Options Brief: Safeway Inc. (SWY)

Shares of Safeway Inc. SWY are lower on the session by 0.56%, trading at $21.34. Overall put volume is now running at 4.30x the daily average, with 9% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,779 contracts have traded on the session so far. Safeway Inc. is a food and drug retailer. As of June 19th, 2010, the company operated 1,712 stores. The company's United States retail operations are located principally in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, the Chicago metropolitan area and the Mid-Atlantic region.