Safeway

The store is close to me which is why it gets any stars at all. Fairly gross inside, dirty and limited selections. The customers are quite interesting and it’s a good place for people watching. If you need the 5 pound can of queso you are in the right place. With the neighborhood in transition they need to up their game. Scary bad parking lot with panhandlers all the time.

so today I go in to the safeway and try to buy parsley… I mistakenly grabed cilantro due to me being in a rush and they have them mixed … so I go and change the cilantro for parsley and when I get back the cashier «joe» a grown up man… is making fun of me for getting the wrong item at the store and that was very sad.
I would never go back to have ppl makeing fun of me!

Two stars for convenience purposes (less than a block away from me) and they usually have what I’m looking for. That being said, there is rarely more than one checkout line open even when the line for self-​checkout is 5+ deep. When the self checkout messes up (every. damn. time) it takes forever for the person monitoring the self checkouts to notice. I usually end up just driving to King Soopers or Sprouts or (now that it’s open) stopping at Trader Joe’s on my way home from work. But, as I said, two stars for convenience and generally having what I need.

I stop here sometimes and hit up the café. This morning was horrible. I got a breafast burrito. Huge mistake. They heat the egg, sausage, cheese and potatoe up in a microwave looking oven. She then heated the tortilla up as well. The result. a chewy mess. Everything got super rubbery and by the time I paid for it and got to my car, it was cold. I should have had that doughnut instead.

We stopped here to get snacks for a movie, it was a huge mistake. I thought for sure that we could find drinks and candy, I mean, it’s a grocery store. It turns out that it is some kind of mini-​grocery store or something.
There was no real directory sign, so we couldn’t find anything and finally had to find an employee to walk us to the candy which was at the end of the very last aisle. Then the drinks… they didn’t have cold water! The closest thing that they had was a small generic flavored water.
It was so weird how small their selection was, I would be pretty angry if this were the Safeway closest to my house. What a sad little store, I have seen better selection at the gas station.

I shop here frequently because it’s close to home and keeps me from driving too far during rush hour, etc. However, the parking lot is like something off of COPS with the usual band of homeless beggars or kids trash-​taking. I’m often greeted when I enter but not always. The produce is over-​priced for the quality. The lines are LONG, almost reminiscent of the DMV or Post Office. One thing I’d advise against buying there is anything from their seafood or meat department. The place stinks of fish that’s been out too long and the meat would probably make my dog think twice before eating. I will go there for items that are frozen and pre-​packaged that most likely won’t send me to the emergency room with a virus that could take down a horse.

Can’t this location hire more people? I go in about once a week and I dread it every time. This evening, I’ve decided that I’m done. 6:30 pm on a Friday night and they have one, yes one line open. The line was about 8 – 10 deep and wrapped all the way to the self check-​out lines, which were also very long. I just went in to grab a quick dinner option and to avoid the long line, I went to the deli to purchase a bag of fried chicken. The friendly girl at the deli couldn’t ring me up, because for some reason the register needed an override. That was it for me. It was either wait in the long line, or wait for someone to come override the register. I walked out of the store empty handed. Normally, I would chalk this experience up to bad luck, but I feel this thing can happen any given day because they are short handed. It’s not like this location has any shortage of customers either.

This is the store for you if you enjoy being accosted by pan handlers in the parking lot, stepping over drunks that loiter on the lawn behind the building, long lines at all times of the day, small selection and high prices to boot. Parking is a nightmare! The produce is terrible and is always either out of stock or bruised.
It is hit and miss with the employees; some are great but others out right incompetent. I’ve been to the store multiple times when «someone forgot to place a dairy order» and whole sections of the dairy department were out of stock. Most of the checkers do their best but the lines get out of control. Self checkout is a joke! No direction is given from the self checkout checker as to where lines are formed so arguments are often the result. When you finally make it to 1 of the 2 functioning self checkouts of the 6 available, it is like working with Windows 98. And when the computer freezes or can’t keep up the checker is MIA or worse yet, chatting it up and not paying attention. Seriously, they get paid $ 16/​hr to stand there and do nothing but watch the progress of all the self checkout lanes — what is difficult about that?
I’m tired of all the problems this store brings with it and would rather drive a mile to King Soopers which is in a considerably worse neighborhood and doesn’t seem to have the same problems inside and out.

The place is absolutely discussing, broken eggs on the ground, juice all over the floors. If they can’t keep the place clean I can’t imagine the quality of food they put out on the floor. Then to top it off when I leave they have a huge Safeway truck blocking the exit, wtf? Their staff needs to step it up, ill never return to this Safeway.

It’s a safeway on Federal… I’m lucky to be alive.

While the food selection here is fine, no better or worse than King Soopers I suppose, the employees, at least those in the check out line and working the gas station, couldn’t be any more unpleasant if they tried. I get that it’s not the best job in the world, but smiling, saying hello, and not criticizing the customer for things out of our control would also not be that difficult to accomplish. It’s actually not just this Safeway location I have an issues with. It’s practically every location in Denver I’ve been to. The check out employees are rude (I was recently lectured for NOT having a Safeway card) and really don’t inspire me to continue visiting.
Overall, the food quality seems fine. It’s great for the basics. If I want something fancy, I’ll go to Whole Foods. But some of the employees could really work on their personal skills, which makes me want to go to King Sooper in the future.

It’s Safeway. Everyone needs a Safeway in their life. I get a 3 cent discount with my Safeway membership! Yay Safeway!

Uuuuughhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Anyone else notice the substantial uptick in Lucerne products at Safeways? It’s Safeway’s cheap brand– and the volume of these products is starting to make me uncomfortable.
Look, I know that it’s a trend now for grocery chains to actually produce food as well as sell it, but when the «Lucerne» brand starts pushing out the products I want (ie: Seventh Generation dish soap) and putting their own «Natural Soap» in its place, I get the icks. To not even offer the competitor’s products reeks of a very nasty monopoly.
I want to be able to buy products from diverse vendors. Seeing as though Safeway is rapidly becoming a Lucerne-​only spot, I’ll soon be taking my business elsewhere.

I used to call this the «Un-​Safeway» back when I lived a block from it. Now, that honor goes to the Safeway on 20^th and Washington. But I digress.
I stopped in here the other day to get ingredients for the banana puddin’ I was making for our monthly our-department-doesn’t-celebrate-birthdays-anymore-but-here-are-some-sugar-loaded-snacks-in-a-conference-room CELEBRATION at work
I actually found everything I needed relatively quickly and was even given a friendly greeting when I walked in. Pretty good prices and options for store brands on everything I needed. Safeway brand nilla wafers will do me just fine. This location even has a gas station — which is rare, especially given the parking lot size. The store is smaller, but updated.
The clientele is a fantastic gentrification clash… everything from the Highland mommies and young urban professionals fresh from the gym (or yoga), to the lady in front of me in line who managed to get her grocery total (on a serious bulk hotdog, salad dressing, BBQ sauce, kool-​aid purchase) down from $ 250 to $ 27 by use of dozens and dozens of coupons. Seriously, this lady was still trying to argue the total down when a gracious clerk took me into her closed lane. I’m pretty sure that this, my friends, is a partial contributor as to why food food prices are on the rise for those of us who don’t have hours to devote to clipping coupons. Apparently it pays off more than I thought it did.
While the clerks were of the typical disenchanted, jaded variety, I can understand why after standing behind coupon lady.
If you’re not behind a coupon lady, this store is a breeze.

I have lived in the HighlandSloans lake hood for about five years now and have seen some definite improvements in thsi place. At first, it was a little sketchy but it has had a makeover and is certainly much nicer than before. Their produce is decent, although their organic produce is very slim and they essentially discountinued their organic food ever since Sunflower set up shop. Overall, it is great for a non-​natural grocer and the pharmacy staff is freindly as well. Btw, it also has a huge mexican cooking section if you are looking for something specail in that realm.

I smaller sized store, this Safeway stocks a lot of Hispanic food groups. The neighborhood it is in is heavily Hispanic area, so that makes sense. Look here for many of the unusual need for mexican cooking, and they’re sure to have it.
They also have a really nice meal bar, with plenty of nice things to take home and eat. I like the crew that works here, they’re friendly and helpful, and go the extra distance to make sure you find and get what you need. A good store.

Gas pumps work. Prices keep increasing

I’ll sell you a cup of standard grade, good-as-you’d-want, coffee, and you can either pay me a $ 1 or $ 1.25. So which would you rather do?
Yeah. Now why should any of us worker bees pay $ 2.60 a gallon for the same gas they’re selling at the Safeway gas station for $ 2.35. Answer: We shouldn’t.
We all gotta eat, and we all gotta go food shopping. Get yourself a Safeway Card and buy your gas at their gas station when you’re stockin’ up the frig. Neat that when I buy 15 gallons of gas at Safeway, I save more than enough $$$ to buy myself a chi-​chi latte, and not just a $ 1 cuppa joe.