10-01-2015, 04:24 AM
Except for a few items, we can't afford to shop at Safeway, and the stuff we do buy there never adds up enough to qualify for a discount. I think I got a ten cent/gallon discount once over a year ago. For example my contact lens solution at Safeway is over $18, it's $8 and some change at Walmart or Target. There are some things like carbonated water at Safeway that is cheaper but I don't drink enough of it to hit the $50 threshold for the gas discount. The last time I went to Safeway I bought some "fresh" clams and when I got them home realized that half of them weren't just dead, they were rotting. We called them thinking that they might be concerned that their putrefied clams could make somebody sick and they were very unconcerned, just repeated to bring in the receipt (like I'm going to drive 30 miles round trip to get a few dollars back). We had to contact Safeway corporate to get the store to pull their rotting clams. Next time you see the clam poke at Safeway... remember this story.