Northern California Whole Foods President Returns to Safeway

"Anthony Gilmore, president of the Northern California division of Whole Foods Market Inc., has joined Safeway Inc. as a vice president of lifestyle.

The move will end an 11-year tenure for the supermarket industry veteran at Whole Foods, the world's largest natural and organic food supermarket chain. Before taking over the fast-growing Northern California division, Gilmore oversaw operations in Whole Foods' Midwest and Southwest regions.

He is actually returning to Pleasanton-based Safeway, where he began as a courtesy clerk at the north Salinas store as a teenager in 1976. He moved up the ladder at Safeway, holding a number of management positions in the company's Northern California division before moving to Whole Foods in 1996."

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