Safeway Garneau

This is a pretty big supermarket in Canada, similar to our Quanlian but on a larger scale. The prices of some vegetables are cheaper than in Asian supermarkets. The inside is neat and spacious, the things are neatly arranged, and they also sell flowers!

It's okay but their selection and prices could be better. Overpriced for no reason in comparison to other grocers.

Review from March 25,2022
They have started to charge exponential amount of money in the hot food section. Just 410 gram of Mac and Cheese has costed me $11.03 plus GST today.

Old Review (3years Ago)
This Safeway is located in a very convenient location, and they have friendly service staff. They also don't make you pay for bags and the cashiers pack your bags for you. It is small and offers limited selection at premium prices despite the fact that its main customers are students and senior citizens. The vegetables are often not as good quality. The hot food selection is also very limited. Since Sobeys took over, many of the items have been replaced with poorer substitutes or have disappeared from the shelves.

I was at Safeway Garneau to buy a sandwich at 9: 56pm tonight, but their manager with dark blue shirt didn't let me in. Just please be aware that they lock the doors at least 5 minutes before their closing time.

I was just asking nicely for a washroom and key and this small old lady watching the self checkout gave me an attitude, she told me to wait at the washroom door, after waiting for 10 minutes she finally came and open the door and slammed it and walked away without saying anything. Rude as hell.

Small but carries almost everything I ever need. Most staff are helpful and will guide you when you're lost. Store is clean, always clean. Meat and milk have never disappointed from here.

Store was good however today there was someone "huffing" immediately outside the entrance and shortly afterwards walked in took a large pack of cheezies off shelf and walked out. Some other customers attempted to intervene but staff did nothing. The thief was still on the property when we left and we told the security guard (wasn't around prior) and he said yea I'm watching. Not sure how safe this Safeway is as this was midday on a Sunday!

Not cheapest in town I guess, but impressed with good quality fresh vegetables, bread and meat. Will defenitely go back there.

Not a grocery store I would ordinarily go to;. It was long dubbed "ghetto Safeway" by students and locals alike. So yesterday's visit was a pleasant surprise. My first time back since their major "refresh" I found this store to be bright and clean, well stocked, staffed with great people and even the produce section was loaded with.great selection of fresh and inviting items. My compliments Safeway. Ghetto no more but rather an attractive local grocery option.

Great experience shopping here. It's a small grocery store but they have everything you need. They even have great ready to eat sandwiches and stuff. Great for students who live close by.

Well great products and sweetest treats its Truly Too Bad that My True Love took it into his own hands and ditch, ummm popsicles, pop, and ice. Ohh and me =, (

The mask mandate is off for Edmonton yet was met with ignorant stares and attitudes. Not even a hello or thank you in return when each were offered to the self-serve clerk. Just rude - i'll take my 21 year shopping regularly Safeway business to Save on Foods from now on.

The service is always nice, they have very respectful cashiers.
They have good variety of products. On the expensive side yeah. But they've got good quality. They are among the very few places in Edmonton to get the halal version of the korean ramyon. They also have gongshim brand. I go to them whenever I needed those although it's not easy for me to go there.
They are the only ones that sells a specific brand of bagles that I'm a huge fan of. I can't find that in Walmart or superstore

I have been in Garneau for thirty-six years and enjoy the convenient close by Safeway location as I have no car. I find the staff to be usually friendly and helpful. The selection and quality is sufficient for many of my senior, single person needs. I try to buy things opportunistically as various items go on and off sale each week. I especially take advantage of customer appreciation discount day which is usually the first Tuesday of every month to make a large quantity purchase. It must exceed $50 to get the 15% discount. This Tuesday purchase usually includes non-prescription drugstore, or household items that I stock up on. The across the avenue Shoppers Drug Mart's regular prices look MUCH higher for the same sort of item to me. Shoppers seniors' discount prices aren't as good as Safeway's 15% off day prices or sometimes even the regular Safeway price. Shoppers' deep discount sales items are all I'll ever buy there unless it's an item unavailable elsewhere close bye. I load up on discount points offerings on my Air Miles card using the convenient Safeway app or GetMyOffers web site. New offers come out every week. They don't appear that rewarding to me and I expend little effort on them. (Note. I have repeatedly experienced one particular checkout clerk failing to properly scan my rewards card, so would advise you always confirm it was done successfully.)

I only buy maybe a quarter of my groceries at Safeway. I avoid Safeway's deli salads and wraps as better selection and quality can be found at Sunterra. Sunterra has a points card. Save-On-Foods on Calgary Trail and 78 Ave is a newer, more upscale grocery store within walking distance. It generally appears to have higher prices but sometimes better quality and selection than Safeway and has a lot of unique offerings. I visit No Frills (the discount grocery on 104 ST and 80 Ave) regularly. They've got some nice President's Choice (in house brand) products - the same ones as sister company Shoppers but at a lower price usually. No Frills often offers better pricing on the same product than Safeway but sometimes only very marginally so in which case Safeway is the better deal for me taking into account Visa rewards card cashback. No Frills does not accept Visa but you can use their PC Mastercard.

I use the 'Flipp' app and website to digitally browse my favourite neighbourhood grocery store weekly sale flyers. A few times with Safeway I have found they don't have the item advertised in their flyer in stock or on sale here. I will incidentally recommend the free (basic version) UnderArmour 'MyFitnessPal' app with its nutrition database of nn million+ foods. It can be useful to visually compare, side by side, the information of similar food items with the idea of intelligently picking the healthiest version to choose to eat regularly!

The store is looking much nicer with better selection in some areas post the upgrade. The retail grocery industry I read is moving to smaller sized 'grocerants' because of the increase in online shopping and Sobeys is building four highly automated food distribution centres based on UK technology. Plus. Sobeys has begun bringing its discount chain to western Canada.

(Note the interesting letter codes on your Safeway bill to the right of each item. 'GC' implies you paid GST on the item. 'R' means 'restricted' which I believe means you didn't get the 15% discount on that item.)

This place has a varieties of goods in stock. The sales associates are very friendly and helpful.

Excellent customer service, friendly, good selection and very helpful and friendly staff. I recommend this location for sure!

Since the renovation this store ALWAYS LOOKS WELL ORGANIZED & Very Clean! It feels like a Brand NEW Store The flow is well done!

Website said Pfizer vaccine at this location not AstraZeneca. And if it didn’t say that then Safeway did not take enough care to ensure that the person booking online was certain that it was AstraZeneca. Was cancelled last minute because I’m 39 y/o. They did nothing for me

This store has been completely renovated. It seems like there is more room inside and definitely more organized. They have added an excellent deli section and precooked food section. Definitely a good place to go for your groceries. I had a good experience at this location.

Clean store with everything you would expect at a Safeway. Shop for you supper and grab some wine at the liquor store.

Tiny produce section and not all the products you might need for your grocery haul, but they offer lots in a small space!

Love the layout, location and selection of this Safeway. I find the staff go out of their way to ensure a positive customer experience while adhering to Covid-19 protocols. A repeat customer for sure.

I think that it has been under construction long enough now. Yes, there's a pandemic but lots of people are back working, I hate going there mostly because it's so cramped and it feels yucky. Can't find anything. Sorry.

This location is undergoing a substantial remodel with most of the store being redesigned and updated with new equipment. There have also been major staffing changes, including the managers.
This means the store will need all of its reviews redone. Basically ignore any review before September 2020. Look for reviews in January 2021 or later.
Meanwhile they are doing their best to provide good service to customers during the remodel.
The overall experience is currently about 3 stars, but only because of the inconvenience of the remodel and the constant changing of stocked locations for items in the store and on the shelves. That said the staff are doing their best to minimize customer impact and the remodel looks great so far so on the scale of a store mid remodel it gets a 4.5 star rating.

Looking forward to the completion of the remodel and shopping in this nice, new, bright, clean, better organized store.

I will redo my review again once things settle down and all the upgrades and construction are complete.

Safeway is under some renovation, right now, which makes it kinda better place to shop. All PPE ARE IN PLACE safe shopping everyone.

I never had a problem here until today. I went to a cashier and he refused to ring me in cause I didn't wear a mask. Thats absolute discrimination and for no reason. Like I'm not close talking to u or kissing u. Just do ur job and leave ur opinions and feelings out of this.

It's an okay place for groceries, but they don't always have the greatest selection compared to other Safeways in town. On occasion they have stocked goods that are well past the expiration date, but that doesn't happen often.

Not very big and kind of getting outdated but the staff were very nice.

If you need to use the washroom, ask for the key at the self checkout area. The staff staff will come with you to open the door. Washroom was clean.

Fresh vegetables and Plethora of groceries. Big parking lot. Self check out facilities. Staff are very friendly and professional.

I live in Parkdale 118 ave and 82 st never have more than 2 tills open today went for some cat food for kitty get to the one open till 4 people with carts loaded to the top screw that walk across the street to Shoppers Drug Mart pay $1.19 a tin instead of 65 cents they keep saying they are short of staff hire more people go outside 3 women smoking around the corner I normally now go to Walmart ever since they became a part of Sobeys never see people working all the tills Superstore Walmart are very busy but all tills are open. If I want a candy bar gummy bears and a bottle of Coke I just go to the gas bar

If your name is Kyle, you like decals of tribal tattoos on your truck, and punching holes in drywall is your dealio, the sales at this location may excite you.

Usually not super busy but rather small and not a large selection as well as rather over priced on certain things.

Limited selection in all departments and prices remain high. They were an early adopter of pineapple crush, hats off to them.

The staff is very friendly, and as others have said their fruits and vegetables are quite excellent. Just for my needs, I don't find the store meets them. I use this store for pick up's, or if I'm running low. No shade, as the cool kids say.

In terms of layout and prices, it's more of a giant 7-11 than a grocery store. Expensive, but that's the price you pay for convenience, I suppose.

They have issues with people hassling you for money in the lobby or outside - not polite people, but aggressive people. One man followed me for two blocks after I refused him, and that's just recently. On the rare occasion that they do have their hired security, however, this is not a problem at all.

It's clean, they have far more delicious baked goods than any other grocery stores nearby, and they're rarely out of stock of anything. All in all, it's a perfectly fine Safeway.

Very outdated store and produce is often not the greatest. Location is great, which is the only reason I will return.

It's good for basic needs, clean, and the staff are friendly. But considering the location it has surprisingly little selection for ppl with dietary restrictions. If there are any gluten or dairy free options on the shelves (which often there are none) they are usually crammed messily into small areas without clear signage.

I don't like paying an extra¢50 on brown bread over Northgate loaves of in_store bakes
It's bullshir

The late hours are good, and it's in a convenient spot, but the food is not always fresh, and it's not big enough to carry everything most Safeway stores have in stock.

For me this particular Safeway is convenient and has fresh produce and fruits. I shop there all the time and definitely recommend it

There is a good sale going on at Safeway! 24 pack of pop is 677 and 50 roll of toilet paper is 10.99. Pick up the flyer when you go into Safeway!

I always buy the bums outside an Arizona green tea, carry on the tradition for me please. Staff here are great too and open late, best place to get some groc if the Walmart's closed

We need another store in the university area. Very limited selection, not a good display, elevated prices.