Safeway

I shop there periodically, and without fail each and every time, the advertised products, may they be the weekly specials, just4U and other promotions do not all get discounted at check out. This can make a difference in major $$$.
This from my understanding can fall under bait and switch category.
Sure, I can stand at the counter to go over with management over the discrepancies, but why should I waste my time doing this when the problem is your system?
Very disappointing.

They’re open on Christmas. What a lifesaver. Won’t really visit during any other time of the year. 3 stars based on convenience. Other than that… quality of the food isn’t very decent. Wine and beer selection and prices are competitive. See you next Christmas :)

If it was possible I would give this Safeway zero stars. Consistently understaffed and under stocked. Every 6 months, I forget how bad this store is and return, hopefully this review will remind never to return.

The only reason I’m writing a 4 start review is because the staff is excellent and there’s a checkout man who sometimes sings the entire interaction with me and I’m really into that.
Don’t come here for ya oranges. Every orange I get is so dry in all the wrong places, it’s usually deformed and every time I come home I’m like «I knew better».
You’ve been warned

Pros:
Incredibly nice managers working (Andrew is one of the most helpful and kind from what I’ve seen) and always eager to give some help if you need it.
People who work there remember you and always say hi, especially Roy, he always remembers my name, asks how I am and is very upbeat, which is refreshing.
Getting well stocked, it wasn’t always, but it’s beginning to really get and keep a good bit of the items I usually buy.
I was using
(greenwood store) but quit after one hundred too many problems, started shopping here instead and it’s much easier to pick fresh fruit and meat rather than deal with the moldy fruit and spoiled meat the greenwood store would delivery weekly to me.
Want something they don’t carry, they will order it for you!
Cons:
More cashiers working at peak hours.
Fast turn around and young checkers who aren’t always as kind as some of the older cashiers working.
Two bag men squish items, one is awesome (Steven) and is always upbeat and friendly!
The long check out lines, it’s been an issue for over a few years and only got worse when the plastic bags got outlawed. Other than that, love this store!

I don’t want to spend 30 minutes in a check out line. I have lived in Queen Anne for over 4 years and hardly shop here. I stopped by tonight and it reminded me why. Only 2 checkers and over 25 people in line!!! Are you serious on staffing only 2 registers? C’mon Safeway but stop being cheap on your staff and use all 6 Lanes. They don’t even have auto checkout.

I’m only bothering to write this review because I care about any poor folks going in here. In shocked that for Queen Ann, we have such a low grade safeway store. The selection is horrible I.e. Little to no organics/​specialty. Isles are narrow and over crowded. The clerks are just about the slowest and dumbest I’ve seen. At least 4 times I’ve had a checker with no clue on something and thus holding up the line. Now it doesn’t help that there are NO self check-​outs and only 2 – 4 checkers max! It’s embarrassing! Same goes for the cleanliness. Dirty floors everywhere!
At all cost, get over to the new trader joes! Cleaner, happier staff, more than 2 checkers, and vastly better selection!

Pretty dumpy compared to even the worst QFC; the lighting is consistently «dim» and the place never really seems clean. Plus, Diamond manages the parking – so if you so much as step off the parking lot, they’ll ticket you. Would recommended basically anywhere else – even MET is preferable.

Even though this store has a parking lot situation in front of the store, be careful. Apparently I parked there to do some grocery shopping and came out with a parking ticket. I went in to complain to the customer service person stating I was just in to do shopping and I get a ticket. They said that the parking lot is not part of Safeway and that it’s through a company like Blue Diamond. WTH! Then post a sign stating you can’t park here while you shop.

Picture this for a grocery store: The aisles keep getting stock changes, so shopping becomes a scavenger hunt requiring good shoes. The checkers take forever, and are either overly cheerful or borderline mean. The baggers ALWAYS crush your bread, soft produce, and chips — without fail.
And the folks in the deli make sandwiches on a level on-​par with your 2-​year-​old. Except for Rebecca — she works in the deli, and does a fantastic job. If you get stuck with anyone else behind the sandwich counter, turn around and leave.
Go to Trader Joe’s instead.

The fact that I’m even giving this store one star is generous. It is so under staffed CONSISTENTLY and the produce is awful. Newsflash: people do their weekly shopping on a Sunday or Monday — I know this is shocking but hopefully now that you know, you can be properly prepared moving forward. I only come here if I’m in need of something right away that I forgot to get at TJs or met market, otherwise I would avoid it.

Everytime I go to this store, out of convenience, I am disappointed. The manager clearly wants to save money by lowering the amount of checkers available. Thus you end up waiting in line for extensive periods of time no matter how dead the store is. There is never anyone around to help find anything and when there is they are slightly rude and unhelpful. I have started going to the Safeway at the bottom of the Queen Anne hill just to avoid giving this store my business.

Review for their Deli food only.
All the food were really dry, I assume the warming tables were just too hot, to the point the sauces were boiling whilst on display, even the hot dogs seemed to dry up and oil seemed to burn onto the pan. Everything seemed a bit «old» or just really dried out to the point of being nearly inedible. Egg roll were almost like charcoal. The guy who helped us at the deli was a bit unprofessional and curt.

This place kind of sucks. I live three blocks away, and I still gladly drive to Metropolitan market and pay their higher prices.
First of all, the place is understaffed. No matter what time I go there, there seems to always be a long line. I’m fairly certain that they intentionally adjust the number of staff there based on the number of people in the store to make sure that there’s always a line.
The selection is worse than most I’ve seen. Not too many types of produce beyond the most basic choices. If you’re looking for an item that you think might not be stocked there, you can safely assume it isn’t. The meat selection also isn’t great. Lots of sketchy looking brands, and they’re often out of meats that grocery stores should never run out of. The first time I went there, they didn’t even have ground beef in stock. This is pretty sad.
There are also lots of hobos outside of the store. I hate hobos, so this is kind of a pain in the ass as well.
There just isn’t really any reason to shop here, even if you live close.

Why is this store in upper Queen Anne?! I’d rather go out of my way to go anywhere else. Can’t wait for Trader Joes to move in next door.
Deli food sucks. Customer service is not that great.
Just an overall unpleasant grocery shopping experience.

This is the Safeway to go to! That is if you want stale deli food, small portions (less then two scoops of chicken in a rice bowl), soda machines that are out of both Coca Cola and Cherry Coke (of course they are to lazy here to even take the time to write a note to let you know this in advance) and have a soda machine area that looks like it has not been cleaned by an associate perhaps since the last time they filled the syrup in the machine.
The management here clearly does not care. Upon a complaint to Safeway.com’s survey on the receipt, a generic canned reply is sent with no real apology or offer to make right. This is an expensive lunch in general, when you top that off with poor quality food and small portions it is laughable. Plus the deli manager did not even know of the promotions going on in his own department. This is simply a manager who does not care and there is no excuse for this.

I like this Safeway being that it is close to home, on the bus route, and has friendly staff. Because the store is not gigantic I can usually get in and out of the store in a timely manner. I never find myself there for hours like I do at some grocery stores. This Safeway has generally everything you would want: fresh produce, huge variety of yogurts and dairy, cereal, snacks, frozen, etc. I have not purchased meat or seafood here very often and do prefer to go elsewhere, even just to another Safeway nearby because I’m not sure with how small the store is if what I am looking for will be there or not or if it will be fresh. I also really like the Safeway Just 4U in general, makes saving on groceries super simple.

I visit this Safeway fairly regularly, but I’ve never found the produce section to be very well-​stocked, and it seems other reviewers think so as well.
I also find the produce to be expensive.

I visit this particular Safeway on a regular basis. It is one of their smaller stores, but it happens to be the one closest to where I live, so it is what it is. With that said, my normal visit here would be to the service deli where I have particular weakness for their original chicken tenders! They are a little expensive at $ 7.99lb, but I keep an eye out when they are on special through their app. Sometimes a personal special can be had at $ 5.49lb. Their 2-​piece meal deal is a good buy — at least you can get two non-​meat sides for $ 6.99. They make some great sandwiches here, too! I’m still angry that they took out the sandwich press, though!
I don’t buy much produce here since it is a lot cheaper to buy at Trader Joe’s down the street.
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This Safeway is situated in a great neighborhood. The interior however is a little too small for my tastes. There is plenty of stuff in the aisles, and I definitely recommend a Safeway card since it’s free and you get the best deals this way. Safeway prices are okay, but I would definitely strive to get items on sale. For example today I picked up two bottles of Woolite for the carpet and it was buy one get one free at $ 5.99.
The produce section seems to be sub-​par. My boyfriend and I took some peppers home and found out that there was MOLD growing inside one of them. Needless to say we threw that one out. Some onions that I picked out were damp at the supermarket and continued to be damp when I got them home — onions should be dry! Bleh.
There’s a Starbucks in here for your coffee fix.