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| - This Safeway is the closest grocery store to me. However, I basically avoid it unless I absolutely need something last-minute. It doesn't have any specific thing wrong with it, it's just a two-star experience all the way around.
Parking lot is cramped and dimly lit, often with panhandlers or transients simply lounging around.
I don't know if this is a smaller-than-normal location, but I feel like this store's selection is pretty poor, coupled with prices that seem to be on the higher end of local supermarkets.
The checkout lines are consistently long -- all times of day and night. Make no mistake, it is a conscious choice by their management to save money on cashiers. You will not simply run in and run out.
On the plus side, the store is generally clean and a security guard is present, though I wish there was a second one that stood outside.
Being the only real grocery store near downtown, the customers are truly diverse, making it an interesting place to shop. High-income business commuters, upper-middle-class residents of the surrounding historic neighborhoods, ASU students from the downtown campus, low income families from the eastern neighborhoods, transients stocking up as they make their way up and down 7th, and, more often than not, a homeless person buying a single large can of beer.
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