albertsons and safeway to me are no go zones.
safeway VERY VERY rarely, and albertsons never.
last time i went to safeway was to get a script filled, and they told me it would be 4 hours. nope not gonna do it.
I was in a Safeway about 4 weeks ago.
It was like stepping onto the Enterprise Holodeck!
Signs and notices and monitors running commercials everywhere.
I don’t need an other-worldly experience when I go out to buy some eggs...
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4 hours would be wonderful at my local supermarket pharmacy. Most of the time the pharmacy would tell me to come back the next day. Much of the time the pharmacy runs out of common medications and the customer has to wait till the medication is ordered, then delivered. Could be up to a week.
For the meds I have to take daily, I've switched to the “mail order” pharmacy service from my insurance carrier. Saves time and aggravation.
The Alertsons (Acme Markets) here in the Philadelphia are MUCH better since Cerberus took over. We still do the vast majority of our grocery shopping at BJ’s, but in recent months Acme has taken a fair amount of the money we used to spend at Walmart.