Safeway

Just moved here from Las Vegas. Went to buy some essentials for our new apartment. The prices were high but we were ok considering our location. What wasn’t OK was the attitude of the express checkout girl who basically reprimanded me for going to her lane. I didn’t see ‘express’ and she was ‘so busy’ talking to the bag boy her snarky attitude and authoritative pointing to another lane was not worth the overpriced groceries. I almost shoved the cart in her lane and left however choices are limited at this hour so I had no choice. If you’re that unhappy about life you should reconsider your employment options. I’ll give it one more try but honestly. The guy at the checkout I went to was making excuses for her which clearly indicates a behavioral problem that needs to be addressed. This was at 9pm May 11^th.

The pharmacy staff is phenomenal. I’ve gone to numerous pharmacies but the people here have always gone above and beyond for and are really nice.

Swung by here for a wine pitstop en route to a friend’s place in Wallingford. Had no trouble finding the wines of our choice. I loved the ample, easy parking – I even went underground to take advantage of cover (it was raining… meh).

milano cookies 2 for $ 5 are ridic
they sell milk to go with your cookies
chicken breast price is pretty soul crushing tho
who is buying the 60 pack of eggs?
cashier told me i smelled herbal which is probably the nicest thing said to me all month
A+ on their staff (the smell wasn’t me tho.)

this location is usually pretty darn super busy but the staff there is still really nice!
The only down fall is the location! So many bums outside. I mean they don’t bother me but it’s really uncomfortable… including the drug dealers to the side.

I love this Safeway !! Staff is always super friendly and they go out of their way to help me. Store is clean and competitive prices compared to nearby PCC and Wholefoods. Produce department always looks great as well.
Tonight I stopped in and forgot my coupons at home. I don’t coupon much but there was a $ 10 off $ 50 coupon I really wanted to use. The checker had no problem honoring and using one she has already. Not sure if they do that for all their customers but I was so happy. I love this store… Never a bad experience and I have been here much more then my checkins reflect!

First, sometimes you get a craving for something that is not too good for you but tastes great… this is one of those times and so is my second example.
We are craving Chili Dogs… so I go to Safeway and get those makings. I buy two cans of Chili, the lines are LONG, and I finally start putting my food on the belt and notice one can of chili has a dent in it. I tell the cashier that the can of chili is dented, so he asks me if I want it, I said NO, the can is dented. He then says how about if I only charge you half price? I said, «I don’t want it if you gave it to me for FREE!».
He then mumbled something about trying… trying like HELL, my ASS! He should have got that snotty bag boy to go fetch me a new can so that I could leave the store with two cans of Chili like I wanted to. BUT, instead the bag boy says «Have a nice day!». I would have had one if I had gotten the can of Chili I actually wanted to leave the store with… but I guess that is ASKING TOO DAMN MUCH.
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY I WILL EVER GO BACK TO THIS STORE!
It was a nice warm day in Seattle, so I thought I would go in the car and go buy a half gallon of Ice cream…
Sound easy right???
WRONG.
I finally make it to the cashier, I enter my number in the machine to get credit for my purchase and any discounts that I may get with my membership card. As I enter my phone number, the cashier continues to ring up items that are NOT MINE!
I bring it to his attention, I say, «HEY, I only am buying the ice cream!». He then looks at me and says, «Why did you not place a divider between your order and the next person’s order?»
I said why didn’t she put the divider down because all l want is the ice cream and that other stuff belongs to that lady there, and I said don’t blame me. Then he began to tell me again… then I said, «I don’t want to hear this shit from you, all I want is to pay for the damn ice cream and leave before it all melts!». He smartly rings up my order without saying another word. The dumb ass sixty something year old bag boy tells me to, «Have a nice day».
If the damn cashier would first noticed that I only had one item, and then not begin to preach to me after I had a ten hour work day, when I was only expecting to work 8 hours then I might not have reacted so harsh to his sermon.
But I did, and now I am so damn pissed at this store, I vow to never step foot into it AGAIN, come hell or high water (whatever that means).
Teach your cashiers first some manners… and proper way of dealing with customers. I am thinking about only going to QFC, at least when they tell you to have a nice day they really mean it.
I’m still pissed.

This is an exceedingly awesome pharmacy. Not only is it conveniently located inside a grocery store, but it also doesn’t appear to get busy during regular weekday hours… nothing like a CVS, Walgreens, or even Costco. If you want to get your meds filled and with minimal waiting (I won’t say no wait, because that’s physically impossible), this is probably the best place to go near the U District area. You can also get a quick flu shot, which I did. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes.
For those of you who have worked in a pharmacy, I’m sure you can appreciate this pharmacy :)

This is my Lake City /​North Roosevelt go to grocery store to snag appetizers and wine. This particular store carries a wide variety of cheese, bread and crackers. They also have the occasional special on fruit trays. Fried chicken? You bet! This is a good spot for snagging last minute munchies for the Bowl games post Christmas Day or NFL post season in January. The wine selection is decent albeit this store is a tad bit smaller than the Safeway on 15^th by Group Health or their U Village store. They stock the lower price point wines like Columbia Crest. They have mid-​price range labels like Veuve Clicquot. They also have a locked cabinet where they have their «pricey» bottles like Dom Perignon or La Grande Dame Brut. The beauty of their wine purchasing is their buy six & save. They even have a pretty stout cardboard carrier that will hold 6 bottles. Now for those of us that are Safeway Club Card holders, buying 6 will get you an additional 10% discount. What I love is that you can mix and match and still get a 10% off. Say you get one $ 6.99 bottle, 4 at various prices and the 2006 Louis Roderer Crystal Brut ($ 220.00), well you do the math on the discount in the Crystal. So for those of us that occasionally splurge on «the good stuff,» shopping for football libations just got s smidgen less expensive.

One of the better Safeways. Usually clean, well-​stocked and plenty of check out lanes open so you can get in, get what you need, and get out. Employees are polite and helpful as well. I cringe at Safeway prices sometimes though. Although this is not a problem unique to this location. As a chain, they have been on the expensive side for some time now.

This review is for the deli. Most of the time we have a really hard time ordering sandwiches at the deli b/​c there is a strong language barrier with the service people. It’s very frustrating. Sometimes they become angry and are very rude when they don’t understand. Which is why I only gave four stars instead of five.
Today we came in to get some sandwiches and we had the best service person. Hasil S did such a great job. She was friendly and took her time to make our sandwiches nice for us. We could tell that she really took pride in her work and really cared. It was a nice change. Thanks Hasil!
Safeway. I really think that if you continue to bring on more competent people like Hasil, your rating and customer satisfaction will continue to go up.
Not to say that all of the staff is bad. We love this store. We only run into problems with the people in the deli.

Not the biggest Safeway, not the smallest. All your basics plus decent floral, wine, deli and bakery selections. There are some endearing characters working here which always makes for an interesting visit! They are all very friendly though.

I usually LOVE this Safeway and having be going there for years. There employees are always so nice, cheery and helpful!
However today, I was checked out by ‘Arthur’, and he makes me not want to ever go back. He was rude right off the bat, made fun of two of his co-​workers behind their back… and then made fun of the bags I had brought in to use. He was completely unprofessional and if I see him there again, I will not be in his line. I hope his supervisor sees this and makes sure he treats his customers AND co-​workers with a little more professionalism… Really immature behavior, especially for how old he was.

This is a very convenient location to my apt. Their sales are always spot on when I get here and the checkout lines moves quickly and I’m able to find what I’m shopping for when you’re on a budget. I hope the new PICKUP prices can compete with Safeway.

This is my favorite safeway by far very clean always well stocked good parking (use the basement or the side street) and the worker’s are always happy to help

I lived in this neighborhood for many years and shopped here frequently. I watched the store literally morph into different versions of itself. I made a lot of observations. Here are more than a few:
When these guys run specials they are literally goading you to fill your baskets and buy more with their buy 3 get 1 free sales and the like. I was trying to buy less and here I was being prodded into buying more. Get 1 free bag of chips if you buy 3 bags.
In the meat department this worked so well on me for stocking my freezer that I ‘d have food that was freezer burned because I bought so much and forgot about it only later to have to throw it away. That’s not their fault but their marketing prowess to get me to buy more.
Then for some reason they stopped carrying cases of the soda I’d buy and only carried 12 packs so I’d have to buy more in order to spend the same amount. When I decided to buy less I paid a premium because the lesser amount was more costly.
Now this next observation somewhat stymied me regarding it’s intent. Most if not all stores, grocery stores included, have a separator aisle. Meaning when you walk down an aisle you come to another aisle that goes left and right leading you to the other aisles that are to the left and right. Whether it was to add more merchandise by creating more space or forcing you to stay in an aisle so that you’d potentially fill your cart with more stuff, they took away the separator aisle and created aisles that spanned the depth of the store from front to back. I’ve never seen this anywhere else. I found this annoying because not only were the aisles longer but they also seemed narrower. The hunt for the one thing you came to the store to buy that you actually needed became more difficult because you became committed into searching an aisle for that elusive item and had to look at even more stuff to find it and might buy more stuff because you found this other stuff and guess what you forget what you came there for, buy something else, leave, go home only to remember you didn’t buy what you needed.
The parking lot is huge at specific times of the day and there’s more than ample parking. However, should you dare to shop say between 3 PM and 6 PM you’ll have to jockey for the few available spaces and witness the soulless, guiltless, me first ones justify by force why the next space is theirs and not yours. To avoid this I’d try to shop during the wee hours of the late late night but this was not to be so always giving me ample opportunities to witness the mayhem of mannerless people afoot, on the loose.
Overall, the staff was friendly to a point with plenty of quirks like why is this cashier commenting on what I’m buying? It’s so my choice to buy chocolate, cake, cookies, ice cream and soda. Why is this any of her business? If the express line is for a few items then why does the line move so slow? When the cashier greets me, asks me how I’m doing and in turn I respond in kind, why do I have to listen to his whining and complaining? Does he not know I’m just being polite and I really don’t care? LOL. When going through the check line and two cashiers are having a casual conversation with each other while checking customers out do they not know that we the customers can hear them?
I watched while many a time a customer going through the express line had more than the required amount of items. There was no fuss but total accommodation except when I did it with one or two extra items while shopping with my mother. The cashier went bonkers, was beside herself with confusion saying «you have too many items» «you’ll have to get into one of the other lines» It was totally embarassing and humiliating if not frustrating to be treated like that especially after having been a customer there for many years.
I would buy lottery tickets there. When they got a dispensing maching I was happy as I didn’t have to deal with the people at the desk anymore. Need I say more? Well, actually on one occasion I had to because the machine ate my dollar. So I had to get help from the lady behind the desk who was no lady. She was not polite. She acted as if I had totally messed up her whole day. Then she scolded me for not inserting my dollar correctly or using a brand new crisp bill that the machine could see. Bad bad. Meh.
Here’s what I want. I want to be able to go in, find what I need, at a good price, get checked out and gone in a short time with no fuss or hassle. I guess that’s too much to expect lol. Sometimes I’d get that. Sometimes not.

Ever since the QFC on Roosevelt closed last year to make way for construction on the light rail, this has been the store to take its place for me. A Whole Foods resides less than a block from my house, but their prices make it only an occasional grocery visit.
For stocking up, the Safeway on Roosevelt (if I am in the neighborhood, I will go to the one in the U-​District, but it is a smaller store with a few departments missing & cleanliness is often lacking) has been worth the 5 – 6 blocks’ walk for refilling my cupboards & fridge. I can do a month’s shopping for under $ 100 & sometimes even less than $ 75. The phrase «store brand» might strike fear into many customers, but Safeway’s various in-​house brands are better than expected & without the stigma that comes with the word «generic».
Checkers are always friendly & without fail, after I am all rung up & paid, they say, «Thank you, Mr. Andrews», which, at 32, is a bit young to be called. But it shows even if a rush comes on & they are eager to get everyone out & packed up, they never get overwhelmed by the need to quicken their pace & let their equal need to be courteous fall away.
I generally go in the middle of the day, so I have not witnessed any untoward activity on my way in or out. Maybe things happen at other times, but the supposed local nickname of Un-​Safeway looks to be misguided.
While the distance to & from on foot might preclude any especially huge purchases, when you have a budget to stick to & still want to get what you pay for (and sometimes more), the Roosevelt Safeway does a fine job of replacing the still-​dearly departed QFC that I considered MY store for my first year in Seattle.
A new «my store» just happens to be a few more blocks up & worth the elbow grease & shoe leather to get there & back.

It’s called «Un-​Safeway» by locals, and honestly, they’re right. The parking lot is full of homeless and otherwise shady folks, and the police were constantly making it their base camp to scare off the bad news bears.
If you make it inside without getting shanked, you’ll find a great little Safeway that is just the same as any other Safeway. It’s a bit smaller than the ones I’ve frequented, but they still have everything you’d need at a grocery store.
Bring your pepper spray!

This is now my new local grocery store, and since my old one was the powerhouse QFC up on Broadway, no matter which way you look at it anything’s going to be a bit of a scaleback.
Overall, though, if you give this place a chance it’s pretty good. It’s relatively small for a grocery store, but they do manage to have a reasonable selection on hand despite that. By «reasonable selection,» of course, I mean «staples.» You won’t find blackstrap molasses here, but you’ll find the regular kind. You might have a choice between two different brands of beans. The international selection of foods is pretty much constrained to Asian and Mexican. The produce selection is pretty limited; though, honestly, if you’re in the area and looking for produce you should travel the extra five blocks and go to the farmer’s market that’s down near Roosevelt High School. But if you just need some basic veggies and greens, you’ll be able to get them here. There’s also a Starbucks, for those who would like to get a little java to boost their energy for shopping.
While the food selection is good, their selection where most other things are concerned is relatively minimal. They don’t have anything in terms of hardware/​non-​disposable kitchenwear/​electronics, and their toiletries are limited to approximately ¼ of an aisle. Again, if you just need to grab some shampoo, this place will do ya — if you need a specific kind of shampoo that’s not one of the big brands, you’ll need to go elsewhere. No makeup selection. I mean, it’s a grocery store, not a catchall store, but many other supermarkets offer these amenities so I figure it’s worth mentioning.
The bakery here is small, and a lot of the time they run out of the bulk offerings, but they always have a few different specialty breads on hand and usually a wide array of attractive desserts. The beer selection is pretty good — it’s reasonably expansive and has a good amount of choice between the cheap brands and microbrews.
Where this place really (and somewhat surprisingly) hits it out of the park is with the wine selection. Considering how the selection for several other products is rather constrained, the sheer variety of wines they have here is astonishing. You can even get bottles of wine here that top the $ 300 mark. If you’re more like me you’ll be more interested in the $ 3 bottle, but, well, you’ve got a choice.
The staff here is also very friendly and since I’m in here a lot (I live within close walking distance), they recognize me and everybody is always pleasant. Another great thing about Safeway in general is that it is *cheap* — while I sacrifice a lot of the sheer selection I had while shopping at QFC, I know I’m saving a lot of money by going to Safeway. And there is an unbelievable amount of parking here — I don’t have a car, but there’s a parking lot out front and an absolutely massive parking garage beneath the building. You’ll never want for parking.
So at the end of the day, this ain’t a bad grocery store. It’s got most of the things you need, and quite a few of the things you don’t need but want anyway. Staff is nice, and the price is right.

This store has gotten a serious update. While it’s not my typical store, I do use it when I’m in the area.
I also came here for my seasonal flu shot and was pretty happy with the whole procedure. While I still think it’s very strange to get a flu shot in a grocery store, the pharmacy staff was incredibly nice and speedy.
Plus I could get batteries and eggo waffles in the same trip. Win!