MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – U.S. Bank is expanding its relationship with supermarket retailer Safeway Inc. by opening 163 new full-service, in-store banking locations in Safeway and Vons stores during the next two years in California, Arizona and Nevada stores. U.S. Bank is the third-largest in-store branch banking network in the country and will have a total of 446 in-store branches in 19 states once the expansion is completed.

Most of the new in-store branches will open in Sacramento, the greater San Francisco Bay area, Phoenix and Tucson, with the remainder opening in the Los Angeles/ Orange/Riverside County region, San Diego and Las Vegas.

U.S. Bank currently has locations inside six Safeway stores in the Seattle market.