03-28-2019, 11:41 AM
As far as I know, Safeway is the most expensive store in Hilo, and I'm talking about their reward card pricing model. Comparable items, when they have them, are generally cheaper at the Orchidland True Value. I thought maybe it was because Safeway was paying a lease on two stores in Hilo but only selling stuff at one of them. But as I understand it they are only paying one lease now.
I guess something you can try is when the shopper alerts you that they are Safeway, give them the phone number you want them to use that activates your safeway rewards, if that is part of the problem. I remember reading on a web site of shipt shoppers that at some stores they were able to use their own personal reward cards when the stuff gets rung up, and that helped to subsidize their fuel costs. (Win/Win the customer gets the lower card prices and the shopper gets the rewards). One poster mentioned getting her gas price down to 70 cents per gallon.
But want to hear something really crazy? Trucking the heavy bags of chicken layer feed to the Walmart in Kona somehow lowers their price by over $3/bag compared to Hilo.
ETA: the win/win stuff
I guess something you can try is when the shopper alerts you that they are Safeway, give them the phone number you want them to use that activates your safeway rewards, if that is part of the problem. I remember reading on a web site of shipt shoppers that at some stores they were able to use their own personal reward cards when the stuff gets rung up, and that helped to subsidize their fuel costs. (Win/Win the customer gets the lower card prices and the shopper gets the rewards). One poster mentioned getting her gas price down to 70 cents per gallon.
But want to hear something really crazy? Trucking the heavy bags of chicken layer feed to the Walmart in Kona somehow lowers their price by over $3/bag compared to Hilo.
ETA: the win/win stuff