Fox Gas in S. Tahoe may sell station to Safeway

By Kathryn Reed

Talks are under way for another grocery store in South Lake Tahoe to have a gas station associated with it.

Owners of the Fox Gas Station and Safeway are talking about the Bay Area-based grocery store chain buying the locally owned station on Highway 50.

Fox Gas and Safeway, seen in the back left, may have one owner in the future. Photo/LTN

Officials with South Lake Tahoe told Lake Tahoe News they have been consulted and that preliminary discussions are under way.

The two businesses are next to each other. What isn’t known is if the slight slope that creates a barrier between the two would be reconfigured so shoppers could stay in the same parking lot to get gas and food.

John Cefalu, who owns the gas station, did not return phone calls.

Wendy Gutshall, with the PR arm of Safeway in San Ramon, said, “There’s nothing to report. We don’t comment on rumors.”

If the deal goes through, it would mean the second grocery store chain in the city to have a gas station. Raley’s gas station opened earlier this month at the Y.