Safeway

I usually get my grocceries from qfc but decided to try out this store since its right down the street.
Wow was I dissapointed. Their food is terrrrrribllle.
I ordered their chinese food family meal, chow mein, veggie rice, spring rolls, peking pork, and sweet and sour chicken. They were all disgusting and I had to spit it out after trying it, it was sooooo bad. Just think of the dryest meat possible that is lukewarm cause its been sitting out for like 24 hours. Rolls were burnt and soggy (how does that even happen). They even messed up the freaking rice! lmaoooo just awful the rice was even soggy like it soaked up too much water.
From their bakery section I tried out their cheesecake, carrot cake, chocolate cake, and french bread. The cakes were all dry as hell and were actually hard. I love carrot cake and have never had a bad one until today. The french bread was okay but also the worst I’ve ever had anywhere.
Prices were high… like 7.99 for a gallon of organic milk.
Just no. How are they even in business?
I will continue my grocery shopping at QFC cause they have a delicious bakery section, cant go wrong and good ready made food (if you stay away from the sushi section). Just much much better quality all around. But as far as Meat and produce, Shawn and Ted’s meat market and Top of the Hill in renton are the best.

I’m a frequent Safeway shopper and I absolutely hate this location. It’s too small, therefore, they don’t carry everything I need. 4 out of 5 times they are always out of my pita bread. Meat selection is small and not much to choose from. Last time I was here, I wanted donuts, until I saw a fly in the donut case, yuck. I try to get in and out as fast as I can because people are always in my way. I needed a money order and I believe the little customer service window doesn’t open until 10am. Not convenient. I didn’t know the Haggen took over the Safeway on 4^th until after I moved and it’s something I complain about til this day.

Very poor service since the merger. The checker didn’t speak to me once and I spent over 80 bucks. I never got this sort of service before. Very disappointed that the customers don’t come first anymore.

Smallest Safeway I’ve ever been into. They don’t carry a lot of product that a normal sized Safeway usually has. Kinda dirty inside, dark too.
Hard to walk around as the aisles are so tiny and this place is freakishly busy, so we had a hard time actually looking for things. We wandered the store multiple times looking for some bacon that was on sale. The only employee we came across was in the deli and she was closed so she didn’t want to help us; just simply told us oh it’s on the very back wall with the meat. The meat was on the wall directly to her right, not in the back of the store. We also still couldn’t find it. Couldn’t find any employees to ask either.
Cashier was okay, slow. He was friendly. We asked him about the bacon and he looked confused and then said he they must be out of stock. He was new, no big deal.
Get a Safeway card and account online to add digital coupons. I saved an extra $ 2.00 on ice cream that way. This store is a little pricey as well.

I was disappointed when I went to the deli today, asked for cheese SLICED thin, & was presented with two loosely Saran wrapped packages of cheese. The deli person said «these together are a little over a pound, is that ok?» Yeah, no. When I asked for my cheese to be SLICED I was told «this is sliced». I can understand why they have «pre-​sliced» meats & cheeses behind the counter in the event that a customer is in a hurry. After much hesitation & me needing to be more assertive, I finally got my cheese freshly sliced. I will not be returning to Safeway.

I like how close this Safeway is to where I live. However, it is a smaller store so they don’t carry everything that a larger Safeway would, which often results in two grocery store trips for me. Staff has always been polite and helpful. No complaints about the customer service whatsoever. I just wish they had a larger selection.

This is the store Safeway as a corporation has forgotten about. Staff are great but Safeway hasn’t given them much to be proud of. Come on Safeway. Get it together and pay attention to this store. It needs a makeover!

Haggins watch out you better have morning people like this Safeway has! Employees were extremely nice even this early on a Sunday! This will be my normal Safeway now since Haggins took over the one next door to my gym

Obviously an older location, from the early 60’s. Grocery store only, with very limited selection of DVD’s and Blu Ray’s. Overall, the staff is OK there.
One of the things that is annoying, though is that one of my acquaintances likes a certain brand of Vodka, and they seem to run out of it quickly. Looks like the next time they ask me to do a booze run for them, I will be heading to Costco.

In general, I hate Safeway. They are overpriced and have poor quality produce. This is indeed the ghetto Safeway. Parking sucks, panhandlers, rotten vegetables and lonnnnnnng lines. At 5:30PM, there is usually a small herd waiting in line. No self check out either. Last week I snuck in before work for a donut, no glazed, no maple bars, no chocolate. WHAT THE HECK. Why even get donuts brought in from the other Safeway? Fail.

The employees are nice, but other then that this safeway sucks it’s always out of stock and it’s pretty small compared to the other safeway. 3 stars for friendly employees!

This Safeway is close to my house for any quick basic needs. I hate giving them 3 stars when they don’t have a good rating anyways, but, alas, I must. It isn’t because they don’t have a bakery. It isn’t because their meat selection is small. It isn’t even because I think that Safeway overcharges on a lot of things anyways. It’s because of the phyllo dough that I bought from them. I was making some homemade apple turnovers with it, and as I carefully unrolled it from the pack, I saw that it was already broken up and dried out. How depressing. They only had their brand, so I didn’t exactly have options, but still. The staff is generally nice. They don’t really pay much attention to you, but if you need assistance, they will help you. I haven’t really seen it super busy, so thats alright.

Idiot pan handlers sit on the bench and smoke. Smoke blows in your face and into store. They need to get a handle on this. But hey, their employees do it too! 20 ft. My ass! So fucking annoying… They come out and sit on their little gossip stoop, and smoke, smoke, SMOKE! So disgusting! I see why this store has been named the «ghetto Safeway». They are out of EVERYTHING all the time! When I first moved here, they were remodeling? Why? The only thing that seems different and bigger is the produce department. The quality of the produce is almost at Saar’s quality. Yuck.
This store is so small. And when there is a line, which is often, everyone is piled on top of each other. This store is basically a quick, «oops I forgot something but I do not want to drive to the other Safeway», stop.

Worse Safeway I’ve been in. I’ve been in it a dozen or so times but will be driving to 4^th from now on. I can deal with their limited selection, but the constant long lines and slow check out gets obnoxious. Hire more people! Terrible run Safeway.

This is probably the dirtiest, smallest Safeway I’ve ever been in. It makes the «crappy» Safeway by me look like a Whole Foods! Literally felt clausterphobic in this place…

The worst Safeway! Parking lot is dangerous. I have seen fist fights happen their, in daylight!

What is the point of a remodel if you still refuse to keep your store stocked, sell bruised and rotten produce, and are desperately under-​staffed at all times? The sad part is the staff that does work there is super nice, they remember regulars, show genuine interest in making your experience a good one and see to enjoy their jobs. On any given date at any given time its not a shock to see lines at the 1 if your lucky 2 open registers with more then 10 people waiting and trailing into the shopping aisles, frankly its laughable. Even with the remodel this place still holds tight to its title as the Ghetto Safeway.

Its a grocery store, no more, no less. They remodeled to look all modern and fancy-​pants, but it’s still «the ghetto safeway» in my heart. It’s not too big and the selection is reminiscent of a 7 – 11.
What really drives me nuts is the way they set up the aisles though! I can never find anything and it seems like they put totally unrelated aisles right next to each other just so you’ll look at more things and want to buy them. That or I’m just really bad at grocery store navigation.

one — this map on the side is catty-​wampus… who puts north towards the bottom???
two– this Safeway has no bakery. Wierd right?
three-​i see that they remodeled, its pretty and all, but
four-​stocked full. the aisles seem small and with little kids, I am afraid they are going to hit an endcap and I am going to have to pay for a bunch of broken whatever.
Bigger is better in my opinion, be like the other Safeways and build an addition.

This Safeway is known to me and my friends as the Ghetto Safeway. Its small, dirty, has the worst parking lot on the the planet, and you always leave needing a shower.
The selection is so bad that on my last trip they ran out of buttermilk, raspberry jam, and fresh spinach. None of these are obscure or fancy in my mind.
They don’t carry a wide variety of items but they are directly on my route home from work so I stop in a pinch for staples — but it isn’t unlikely that they will be out of it. I would never EVER consider purchasing anything that might expire like meat or poultry, never.
The staff tries their best but they are really limited. They are generally kind but seem to be significantly slower than the average checker.