Hatty Thompson

Proudly Serving: Safeway #4956, Williams Lake, BC

Position: 2nd Assistant Store Manager

Core Value: Proudly Serve Our Communities

During the wildfires of 2017, the town of Williams Lake was evacuated, leaving only emergency workers and a cook, who was a Safeway employee. “Our little store provided all the food for the firefighters and RCMP,” says Hatty proudly. “Safeway was the only one that stayed open so that we could … feed the community.” Eventually, more Safeway workers were asked back to clean the store to make it ready for when residents returned. “It was like coming into a ghost town,” says Hatty. “We had to go through two or three checkpoints just to get to our store.” It was a team effort to get the store ready for customers in just a few short days but the long hours and hard work was worth it. “They were so thrilled and so happy that we were open. They were just grateful that we had worked so hard and were ready for them,” says Hatty. “They said they missed us!”