#safeway — Public Fediverse posts

Here are some sketches for the next pages of part 3 of Bright Light, Desert City: Life in the Catalina Foothills. I'm working my way into part 4 as well, have to keep moving to get on with the story. #webcomic #tucson #safeway #sketches #supermarket #Arizona #drawing #pencil

@Starcade #Safeway . . .

I stop by my local Safeway in #EastCoCoCounty regularly & it doesn't seem to have the empty shelf problem your does.

The problem that I often face is that they do NOT have a sale item that I want in stock but the shelves are still well stocked.

I guess they're hoping people will buy something else if the sale items are not there but I usually only go to Safeway specifically to buy things that are on sale & I have no problem leaving empty handed.

Today, I went there to buy some corn for 10 cents/ear which they had but they didn't have any prepacked salmon at $8.99/lb, any 3# tubs of potato salad or any 8 pc dark meat fried chicken for $6.99 that I wanted to buy.

So, I just left with 4 ears of corn for 40 cents & headed to FoodMax where I bought a 2 bags full of food, including 2 salmon fillets at $8.99/@ , for at total of $80.

It’s been a banner day for weird shit at #Safeway

@MsMerope

#FoodMax is my fave & go-to #supermarket.

Bought 2 pkgs of point cut corned beef (about 3.75# @) for just $1.99/# on St. Patty's Day

I only buy things that spot on sale at #Safeway, #Raleys & #Luckys. Mentioned to you recently, that U bought 4 doz eggs on sale at Raley's for just $10.

Seldom shop at #GroceryOutlet because their product selection is so limited & changes so often but I do buy things there occasionally

The best deal I saw there last was boxed mac & cheese for just $1/box. Bought 5 of them.

Food rescue program helps fill plates as hunger hits 10-year high

DENVER — With hunger in Colorado at its highest level in a decade and federal food aid shrinking, the Food Bank of the Rockies is turning to its “Food Rescue Program” to help bridge…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #7DaystoEndHungerCampaign #CommunityTable #FoodBankoftheRockies #FoodRescueProgram #hunger #Relief #safeway
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2511350/food-rescue-program-helps-fill-plates-as-hunger-hits-10-year-high/

This perfectly describes the #Safeway shopping experience.

@ryanboswell I don't have it but why does using #ApplyPay cause problems & does this only happen with Chase cards?

FWIW, as you note, I use my physical #Chase #Amazon credit card at #Safeway w/o any problems.

@JustRosy @ufwupdates

There are different corporations involved. Windmill Mushrooms has been retaliating & refusing to bargain with workers who want to organize in the #PNW - those are subject to #Boycott

Glad to know there's a supplier using #Union #Labor
Gonna look for a place to buy that brand

#Safeway & #FredMeyer in #Tacoma both sell Windmill 😒
What's disgusting?
#UnionBusting

Learned a new word phrase today. It sounds like 2 words unless you are shrieking it. Dejá dammit is that moment you have a split second vision of something glass you are handling dropping to the floor and shattering. And then it does.

Not an auspicious start to this day. A whole hour till my larger stovetop percolater finishes my coffee. Finally 7 am I sitting and sipping, as @Uncleharvey would say. But at 7 am it really a good cup of coffee now. And I guess I’ll be doing a trip to the evil modern Sears Roebuck catalog to look for a replacement glass knob for my smaller percolator. Maybe I should get 2. Hmmm

Oh, may as well attach another grocery store rant again as it’s been 3 days in a row I think of products I seek and have trouble finding. In this case the photo shows the 3 flavors of pudding mix I can actually use from this wall of options.

Silly me I thought I could just buy a variety of pudding mixes on sale. Here there is only the Jello brand. But old me still prefers “Cook and Serve” not Instant. Instant doesn’t have the texture I like, nor does it adequately incorporate banana slices as I planned. I can choose only from the packages I marked in purple on this photo. I get chocolate, vanilla or, oddly, butterscotch. If you exclude mine, my gosh look at this wall of varieties and flavors that are Instant. I am behind the times. #Pudding #Jello #Safeway #Phoenix #Arizona

If you wondered if cobalt here is done ranting about so-called food at the grocery store and prices, ah, nope. Exhibit 4 or so. American readymade gelatin is usually just called Jello due to that popular powerhouse brand. However people looking to buy the readymade small cups (6 oz) usually buy the Hunt brand because it’s far cheaper. Right now the typical 4 pack is on sale for 99¢ but regular price is $2.49.

But oh my, maybe don’t make the mistake of buying the new Hunt brand flavors in the 6 packs. Get this: SALE price is $4 for the 6 cups if you buy 2 packs for $8 total. Yikes! The “regular” price for 6 cups is $4.99. Egad. This is fruit flavor and sugar in gelatin form. See the photo with arrows to the various flavors and pricing. The actual Jello brand gelatin cups are in the cooler where you get prepackaged cheese. Seriously, you don’t want to know how much the Jello brand is. #Gelatin #Jello #SnackPac #Groceries #Safeway #Phoenix

Ok, I’m on a rip right now since I made a point of looking at some Safeway grocery store prices of products I buy occasionally. This post continues where I left off on a few previous posts and comments. This one is about condiments. I decided after all to buy fish sauce for my sweet chipotle chili I’m going to make today.

Calling attention to @MLE_online because although you said I could sub soy sauce, I remember from about 5-6 years ago there ARE ways I can use fish sauce again. I think it was in scrambled eggs, of all things! So now I’ll look into using this condiment again when I spot it in a recipe. Ideas welcome.

So there were no choices available at Safeway and I did buy the “Thai Fish Sauce” for $5.99. Bet if I’d had time to drive 9 miles to Lee Lee grocery I’d find 10 kinds and most far less. First photo has it enlarged and I made arrows to it. Second photo is the main section of Asian and other specialty sauces and marinades. Thought maybe someone would be interested in them or the pricing. Comments welcome. Bet @PhoenixSerenity has ideas 😁
#FishSauce #Sauce #Condiments #Safeway #Arizona #Phoenix

Fred Meyer completely f'd up their interface.

Old: Start My Order was pages of choices.

New: It's a small side-scroller on a page with other side-scrollers and ads.

My old one was like 4 pages deep. Images and text were twice the size. I'm supposed to one-at-a-time this as if I'm on a cellphone?? How many damn hours do you expect people to spend scrolling through what used to be on a flat page??

Wtaf. Well, I guess FM wants us to search for new grocers, like they're the Bluesky of turnips. This may be my last order from them.

I haven't been to Safeway's site in a while. I wonder how bad it is now.

#FredMeyer #Kroger #Safeway #enshitification

Earlier this week, at another #Safeway, they were entirely out of produce bags - all bag holders were empty (4 shown in the photo collage below). So I guess piercable bags are better than no bags? Perhaps I should start bringing in nets or so.

It's great that Safeway has these compostable plastic bags to put your produce in, but they cannot even hold three sweet potatoes. I almost got another bag after the first potato easily ripped the bag, but that would defeat the purpose. #Safeway

#Food #Inflation

Last stop before heading home this morning was at #FoodMax. FoodMax generally has the lowest prices for food in my area.

Meat & poultry use to be very cheap there but their prices for beef/pork have risen about 100% in the past year to around $9-10/#. That's even for previously "cheap" cuts of meat, like chuck roast. There are times when you can buy NY strip & Ribeye steaks on sale for around $6 which is now less than the cost of chuck & tri-tip.

However, I was able to buy 3# of some "date expiring" chuck on sale for "just" $5/#.

The price for poultry has also risen but not as much. Just to be able to routinely buy leg quarters & whole chickens for 99 cents/# but the best prices currently for whole chickens is $1.30/# & $2/# for leg quarters.

I also use to be able to buy Progresso canned soups (my favorite) for $1.50/can but FoodMax has them "on sale" now for $2.50/can.

Tomorrow I'm going to #Safeway to buy their 8 piece dark meat fried chicken for $5. 😉

@gtbray @technolass hasn't #Safeway learned their lesson after the class action lawsuit they just got slapped with some years back, of which I was a recipient of some money from, btw?

I should've known by the name that this thing tastes like Dr Pepper. Yikes!

#Safeway #IDislikeDrPepper

A Flashback Friday to 3 years ago today when I took this photo of a sign in front of the Safeway in Chico. Parking cars for sale in the parking lot was prohibited, and buying another vowel for the sign was "prohibted" too. 💰👁😄

#California #Chico #Safeway #sign #misspelled #typo #flashbackfriday #flashback #Friday #funny

#Safeway and #Albertsons #union members #vote to #strike
https://www.fox21news.com/news/safeway-and-albertsons-union-members-vote-to-strike/