Grocery strike averted

Just before 7pm Monday night grocery chains and unions settled their contract differences and averted a strike.

The strike would have affected most of the area major stores - North City Safeway, Aurora Safeway, Richmond Beach QFC, Fred Meyer, and Albertson's. Now that Haggen's is gone from Shoreline, the only major, independent stores are Village Market Thriftway in Ballinger Village and Central Market Shoreline in Aurora Square.