United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 announced Saturday that, unlike the February strike by King Soopers workers, the Safeway/Albertsons walkout will begin on a more limited scale.

With the clock winding down toward Saturday night's deadline for new contract negotiations, a Colorado union has announced locations where grocery employees are set to walk off the job on Sunday in protest.

FILE PHOTO: A Brown–Forman Distilleries worker helps stock aisle three with wine on Wednesday morning, March 1, 2023, at the Safeway grocery store on South Havana Street in Aurora, Colo. Kroger and Albertsons announced April 22, 2024 that the Safeway brand in Arizona and Colorado will be licensed to C&S Wholesale if the merger goes through.