Safeway is not owned by Kroger. Kroger is owned by Dillon, and Safeway is one of the few national competitors we haven't gobbled up yet. ;)

On a lighter note, when I worked for risk management, there were some wild ones. One incident involved a well-endowed female (quite drunk), who decided shedding her shirt and bra would get her out of a night managers control. Well, it did, but then she decided she couldn't leave the store that way.

Then there was a store manager we started calling John Wayne after this happened: A young guy came up to the service desk, and handed the manager a paper bag with a note in it. (The note said "Put all the money in the bag.") The manager glanced at the note, put it back in the bag, handed it back to the kid,  said "nope"., and went back to what he was doing. Kid freezes, looks confused and leaves. About 5 seconds later, the manager realizes what happened and runs into the parking lot just in time to get a license number. D'oh!