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Safeway is only available in Arizona, California, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington and Washington D.C. Six oout of fifty states, but it does get 100% of the districts in the country. Albertsons is available in fourteen cities, five of them major cities in California.

Amazon and UPS deliver to just about every city in the lower 48 states (probably Alaska and Hawaii, but I don't know if they have a higher shipping premium), even ones with populations under a million. You see a difference?

http://www.safeway.com/ and http://www.albertsons.com/ offer home delievery in most of the areas they have stores. That would be Amazon's real competition along with other local grocery stores.

Two of the three closest grocery stores to my house are an Albertsons and a Safeway. (The other one is a QFC-- but they don't seem to do the online shopping thingy, ah well.)

Nope. We have them here in Texas, at Albertson's:

http://www.albertsons.com/shopNscan

The link doesn't work at the moment (it returns a server error), but you can see the "Shop and Scan" link on this page:

http://www.albertsons.com/shared/plan/default.asp

We've had them for 6 months to a year.

Nope. We have them here in Texas, at Albertson's:

http://www.albertsons.com/shopNscan

The link doesn't work at the moment (it returns a server error), but you can see the "Shop and Scan" link on this page:

http://www.albertsons.com/shared/plan/default.asp

We've had them for 6 months to a year.

When I signed up for the Albertsons card, there was a box you could check and they would give you the card without giving them any personal information.

...both Safeway (might be IE-only) and Albertsons deliver groceries. Both charge a $9.95 delivery fee and deliver from local stores.

I must admit, though, that I'd rather see a startup company doing this than the already-established grocery stores. I was a happy Webvan customer, and I still think the model is quite viable. (Plus, I love the FreshDirect site design.) Here's hoping FreshDirect or a similar company takes a stab at this here in the Bay Area!