Safeway

Really clean, well staffed, well stocked Union city spot. Always has everything I need, lots of flowers, and organic options too.
Hot food area doesn’t seem very fresh, and soups are always seemingly hours old, else I’d give it 5 stars. Has lots of weekend specials too.

Cashier Indira was rude; didn’t acknowledge my hello, nor when I let her know I had two waters-​as one was under my cart. She piled two bottled waters and other heavier items on top of my produce. Handed me my receipt without any pleasantries! Not happy if this is the kind of employee Safeway believes is a good representation of their corporation.

Let me start off by saying that i really like this Safeway. I recently moved to Fremont and this is my closest grocery store. I’ve been approached three times while going to this Safeway after work by guys who want to talk about business opportunities. I never entertain them long enough to find out what the business opportunity is. The first guy was Indian the second Latino, and the third Asian. They only seem to target guys. Next time ur at this store and someone asks you «Hey you look familiar» tell him to fuck off.

Solid Safeway. Really fresh vegetables/​fruit at all times of the day (even late on the weekends), and you usually can check in and out fast. Good location in this plaza too – Chase, Starbucks (inside the store – usually a sign it’s a higher end Safeway), and Dollar Tree, among other stores surround it. Usually someone either panhandling or selling Girl Scout cookies outside, but at least no one tries to be pushy. Asian plaza across the street for the items you can’t find anywhere… but an Asian plaza. Whenever I’m in the area and need something, I’m stopping here.

this Safeway is an anomaly. only one i’ve seen that has drinking water by Glacier available for refill outside the store.
buys: glacier water @.35/gal.
–pricier than san jose, but i needed it right away.
drips.
–parkings tight around this area
–beers cheap if u buy 6 of one label.
–merchandise cheap only when safeway card used to access savings.

I had a customer service experience at this Safeway today that exceeded expectations. While shopping around in the produce section I was asked if I needed help finding anything, they were out of jalapeños so the friendly guy working (Thomas) went in back to look for me. When they were out, he went to the organic section and picked out 3 perfect ones for me. Helpful… pleasant…made sure I got what I needed & even went as far as picking them out. Impressive guy working for you Safeway!

I have been shopping at this Safeway for over twenty years. it is still my favourite store for floral dept, bakery items, deli dept. & sushi dept. I can find a lot of hard to find cooking ingredients at this Safeway location.

Unfortunately, this is the only Safeway around where I live.
It is always under staffed while half of the self-​serve checkout line is out of order.
Most of the employees here are either rude or grumpy, especially when it is busy.
The customers are so slow when it comes to paying.
I have seen so many shop-​lifters walk out without paying, it’s unbelievable.

Since I was passing by northbound on Alvardo-​Niles, it was easy enough to roll in. It turned out that that this store had a good supply of the advertised special that is often not actually available at the Fremont Hub.
So, I rolled out to the north to the Tri-​Ced recycling center. On the other hand, if I had tried to visit this Safeway from southbound Alvarado-​Niles, that would have been a traffic nightmare.

Safeway is generally not where I go for regular groceries but this particular location is good Very convenient as there is a bank, rite aid, and starbucks in the same complex so many times ill run in to grab something since I’m already at starbucks. Decent store, as far as grocery stores go I’m happy.

Why are people hating on Safeway? It’s a grocery store! What do you expect?!? White glove service from minimum wage workers?
Sometimes there’s long lines at night yep, well buy your liquor somewhere else and use self check out! Deli does close kinda early, but to be expected, those full time tenured workers want to go home too.
This Safeway is clean, stocked and has good produce. What more can we ask for?

Your standard Safeway. The closest Safeway I can think of to me in terms of distance. I always go here when I need to buy non-​Asian groceries and do not want to go to Walmart or Target. There is a Starbucks inside as well if you are ever craving any of their drinks for your convenience.

This is the grocery store I grew up with and still remains supreme as my favorite place to grab groceries. You can get some really amazing stuff here, including heavenly $ 5 cakes, freshly baked artisan baguettes, huge variety of organic foods, and starbucks! Today while I was shopping, I was approached by two separate baristas with cute mini starbucks samples. Costco samples getting some competition.

7÷7÷15:
It’s 7:32 P.M. and there is 2 lanes open registers 1& 5 with long lines 1 self checkout down and plain crazy.
Checkout 1 was waiting on a Manager.
Safeway needs to reevaluate this location.

So there’s a sale in the weekly ad — 10 for $ 10 large red mangoes. Yes! Sweet deal, right? But I’ve seen this before and have arrived to a super market after work hours and found no mangoes left; so, I call this Safeway and ask if there are mangoes on sale left. «Yes, a lot.» Great! I should’ve been more specific. There were some mangoes, and of the small selection, they were all green and hard and very far from ripe. Next time I’ll ask more specifically.
Deli counter is awesome, but workers at another Safeway in SF give way more chicken strips in the chipotle chicken wrap than do folks at this Safeway. Just saying

Love this safeway. Parking can be hard at specific times of the day. Store is always clean and aisle are laid out ok. The selves are always stock and aisle are labeled so you can find things easily. Overall like any other safeway. Theres also a Starbucks and US Bank inside.

This is your average grocery store chain. Everything is ok. I do like Safeway produce and meats better than Foodmaxx, Trader Joes or Fresh & Easy but the problem are the prices are higher here. There is more produce to choose from compared to Trader Joes or Fresh & Easy. You pay for quality though. I like it better here than Lucky’s as their deli section especially for lunch sandwiches are much better. Cakes are, too. Safeways also has Starbucks inside their stores. Too bad you can’t use the Starbucks app though… disappointing I can’t get points from there. This particular store is always busy and on holidays always runs out of food. It’s centralized around many homes and other businesses. The parking is always difficult as well. None the less, I still like the quality of Safeways food better; will still continue to be their loyal customer.

This is for the deli department, came here at 6:50 for some lunch meet and found only one worker. Poor African American lady running back to the meat counter to the sandwich food line with no help. The lady was nice and made sure she told everyone she will be with them in minute. Man I felt she needs help and she was worker like a slave.

My review is for their deli dept and their Starbucks… their sandwiches are always on point and the gals are always super friendly.
For some reason the coffee at this particular Starbucks tastes better than all the Starbucks around the area… however, they will not honor any free drinks that you get when you’re a gold card member :(

As others have said, the Deli is way understaffed. I’d rather go somewhere else than stand in this perpetual line. There are not enough workers to handle the customers. And it’s too bad because all their made-​to-​order sandwiches are awesome, esp. the Chicken/​artichoke.
Another issue I have is, the lines that form in front of the self check-​out stands are awkward and poorly designed. I have seen many arguments between customers over who is next.
Then there are the annoying solicitors outside the doors.
The only plus for this store is they are open 24 hours.