Safeway responds to Tesco challenge (at FT.com)

By Jonathan Birchall in New York Tesco , the UK supermarket group is eyeing a first direct response from a US competitor to the arrival in the US of its Fresh & Easy markets, with the opening this week by Safeway (NYSE:SWY) of a new similarly-sized small grocery store. Von's, Safeway's subsidiary... [read full story]