Food rescue program helps fill plates as hunger hits 10-year high
DENVER — With hunger in Colorado at its highest level in a decade and federal food aid shrinking, the Food Bank of the Rockies is turning to its “Food Rescue Program” to help bridge…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #7DaystoEndHungerCampaign #CommunityTable #FoodBankoftheRockies #FoodRescueProgram #hunger #Relief #safeway
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2511350/food-rescue-program-helps-fill-plates-as-hunger-hits-10-year-high/
This perfectly describes the #Safeway shopping experience.
@ryanboswell I don't have it but why does using #ApplyPay cause problems & does this only happen with Chase cards?
FWIW, as you note, I use my physical #Chase #Amazon credit card at #Safeway w/o any problems.
So apparently using a Chase issued credit card via Apple Pay can randomly crash Safeway’s POS. The physical card (tap or insert) is fine.
The store manager helped me out after I bricked two of their checkout lanes and immediately knew and asked “oh is that a Chase card?”.
It’s not 100% of the time, but when it decided to not work, apparently it is persistent.
So, save yourself the hassle at Safeway and if your go to is a Chase issued card, use the physical one or an alternate issuer via Apple Pay.
Noticed Safeway raised the price on some items this week, and then listed them as on sale-- for what WAS the normal price last week, and then listed the new normal price as now higher.
That's NOT a sale. It's a precursor to raising prices 😐
Such a deceptive practice. How can something be on sale if it NEVER sold at the higher price?
Today in stupid US corporate grocery prices, how much is a quart of milk at Safeway? More than half-a-gallon of milk, IF you give up your privacy and remember to scan the coupon that they should just give to you automatically for doing that last thing.
#groceryprices #corporategreed #safeway #shellgame #grocerybingo #milk #albertsons
There are different corporations involved. Windmill Mushrooms has been retaliating & refusing to bargain with workers who want to organize in the #PNW - those are subject to #Boycott
Glad to know there's a supplier using #Union #Labor
Gonna look for a place to buy that brand
#Safeway & #FredMeyer in #Tacoma both sell Windmill 😒
What's disgusting?
#UnionBusting
Watch your backs... and your grocery receipts.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/business/instacart-ai-prices-study
#Instacart #Costco #Kroger #Safeway #Target #Albertsons #AI #ML
I don't celebrate #Thanksgiving but I always buy a frozen #turkey or 2 before Thanksgiving because they are so deeply discounted at this time of year.
In the past, I've gotten a 20# turkey for as little as 19 ¢/# with a contingent purchase of other items of $25 or more.
But, so far, this month, the best price best deal on turkey that I've seen is 39¢/# on sale to "members" at #Safeway marked down from $1.99/# but the deal is limited to only 1 turkey.
I already roasted a 14.43# turkey that I bought on these terms for just $5.63 vs $28.72 & I be looking for rhe best deal to buy & roast another before Thanksgiving when the deals will end.
Learned a new word phrase today. It sounds like 2 words unless you are shrieking it. Dejá dammit is that moment you have a split second vision of something glass you are handling dropping to the floor and shattering. And then it does.
Not an auspicious start to this day. A whole hour till my larger stovetop percolater finishes my coffee. Finally 7 am I sitting and sipping, as @Uncleharvey would say. But at 7 am it really a good cup of coffee now. And I guess I’ll be doing a trip to the evil modern Sears Roebuck catalog to look for a replacement glass knob for my smaller percolator. Maybe I should get 2. Hmmm
Oh, may as well attach another grocery store rant again as it’s been 3 days in a row I think of products I seek and have trouble finding. In this case the photo shows the 3 flavors of pudding mix I can actually use from this wall of options.
Silly me I thought I could just buy a variety of pudding mixes on sale. Here there is only the Jello brand. But old me still prefers “Cook and Serve” not Instant. Instant doesn’t have the texture I like, nor does it adequately incorporate banana slices as I planned. I can choose only from the packages I marked in purple on this photo. I get chocolate, vanilla or, oddly, butterscotch. If you exclude mine, my gosh look at this wall of varieties and flavors that are Instant. I am behind the times. #Pudding #Jello #Safeway #Phoenix #Arizona
If you wondered if cobalt here is done ranting about so-called food at the grocery store and prices, ah, nope. Exhibit 4 or so. American readymade gelatin is usually just called Jello due to that popular powerhouse brand. However people looking to buy the readymade small cups (6 oz) usually buy the Hunt brand because it’s far cheaper. Right now the typical 4 pack is on sale for 99¢ but regular price is $2.49.
But oh my, maybe don’t make the mistake of buying the new Hunt brand flavors in the 6 packs. Get this: SALE price is $4 for the 6 cups if you buy 2 packs for $8 total. Yikes! The “regular” price for 6 cups is $4.99. Egad. This is fruit flavor and sugar in gelatin form. See the photo with arrows to the various flavors and pricing. The actual Jello brand gelatin cups are in the cooler where you get prepackaged cheese. Seriously, you don’t want to know how much the Jello brand is. #Gelatin #Jello #SnackPac #Groceries #Safeway #Phoenix
Ok, I’m on a rip right now since I made a point of looking at some Safeway grocery store prices of products I buy occasionally. This post continues where I left off on a few previous posts and comments. This one is about condiments. I decided after all to buy fish sauce for my sweet chipotle chili I’m going to make today.
Calling attention to @MLE_online because although you said I could sub soy sauce, I remember from about 5-6 years ago there ARE ways I can use fish sauce again. I think it was in scrambled eggs, of all things! So now I’ll look into using this condiment again when I spot it in a recipe. Ideas welcome.
So there were no choices available at Safeway and I did buy the “Thai Fish Sauce” for $5.99. Bet if I’d had time to drive 9 miles to Lee Lee grocery I’d find 10 kinds and most far less. First photo has it enlarged and I made arrows to it. Second photo is the main section of Asian and other specialty sauces and marinades. Thought maybe someone would be interested in them or the pricing. Comments welcome. Bet @PhoenixSerenity has ideas 😁
#FishSauce #Sauce #Condiments #Safeway #Arizona #Phoenix
Safeway FINALLY lowered the pricing on 20oz sodas. They're now $2.99.
...and it's being called every day pricing.
It's still more expensive than buying the same product at 7-Eleven, but at least this is a step in the right direction.
Never understood why Safeway was charging more for a 20oz soda than a 2 liter soda.
This is why I stopped buying soda at Safeway--- they're overcharging.
It really should be in the $2.40 range.
Better pricing is available at Target, Walmart, and 7-Eleven. Pretty much anywhere else.
Fred Meyer completely f'd up their interface.
Old: Start My Order was pages of choices.
New: It's a small side-scroller on a page with other side-scrollers and ads.
My old one was like 4 pages deep. Images and text were twice the size. I'm supposed to one-at-a-time this as if I'm on a cellphone?? How many damn hours do you expect people to spend scrolling through what used to be on a flat page??
Wtaf. Well, I guess FM wants us to search for new grocers, like they're the Bluesky of turnips. This may be my last order from them.
I haven't been to Safeway's site in a while. I wonder how bad it is now.
I'm so stupid. #Safeway gives you 10% off coupons when you get vaccines. So I got like $200 worth of food after getting the flu and covid shots, and as I got to the car, I reached into my pocket for the key... and remembered the coupon.
#Safeway (#Albertsons) self-check-out station software bug - consumer-facing *production software* in use in major national grocery store chain! WTH! - app in endless loop. Message: “Please wait, help is on the way”. Workaround: go to other checkout station and scan everything all over. ☹️😡 Hyper-capitalist commerce in the early 21st century.😡
#SoftwareBug #BadSoftware #StupidSoftware #EverythingIsStupid #EverythingIsBroken
Wow, Safeway had half empty shelves all over the place today. Pretty much the entire refridgerated section for milk, juice, cold brew and creamers looked like it had been wiped out.
The water section was partially bare too.
I feel like a broken record from week to week, but there are signs that all is not well.
Earlier this week, at another #Safeway, they were entirely out of produce bags - all bag holders were empty (4 shown in the photo collage below). So I guess piercable bags are better than no bags? Perhaps I should start bringing in nets or so.
