Anyone who has spent any time on my blog knows that I am pretty much good for nothing. I complain a lot, and I’m relatively good at complaining… in fact, if complaining were an occupation, there is a good chance I would finely be at the top of my game career-wise, ’cause I am, in my humble opinion, a top-notch bitcher. Ok, so I’m not good for nothing! I’m a good… no, a GREAT… bitcher! Man, if only the world could compensate me for this talent. That’s what I want on my tombstone: “Not Good for Much, But Boy Could He Bitch!”
Anyway, I had an experience a couple of weeks ago that got the complain-mechanism in my brain all fired up and ready to go. In fact, I was so torqued, I had to wait a couple of weeks just to prevent this post from becoming a spewing geyser of venomous hate… which it still runs the risk of becoming. I promise, I’ll try to be civil.
I was feeling adventurous and was going to try our a new recipe. In order to follow this recipe, I needed some Italian sausage links. Since we had none of these links at home, I was forced to drive to a grocery store. The closet grocery store to my house was a local store called Panhandle Coop, so I drove to Coop in an attempt to save time. I figured I could pick up about 3 packaged of Italian sausage for about $3.00 each.
I walk into Coop and head to the meat department. I walk up to the section that contains the Italian sausage and the crap is like $5.00 per pack. I turn around, grumbling loudly to myself and I leave the stinking store. “Hometown friendly my $#*!,” I grumble.
I drive a couple of blocks over to Safeway. I almost never shop at Safeway, because I feel like their name should really be “Wanna-Shop-Here-Then-Bend-Over-And-Take-Our-Exorbitantly-High-Prices-Like-A-Convict-Reaching-For-The-Soap-Way.” But maybe… just maybe… they are having a sale or something. After all, I have one of their pain in the $#*! Club Cards! I like to think of people who shop at Safeway as mostly mentally-deficient, because only those with brain damage would pay twice what something is worth just have the store pretty much to themselves while they shop.
Ok, so I walk into Safeway and I make my way to the meat department. I walk up to the Italian sausage section and… GLORY… they have Italian sausage on sale for $2.99 a package. I grab 3 packs from right behind the sign (this is particularly important and will come into play a little later) and I head to the counter.
I’m fumbling through my wallet searching for that stinking Club Card as the pimple-faced checker rings-up my sausage. I hand him the card and he swipes it.
“That’ll be $17.97,” croaks pimple-face.
“Should be like 9 bucks,” I tell him. “It’s on sale.”
He looks over at the cashier next to him and holds up my sausage, “Is this on sale?” he asks.
“No, not that one,” says next-door pimple-face.
“I’ll show you,” I say and I start walking back to the stinking meat department.
Me and my pimple-face get to the meat department and I point triumphantly at the sign which boldly proclaims that Italian sausage is on sale for $2.99 per package… and then I notice in very small print that it’s the Safeway brand of sausage that’s on sale. I had grabbed Johnsonville, which isn’t on sale even though the Johnsonville is the only sausage I can find in the meat cooler.
“I want the stuff that’s on sale,” I say.
“Yeah, we’re out of that,” says pimple-face rather a little too smugly for my taste.
“Then why is the sign still up and why is the Johnsonville piled up behind the sale sign?” I ask. “Can’t you honor the marked sale price with the product that is displayed?”
“No, that sausage isn’t on sale,” says Smugly van Pimple-face.
“Screw Safeway,” I say and make for the door, grumbling and unleashing expletives as I storm past the manager at the customer service counter as I realize that Safeway having a customer service counter is somewhat like Payless Shoes having an airplane repair counter.
“But Payless Shoes doesn’t offer airplane repair,” you may say.
Exactly.
I get in my car and I drive five mile to stinking Walmart. I get out of the car and hike like 1/2 mile to the meat department. I grab 3 packages of $3.00 Italian sausage and go to the checkout. I don’t have to get dig out any stupid cards, I pay my $9.00, and I leave. If I had just gone to Walmart in the first place, I would have saved time, I would have put less wear and tear on my car, and my blood pressure would have stayed within a safe range.
Ok, so the safe bet is to avoid all of the other retarded grocery stores and shop at Walmart, right? Moral presented in a solid fashion, correct? I thought so, until a couple of days later.
The family and I decide that the dry, itchy skin we are all experiencing needs to come to an end, so the oldest boy and I head out to buy some water softener salt for our water softener (which has been out for awhile because… uh, well, because I’m lazy, I guess.) But the boy and I play it smart. We don’t go to Coop, we don’t bother with Wanna-Shop-Here-Then-Bend-Over-And-Take-Our-Exorbitantly-High-Prices-Like-A-Convict-Reaching-For-The-Soap-Way, we head straight to Walmart. We park the car, head into the store, and make our way right to… where… the… water…softener… salt… used… to… be…
“Where in the crap is the water softener salt?” I ask the boy.
The boy shrugs and gets that oh-man-Dad-is-getting-mad-and-is-going-to-embarrass-me-in-public look on his face.
Our Walmart recently went through a remodel, which means that they put down new floors, moved everything in the store to a different location, and cut their selection way back… after all, they have already capitalized on offering a great selection and low prices and they have most people in the area trained to shop there, so why would they want to go through the expense of offering any sort of selection anymore? Walmart know better what you need to buy than you do… trust them, they are Walmart!
Finally spying an elusive Walmart employee, I ask where the softener salt has been moved to. The employee points out that the salt has been moved to the opposite end of the store, so the boy and I trek that direction.
After loading our cart up with softener salt, we head to the checkouts (which, it is not easy to push a cart full of bags of water softener salt through Walmart.) After paying for the crap, we start to make our way out of the store, struggling with that stupid cart full of heavy softener salt. I’m about to leave the building when one of the ‘greeters’ yells, “Excuse me… sir… sir…” and I finally realize that the dude is yelling at me “… I’m going to need to check your receipt!”
“What?” I ask.
“I’m going to need to check your receipt.”
“You think I’m stealing a cart full of water softener salt?” I ask.
“I’m sorry, I need to see your receipt.”
“Of course,” I spew. “I’m shopping at Walmart, therefore, I am the kind of person who would steal, right.” I’m pretty hot. Go into flipping Walmart, spend your hard earned money, and be treated like a criminal for it! I HATE Walmart.
“Well, if you are shopping at Walmart, you are the one that is being robbed,” says greeter-dude. He smiles. He puts his hand on my shoulder as he delivers his lame attempt at calming me down.
The boy pulls the hood of his hoodie up over his head and heads straight for the parking lot.
I’m not a violent man… mostly because I’m kind of a wimp and fear getting the snot kicked out of me… but this Walmart dude is about to lose his hand! And then, in a brief moment of clarity, I realize that this poor sap is stuck greeting ticked-off Walmart customers and making sure that the thieves aren’t running rampant through the front doors of Walmart. His employment at Walmart is punishment enough for his hand touching my person. I let him check my receipt, proving to him that not every nincompoop that graces the front stoop of Walmart is out to rob the stinking store blind (but… if you’ve ever looked around Walmart, you must realize that many of the shoppers in a Walmart are the kind of people that you would search if they spent a few minutes in you house, and by shopping at Walmart, we apparently put ourselves in the same class as this trash, and we should feel happy being treated like thieves by the greeters at Walmart after we’ve spent our hard-earned money to support their employment!)
The boy and I get home and I relay the experience to the wife.
“You shouldn’t act like that in front of the boy,” she says. “You’re setting a bad example… and it embarrasses him.”
So, I’m coming to the holy revelation that I am meant to stay away from grocery stores, and the final anchor in this feeling was pounded home the other night. My favorite ice cream in the entire world is Ben & Jerry’s Pistachio Pistachio Ice Cream. There is no better treat on the planet. We seldom have this treat. I know that 2 of the 4 grocery stores in our little berg do not carry this particular slice of heaven because they suck! That leaves us with Walmart and… heaven forbid… Safeway. After a great meal, the wife says, “Wouldn’t some Pistachio Pistachio be good right about now?”
“Oh yeah, that would be AWESOME,” I say… because I am a dorky product of the 80s.
“Well, Walmart doesn’t carry it anymore,” says the wife. “Since their remodel, they went from carrying about every flavor of Ben & Jerry’s to, I think, like, six flavors.” After all, Walmart knows better what you want to buy that you do yourself.
“What!,” I cry. If Walmart doesn’t carry my Pistachio Pistachio… and stinking Panhandle Coop doesn’t carry my Pistachio Pistachio… and the stupid Nash Finch store doesn’t carry Pistachio Pistachio… that leaves stinking Safeway, where I recently swore not another of my hard-earned pennies would be spent!
Needless to say, I called Safeway, they had Ben & Jerry’s Pistachio Pistachio Ice Cream, and the wife ran to their store and spent, I believe, about $20.00 for a pint of my favorite ice cream.
The moral of the story is… who knows?!? Corporate American SUCKS! Walmart SUCKS! Panhandle Coop and Nash Finch SUCK! I would honestly consider voting democrat if it meant our local grocery stores would stop being so stinking SUCKY and actually put the wants… no, I say, needs of the customers right up there alongside their stinking PROFITS (uh… ok, me vote democrat… hahaha… that may be pushing it… hahaha… I’m upset, I didn’t have a lobotomy.)
I guess the moral of the story has to be the same as the title of this post: Safeway SUCKS!
So, how did the new italian reciple turn out?
Ive really settled down in the past few years with my rampant anger, but if i were in your shoes when that guy asked to see your reciet, i dont know what i would have done. One thing, now and forever, will make my blood boil, and that is being accused of thievery in any way(as you may have noticed with the whole cell phone epesode,,ha). Glad you handled it well. Someday the boy will look up to you for speaking your mind.
Maybe you should have asked to speak to a manager at Safeway (not that I would have done that, but perhaps you would have been treated properly). That ugly anger has a way of springing up, huh? Me too, sometimes :(.
This is just wrong! Are you thinking that you are the right one?
I had a long, horrible “SAFEWAY SUCKS” moment today. To hell with the details, I am NOT going back there until they get self-checkout machines. I can’t even complain to the manager because my torture was inflicted by the manager. I wrote an explicit letter of complaint to the corporate HQ but so far, only got a form letter back which also cheerily told me of this week’s specials. NEVER AGAIN I SAY!!!!!
what a bunch of douchebags you people are you have nothing better to do than blog about what you consider the shortcomings of other people because you are so high and mighty everyone should bow down to you. Listen up pal, before you walk into any store with your im better than you because i dont work here attitude you better realize these people work their asses off at what they do and get treated like shit everyday by assholes like you! you have a problem write a letter to their corporate. Why should you when its so fun to be little someone whos just trying to make an honest living though right? Your a dick and I wish you nothing but trouble every time you venture out of your house little man. F**K YOURSELF!
Ok, “no”, I’m a douchebag because I think I’m better than every one else. Did you read the first sentence of the post? Did you not get the “… I’m pretty much good for nothing”? This post was meant to be funny, not taken too seriously. It is obvious you took it too seriously. I have spent most of my adult life, and I’m 41 (so, I’m guessing I have over 20 years on you) dealing with “customers”. I know they can be hard to deal with. I didn’t yell at anyone, I didn’t file any complaints, I just came home and wrote a blog about my experience. When I go into a business and spend my hard-earned money, I do not expect anyone to bow down to me, and I don’t think I’m better than anyone, but the people who shop at your store are the reason you have a job… and I do expect to be treated as such.
To summarize, I am a “dick”, and I really tend to find trouble every time I leave the house, so that should make you happy. As far as your closing statement goes, you think of your grandma with the same mind that thinks those kinds of words? Sounds to me like you might want to grab your daddy’s Penthouse from under his bed and spend a little time with it in the bathroom. You need to channel the rage… might as well channel it on yourself.
Pregnant mom says sandwich arrest was ‘horrifying’
http://news.yahoo.com/pregnant-mom-says-sandwich-arrest-horrifying-214407004.html
HONOLULU (AP) — Nicole Leszczynski couldn’t imagine that two chicken salad sandwiches would land her and her husband in jail and her 2-year-old daughter in state custody. But it happened five days ago, when the 30-weeks-pregnant woman forgot to pay for her snack while grocery shopping.
“It was the most ridiculous chain of events that happened,” she said while sobbing Monday. “It’s still hard to believe what happened.”
Leszczynski, 28, and her husband Marcin, 33, were handcuffed, searched then released on $50 bail each. Their ordeal at the police station lasted a few hours, but their daughter Zofia spent the night away from her parents in a case that has sparked nationwide outrage and forced the Safeway supermarket chain to review the incident.
The family had moved to an apartment near downtown Honolulu from California two weeks ago. Still settling in, they ventured out Wednesday to stock up on groceries, took the bus, got lost, and ended up at a Safeway supermarket.
Famished, the former Air Force staff sergeant picked up the two sandwiches that together cost $5. She openly munched on one while they shopped, saving the wrapper to be scanned at the register later.
But they forgot to pay for the sandwiches as they checked out with about $50 worth of groceries.
“When the security guard questioned us, I was really embarrassed, I was horrified,” she said. They were led upstairs, where the couple expected to get a lecture, pay for the sandwiches, and be allowed on their way.
But store managers wouldn’t allow them to pay for the sandwiches, she said.
“I asked to talk to a manager and he said it was against their policy to pay for items that left the store,” she said. “The security guard said we were being charged with shoplifting.”
Four hours later, a police officer arrived and read them their rights. A woman from the state Child Welfare Services arrived to take Zofia away.
The pregnant mother said she tried to keep her composure until Zofia, who turns 3 in December, left the store. “I didn’t want Zofia to be scared because she’s never spent a night away from us. She didn’t have her stuffed animal. She didn’t have her toothbrush.”
But as soon as her daughter left, “I got completely hysterical. I went to the bathroom and I threw up,” she recalled.
A Honolulu police spokeswoman said it was procedure to call Child Welfare Services if a child is present when both parents are arrested. The store’s management did not know the girl would be taken away, said Susan Houghton, a spokeswoman for California-based Safeway Inc.
The national supermarket chain said it was looking into the incident. “It was never our intent to separate a mother from her child. That was a very unfortunate consequence to this situation,” Houghton said. “We understand the outrage. We are concerned about how this was handled.”
Leszczynski called the incident “so horrifying, it seemed to escalate and no one could say, ‘this is too much.'”
The couple was handcuffed and driven separately to police headquarters a few blocks away, where they were searched, had their mug shots taken and then released after paying bail. A police officer escorted them back to the store — which banned them for a year, Leszczynski said — where they picked up their groceries and walked home just before midnight.
“We basically stared at each other all night. We woke up at the crack of dawn and called (the state child welfare office),” Leszczynski said. While they waited, Leszczynski vented about the experience on babycenter.com and contacted a lawyer for help with being reunited with Zofia. At the lawyer’s suggestion, they took their story to the media.
Zofia was returned after an 18-hour separation from her parents.
The couple is charged with fourth-degree theft, a petty misdemeanor, and has a court date on Nov. 28, according to the city prosecutor’s office. The family hasn’t decided whether it will pursue legal action against Safeway.
Houghton said the company will review the police report and store security footage before deciding whether to press charges.
Just anyway Safe Corp. Policy is unfriendly toward family. its all about big business, making the most profit, and minimized Loss prevention.
This is a case that Common Sense or lack of it went badly wrong!
Imagine if this would happen to you.. your mother, your sisters…
For me it would stay clear of Safeway stores and vote with my dollars.
Hope the family that was mention in this article sue and put Safeway through the “due process” as safeway did to the family.
God bless everyone and be kind to one another
Scott… I don’t approve a lot of comments with an agenda, but this was an interesting story. Unless there is something we’re not being told (security footage showing them hiding the wrappers in their pockets, the couple becoming belligerent when confronted, etc), it seems like a little common sense could have been used. However, Scott, if it weren’t for all of the trash trying to steal from businesses on a daily basis, there probably wouldn’t even have been a security guard on site. Yes, I agree that companies need to use common sense and judgement and actually realize that they are dealing with real live people… but there are scummy real live people who are out to screw the system and steal… and those jack wads are the reason big businesses have their stupid rules… and we all suffer from it.
Ok all I have to safe is when customers walk into Safeway I honestly think there I.q drops like 80 percent. They ask the stupidest f***in questions and are so rude the the poor slave checkers who work there. It’s like if your Gunna complain so much then go f***ing shop somewhere else. Ohh and the managers are stupid as f***. They think there all hard s**t cuz there the managers but I got news for you. It doesn’t take a college degree to be one and if you think your tight wearing that stupid f***in suit and tie your not. Your a nobody is what you are. The reason I say all this is I used to work for them and the manager were so rude and have no respect for there employes. They have the dumbest f***ing rules. Oh make sure to ask for help out, make sure to build a barrier and walls and put heavy stuff on bottom, or make sure you call for a override ” even tho it takes f***en 20 min to get one. Of but no worries there’s only f***in 20 people in line starring at you. Seriously I have to say the worst part about safeway would have to be the f***in managers. Two faced, stupi f***in people that walk around the store aimlessly dressed like there running for vice f***in president. It like bro your not cool and by sitting in your office or walking around the store is nothing. Word of advice to anyone thinking about applying. Trust me you will hate it. Literally everyone at Safeway hates it except those f***in old timers that have worked there for f***kin 47+ years. Trust me find a different career. And if anyone has s**t to say about all this well I got news for you I honest don’t any f***s what you have to say. F*** Safeway. F***in fake ass company.
Johnny, I can tell you are upset. I don’t know if you realize this, but there are actually adjectives available to describe things that don’t start with “f” and end with “k”… like “fake ass” was a good one 🙂 How you describe working at Safeway is pretty much how it is (for many people) working for any large retail-based corporation. It’s all about profit, my friend. They don’t give two craps about the front-line employees. A good manager would try to make sure you can do your job well and that you are enjoying what you do. A bad manager views you as disposable. A smart company realizes that hiring, training, and retaining a happy, productive employee is way money-ahead of dealing with massive turnover.
Customer are always going to suck (myself included… and I’m guessing yourself included as well). We want what we want when we are spending our money, and if we feel mislead or screwed, we’re going to let someone know about it. Too bad that is often the front-line employee who can’t really do anything about it. I would like to think that I suck a little less as a customer because I know what it is like to get ripped for something that is not only not my fault, but something I really have no way of fixing. Customer service: for people who like being treated like dirt and like making right around good old minimum wage… there has to be quite a bit of self-loathing to actually want to do that for a living.
Wow this guy is wrong and is a asshole. Dealing with idiots like this guy is why working in retail sucks.
Kyle, I’m not going to disagree with you about being an “asshole”. I most definitely am one! However, what exactly am I wrong about? Am I wrong that the store shouldn’t have stocked a non-sale item in a display labeled with a sale item price? Am I wrong that the checker shouldn’t have been condescending to me when showing me that the product was improperly labeled? Am I wrong that Walmart moves product locations in its stores more often than many people change their underwear?. You state that I’m wrong, but you don’t say what I’m wrong about. Maybe I’m just wrong in my opinion that Safeway sucks? Anyway, I may be wrong about something, but you are wrong, too. Dealing with “idiots” like me isn’t the reason that working in retail sucks. Working in retail sucks because large retailers have policies in place (or systems in the stores put in place by incompetent managers) that make ordinary people like me turn into assholes. Now quit messing around on the interwebs and go back to stocking those shelves. I believe the Safeway Select pop that is on sale is out of stock, so fill the shelf with some regular price Coke… and don’t you dare take down the sale sign!
I just bought a deli roasted turkey breast for thanksgiving 2012. I recooked it in the oven. Prepared a meal around it. Then started carving it. YUCKit was injected with some kind of gel that looked like polyacrlaye in baby diapers. It grossed us out so I gave the whole thing to my cats. They sniffed it then went outside and caught a bird and brought it in to show me what a real bird looked like. Never again. The box said it contained modified cornstarch. Looked like sodium polyacrylate to me.
If you missed it. The breast was a safeway signature roasted breast they sell with the rotisserie chicken. Wanted to clarify.
Sorry to hear about your Thanksgiving, wulfdog. Sounds like your cats rock 🙂
Hey Rich, recently read your post again. I worked at Safeway 1 year as a courtesy clerk until I quite. I do agree with you in a lot of ways that Safeway does suck, there is no denying that!
I dont like to complain about a lot, I do my work as best I can without whining. Being a Safeway employee though is dreadful and you should cut their employees a little slack. I wont go into all the reasons, but Ill try to sum up a few reasons.
Corporate is probably the biggest reason why Safeway is a terrible place to shop and work. They set all the rules about how Safeway operates. They are the ones who put pressure onto the managers. Managers are the next reasons these stores suck balls. Followed by other employees who are pissed to be there and customers who bitch.
Corporate is the ones responsible for all the price deception that goes on, the gimmicks, crappy charities they press for and the overall “Safeway Culture”. At Safeway meeting numbers is not good enough, they force their employees to do lots more. You have to fill out little safety observations which basically snitch on your fellow employees. They keep everyone under 40 hours(part time) so they dont have to give good benefits. They reduce the amount of employees in stores by cutting hours which means 1 employee has to do the work of 3. All the stores in each district are also in competition, which I will get too.
I dont know about other Safeways, but at the one I worked I only got 16 hours a week. I got more when I was first hired and they promised lots of things that never came. I also had to pay union dues to a union that didnt do anything for me(perhaps made things worse). After working 16 hours a week and subtracting union dues/initiation/arrears my pay was something like $6.50. Mind you I live in California where you cannot find a room for rent under $500 a month. But yes I did get benefits, like dental, however the dental insurance was only good for preventative teeth cleanings twice a year and such. You could also get 10% of Lucerne brands.
Some managers were ok, a lot werent. I had one assistant manager who would threaten to fire me because I did not use my Safeway Club card to buy a candy bar. He would throw little fits over nothing, have us break corporate rules behind the scenes and kind of had a ego like he was God. He also threatened to fire me if I did not buy a $20 T-shirt 5 times a year for the charities they had going, plus he pressured us to donate whenever buying something. I told him that I didnt have money to spend on that crap but he said I needed to if I wanted to be part of the team. This was just on of the asshole managers, remember theres several.
At Safeway all the employees I worked with were miserable.Your average employee who joins lasts less than a year, so atleast were I was at all the checker jobs were held by older people, younger people got the “courtesy clerk position”. Many were older and knew that they would be working in that shithole the rest of their life. They all gossiped about eachother, saying how the other did this or that and how they were not pulling their share. In reality everyone I met was doing what they were supposed too, they werent doing a great job though I believe because the rules in place prevented that. Everyone was under appreciated and so there was low morale. I think that if they still had incentives like the 80s/90s with stock and gift cards employees would be much happier. But there are no rewards for hard work and no penalty for being a shitty employee either(because of the Union it was hard to get fired). Employees all got shit from customers for corporate and managers mistakes. It was really frustrating, but after you work there a while you expect to get bitched at for no reason each and every day. The work they piled on the employees was another reason they all have a “fuck you” attitude at times. Managers screwed with the schedule so that 8 or 9 people in a line was not uncommon. One time during dinner they had only 1 cashier on and there were over 40 people wrapped around the store that me and the cashier were having to deal with. Thank you managers.
We did get a lot of angry customers, I dealt with all types. I got yelled at by people because Safeway took their items off the shelf, screwed them on the price, because they had a bad day or because they were just crazy. I got all kinds of requests that managers made me follow through with like following a lady around the store to find EVERYTHING on her list while she belittled me each time for not knowing her favorite brands. “Dont they train you people”, “Are you just stupid, I like the greener tomatoes”. Angry customers were not that bad though because there were only so many of them. Your average customers were more painful to deal with because of their sheer volume. I dont think I mentioned this but our Safeway made us greet every single customer we saw “Hi how are you doing, finding everything ok”. Try doing that while going doing a isle of 20 people to get something for a customer while you get bombarded with dozens of other questions. But it gets better because when they say “yes where is the canned soup” it was not proper to tell them the isle, no you have to say “let me show you”. Meanwhile you got to clock sweeps, do carts and a bitchy checker is calling for you on the intercom. This is why they avoid you in the stores.
Why does Safeway do stupid bullshit like make you walk them to the item? Because all the stores are in competition, they get shopping scores from 1-10 from mystery shoppers. If you get a 3 you get yelled at by all the manager, they sit you down tell you how worthless you are. Why are they so mad? I believe the managers, atleast the head one get bonuses on such things if they do good. The stores are in competition on days accident free, how much they get in donations, how little gets stolen etc.
Courtesy Clerk-Carts, cleaning, bagging, sweeping, kissing customers asses, escorting able bodied customers to their car for no tip(fire-able offense)
Checkers- Check, fill candy section,
Night Crew- Stocks, Ordering
Managers- Complain, do scheduling, check when needed
The problem you had with the sausage was meat departments fault. They never come out of their hole so they probably saw it was filled from a distance and figured it was good. They dont come out because they can get asked “wheres the mustard” and then have to show that person which results in them showing 5+ people and not getting their work done. Pimpleface might have been told not to change the price on stuff like that by a manager or perhaps because they were under audit(they wont over ride anything then). But if you ever do end up in Safeway again call the manager and vent your anger at him.
One thing about Safeways prices…You can almost get a deal but in order too you have to combine Safeway club card+Their weekly ads+Digital coupons+Manufacturer coupons. Shop at Walmart, their employees might be lousier than Safeways even but atleast they are cheap and you dont have to listen to “Hi how are you doing, da da da da da” every time you bump into a employee.
Stay away from Safeway job seekers and customers.
Kyle… you should start a blog! Or, maybe you just did in my comments 🙂
I really wasn’t attacking any individual employees or employees. When I write this stuff, I tend to exaggerate. I have nothing against people trying to make a living.
All big companies have stupid policies and procedures in place that piss off either customers or employees — often both. Gotta figure those rules are there because at some point someone did something that warranted the creation of the rule. In other words, everything in life that has a tendency to suck is because someone out there was a jerk. And life is filled with jerks. Which is why life tends to suck so much at times. Making fun of people and bitching is how I deal and make MY life suck less. I’m not trying to make anyone’s life suck more with my rants, but I’m sure that happens. I, too, can be one of the jerks to which I refer.
Thanks for reading… and I’m serious about starting your own blog. It’s a great way to blow off steam 🙂
I worked for Safeway a number of years. It used to be a good company, but now full of as**ole management like Tanya Oleson a scumbag piece of crap DM in California who has no appreciation for the employees.
I HATE Safeway. And if that makes me a good-for-nothing asshole, then so be it. Their customer “service” is an absolute joke. All they are good at is showing their customers how much they don’t care about them. They’re HORRIBLE. F*** Safeway!!!
Safeway in Colorado Springs, Colorado was a horrible place to work. Safeway hates the union. They hate their employees that belong to the union. They pile on the work. The front end managers and the store managers are mean. The frozen food clerks are called into the checkout stand repeatedly therefore not being able to maintain the frozen food area. Slutty young girls that work there gratify the managers for a better job within the store. Nepotism runs rampid. Customers steal from you if you leave anything laying around such as your coat or anything of any value. Customers feel like they can yell at you when there is a truckers strike leaving no food on the shelf. Some customers are just plain rude and nasty smelly people. I almost walked off the job numerous times but I had a mortgage to pay. I finally rented my house and joined the military where I got treated 100% better. Everyone knows that Safeway Stores are a horrible place to work anyway.