REPORTED · WARN NOTICE✓ VERIFIEDAdded Dec 23, 2025

Safeway Layoff — November 2025

SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGColorado Department of Labor and Employment· filed September 9, 2025View the filing ↗

EMPLOYEES AFFECTED

617

SHARE OF WORKFORCE

~0.6%

EFFECTIVE DATE

Nov 7, 2025

617 OF 100,000 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Denver, CO · 10 locations (Denver County).

A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on September 9, 2025.

Industry: Supermarkets and Grocery Retailers.

Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the CO state workforce agency.

Summary

Albertsons announced on September 9, 2025 that it will permanently close 12 Safeway locations (ten in Colorado, one in Nebraska, and one in New Mexico), with all stores slated to close on or before November 7, 2025. The company said closures are due to store performance and that it is attempting to place affected associates in nearby stores where possible. The article reports that over 600 Safeway employees will be displaced from the Colorado closures alone, and notes union criticism tying closures also to costs from recent labor strikes and a failed merger with Kroger. The closures follow divisional restructuring earlier in 2025 and a settlement related to the Kroger merger; affected residents in rural areas may face long drives to the nearest full-service grocer.

Safeway disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the CO state workforce agency on September 9, 2025. The notice covers 617 employees in Denver, CO (Denver County), with the layoff effective November 7, 2025.

The state lists each affected employee separately by work location, so this filing spans 5 CO communities: Adams, Denver, Larimer, Pikes Peak, Rural Consortium.

That is roughly 0.6% of the 100,000 people Safeway employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 23 layoff events at Safeway since June 2023, including 1,350 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 12 additional events known from news reporting.