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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro
BREAKING NEWS : The #Safeway store that #DrFord claims to have gone to in 1982 after the attempted rape, didn’t open until 1986  |
1986 is when Safeway was bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, that's what that document is about.
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1986: KKR completed a friendly $5.5 billion buyout of Safeway to help management avoid hostile overtures from Herbert and Robert Haft of Dart Drug.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlbe..._early_history
This site about the history of Riverfalls mentions Safeway opening in 1968:
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The District Grocery Store (‘DGS’) occupied the building where the Hunter’s Inn and Chico’s are now located; the Safeway would open its doors in 1968.
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Here's an
article from The Washington Post dated October 12,
1985:
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Castleberry said the Potomac Village Safeway has "wanted to expand almost from the time we came in there in 1968. But we were always told by residents that they liked things 'just the way they are'. . . . It has always been a low-key village concept."
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