I am not impressed by this Safeway. For the only fresh food option in town, this place is pathetically understocked. For example, I was looking for a certain common brand of cornmeal, they did not have it, only the Safeway Select brand that I will not buy because of its poor quality, and I prefer cornmeal in a box, not a bag as it stays fresher that way. There were 3 managers in the store that day, not your typical management, but guys with starched shirts and ties that only come to the store to see how the store can make more money. I asked one of them where the rice was, since the aisles are poorly marked and the store is disorganized (most disorganized Safeway I've ever experienced), he said rudely "I'm helping someone else now". How long does it take to say "aisle 11", unless he doesn't know the layout of his own store? So I eventually found it myself, not with the pasta but across the aisle near the frozen foods where the dried beans were. I guess they think that rice goes with beans, but in reality, rice is a starch that should go with pasta. I'm not sure where they put the potato products because I never buy them, but you'd think it would go with the pasta and rice. I'm sure its probably hidden in some weird area of the store where you wouldn't expect to find it. I've found that the packaged meat is packed with an inordinate amount of air inside of the plastic, like the meat is outgassing. Other times it is leaking blood, which is really gross. I've bought lunch meat there that is slimy, and I've heard others say that they've bought products that are long past their prime. If this is the only food store in town, why is such a large amount of the floor space taken up by the floral department and seasonal home decorations? I would say a good half of the store is not displaying food, but other products like paper goods and laundry detergent which one does not need to buy as often as food. I like to buy food fresh, like every few days. I don't stock up on items that have a long shelf life and then go a couple of weeks without shopping. We have other options, like a couple of doors down for non food items. We or I don't need to see 26 different laundry detergent options when you can buy things like that in Sierra Vista whenever you make the trek out to Walmart. And another thing, why are they making up all these past prime meat dishes like chicken cordon bleu that nobody buys and they end up selling for half price? I would never buy vegetables packed with raw meat. Why do they sell mushy gushy stuffed peppers in the meat section? Who buys those? And the deli people seem like they've worked there for generations, they have some kind of attitude like we're interrupting their conversations. Why doesn't someone open up a real food store? read more