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Safeway Inc. has reduced its health care cost increases by more than $150 million since 2005 using an approach that closely resembles how auto insurers rate drivers.

Thanksgiving is just days away and the nation is getting ready for the turkey preparations.

Union officials representing Colorado Safeway and King Soopers workers are poring over the grocery chains' "last, best and final offers" before scheduling a vote that could lead to a strike, a union spokeswoman said Wednesday.

A tentative agreement that averted a potential strike at Safeway stores, including those in Holbrook and Winslow, was reached last Thursday evening.

Kroger 's King Soopers stores and Safeway outlets could face a strike if Colorado workers turn down a tentative agreement this week.

In less than a week, unionized workers at two Arizona grocery store chains may be walking a picket line instead of stocking shelves and cutting meat.

Safeway Inc. and CVS Caremark Corp. have announced a partnership with D.C. to provide reusable bags to the city as part of a campaign to get residents to stop using disposable plastic and paper bags.

A series of meetings have been set throughout the state this week for unionized grocery workers, who are expected to vote on another contract offer from supermarket chains.

Ray Zivney would have shopped at Albertsons or Bashas' if the employees had formed a picket line in front of Safeway in Sun City.

UFCW Local 99, Safeway, Inc. and The Kroger Co. reached a tentative settlement on a new collective bargaining agreement late Thursday evening.

Thousands of union workers across Arizona are poised to go on strike Friday after months of failed negotiations with two major grocery chains.

Some 25,000 people who work at Safeway Inc. stores and Fry's supermarkets in Arizona look likely to strike on Friday.

Fry's and Safeway grocery stores and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 99 in Phoenix remained at odds Monday over a new contract and threatened strike.

Who could object to rewarding people who quit smoking, lose weight or start to exercise? The American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, for starters.

Stocks discussed on the in-depth s ession of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Thursday November 5. A successful Sotheby's auction which sold $187 million in modern and impressionist art and strong numbers from high-end retail names indicate the rich are back and are buying.

Are the upscale grocery chain's best days behind it? Fourth-quarter net income soared to $36.4 million, or $0.20 per share, from the year-ago $1.5 million, or $0.01 per share.

An article in Reuters last week touts Safeway Inc. for the generous grants it gives to Easter Seals to empower children and adults with autism and other disabilities.

Reporting from Washington - Who could object to rewarding people who quit smoking, lose weight or start to exercise? The American Cancer Society and the American Heart Assn., for starters.

The fall harvest, Thanksgiving and the holiday season are often the perfect time for a grocer to generate awareness of the hunger that faces many in our communities.

Read more of Daniel Engber's columns on obesity and health care reform . Safeway CEO Steven A. Burd thinks he's solved the nation's health care crisis.