Safeway

This is the supermarket I go to where I can feel like a self-​important biotechie who’s in a rush to pick up something to eat before I get back to the hectic workplace where a patient sample is on the line!
This is an upscale location for all the falls grovers and other shady grove employees hoping to grab a fresh to go lunch or other groceries during a lunch break.
I came here for the donuts this time. One vanilla frosted donut with sprinkles and one glazed donut.
Both donuts offer a thick, rich dough unlike at Krispy Kreme where the dough is soft and slightly limp.
Vanilla: I love this one. It’s so sweet and delicious. Hell yeah. ⁵⁄₅
Glazed: there wasn’t enough glaze on this one. I realize that the donuts are frozen in Monrovia, Ca and then re-​heated, but I would have preferred for this jaunt to be dripping wet in glaze if I’m going to invest in an ab-​less stomach for 24 hours. ³⁄₅
Good prices on strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries.

Staff is friendly and aisles and product are always organized. Staff is helpful with any needs, rain checks, lotto, etc. Standard Safeway up-​charge apply. However, the just4u program can save you some bones every know and then.

They’ve spiffed up the store recently but I’m here in the middle of the day and still experiencing the slowest checkout ever. Empty shopping carts everywhere, empty mini Bacardi bottles on the tables outside (???). No. Just no.

Clean, helpful staff, but parking can be a nightmare here, it’s always busy because of all of the stores and the surrounding neighborhoods.

I was so happy with the store. The employees really take pride in the store and the customers in doing what’s right for the customer. The employee tonight at the hot food counter really made me feel like I belong here and even went above and beyond for me. I feel proud to shop at Safeway and will return.

Convenient to my hotel in a nice area of town. Very clean store. The associates at the customer service counter were friendly and helpful. The cashier was not. Very unfriendly and not helpful at all. I hope his behavior is due to having a bad day, not to being a jerk.

I am here almost twice a week. Friendly staff and clean store. Parking lot is so full from all the other stores in the shopping center but not too bad. I lost my new iPhone here the first week it had come out and was so happy to know that it was picked up and was left at customer service for me to pick up.

I paid a visit to Safeway while I was on vacation. It’s a nice grocery store, as far as grocery stores go. But very expensive. They wanted $ 7 for a half gallon of OJ. So, I looked inside the bottom of the bottle to see if any of the pulp was made of 24K gold.

This is my favorite safeway to come to. Very clean and organized. The staff is always helpful and the bakery is always so much tastier than other safeway bakeries. Pretty competitively priced as well.

This Safeway is located across from Shady Grove Hospital and in a shopping area with a lot of popular fast food restaurant and is next door to a Starbucks. All this means that you need to pay attention to safely navigate the parking lot and to find a parking spot.
This is an average Safeway but I avoid it because of the employees and the parking. The parking lot for this center is pretty large; I’m not sure why it seems hazardous to drive in it – maybe too many pedestrians and too few entrances.
I’m used to much friendlier employees at the Safeways where I shop. These employees seem stressed. I could tell I annoyed one of them by not finding something that they seemed to think that a vague, «it’s to your right». I think I annoyed another one by asking where the Dairy section was and when they answered, «in the back», I asked if they could point where in the back, because you know, the back is large and has a left and a right and a middle.
And finally, the cashier at the self-​service, although not annoyed with me, definitely got into an innappropriate snotty exchange of words because someone needed complex help. When he made an observation that they could use more employees (there were 4 red lights of the six working stations needing her attention), she replied, «Why don’t you apply? You’re such an expert.»

This is a very nice Safeway, but it’s prices are more than local Giants. It feels like they are trying to be a whole foods, but then I would rather go to whole foods. Was very disappointed in their selection some gourmet items.

This Safeway is in a large, very busy, very stressful parking lot but once you’re in, you’ll be pleased. The store is well stocked, has friendly employees who like their job, has a diverse and middle-​class clientele, and no nasty people. The pharmacy is also huge, has friendly staff members (wish I had gotten their names), and polite. I came here two days in a row for separate prescriptions. I had forgotten my insurance card the first day so I had to pay full price for my prescription. However, I brought my ID number the second day, and the pharmacist kindly offered to determine the difference for the previous day’s prescription and refund me the difference. That was very nice of him! Very pleased with overall transaction and experience.
Checkout lines for a weekend were reasonable. Having agreeable, competent suburb employees (which is rare in the city) helps!
One down side is that there is no Verizon cell phone service inside. I had to step all the way outside to check in on Unilocal

I like the Safeway on Redland better but this one will do as well. It’s often less crowded than the Redland branch which is nice and parking is a breeze.
The best part of the store is definitely the deli department! Aside from usual meats and cheeses, they have a great selection of salads and soups there. It’s not always the same stuff either, they often mix it up and introduce new things from time to time. You can also grab sandwiches and salads for a discounted price if it’s late in the day.
One thing that’s not so great here is the sushi, which is utterly deplorable. I hate the fact that the ingredient list on their salmon roll is 90 items long. Sushi rolls should typically have 3 things in them; fish, rice, and seaweed. When I start to see things like fructose and corn flour I start to worry.
All in all though, this is a very competent supermarket. Three stars.

I am not a regular at this Safeway, I prefer the Kings Farm location and I will tell you why.
The employees here do not care to help you and the manager and the self check out cashier person stood and chatted about work gossip as I stood there waiting to get them to have the Just4u free aqua fina flavor water to go through.
They acted so annoyed that they had to stop their talk to help me. I showed my free coupon on the safeway app and was told I must have the wrong item. Only after I read the entire description of the coupon and the entire label on the bottle did I get an eye roll and get the water for free.
I use the Just4u religiously and save a ton of money by using it and on occasion they offer free products that are new to give consumers a chance to try them. It’s not that I particularly loved all the hassle for a single serving bottle of water but I am all about saving money and free is always good.
But the employees acted like that 1.00 $ bottle of free water was going to come out of their paycheck.
I’m going to stick w my Kings Farm location where everyone is nice.
2 stars because even after all the hassle I did get my freebie.

There is an extremely rude employee at self check-​out. I went with my brother to buy my daughter baby food. I use the Just4U app and there was a coupon for $ 1 off 4 tubs of Gerber baby food, which I had added to my card. I also had a $ 2 off 8 tubs paper coupon. The paper coupon didn’t scan. The employee took the coupon and put it in the box. I asked why’d she take my coupon because I didn’t use it and asked for it back. She said no and that they needed both for accounting purposes. I said the order only took $ 1 off and the coupon was $ 2 off. This was told to her a couple times and I asked for the order to be re-​rung.
She went to get another employee and I heard her say to her to explain it to me because I didn’t understand. No, someone needs to explain it to you because you don’t understand. The other employee gave me my coupon back and I said the first employee said they needed both. I didn’t even get an apology. I should’ve just walked right out of there and went to my Safeway to buy the baby food or I should’ve gotten her name and asked to speak to her manager.
I will not be coming back to this Safeway.

love the fruit tart here. i think its better than whole foods.
sometimes its really really cheap.
love the sales here.

Don’t order the BBQ wings; they’re soggy. What was I thinking?
I’ll stick to produce and the frozen food section.
They do have some good desserts (to me at least); cheesecake with strawberries, carrot cake, fruit tart, German chocolate cake, yellow cake, eclairs. Can you tell that I like desserts? I sure wish I didn’t! But, its a good place to go instead of getting those at a restaurant. You get twice the portion for half the price.

I go to this store 1 – 2 times a week because I live close. Most of the staff members are kind. There is one particular staff member that has publicly tried to accuse me of stealing on 2 separate occasions. She works in the self check out usually. The first time it bothered me but I ignored it. The second time she did it in front if numerous people it just so happened I was the only black person in line she accused me of stealing 2 plastic 10 cent bags. She didn’t realize I had 2 separate transactions and paid for them all. «She got loud and said you paid for one bag and you have 3!»
There was almost a 3^rd instance she came over to make sure I was ringing everything up. On the second occasion I did complain to the manager. She makes me feel very uncomfortable when I shop there if I see her working the self checkout I go to a regular line because I’m getting close to cursing her out!
She’s a minority also and you’d think she knows how it feels to be discriminated against and wouldn’t pick on people. I can’t think if any other reason why she always targets me!

Like a number of the 2012 reviewers, I am a fan of this Safeway location. Produce is fresh, employees are helpful, crowds are small (at least when I go), and selection is commendable. Further, there is a sufficient number of self-​check out counters and enough staff to clear those icky the-​scale-​mismeasured-​a-​fly-​passing-​by type of errors.
Although certain parts of this parking lot can get crowded, typically there are plenty of spots close to the store as most traffic diverts to the eating establishments at the front of the lot’s entrance.
As always with Safeway chains, I am impressed by the floral department’s extra fresh flowers and the bakery department is enviable for those of us who live a bit out of regular reach of this store. A word to the wise: Safeway’s fruit tarts are incredible!!!

I don’t know why this Safeway has received such low reviews so far but it’s just like any of the other Safeways in the area. However, their employees are definitely extremely friendly and helpful. The store is clean and everything is organized in a logical fashion and easy to find.
As Vitaliy stated, the parking is a drawback of this store if you decide to go during peak lunch hours (12p-​2p) or around dinner as it’s pretty hard to find parking in the Fallsgrove parking lot. Luckily for me, I live right across the street so I can walk over and avoid having to fight for a spot.
Price-​wise, I really haven’t noticed that much of a price difference from Safeway to the surrounding grocery stores so maybe people are exaggerating or I’m merely oblivious to overpriced groceries.
Pro tip– Don’t go during aforementioned peak hours unless you want to struggle to find parking.