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Safeway earns a 1.4-star rating from 9 reviews and 1097 complaints, indicating that most shoppers are dissatisfied with grocery shopping experience.

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3:44 pm UTC
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Please be advised that Claudia was unprofessional, short and rude to us when we came through the cash stand today. This is not her first time and we have always looked the other way but today she was very rude when the digital coupon for the Signature Rotisserie Chicken and Artisan sliced bread did not work and she had to add it for a little additional...

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10:24 pm UTC
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The new meat safeway in watsonville purchases is horrible. I always come to safeway for the meat especially the skirt steak. I purchased $60 in steaks and they were all horrible. I saw the new labels and hoped they would be as good. The price seemed to be lower... Bring back your old meat supplier I would gladly pay a little more for better meat. The meat I purchased was tough flavorless and incorrectly cut.

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6:12 pm UTC

Safeway just for u

I've been earning/using the Just For U products for quite sometime now. I go online about three times a week to keep up with all the new items being added. I click/add every item just in case maybe onetime one of my family members would like to try something out of our norm.
I faithfully use my gas rewards & look forward to all the extras.
My problem: The last week or so, every time I go online to do my Just For U's, I get a pop-up little window that states there's a problem with the system & try back later. I've been trying back later & later with no results.
I'm wanting to make a shopping trip before some of the offers expire. I'm ready to go, I just need my deals.

I thank you in advance for your help
Paulette Giese
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12:13 pm UTC
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After picking up a few things on my way to work I went to the self check out at Safeway. I had a couple of bagels and a couple of other things. There was a Safeway employee there managing the check-outs. I asked her if she would tell me the code for bagels. She told she has it, but she cant give it to me becuase I needed to learn how to use the self-service...

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12:53 pm UTC
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I was at safeway 12/7 when I checked out in lane 4 or 5. There was a new hire there, his name was benjamin. He was incredibly rude. He made some comment about the sushi being "fake sushi" (no [censored] sherlock!) and when I tried to change the conversation to one about what nice sushi is, he just starts going off on about how he's from "california" and that...

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9:34 pm UTC
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Safeway staff members

There are two staff members that are making me feel totally uncomfortable, they tend to speak their language and look at me as if they're talking about me in their language and.start laughing at me so I got upset and told them that if they get something to say to speak English, and the worst thing is they start talking so loud in their language, I thought by law on the work ground supposed to be English. But I see no one doing anything about it. I need to know what can be done about this not happening again.

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Dec 15, 2019 12:02 am UTC

It is an epidemic in California stores. To get latinos on the progressive payroll … the really dropped the quality of their work force in training, ethics, professionalism, and courtescy.

They opening speak Mexican to each other in front of customers. They have very poor work ethics and carry their cell phones in their back pant pockets, so they can reach for that fast call while they are working.

The management seems to tolerate it, and in some cases support it.

Truckee Safeway on Donner Pass. Store Mgr is NEW latino lady. I think they needed one for a group marketing photo, so they promoted her.

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10:37 am UTC

Safeway all laundry detergent pods

last week there was a sale on all laundry detergent pods when I went to purchase said item the store was out of stock and the sale was ending the following I got a rain check for that item and how to return to the store many times since then. I most recently went as soon as the store open this morning and they were all out of every single kind of all detergent pods I tried to speak with a manager but there wasn't one available at that time. previously when I had asked for a manager they told me to return to the store the one that had that item in stock. I don't see and item that I could get in place of the laundry detergent pods that I had in mind there's nothing quite as similar at the same price that I could exchange it for.I'm not sure why they have not been in stock all week and the store clerks have yet to help me solve my problem. I hope I can resolve this problem and it doesn't hurt my future patronage to your store. Thankyou.

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3:51 pm UTC

Safeway lemon meringue pie contains no lemon

One taste of the lemon meringue pie from Safeway's bakery and I was reading the ingredients list.
Noticably absent from the list, is any mention of lemon.

WTF?
IT SHOULD BE LABELED:

YELLOW DIE 5, 6 MERINGUE PIE

I know that posting a complaint here is probably a waste of my valuable time. I am only adding this paragraph to meet the 350 character minimum!

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6:11 pm UTC
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I work gas station at safeway by the kahului and the manager aggie there not a nice lady always yelling pick the favorites and she tell me I can not work there because im too old... How come like that... Somebody talk to her please.. I dont like get fire I dont want her to know its me and my co worker even when she sick aggie tell her she need to come work. Omygod

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7:14 pm UTC
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I came into the store ON 10/30 @ 6:06pm to order a cake for my daughter's 16 birthday. I wanted to write her name in the cake as I had done at other stores. Staff member at the store - Harold was very rude. He was rudely shouting at me and asking me to do it on my own. I quietly ignored him as his suggestion was not helping me. His exact words were " you...

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11:53 am UTC
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No customer service. Regularly wait for 20min for help at customer service desk. Long lines with only one or two lanes open. Employees rarely help bag my groceries and the person checking me out has actually tapped their fingers at me bagging to go faster, twice, with a long line behind me. Don't they normally help? Bathrooms out of service for months.

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11:42 pm UTC
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On 10/25/19 approx. 7:50 pm during self check out. I had two packs of cakes and I scanned both. After that I realized I made a mistake. I wanted just one, so I asked the person at the self check out station to cancel one of them. She came and canceled it. Then she realized she canceled wrong one, so she scanned it back, and took the cake with her. After I...

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7:18 pm UTC
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I was shopping at the store when i came across a woman (Hailey the asst manager, i asked other employees for info about her) and how she was talking to another employee...the other employee as dressed differently but you could tell sill worked at the store. She was extremely rude and irate to the other employee nd especially coming from an asst manager i...

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11:20 pm UTC
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I love my local Safeway store, but the pharmacy is one place that I sometimes feel totally ignored. (Also the deli ... but I have solved that by avoiding it.). I arrived at the pharmacy at 5:02 PM on October 20. I had been receiving phone calls saying my order was ready. (I had re-ordered insulin needles for my dog about 6 days prior). I had tried to pick...

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3:09 pm UTC
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The store manager continually allows homeless people to loiter in the store for hours on end.. I've seen one particular homeless person that has diarrhea on their pants smells completely filthy, and behaves loudly and disrupts business. The store manager Dominic Dennis allows this to go on daily in his store!! I am uncomfortable as a customer coming into...

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12:55 am UTC
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This is not against the store itself, but the company as a whole. I am thankful for the rewards and savings that come with the Club Card. We have used them numerous times. However, I feel like we [customers] are punished for not spending enough or using rewards fast enough to make the company happy. My reasons for feeling this way are as follows: 1) You...

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4:41 am UTC
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I was waiting for live unload and paperwork for more than 7 hrs and still not done yet, very ridiculous !!! My door 106 got green Light after 3 hrs and more than 4 hrs for paperwork ?? Unbelievable ! And still not done yet . I got to shut down because my hours of service had gone . This is the worst place I have ever been for delivery ! Next time I will...

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12:56 pm UTC
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Someone really needs to investigate the store manager James in Shelton wa. He's very disrespectful to the employees says one think and does the opposite treats with No Respect Always running around that store like he's on something I don't think it's a good business that he's running someone really needs to investigate James the store manager in Shelton wa

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5:28 pm UTC

Safeway lucerne egg nog - quart size advertised in safeways big book of savings pg 3

Safeway's BIG BOOK of SAVINGS pg 3 has a clip or click just for u coupon for LUCERNE Egg Nog (Quart size) which I down loaded into my Safeway bucket list however I went to 2 of ur SAFEWAY stores today (660 Bailey Rd, Pittsburg, CA & 4309 Clayton Rd, Concord, CA) n neither one had any of the quart size LUCERNE Egg Nogs on hand - NONE! There were larger sizes of LUCERNE (1/2 Gallon) n other quart size egg nogs from different manufacturers but no quart size egg nog from LUCERNE. This BIG BOOK of SAVINGS started Oct 2nd, today is Oct 7th - 5 days into the savings ad advertisement. Seems to me if ur going to advertise in the BIG BOOK of SAVINGS that u would at least have it on hand in ur stores. Pls check with ur Safeway stores n if u could let me know if there is a store location near me that may have the LUCERNE egg nog available/on hand for purchase pls let me know - my area code is 94565 - my email address is paul.[protected]@yahoo.com - thank you for ur help

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4:51 pm UTC
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I was shopping in the Safeway store on 710 Bancroft Road, Walnut Creek CA on 1-6-19 at 12:15 PM. I only had a few items so I proceeded to the express check out line. There were only four people ahead of me in line and it took the checker, Christopher, 15 minutes to get to me. He was extremely slow and that was an exorbitant amount of time to wait. I would...

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