"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:09:22 -0700, "Kent" >
> wrote:
>
>> I think Safeway's exorbitant prices are pretty uniform everywhere.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> Their service is pretty marginal. Everyone frowns, unlike Trader Joes.
>>
> I have to disagree on both of those points. I think we consider
> Safeway to be sub par service to Trader Joe's because we see fewer
> people stocking shelves at Safeway and therefore have fewer people in
> the aisles to ask for assistance. The smile factor is the same as is
> the style of service once you find someone to help... and I've never
> seen a produce employee at TJ's crack open anything to offer tastes on
> the spur of the moment.
>
>
At our Safeway all the employees frown all the time, I think even at lunch
and when they go to the restroom. That is consistent with the low service
rating Safeway received in Consumer Reports recently. I've never been
offered a produce taste anywhere. In the Moraga Produce market I just
mentioned, they have sample plates all around.

Kent