Safeway Food & Drug

Use to be an okay neighborhood store with pretty good meats and fresh vegetables. Not too pricey if you looked for the sale items. Recently purchased by Albertson’s and ruined. Soggy pre-​packaged vegetables and jacked-​up prices for meat and fish. We avoid shopping there now. Winco actually has fresher vegetables, and that’s saying something.

Open until 1am and reopens at 5am.
Free wifi and adequate outlets for charging electronics.
Delicious and Nutritious deli sandwiches that are prepared by the friendly and efficient safeway signature staff.
Free starbucks sample drinks.
Yummy Chinese food.
Wells fargo and ATM on premises.
Clean bathrooms.
Safe parking lot with a plentiful tree shaded parking spots.
The patrons replace the shopping carts in the designated locations or the employees do an excellent job of herding those shopping carts.
Buying groceries with my safeway card reduces my gas prices by $ 0.20/gallon.
This is my favorite Safeway in the world.

Considering there is hardly anyone shopping here anymore should tell you something. I figure at this rate they cant stay around to much longer doing business this way and will probably be a Haggens soon enough. My main issue is there pharmacy. I have been using Safeways pharmacy’s on the west coast for my medications since early 2000. I moved to the Medford area several years ago and started going here to fill my meds. At that time it would take 15 — 20 min to get my prescriptions filled. The same as it always had even in big citys like SF. Today it takes me at least an hour and sometimes twice that from the time I drop of my scripts. There is even issues when they get called in from my Dr. I also noticed in just the few years I have been going here that nearly every person in the pharmacy but maybe one has all been replaced. Why that is I am not sure, Its not like they tell you why your old pharmacist is no longer working there anymore. For awhile it seemed as if there was a new Pharmacist working there each time I came in. There is a new manager there named Ken, He does seem fair, but also seems over worked. They have told me the reasons for the long waits are because they are short handed in the past. Yet even when there are 3 pharmacists and 3 workers it still takes over an hour. Today one person told me the wait was because of the type of meds I take. Then I told her the same meds have been filled in 15 min here. The pharmacist on duty (A new lady I had never seen before) laughs and told me those days are over. I have witnessed old ladys come in saying they were told to come back at a certain time just to be told there meds are still not ready and that it would be another 20 min wait. So when I go to pick up today they then tell me the wait was because of the new data system to monitor meds and that 1 hour will be normal. So then why does my Aunt get her meds filled in Grants Pass from a Walgreens in 15 min with the same system Safeway has? I feel its because these Parmacists feel they can treat people and tell them what ever they want. And that most of us don’t know all the rules so get told what ever. It really boils down to no one likes to be lied to. Maybe one day soon they will install these robots that dispense meds like some stores have now and we wont have to wait on someone who isn’t don’t there jobs well to count meds for us. It should not take anyone 90 min to count 30 pills. lol

The deli here is the slowest in the land. And when they do come out they say «what’s up»?

The girls at the deli have a brain the size of an average marble. Asked for no mayo, the first thing she put on the bread? Mayo! Dealt with it because it wasn’t worth her attitude that she gave a different customer when he asked her to cut the sandwich in half and she «forgot» — said «I’m sorrrrry jeeeeeez» to him and his wife. IF she wasn’t making my food I would’ve said something but I wasn’t prepared to deal with it.

A standard Safeway in a location away from most of the highway/​shopping center congestion. When I need a few items and the other shopping areas are too crowded (like for the forgotten item the day before Christmas or at end of workday rush hour on any average week) this is where I go.

Disappointed in this store. You can tell a lot about a store and its manager’s level of care by how the bathrooms are kept. This one was filthy, stem to stern, and smells like a bus station urinal. Ugh

Friendly cashiers. Clean store. It was pretty empty considering it was 5pm, during the busy part of day. Prices are crazy here unless you shop the sales! Their sales aren’t even great deals, barely normal priced! Albertsons is arranged the exact opposite so this store was difficult to navigate since I’m not used to Safeway. I will still be a loyal Albertson’s customer instead!

I am disappointed with this safeway every single time I walk into the produce department. Every time, no matter the day of the week or time of day half the produce is rotted or wilting, yet safeway certainly charges a higher than I can find elsewhere price. Who is in charge of this produce department? They need a serious overhaul. I see on my last visit that they are completely reorganizing the entire layout of the store. Perhaps with that they will revamp the produce department management as well???
Skip safeway for produce and find a local farm stand or farmers market instead, or try the safeway at the medford center. Their produce isn’t half rotten.

A Safeway that carries yellow and orange tomatoes year round? Sign me up!
On the surface this is your every day Safeway (minus the self-​checkout) but deep down you’ll find a store that isn’t comprised of your every day jerko employees. These guys are actually decent, with the cashiers being the most friendly. The fact that they regularly have enough of them at 5pm is a plus, too.

Nice produce, wine selections and meats