Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., which owns both chains, had previously agreed to the four-year deal.
Negotiations for Safeway and Albertsons workers are ongoing, but the Kroger contract is expected to serve as a model for those negotiations.
Sixty percent of workers who mailed in their ballots approved the Kroger contract, which the union's bargaining committee urged workers to reject. About half of the 7,600 eligible voters turned in ballots.
"I think people were just tired of the whole thing already," said Linda Ariki, a checker at a King Soopers store in Wheat Ridge.
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