Safeway

Aisles are a bit overcrowded. The worst is that they never have enough checkers. Huge lines form down aisle while they have 2 checkers during the busiest time of the day. All their checkers are friendly but sometimes chat a little too much which slows things down.

It’s pretty expensive but there’s not much choice living in Davis. Their frozen vegetables are good deals and if you buy according to the weekly advertisements you can get decent deals. I appreciate that it’s opened 24 hours though.
And as for the Monopoly contest, which ai am sure many of us play cause we want that college tuition aid! it’s so hard to win lol best of luck to all of you out there. It’s smart tactic, boost sales for them, you go Saveway.

Do you like long, slow lines when you’re just buying a couple items? Baskets not being restocked? A terrible layout? No express or self checkout options? Not finding your favourite brands carried by nearly every other Safeway? This is the grocery store for you!
Two stars instead of one because it’s clean.

I feel like I’m getting robbed every time I grocery shop here. I don’t get basic groceries here, but come here if I need a quick item I can’t find elsewhere. The store is super organized and clean and open 24 hours! Very easy to find items that you’re looking for. Great extensive selection for bakery, alcohol, greeting cards, and flowers. Good place to grab a quick gift for someone.

I don’t grocery shop here much (Cheaper grocery options closer to home) but I often stop by the bakery or deli for desserts or to pick up some lunch. The fresh Tomato Bisque soup is to die for. Its a quick lunch pick-​up, for when i’m on the go. I also recommend trying the deli’s breakfast burritos, they are fairly priced and the Turkey pesto sandwich is one of my faves.

My life saver for past three years living in north Davis! Awesome thing abt this place is ²⁴⁄₇! Yup you might think it’s crazy and you might never ever go visit a grocery store at 2am! But this college! You sleep, work, and study in a weird abnormal schedule! So don’t feel bad if you walk into Safeway 4am to buy a pack of ramen!
They actually carry great variety of vege, including some Asian vege like Bok choy!
They have the raspberry white chocolate cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory! I love that so much!
It’s convenient, reasonable price!
The thing I marked down on stars is due to the cleanness of the store! Some of the shelves at fresh fruit and vege section look really gross! I wonder how often they clean them!
Also, sometimes they don’t have enough staff when the store is super busy! I wish the north Safeway can have self checkout like south Safeway!

Want to hear something funny? Think of it as a tip:
I have the floral department’s phone number saved in my phone. Why? Because there’s an employee at the floral department to help customers. Ironically, there’s no employee at customer service to do that.
Think about it — the service has been so bad, I’ve saved the floral department’s phone number into my contacts list.
Poor customer service is a problem endemic in the Safeway chain — the corporation does not put a premium on the customer service of their cashiers. Let me tell you that it has gotten to the point where I only buy a couple items through self check out, which the Davis Covell location does not have.
Unilocalers, I don’t know if these are the types of things we see with unionized cashiers. There’s lots of great things about unions. But I know one thing, Safeway cashiers have no fear of poor performance reviews, and no incentive to work efficiently.
Don’t take my word for it. Go there.
2 stars instead of 1 because there’s always an employee at floral.

I always find what I need here. Lines are always reasonable and the staff are friendly. Use the Safeway app for more savings!

Ridiculously understaffed that results in SUPER long slow lines… sometimes to the back of the store.
Otherwise just like any other Safeway.

Cristina from the sushi counter in the deli is honestly the only reason why I come to this Safeway for my grocery shopping each week! She is so unbelievably kind and she effortlessly makes me my custom rolls whenever she sees me, using the freshest, tastiest ingredients. The quality of her sushi completely trumps any other grocery store’s sushi (including other Safeways), so I don’t mind making the longer drive to do my grocery shopping here. Cristina and Alex are so genuine and TRULY care about their customers’ satisfaction. From what I have seen, they not only make me, but every other customer, feel so cared for and valued. As strange as it may sound, they almost feel like family, and provide such positive connotations for my Safeway experiences, and put me in a great mood for the rest of my shopping trips.
I also had the pleasure of being checked out by Marybeth for the first time last week, and she completely radiates joy as well. You can tell that she loves the people she works with and has beautiful loyalties to them, and she has such an appreciation and love for her customers as well. She was also so knowledgable and answered all the questions I had.
I can’t believe what wonderful staff this Safeway is able to have. Their happiness is contagious, and although Trader Joe’s, The Nugget, Whole Foods, etc. all have their pros and are more convenient, I will keep coming back to this Safeway as long as I live in Davis!

Best thing about this place? ²⁴⁄₇.
TL;DR
–standard Safeway
–long lines especially on Friday afternoons
–don’t try finding any ingredient less common than salt
Thoughts:
The bakery section is great for binging on junk food for your cheat days. You can’t really beat $ 5 for 50 cookies, despite the fact that the cookies are mediocre. Its pretty much your generic Safeway, although it does tend to cater towards college students. So if you’re looking for some lesser known ingredients, they may not be carried. This might also be due to the smaller size of this Safeway. There’s a decent selection of pre-​made foods which actually isn’t bad. Having tried their chicken pot pie, I have to say its better than the ratchet Banquet frozen ones. I have yet to try their deli so I can’t speak to that yet. As for the weekly Friday deals, make sure to go early. The store has very little space for lines so its not uncommon for lines to extend halfway back through aisles when its busy.
Overall:
As a suburban town, this is one of the few places that stays open late at night which is great when you study until midnight at the library and forget to do groceries. Savemart, located down the street, only opens until 12. Between the two stores, Savemart is generally cheaper when what you want isn’t on sale at Safeway.

When I lived right next to the Marketplace, there will be times where I’d be here in the middle of the night for a box of bagel bites or drinks. There are always deals and coupons that are available too keeps a weeks worth of groceries (for a single person) under $ 20 and still have protein and vegetables in the basket (along with some snacks of course). You can never go wrong with having a Safeway card, you get deals (and j4u on the Safeway app)
This Safeway is pretty much like any other, fairly clean and such. The aisles are a bit cramped though, makes you feel a litte claustrophobic when there are 2 people in one aisle. As for the ready to eat food here, I’d prefer to get my sushi here since they are usually able to custom make something for me or make it when I’m shopping and pick it up afterwards.
It is a little strange that the fresh produce is not to the side of the store but I guess that’s just how this place is (not use to seeing it like that, usually either one the right end or left)
Final Thoughts: Always nice to place out a shopping trip, especially with the ads and coupons with the j4u offers. Always nice to save a dollar.

This Safeway has good selection and decent prices. Having the Safeway card definitely helps and you can get additional savings by going online and adding extra savings to your card (they have a Safeway app to make this process easier).
I like getting bagels here in the morning as it is way more economic and just as good as going to a bagel restaurant.
The down side is, when it’s busy, the lines get pretty long and it can be a little slow going.

«Olive Orchard» olive bar with no olives? What’s with that? The closest olive item in the olive bar was a medley with cranberries, onions and perhaps 30% olives. The other items were assorted marinated vegetables and cheeses but not a single olive amongst them. I needed kalamata olives for a recipe. Guess I’ll need to pick them up at another grocery.
This store feels very congested. The aisles are narrow, the check stands are too near the door. There were not enough check out lanes open for the number of people waiting to pay for their groceries. Overall, not a good shopping experience.

Constantly understaffed and the shelves frequently empty. I like Safeway as a chain but this one is terribly managed. Never more than two or three checkout lines open with people stacked up 20 deep. OK I get that big rushes of people are sometimes hard to judge but I go back time after time and it is always that way, In fact it is the norm not the exception.
They have a somewhat captive market with apartments and senior facilities all around their store so they can get away with it.
I now go to the Safeway across town which is just the opposite. I have seen the manager jump in and take a checkout himself to keep the lines down to two or three people.

Safeway always fast and friendly when it comes to getting in and out. Store is laid out very nicely and always kept clean. It’s a plus that they are ²⁴⁄₇ making it easy access to anything we need at any time of the day. The only thing I would suggest is having more registers open during rush hours.

Just in town for lunch and decided to get some food for the week. We mainly bought produce, which is good and fresh. I like that there is a lot to choose from. The organic produce is just about the same price as the non organic produce.
My only complain about the store is that the check out lanes we long.
But other then that, I like how clean the store is

It’s a Safeway. You can get most of the things you can get in any other safeway. This one doesn’t have as many sugar free items as you might be able to get in the bigger stores if you’re diabetic. Also, this Safeway seems to regularly be missing someone behind the counter for the cigarette section of the store (guess no one smokes in Davis).
One thing that’s odd: if you use «ready dough», and are used to buy it at safeway, you’ll be disappointed here. Don’t know why, but I have found that they don’t have it. There’s a savemart down Anderson, and it’s walking distance or a short drive away, and they’ll have it.

Safeway is my go-​to grocery store!
However, I consider check out lines very slow, even if you’re in the express line.
I wish they considered self-​serve check outs…
DELI FOOD IS UNDERRATED!
I absolutely love wedge chips here, and the sushi bar. The sushi chefs are super friendly and will make it right there for you if you want your roll fresh. Considerably cheap. My favorite roll is the Philadelphia roll (salmon + cream cheese), but customize as much as you need to!
They also keep in mind your grocery shopping too, so if you say you want to shop around a bit and come back just to pick it up, let them know! They’ll give you a receipt so you can pay at the regular cash register.
STARBUCKS anyone?
Gosh, I love Starbucks. The only downside to this starbucks is that it is generally only run by one employee, so it’s not the fastest service that you’ll have. Plus, they do not take Starbucks complimentary free drink deals (e.g. filling out customer surveys, Gold card free drinks etc.)
Don’t forget to plug in your Safeway Rewards card when you check out! Overall, you’ll be saving a good amount.

Another customer and I had an entertaining, off-​the-​wall discussion during an exceptionally long wait in the check-​out line on how to improve the experience (NOT the cashier’s fault — she was very gracious)! Among the ideas:
1. Have the conveyor belt housed in a refrigeration unit so that our ice-​cream stays nice and cold through the wait (will have to think of something for the hot foods though).
2. Add chairs that fold out so that if we wind up waiting long enough for our mealtime to come around we can just sit down and grub.
This was my first trip here and my check-​out line companion informed me that this is generally the way it is. My guess is that they are short-​staffed. Other than that, I thought the store was fairly nice (particularly the deli and hot foods section), found everything I wanted, and the funny chat made up for the seemingly never-​ending wait.