Safeway Food & Drug

· 6 Reviews · X August 28 at 7:27pm · X – I would not suggest allowing any loved ones to shop at this store if they are ill, fragile, or get upset in anxious situations. I took a person to have several medical procedures, including a transfusion, and felt she would be safe to walk through this store on her own to pick up her medications and a treat from the bakery. It was a very simple task, she had her Safeway Club number and my debit card in her hand. However, a simple experience was the farthest thing that took place. After being physically tackled and
knocked completely down to the floor and dropping the cake she had picked up, she was very disoriented but received no assistance from any of the store workers (and there are always many workers at Safeway stores). No instead she was starred down by two employees that were trying not to laugh. That’s just great. Once she was able to get back on her feet, she picked up the cake, picked up the bank card, forgot to get her prescriptions, and walked as quickly as she could toward the car where I was waiting for her– Directly in front of the door in the handicap parking spot. As we have
shopped here on numerous occasions and reside In the City of Stayton, I would not have taken up teaching patients to steal cake while trying to learn to function independently in society. As she was able to approach the car a lady came out after her and said ma’am you need to come in with me to pay for that. My patient turned directly around and followed her in, embarrassed when she realized what she had done, and tried to hand the lady the debit card she was still holding in her hand. When I realized something was wrong, i ran after her and tried to get my patient to talk. The lady pushed her into a tiny room by customer service and slammed the door in my face. After 20 minutes, my patient came out of that office, crying hysterically at
all of the mean things she was told such as she was a thief, they could put her in jail, and that I could not help her. This is not the way society should treat those with any type of disability or difference. It was completely obvious of her state of mind, as she was on her first trip in to any store alone for several years. I cannot believe how horrible the employees treated a mentally ill person, how dare them! I was going to try to accept this as a
simple mistake by a company employee, but this is now Twice in One Week that I have been astonished by the terrible prejudices I have witnessed. What is wrong with these people, and who decides that they are better than others because they are different? I now understand why my grandmother refuses to go the grocery store anymore– there is one Safeway in Stayton and how many times was she humiliated because she’s old? It sure appears that Safeway employees feel they have the right to be prejudice, humiliating and rude when they are working in a customer service position. My mother has worked for the Tigard Safeway for nearly 20 years, I have never heard her say the company model is to judge people by their appearance and harass those that aren’t to their personal liking.

Safeway is always fairly clean (besides the bathrooms) and it’s a nice place to shop for a small town. Most of the employees are very nice, however there are a few who are rude and act annoyed by your presence. It’s also a little awkward when the cashier doesn’t speak to you or will just dully ask «how are you?» without looking up.
There are some pretty good deals though, and a wide variety of products.

I love shopping Safeway. Their coupons are easy to use, they are friendly enough, prices are fairly competitive if you know the cost of what an item should be and you buy on sales. I think my only complaint is the fact that they ring produce up wrong often. I check my receipts thoroughly and find many mistakes, but so far they have always been willing to make it right. They might deserve a 4 star, but I was on the line between 3 or 4. Maybe next time they will earn a true 4 star

If you’re staying at Silver Falls State Park this is a great place to stop. If you’re anything like me you always forget something when camping.
The staff here was friendly, it is a small town in Oregon after all.
If you’re looking for somewhere that isn’t too overpriced and has all your food needs, stop by.

would of been 2 stars (instead of 3) — but the staff is always so friendly inside. and what is with the check out lanes being so NARROW… seriously!!! i usually stop here for flowers… and they have a very good selection — with reasonable prices (unlike Roths IGA locations). In the end, a Safeway is a Safeway is a Safeway, but this location is not as ugly and disgusting as a lot of Safeways are out there.

I find the energy here to be very negative. There are never enough registers open and the employees hardly ever make me feel welcome.
On many occasions, they will say nothing but the total amount due, with limited to no eye contact. Some even spend the entire time talking with their neighboring clerk, not even bothering to tell me how much is due. Not all of them are like this. In fact, some of the clerks are quite nice to me, but sadly, I usually get the rude ones. It’s the bad experiences I remember most and that have happened too often with me here.
Another thing that really annoys me is when a new register opens up, they do not take the next person in line. It usually ends up that the people behind me (who just got in line 10 seconds ago) will be helped by the first and I will have to add on to my wait of 10 minutes. Most other stores I go to will have the new clerk walk over and help the next customer in line carry their products over to the new register.
There always seems to be dozens of sales going on, but if you look closely, you are not really saving a whole lot, if much at all. I would much rather pay the extra .50 to a dollar and hop over to Roth’s where the atmosphere is much more pleasant and the clerks actually show that they care about their customers.

OK I had been drivng 6 hours…
I needed an iced coffee. It was 105 out. it was 68 inside. I shopped and shopped.
I considered renting a table and selling fortunes. Anything just to be in out of the heat!
Their small ice carry chests were 31.00. On the road. back to ACE where I can get the right size, altho’ blue, for 17.

Eh, it’s okay here. Starbucks is good, I always get blueberry scones from there. And they have excellent Vivanno smoothies. But I only go here for the Starbucks. There’s only a few nice people at Safeway, and they’re deli/​chinese place is very horrible. Don’t get the fried chicken here, very greasy.

Really, this is a surprisingly nice place to shop, considering the size of the town. They even have a Starbucks. However, it’s really no different than many other Safeways.
It’s got the same color scheme and feel of other stores, and the same prices, too.
If I’m being honest, though, I’m quite surprised – when comparing it to other similar areas – that it was so busy. I figured more people would be patronizing Roth’s, seeing how he’s more-​or-​less an area legend.
Meh. It’s clean. And you can get halfway decent coffee. Why not?