Albertsons

There are some friendly employees here, yet I’m wondering how they stay in business selling overpriced products, and some of the stuff they sell there is in my opinion, bad

This is now a remodeled, clean store. No more floral department, but a Starbucks got added near the entrance. This part of town was lacking a chain coffeehouse so I guess you could see that as a plus (but really, go to Jim and Patty’s nearby). The new seating area by Starbucks, the improvements to the store perimeter and the new signs do help this store feel like it’s got another life yet. We’ll see how time treats it.

The past few weeks especially it seems, I have seen some improvements with this place. I appreciate the organic produce and gluten-​free selections. However, I never buy any meat here. I will go out of my way to another store to avoid buying meat here. I never have, and I know I’m not the only one. The salmon all has dye in it, not much in the way of organic meat, and hate to say it, but it doesn’t look too appealing either, so I don’t buy it. other sections of the store, though, are really great and I have seen steady improvements. is it just me? I think they are going in a positive direction, and they’ve been trying to have more local stuff as well. Their coffee section just got better. I’ve been noticing more variety and wider selections of a lot of stuff, too. So that’s all good. And I can feel that the employees really care and are very patient and helpful, so I hate to even say anything negative about the place…

This Albertson’s is up to task. It lacks the appeal of Fred Meyer, in that it does not have too many non-​food items, but there is plenty to eat and drink from here. The parking lot is rather big.
What attracted me to it is that it was open on Christmas Day. The prices were all over the map, with it being only a dollar for a bottle of Darigold chocolate milk as for the good, yet almost four dollars for canned corned beef hash for the bad. Really, this is just like every other Albertson’s in America, and there are many. I don’t feel much passion here.
Different strokes for different folks.

my main gripes are minor, and regarding the limitations in selection. for instance, my favorite triscuits are the garden herb, which is the only kind they don’t have (but stupid cracked pepper whateverthehell gets a ton of shelf space). they only have rold gold some of the time, which is unfortunate since they’re way superior to snyder’s pretzels. the cherry supply sucks, and really there’s too much ‘organic’ produce and not enough conventional — i refuse to pay extra for hippie hype. and i wish they had lightly sweetened cold coffee instead of that caramel crap… but hey, it’s a smaller store, so choices were made, i can dig it.
the deli workers have all been very sweet (that fried chicken is fantastic! bring back the baby backs!), and really almost the entire staff is very friendly and helpful. they work hard to keep the place clean and stocked, which is hard in an unfriendly neighborhood of selfish and entitled dipshits. the deposit-​rustling bums are kinder than most of the motherfuckers that live around here…
EDIT: the receipts are INSANELY long. so unnecessary. perhaps being threatened with violence by the receipt paper syndicate? how about making «no receipt» an option like little-​known yet environmentally-​savvy chains like home depot?

Sheesh! Decided to grab some fried chicken and deli salads that I have heard rave reviews about. Famished, physically exhausted, yep, decent deli tonight. Yeah, no. First the raved about chicken was like eating salt lick. I made it through part of one wing. Yikes! It was inedible! It was as though someone had hella salted it, another employee came along and figured it hadn’t been salted and added LOTS more, went away and yet another dutiful soul came along and dunked it in brine just for the heck of it! The wings are TINY. One of them was so little if it was any smaller I would swear under oath that it belonged to a Cornish Hen. I took a picture of it. And the potato salad? How about chunking up some white potatoes, barely boil them and toss them in a bowl with gobs of mayo and some sugar. There ya go — potato salad! The chicken was crispy and hot. If it had been edible I think I would have thoroughly enjoyed!

Prices are better than some of the «nearby» grocers, which I put in quotes cause there’s not a lot of other options in walking distance, at least if you have anything frozen or refrigerated.

GHETTO. Totally worse than the UnSafeway by Lloyd and on MLK! No shopping carts because they have all been stolen by homeless people. I witnessed a homeless man urinating right by the entrance. People inside are meth heads! The meat department emits an ODOR OF ROTTING DEATH wafting all over the store. The only cool part was the checkout stands which still have the old school circular moving carousels. Some cheap prices but will never go back. You need to sanitize your entire body after setting foot in the parking lot alone. Yuck.

I hate comming to this Albertsons. I would much rather go to winco on 102^nd than to this store. I thought winco was trashy… um no, this albertsons is. I usually like to shop where theres not trashy people and what not but man, this one puts the icing on the cake! In the produce, I was about to buy some strawberries when i saw a family eating the strawberries… but not BUY them. REALLY??? The prices are just dumb. I live down the street so when Im in a hurry and not doing a huge shopping trip I make a quick trip up there.
The check out people are so nice though! so funny!

The best thing about this store, is it’s employees.
Dan is so helpful, just a joy to see in the morning.
Prices are pretty crazy sometimes, but it is close
to home and the staff is always friendly.

When I was growing up in the south, Albertsons was the NICE grocery store. It was clean and shiny and I always regarded it with high esteem. So when we moved to Portland I was excited to see this Albertsons nearby.
It’s not clean and shiny at all. It’s kinda gross, actually. Don’t buy produce here. I wouldn’t come here at all except, well, I’m into couponing now and they have those awesome doubler-​coupons in the Sunday ad a couple times a month, and it’s enough to get me in there to snap up the deals.
As I am learning is the norm at all grocery stores, the bottle/​can return corral here is gross and routinely out of order, and you should expect to have to wait for a long time on an employee to come fish out the clogged bottle or empty the glass or whatever the error is.
I will say that the checkout employees are really nice. So yeah, this Albertsons is gross but for a good deal I can just come home and shower.