Safeway. Oh Safeway. I'm here at least once a week, and I always find what I need. I love that I always see the manager about. But there a things about this location that are seriously lacking.
1. The self checkouts were removed. I'm all about giving jobs to real people and not robots, but self checkout was SO nice and quick. Also now when I want to buy something embarrassing I have to make eye contact with a clerk. The management has not found a good balance for staffing the registers in the self-checkout absence - the lines have been sooo long recently. When you just need to buy an onion and a bottle of wine you miss the self check out. Minus one star.
2. There are hardly any 'cart returns' in the parking lot, leading to carts being left all over the place. I see the Safeway kids out there all damn day collecting carts from weird areas of the lot because people leave the carts all over. Add some more little cart returns toward the back and middle of the lot and (maybe at least a few) more people won't leave carts in random places and cause potential accidents. Minus one star.
3. Speaking of accidents: My car was hit in the parking lot last fall. Minor accident, but the guy who hit me was a raging jerk and I didn't get a lot of the information I needed from him to file an insurance claim. I called Safeway about this to see if I could get security footage and they told me they didn't have cameras in that part of the lot. Safeway shares a parking lot with a bank, several popular restaurants, and a random assortment of businesses. You can't always get a spot right near the grocery store. It was inconvenient that they weren't able to capture the accident (which was actually pretty close to the actual grocery store) but the lack of security footage bothers me as a woman who often goes there alone. Should anything ever happen to anyone in that lot, there'd be no security footage, at least from Safeway. Minus one star.
So, dear Safeway on Camelback management: please please please add some cameras and cart returns and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD bring back the self checkout!