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Safeway Security Guard Bans 4-Year-Old From Store For Eating Dried Apricots
Three decades later, I still have a very vivid memory of the day I learned about shoplifting. My mom was in the checkout line at Acme and I was eye-level with the candy rack and oh man did that Rolo look tasty. So I took it, because that's what I thought you did. I was wrong and was told so by my horrified mother when I offered her some chocolate a few minutes later. She took me back in, paid for the Rolo and explained to me about shoplifting. I'm just lucky I didn't pilfer that treat from the Safeway in Everett, Washington.
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Child Seized After Fainting Mother Forgot To Pay For Sandwich
A Hawaii couple was tossed in jail and their child taken by protective services for 18 hours after the mother forgot to pay for her sandwich at Safeway.
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Safeway Catches Alleged Shoplifters With Tracking Device On Getaway Van
Management of a Portland, Ore. Safeway was sick of getting ripped off by the same couple over and over again, so its security staff placed a tracking device on the van driven by the alleged shoplifters. Now the couple, accused of swiping more than $5 million worth of goods from the Safeway over several years, is in custody.
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Safeway Pharmacist Accidentally Gives Abortion-Inducing Drug To Pregnant Woman
If you never thought to double check that bottle you pick up from the prescription counter, here's a story that will probably stick in your head the next time you're getting a 'scrip filled.
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Shopper: I Was Banned From Safeway Because I Asked For Large Chicken Breasts
A man in Colorado claims he was given the boot — and a trespassing notice that bans him from the property for one year — from his local Safeway. But it wasn't over shoplifting or anything like that; he says it was all because of a misunderstanding about his poultry order.
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DC Safeway Sells Truffles
Fancy people living in DC can satisfy their truffle craving by heading over to a Safeway in Georgetown, which is selling the hypogeous delicacy for $999.99/lb.
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Grocery "Embiggen" Ray Hits Safeway Ice Cream
It seems the Grocery Embiggen Ray, the antithesis of the
Grocery Shrink Ray, has struck Safeway Select ice cream and they're offering up a whole two quarts, just like ice cream makers used to all do back in the old timey days.
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No, You Can't Have These Cheerios For 14 Cents
Phill tells Consumerist that he saw a pricing error on cereal at his local Safeway, and brought it to the attention of store employees. In the process, he tried to invoke Safeway's price guarantee. After all, if the cereal was marked 28 cents per pound (instead of 28 cents per ounce, as it should have been) why shouldn't Phill be able to buy it at that price? Yet the store employees would hear none of it.
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Safeway Sold Me Milk That Expired More Than A Year Ago
Tia says she bought some milk from Safeway, pictured here, that expired more than a year ago. She writes:
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Bumblebee Tuna Tricks You Into Watching Commercials At The Grocery Store
—>Must we put video screens everywhere? Reader Grey says that he was fooled into pressing a button above a tiny video screen at his local Safeway — only to be subjected to a very low-res commercial for Bumblebee Tuna. More »
