Share-Based Employee Compensation (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 23, 2013

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

Summary of weighted-average assumptions used to value grants, by year

The following weighted-average assumptions used to value Safeway’s grants of stock options through the first quarter, by year, are as follows:

	2013				2012
Expected life (in years)	6.25	-	6.50		6.25	-	6.50
Expected stock volatility			33.0	%			30.6	%
Risk-free interest rate			1.3	%			1.3	%
Expected dividend yield during the expected term			3.8	%			2.8	%