Subsequent Event	9 Months Ended
Sep. 06, 2014
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent event	SUBSEQUENT EVENT On October 6, 2014, after receiving the required majority consent from holders of $80 million of 3.40% Senior Notes due December 1, 2016 ("2016 Notes"), Safeway entered into a supplemental indenture to amend the change of control provision relating to these notes to remove the requirement to offer to repurchase the notes at $1,010 per $1,000 aggregate principal amount of notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest ("Repurchase Requirement"), in connection with the change of control resulting from the proposed Merger. On October 9, 2014, after receiving the required majority consent from holders of $100 million of 6.35% Senior Notes due August 15, 2017 ("2017 Notes"), Safeway entered into a supplemental indenture to amend the change of control provision relating to these notes to remove the Repurchase Requirement. All consent fees were paid to the holders of such notes by Albertsons. Following the Merger, the 2016 Notes and 2017 Notes and any of the $500 million of 5.00% Senior Notes due August 15, 2019 ("2019 Notes") that remain outstanding will be secured by substantially all of the assets of Albertsons and Safeway and their respective subsidiaries on a pari passu basis with the new secured notes due 2022 that will be issued by Albertsons as part of the financing for the Merger ("Albertsons Notes"), and will be guaranteed, on the same basis as the Albertsons Notes, by Albertsons and Safeway and their respective subsidiaries. Following the Merger, other series of Safeway's senior notes and debentures (the 3.95% Senior Notes due 2020, the 4.75% Senior Notes due 2021, the 7.45% Senior Debentures due 2027 and the 7.25% Senior Debentures due 2031) that remain outstanding will become equally and ratably secured by certain assets of Safeway and its subsidiaries on a pari passu basis with the 2016 Notes, 2017 Notes, 2019 Notes and Albertsons Notes, but will not by the other assets of Safeway and Albertsons and their subsidiaries that will secure the 2016 Notes, 2017 Notes, 2019 Notes and Albertsons Notes.

SUBSEQUENT EVENT

On October 6, 2014, after receiving the required majority consent from holders of $80 million of 3.40% Senior Notes due December 1, 2016 ("2016 Notes"), Safeway entered into a supplemental indenture to amend the change of control provision relating to these notes to remove the requirement to offer to repurchase the notes at $1,010 per $1,000 aggregate principal amount of notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest ("Repurchase Requirement"), in connection with the change of control resulting from the proposed Merger. On October 9, 2014, after receiving the required majority consent from holders of $100 million of 6.35% Senior Notes due August 15, 2017 ("2017 Notes"), Safeway entered into a supplemental indenture to amend the change of control provision relating to these notes to remove the Repurchase Requirement. All consent fees were paid to the holders of such notes by Albertsons.

Following the Merger, the 2016 Notes and 2017 Notes and any of the $500 million of 5.00% Senior Notes due August 15, 2019 ("2019 Notes") that remain outstanding will be secured by substantially all of the assets of Albertsons and Safeway and their respective subsidiaries on a pari passu basis with the new secured notes due 2022 that will be issued by Albertsons as part of the financing for the Merger ("Albertsons Notes"), and will be guaranteed, on the same basis as the Albertsons Notes, by Albertsons and Safeway and their respective subsidiaries. Following the Merger, other series of Safeway's senior notes and debentures (the 3.95% Senior Notes due 2020, the 4.75% Senior Notes due 2021, the 7.45% Senior Debentures due 2027 and the 7.25% Senior Debentures due 2031) that remain outstanding will become equally and ratably secured by certain assets of Safeway and its subsidiaries on a pari passu basis with the 2016 Notes, 2017 Notes, 2019 Notes and Albertsons Notes, but will not by the other assets of Safeway and Albertsons and their subsidiaries that will secure the 2016 Notes, 2017 Notes, 2019 Notes and Albertsons Notes.