SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Safeway Manager Does Reddit AMA, Explains Why Self-Checkout System Is So Bad And Lines Are Always Long An anonymous "mid-level manager" at a Bay Area Safeway store did a Reddit Ask Me Anything this week, and in it he admits that he's baffled at the choices Safeway corporate makes when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Safeway, Five Others, Back To Being Open 24 Hours After an apparent outcry from customers in the neighborhood and perhaps continuing their quest to compete with the newer Whole Foods across the street the Church and Market Safeway has returned to being
SF News Gang Beats And Robs Man In Front Of Ocean Beach Safeway A man was rushed to the hospital Wednesday night, the victim of an attack by a group of men in front of the Safeway grocery store near Ocean Beach. Police say that the
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Takes On Safeway Shoplifters KRON 4's Stanley Roberts brings us another of his People Behaving Badly segments, this time focusing on a "flash mob" of shoplifters who were caught on surveillance video robbing a SoMa Safeway en
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Church And Market Safeway No Longer 24-Hour Warzone, Now Closes At 1:30 A.M. This month marked the end of an era for the Church and Market Safeway, a grocery store previously open to the brave, drunk, strung out, and hungry at all hours of night. According
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Prep: Grocery Stores With The Longest Lines, Ranked Most slacker San Franciscans still have Thanksgiving food shopping to do, and many of us who were time-wrecked by the short holiday week still haven’t even started the big grocery pilgrimage. With
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Are SF Safeways Suddenly Putting Their Booze Behind Bars? [Update: This post has been updated with comment from Safeway communications and government relations.] Your booze runs may experience double toil and trouble at certain San Francisco Safeway stores this Halloween weekend, as
SF News Safeway Security Guard Arrested After Alleged Dog Kicking Leads To Death A now-former Safeway security guard was arrested Monday following a March 16 incident in which he allegedly kicked a small Chihuahua mix twice — the second time sending the dog fleeing into traffic where
SF News Safeway Ordered To Pay $42 Million After Overcharging Online Customers For Years Safeway was hit with a huge fine today, as a federal judge ordered the company to pay customers $42 million after overcharging them for years. From 2006 to 2011 the Pleasanton-based company misled
Arts & Entertainment Woman Scores $1 Million Scratcher At One Of SF's Sketchiest Safeways The Safeway at 350 Bay Street has a pretty tarnished reputation, from incidents that got it named one of SF's "sketchiest" earlier this year to CW Nevius' report last month that shoplifters steal
SF News Young Tourists' Car Stolen From Castro Safeway With Dog Inside Well this is upsetting. While car break-ins and such petty crimes have been exploding citywide, we have a case of a brazen car theft from the Safeway at Church and Duboce in which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Sketchiest Safeways, Ranked A couple years back SFist did you the solid of listing the city's five worst Walgreens. Now, as a new report arrives via Hoodline about one downtown Safeway in particular (145 Jackson Street)
SF News Safeway Delivery Truck Crashes, Takes Out Several Cars On Guerrero A Safeway delivery truck collided with another vehicle at 21st and Guerrero on Sunday at around 4:20 p.m. and proceeded to barrel into three parked cars and a building, as KRON
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Prep: Which Safeways Have The Longest Lines? Despite your professed love for artisanal and local everything, most of you San Franciscans will set foot in a Safeway sometime this Thanksgiving week. But not all Safeways are created equal, and it
SF News Market Street Safeway Still Evicting Recycling Center, People Still Protesting There's been an ongoing fight for several years between neighbors in the vicinity of Dolores, Duboce, and Market Streets and homeless advocates over the eviction of the outdoor, nonprofit recycling center at the
SF News Unemployed Winner Of $70 Million Takes Month To Decide To Retire Eurico Chin had time to go for a meandering walk that ended up at the Safeway at Noriega and 30th Avenue: after all, he was unemployed. Perhaps his jobless state was what caused
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Safeway Is Possibly Unsafe KRON4 News, San Francisco's #1 source of grocery store health code violations and people behaving badly is back at it today, turning their attention from the meat case at Whole Foods to the
SF News Market Street Safeway Evicts Recycling Center, Expands Starbucks The Safeway on Market Street straddling the Castro and Lower Haight neighborhoods issued an eviction notice to the recycling center that has operated on their property for almost 30 years. While the grocery
SF News Luxury Sedan Plows Into Marina Safeway One person is suffering from minor injuries after running what appears to be a luxury sedan (or at least a Nissan with upgrades) over the a cement barrier and into the shopping cart
SF News Last-Call Booze Run At Excelsior Safeway Turns Into Chaotic Hit-Run Injuring Cop We know it's probably been a boozy few days for some of you, but this story kind of takes it: A couple of dudes attempting to shoplift two bottles of vodka after the
SF News Safeway Is Trying to Rid Itself of Pesky Petition People Safeway is taking aggressive steps, including filing injunctions against specific individuals, in a fight to remove unauthorized signature-gatherers and restore sanity to store entrances. Safeway stores are popular spots for paid petition-signature-gatherers to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Today's Booze News: Market Street Safeway Likely Adding Wine Tastings Oenophiles and winedrunk sensible shoppers in the Castro, Upper Market and Lower Haight neighborhoods rejoice: you might soon be able to slip in a free tipple while shopping for toilet paper, to-go sushi
SF News Older Women Targeted In Oakland Safeway Robberies Police are warning the Oakland Hills neighborhood about a rash of frightening robberies starting at the Redwood Road Safeway. It seems "at least half a dozen shoppers have been targeted leaving a grocery
Arts & Entertainment Get Bagged by Giants at <strike>Seals Stadium</strike> Safeway Today Bay City News reports via SF Appeal that San Francisco Giants players Aaron Rowand, Jeremy Affeldt, team president Larry Baer, and Major League Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda will be bagging
SF News Judge Rules Against Tobacco Ban at Walgreen's You damn well ought to be able to buy your smokes at Walgreen's if you can buy them at Safeway, says Justice William McGuiness of the First Appelate District Court. The court ruled
