Safeway (SWY)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Amendment No. 1 to Safeway’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 28, 2009 is to furnish Exhibit 101 to the Form 10-Q which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 1, 2009. Exhibit 101 to this report provides the following materials from the Safeway Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 28, 2009 formatted in Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL): (i) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income, (ii) the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows and (iv) related notes, tagged as blocks of text. Users of this data are advised pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T that the financial information contained in the XBRL documents is unaudited, and these are not the official publicly filed financial statements of Safeway Inc. Investors should continue to rely on the official filed version of the furnished documents and not rely on this information in making investment decisions. No other changes have been made to the Form 10-Q. This Amendment No. 1 to the Form 10-Q speaks as of the original filing date and has not been updated to reflect events occurring subsequent to the original filing date.

In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, Exhibit 101 to this report shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

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