So there's a problem with this safeway now. First off, it's not the people who work in the store, The store employees are still super awesome, and the only reason I am okay with giving the one star you have to put at the least. (they are, themselves, worthy of five stars, but recent problems with other areas of the store are just really bad)
The problems are of a technical nature in the store, and with the gas station.
First off in the store: The self check out stands are SUPER annoying. They can't sense your bags, which would be fine, if they didn't seem to think they SHOULD BE ABLE TO and bring your transaction to a screeching halt every time you put something in a bag. The stands that used to be there for the plastic bags have been removed so now there's nothing to HOOK your bag open on, and everytime you touch your bag to open it and put something in the checkstand robot freaks out like you killed it's robo-dog. And not only do they not work very well, but at least twice now I have decided I just didn't want to deal with them only to find they were the only option because there was no human checker or open check out lane where there should be one. There should always be a human checker available, sometimes your particular transaction will require human assistance, and sometimes you just don't feel like wrestling with the poorly programmed robot. And they are getting worse.
"Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area"?!?! What? the Bags? the Groceries? Which of those things weren't you expecting, grocery bagging station?
Second: You REALLY really need to get your gas station guys some traffic directing training. Or, at the very least train them to not stand directly in the only available path for the car they are trying to make go forward, it seems like every other time I go there the guy directing traffic tries to wave me right into him by standing where I would need to drive to go where he wants me to go.
Look, Suicide is a personal choice, and I really don't want to get preachy with you about how your friends and loved ones would miss you, and even if everything seems hard right now, I have faith that you can fight through and make it, and also
PLEASE DO NOT INVOLVE ME IN YOUR DEATH.
If you want me to squeeze between two cars to go around one to the pump in front, that's fine, BUT, you are going have to NOT STAND IN THE ONLY PLACE I CAN MOVE MY CAR TO GET THERE.
ALSO they really need to do something about the entrance to the gas station. It's the only easy turn to get into the entire lot, and the amount of times the line has blocked the entrance ... it's getting more and more frequent. there were four cars coming off the gas station a few days ago, blocking the driveway, and the guy who I think was supposed to be directing traffic was just standing there. another time, the guy was trying to send people around, but I was going straight to go to the store and he got carried away trying to make me go around the side and get in the gas line... I was afraid he was going to jump in front of my car.
It is just so very poorly laid out, They really needed to build it in a different spot or make it have a dedicated entrance. They should actually look into making that back driveway a gas only entrance, or at least post some signs that point the way to go for the gas line, cause the traffic directing is just not cutting it. read more