Safeway

Yay! I love this Safeway! (And who loves grocery shopping? No one.)
Brian & Jennifer are great! Pretty much all the staff is great — especially the ones who stick it out for the long haul.
Produce is decent, quality and price-​wise. Meat is, you know, Safeway meat. Whatever — it’s the staff that makes this store a winner. They do a good job of keeping it clean also — which is a plus.

Convenient location on Philomath Highway, this grocery store also features a gas station, pharmacy, and Starbucks. This location is a much cleaner and better version than its downtown counterpart.
They recently did some renovations that didn’t change a lot but has seemed to brighten the place up a bit.
Also, the self checkout is a much appreciated option when trying to just pick up a couple of small items.

All Safeways are similar but this one stands out to me because of it’ staff. The staff in this store is top notch. The deli staff and bakery staff is always friendly and eager to help. I love the service I get at this store.

Normally nice stores this one is poorly staffed. Safeway has operation instructions that force the staff to be the best in the industry for customer service (take you to item, use name if known, make eye contact) the price of goods is higher than some but rather standard for grocery. the store was clean. the shelves mostly stocked with few empty spaces but the staff here offered little in the way of good Safeway friendly customer service. They do have the gas station and thats loads of help when traveling to the coast. it offers a moderate price for fuel at a convenient location.

Though there isn’t a specific category for gasoline, I’m from Coos Bay and SO thankful for this particular service! Myself and several of our local family and friends make it a point to drive the hour to save the most buying gasoline from someone who doesn’t make it a point to consumer gouge… just because they can! I am doubting that the truck delivering fuel to this safeway doesn’t drive right on down the coastline, where people are ruthlessly taking advantage of people in an already economically frustrating time! Coos Bay/​North Bend gas gouging has to stop! If we convince the locals to make the drive… not only will Safeway continue to flourish (in Florence) but we’ll all save around 40 cents per gallon on our gasoline. I know people who fill two tanks and drain one into a second vehicle. Is this REALLY necessary? For now… Safeway fuel has my vote for excellence on Oregon’s coast. We’ll keep driving as long as locals keep gouging.

There is such a thing as too much customer service. Safeway, please stop making your employees say «Hi» to me when I am avoiding eye-​contact with them. Please don’t make cashiers try and pronounce my name. It doesn’t make me feel like they’re my friend unless they actually remember me and know how to properly pronounce my name. And please stop making them ask me if I need help out with my one bag of groceries. Thanks

3.5 stars. This place is like any other Safeway, local produce & poultry/​meats, good deals, friendly & hard-​working staff but this is Oregon and they’re still using plastic bags… okay people. I was going to assume they were going to bag my stuff in paper bags since that’s what most of the Safeways I’ve gone to have been doing… Well I suppose not. I wasn’t going to say anything but still, this safeway made a dent.
The produce section wasn’t very exciting to my disappointment. I thought they would have more fruits and assortment but they didn’t. I wanted to buy apples but… there were only 2 kinds that I saw. Dude, Fred Meyer has better selection than that. Oy. I do have some pros though, it was clean, disinfecting wipes for the carts were plentiful, not so insanely crowded, freakin awesome deals on the beer selection! (Note: Oregon supermarkets only sell beer & wine, liquor is sold in Liquor stores that close at 7pm sharp).