taken from the SWY 10-K filed Mar 3, 2009.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

and other Postretirement Plans.” As discussed in Note H to the consolidated financial statements, on December 31, 2006, the Company adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.”

 

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

San Francisco, California

March 3, 2009

 

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STYLE="margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:0px">To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Safeway Inc.:

We have audited the
accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Safeway Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of January 3, 2009 and December 29, 2007, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash
flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 3, 2009. We also have audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of January 3, 2009, based on criteria established in Internal Control —
Integrated Framework
issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. The Company’s management is responsible for these financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting
and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying “Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.” Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on these financial statements and an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in
accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audits of the financial statements included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the
financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an
understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included
performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

A
company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, the company’s principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, and effected by the
company’s board of directors, management and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the
transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized
acquisition, use or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of the inherent limitations of
internal control over financial reporting, including the possibility of collusion or improper management override of controls, material misstatements due to error or fraud may not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Also, projections of any
evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal control over financial reporting to future periods are subject to the risk that the controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies
or procedures may deteriorate.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of Safeway Inc. and subsidiaries as of January 3, 2009 and December 29, 2007, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 3, 2009, in conformity with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also, in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of January 3, 2009, based on the criteria
established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

As discussed in
Note A to the consolidated financial statements, on December 30, 2006, the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 158, “Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension

 


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These excerpts taken from the SWY 10-K filed Feb 26, 2008.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

As discussed in Note A to the consolidated financial statements, on December 30, 2006, the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 158, “Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and other Postretirement Plans.” As discussed in Note A to the consolidated financial statements, on December 31, 2006, the Company adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.”

/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

San Francisco, California

February 26, 2008

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

STYLE="margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:0px">As discussed in Note A to the consolidated financial statements, on December 30, 2006, the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”)
No. 158, “Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and other Postretirement Plans.” As discussed in Note A to the consolidated financial statements, on December 31, 2006, the Company adopted Financial Accounting
Standards Board Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.”

/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px">San Francisco, California

February 26, 2008

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This excerpt taken from the SWY 10-K filed Feb 26, 2007.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

As discussed in Note G to the consolidated financial statements, in fiscal 2005, the Company changed its method of accounting for share-based payment arrangements to conform to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123(R), “Share-Based Payment.” As discussed in Note I to the consolidated financial statements, on December 30, 2006, the Company adopted SFAS No. 158, “Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans.”

 

LOGO

San Francisco, California

February 26, 2007

 

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This excerpt taken from the SWY 10-K filed Mar 10, 2006.

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In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Safeway Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2005 and January 1, 2005, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, management’s assessment that the Company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Furthermore, in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, based on the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

As discussed in Note A to the consolidated financial statements, in fiscal 2005, the Company changed its method of accounting for share-based payment arrangements to conform to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), “Share-Based Payment.”

 

 

LOGO
San Francisco, California
March 10, 2006

 

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This excerpt taken from the SWY 10-K filed Mar 16, 2005.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Board of Directors and

Stockholders of Safeway Inc:

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Safeway Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of January 1, 2005 and January 3, 2004, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 1, 2005. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Safeway Inc. and subsidiaries as of January 1, 2005 and January 3, 2004, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 1, 2005, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

As discussed in Note B to the consolidated financial statements, in fiscal 2002, the Company changed its method of accounting for goodwill and other intangible assets to conform to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets.”

 

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of January 1, 2005, based on the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated March 15, 2005 expressed an unqualified opinion on management’s assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

 

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

 

San Francisco, California

March 15, 2005

 

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