Why is Safeway so expensive compared to others and it's the worst, please go bankrupt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Safeway is really inconsistent. There are some locations that are great--clean, spacious, good quality and have a wide selection of goods. The Glover Park and Rockville/White Flint locations are terrific; Kensington is pretty good. But other locations are mediocre to outright bad. At least if I go to a Giant, Harris Teeter or Wegmans, I know I'll get a similar shopping experience regardless of location.

Disagree on Giant but agree with the other two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wegmans is better

Agree, but I’m one of the hundreds of thousands of people here for whom the closest Wegmans are in Tysons or Lanham and they’re roughly equidistant. Not driving more than an hour round trip to go to the grocery store.

[Anonymous]

how can we hold safeway accountable, the yelp reviews aren't working as they have like 1 star

[Anonymous]

It must be based on where you live. In Arlington Safeway is one of the cheaper options. I just got three boxes of Cheerios for $4.50 yesterday! They are always having sales.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wegmans is better

Agree, but I’m one of the hundreds of thousands of people here for whom the closest Wegmans are in Tysons or Lanham and they’re roughly equidistant. Not driving more than an hour round trip to go to the grocery store.

And, hit submit too soon - Wegmans is more expensive IME.

[Anonymous]

You can get good deals with Safeway JFU. The Wheaton Safeway is relatively new, clean and well-stocked. I prefer it over Giant actually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It must be based on where you live. In Arlington Safeway is one of the cheaper options. I just got three boxes of Cheerios for $4.50 yesterday! They are always having sales.

Sometimes they have sales but other items are outrageous. They were selling a certain type of bread for $5.29, when another store just a few blocks away sells it for $3.49.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Safeway is really inconsistent. There are some locations that are great--clean, spacious, good quality and have a wide selection of goods. The Glover Park and Rockville/White Flint locations are terrific; Kensington is pretty good. But other locations are mediocre to outright bad. At least if I go to a Giant, Harris Teeter or Wegmans, I know I'll get a similar shopping experience regardless of location.

Never been to the Giant in Columbia Heights, eh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can get good deals with Safeway JFU. The Wheaton Safeway is relatively new, clean and well-stocked. I prefer it over Giant actually.

That's the trick, new Safeways are passable but after a year they go to crap

[Anonymous]

Safeway locations in the city are terrible. Every one I have ever been in I was disgusted.

Safeway locations in the suburbs are much better. And if you have the app, you can save a lot of money. I still think Giant is cheaper but it's not as convenient for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It must be based on where you live. In Arlington Safeway is one of the cheaper options. I just got three boxes of Cheerios for $4.50 yesterday! They are always having sales.

Sometimes they have sales but other items are outrageous. They were selling a certain type of bread for $5.29, when another store just a few blocks away sells it for $3.49.

It's well known that there are different pricing zones. If you live on the border of 2 different Safeways that happen to be in different pricing zones, then you'll see a bit of a different price discrepancy on some (not all) items. Add to that, shelf space is expensive so if a manufacturer or a mom & pop brand doesn't renew the invoice then Safeway tries to offload said item for discounted price...especially common during season changes....to make real estate for paying manufacturers' products .

[Anonymous]

I don't mind Safeway. Some things are expensive and the produce isn't that great, but it's close and they have good rewards and sales. The Giant near me, on H St NE is horrible though. Way worse than Safeway.
I switch it up between Safeway, Costco, Trader Joe's, and Whole foods, and go to a different store pretty much every week. Each is better for something and worse for something else.

Back where I'm from in the Midwest, we had some nice, huge local chain grocers that seemed to have everything you could want at competitive prices and treated employees well (I worked at one of those in the summers through high school and college). It's not the same here.

[Anonymous]

The Safeway in Old Town is my favorite.

[Anonymous]

Safeway expensive? Harris teeters is way more expensive than safeway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Safeway dares to be in neighborhoods other chains wouldn't ever consider. Seems like you have choices. Stick with the others and leave a grocery store alone. It's not a fast fashion store.

+1. For years, the "Unsafeway" at 14th Street SE was the only store in my neighborhood.

This. Me too!
And as glad as I am that there are so many other options on the Hill now, the Jenkins Row Harris Teeter closing gave me a moment of panic that we are going back to the bad old days of no grocery stores in the city. Young people don't remember those days.