Safeway Food & Drug

I love this Safeway! I don’t shop here as I don’t live in this town. I only come for the breakfast burritos and Starbucks. Burritos are fantasticly made with love and care and my super complicated Starbucks drink is always on point. Other than that the store is clean and never over crowded.

Since being introduced to Silverton, a tiny little town off the beaten path that is I-​5, I have quickly found that the town has its issues. Only two grocery stores. Roths or Safeway. Roths is VERY overpriced (sometimes 1 – 4 dollars more than other stores) and although it is cute, one realizes that folks are held hostage locally to the whims of the grocery retailer. Roths you will get some service, but Safeway is BEYOND ridiculous. Never enough checkers (yes, even when people are using WIC vouchers and the line is six people deep with one open checkstand), never enough smiles (only ATTITUDE from these sour puss people), Starbucks workers more interested in discussing their private date issues than waiting on customers (great example of Starbucks BAD service 101). No one at the customer service desk. And don’t even ask about the Wells Fargo issues– choose another branch. Just overall a HORRID store, as far as Safeway (who runs out of bananas at 79 cents per pound?!!) business. Oh right… friend said it was supposed to be a Thriftway and Safeway came instead. If I could, I would not even give it one half star. Dirty, spoiling fruit (check that produce before bagging it) and overall lack of Safeway quality, IF in fact there is any. I will continue to plan my shopping for Portland and or Wilsonville.

Hmmm. What to say about a store where cashiers struggle to smile? It was nice and cool!