Safeway will close one of its East Bay stores but transfer affected workers to other supermarkets.
Safeway store at 1421 Tara Hills Drive in Pinole.
PINOLE — Safeway will close a Pinole store but intends to transfer all of the affected workers and keep them employed at one or more of its other supermarket locations.
The shutdown at the store at 1421 Tara Hills Dr. will impact 69 positions, Safeway stated in an official filing it sent to the state Employment Development Department. The store is set to close on April 4.
“We intend to place all the associates into a position at another nearby location,” Terra Powers, a Safeway vice president, wrote in a filing posted with the state EDD. “The exact placement of positions has not yet been completed.”
Pleasanton-based Safeway indicated it is taking steps to rescue the jobs of all the affected workers.
“We do not foresee any layoffs as a result of the closure,” Safeway stated in the filing with the state labor agency.
“Associates will continue to work at the store to close operations” over an unspecified period after the April 4 shutdown, Safeway told the EDD.
In January, Safeway revealed that it had decided to chop 156 corporate positions at two office locations in Pleasanton. The layoffs were due to occur around Feb. 22.
PINOLE — Safeway will close a Pinole store but intends to transfer all of the affected workers and keep them employed at one or more of its other supermarket locations.
The shutdown at the store at 1421 Tara Hills Dr. will impact 69 positions, Safeway stated in an official filing it sent to the state Employment Development Department. The store is set to close on April 4.
“We intend to place all the associates into a position at another nearby location,” Terra Powers, a Safeway vice president, wrote in a filing posted with the state EDD. “The exact placement of positions has not yet been completed.”
Pleasanton-based Safeway indicated it is taking steps to rescue the jobs of all the affected workers.
“We do not foresee any layoffs as a result of the closure,” Safeway stated in the filing with the state labor agency.
“Associates will continue to work at the store to close operations” over an unspecified period after the April 4 shutdown, Safeway told the EDD.
In January, Safeway revealed that it had decided to chop 156 corporate positions at two office locations in Pleasanton. The layoffs were due to occur around Feb. 22.