SAN JOSE — For 21 days and nights, Manny Huizar’s family kept vigil outside the Willow Glen Safeway, sharing memories of the beloved 24-year-old stock clerk ... theft in grocery and drug ...

His biggest current worry: a strike in 139 Safeway stores, where the A.F.L. Retail Grocery Clerks Union wants store managers to join up. The strike has already cost the company about $4,000,000.