POULSBO — When Poulsbo’s Albertsons closed, corporate management said it would find jobs for the store’s employees elsewhere in the company.

Sara Osborn, communications officer for Albertsons/Safeway, said the company found jobs for every employee — more than 60 — elsewhere in the Tacoma district, which goes from Tacoma to Kingston to Bainbridge Island and includes 17 stores.

Seventeen employees relocated to the Poulsbo Safeway, 19245 10th Ave. NE.

Only four Albertsons employees are no longer with the company, Osborne said, though they were offered the opportunity to relocate.

Osborne indicated those employees opted to seek employment elsewhere. “It was their choice not to go to other stores,” she said.