PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc. said it will begin accepting the Wright Express card for fuel purchases at the pump. Safeway has a network of more than 290 fuel sites nationwide, including Vons in Southern California, Randalls and Tom Thumb in Texas, Carrs in Alaska and Dominick's in Illinois.
Wright Express Corp. is a major provider of payment processing and information management services to the U.S. commercial and government vehicle fleet industry.
We are excited to team with Wright Express to make the convenience of our [image-nocss] fueling sites available to their fleets throughout our region, said Joe Pettus, senior vice president of fuel and energy at Pleasanton, Calif.-based Safeway.
Safeway is one of the largest and most popular fuel retailers in the Pacific Northwest and is a great addition to our network, said Michael Dubyak, president and CEO of Wright Express, South Portland, Maine.
Safeway operates 1,755 stores in the United States and western Canada and had annual sales of $40.2 billion in 2006.
Wright Express provides its services for approximately 295,000 commercial and government fleets containing 4.3 million vehicles. Wright Express markets these services directly as well as through more than 125 strategic relationships, and offers a MasterCard-branded corporate card.
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