RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:There yes i know the upside will be limited until they have rid themselves of the safeway problems... remember they paid 4 b but they also wrote down over 2 b of that in the last two years...... the problem they face in the alberta/border/saskatchewan was the fact that in order to get employees 10 years ago in the oil boom they had to pay cashiers over 25 dollars an hour.....now that the oil crunch has happened these type of high wages is really hitting the margin... hopefully Medline will find a way to manage this over the next 3 years.... once that is done you will have more upside with empire than with loblaws or metro... in the meantime i think they will still be able to pay their dividends