Options Brief: Safeway Inc. (SWY)

Shares of Safeway Inc. SWY are lower on the session by 1.37%, trading at $20.87. Overall put volume is now running at 3.03x the daily average, with 56% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,532 contracts have traded on the session so far. Safeway Inc. is a food and drug retailer in North America. As of September 11, 2010, the company operated 1,702 stores in the Western, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in Western Canada.