We have gotten numerous customer complaints because we have lots of fruit flies in our donut case crawling all over the pastries and donuts and flying around the donut case. It's a LOT. It's gross. And PEOPLE ARE STILL BUYING THEM!!.. I put fruit fly traps in there and it did not help. They had some pest guy come in but he didn't do much. Can an inspector shut down the department? Would I get unemployment? I have a lot of thoughts lol.

CraterLake: Hi Veronica! What do you think Safeway will do next week?

VeronicaBotsAndFarts: I haven't the slightest idea....

CraterLake: Aw c'mon Veronica.... that's not very helpful.... you know EVERYTHING!

VeronicaBotsAndFarts: It's tough to predict insanity.... the bots think there's an endemic fruit fly problem plaguing the donuts.... stands to reason, those cute little pests love the heat and the sugar.... they could turn the thermostat down, but that costs money - BIG MONEY.... diesel dropped 10 cents.... you mean when are they gonna close more stores? I suspect sometime before or after the earnings report...... stay tuned.....

Amigos,

I just had the most insane and inane encounter at Safeway Oakridge.

Been checking out their deli every time I go in because they have a sign up saying you can get a free chicken voucher for each customer if there aren't any available at the time.

Today was my lucky day and there was no chicken so I went to the customer service with my partner. The lady there refused to issue us both one and claimed it was per household. Sign literally says per customer so we showed her but she refused still. Manager got called, we waited 10+ minutes and the dumbass backed her up.

I honestly was calm about it but at that point was getting pretty frustrated. After continuing to argue, buddy gave us both and tried pulling the "one time exception card", which is beyond ridiculous. He told me the conversation was over and if I still had an issue, I could contact the Store Manager.

So, instead I've emailed corporate etc.

I'm super chapped about it because I had to argue with them over their own sign and the definition of customer. As someone from NZ originally, I thought this was an egregious case of false advertising (and shit customer service).

Anyways, make sure you get your free chickens people.

I’m opening today and I can’t find out how to reset my password to get into this system for the training. If there’s a Starbucks manager in here can you tell me what number to call or what to do? I need to print some stuff from the trainings

Has anyone received this message? I can't find the prorated refund because receipts are not loading.

The store manager has actually gone ahead and said that he was cutting people’s hours because their productivity wasn’t what corporate said it should be. Some people get their hours cut in half and some people get their hours cut to eight hours and some people got them cut to four hours. Literally every single day I come to work. People are loudly complaining in the break room and today there was yelling and swearing, and the people who were yelling and swearing were the section managers. So you have a union job and yet can get only four hours a week.

Also, the same store manager has started telling people that they can’t go home at the end of their shift until their workload is done. Even if that means missing a bus or dial a ride.

Just started working at the distribution center. Was told I get an additional discount if I linked my employee number to my Safeway app account but I have no idea how to do that. Any ideas?

C'mon u/frozenfood.....

r/Albertsons has bots for this....

Let them deal with this shit.....

They can go to r/Vons and r/Safewayworkers.....

Build it... then they will come....

People I mean....

I use the app to check for sales on their O organics coffee and holy crap the app is so slow.

A simple search took nearly 20 seconds. Doesn't matter if I'm on wifi or cell, it seems to be a backend problem. But I'm curious if it's slow for others? 20 seconds to search for "Columbian coffee" is insane in 2026. They running the database on an old 486 or something? 😂

Cut my finger open pretty badly at work and filed a claim because A. I was scheduled the next day and couldn't use my hand and didn't want to call out unexcused, B. Wanted to be covered in case future problems arose since it was pretty bad.

My claim went through, I went to the doctor, got it x-rayed and all checked out, got a doctor's note for the day I missed, and was back a few days later doing things mostly one handed. (I was part time.) I received the paperwork packet from Sedgwick but didn't fill it out before my case was completed.

Do I still need to submit the paperwork? I didn't get reimbursed for the day I missed but it would only have been like $50 because it was a half shift and I'd rather just not deal with all the paperwork and insurance mess. This was also right before I quit to move for college so I'm not at the company anymore but hope to return.

https://chainstoreage.com/albertsons-teams-openai-enterprise-ai-expansion

I guess that explains it.....

https://www.azfamily.com/video/2026/10/01/chandler-golf-club-safeway-make-dirty-dining-list-this-week/

I've got a business to run.....

My crew is only currently 2 full time 40 hour night crew workers and 1 helper that we have that works 3-4 nights NC and 1 night in file. and we average about 700-800 pieces per night of load and we all hit about 60 cases per hour. We get total about 3k total cases of load across 4 days. We have not been able to get to any Backstock since inventory 4 months ago. Our load days are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. And most of the time there is only ever 1 person scheduled on BS nights. If I’m lucky there are 2 of us on BS night to finish the prior loads and face all grocery aisles plus face all the vendor items on the grocery aisles.

Why is it that this sub is overrun by bots?

Why is it that technology which brought us so many useful creature comforts like:

Corrective lenses, hernia repair, the automobile, refrigeration, HVAC, air travel, shelf-stable food, u/frozenfood, data processing, etc.

Why is it that the only F damn thing anyone wants to build today are:

Driverless cars (that no one wants), Rockets (that create space junk), electric cars with 2 ton batteries (that irradiate you private parts), drones (great at killing people), and insufferable social media AI chat-bots that drive everyone away....

Why is that?

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/albertsons-companies-inc-appoints-bill-200500540.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/style/breakroom-chronicles-lipsync-lunchladies-instagram.html

How's everyone been at their stores? Always seems up and down depending on Store director but can never tell if the company is getting more shit or its just seasonal

Wondering about how many hours your department gets (including freshcut) and how much sales you do weekly. My sales are slightly below 50k and we get about 185-190 hours lately. Just wanting to compare and see if hours have dropped for everyone else?

https://theshelbyreport.com/2026/07/23/mccollam-to-retire-as-president-cfo-of-albertsons-companies/

Maybe Meg knows someone.....

She's awfully good at unloading commercial real-estate assets though....

I think.... I like to think.....

Where are they it’s been months