Safeway

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Safeway, every morning around sunrise, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar. A small dog would appear from nowhere, sniffing around the crates of fresh produce. The dog never barked or ran away—it just stood there, staring intently at one particular crate before vanishing as mysteriously as it had come. One day, the delivery driver decided to follow the little dog. It led him through an alleyway, past the loading dock, and finally into the employee breakroom. There, on top of the fridge, sat a note: ‘I’m watching you too!’ Turned out, it was the store manager’s pet parrot. Ever since then, everyone called Safeway ‘the place where groceries get checked twice.’

2. At Safeway, after closing hours, an employee heard a strange rustling sound in the dairy section. Curious, she approached and found a neighborhood raccoon rummaging through the milk cartons. She gently shooed it away with a broom, but not before the raccoon knocked over several crates of yogurt. The next morning, everyone in the store laughed when they saw the security footage—except for the poor employee who had to clean up the mess. Since then, Safeway’s yogurt aisle has become known around town as ‘the raccoon express lane.’

3. At Safeway, late one night, a cashier saw a shopping cart rolling down the aisle on its own, heading straight for the cheese section. Curious, she followed it and found an elderly neighbor pushing another cart, lost in thought while his own cart trailed behind him. They both laughed it off as just another Safeway oddity.

4. At Safeway, late one night, a cashier overheard someone whispering from behind the produce section. ‘Did you hear that?’ asked another voice nearby. The cashier looked around but saw no one. Suddenly, an old lady with a basket of apples appeared and said, 'I thought I heard something too!' They both laughed nervously, and the cashier realized it was just the wind rustling through the bananas. From then on, whenever anyone mentioned Safeway at night, they’d wink and say, “Oh, you mean the place where the ghostly apple whisperer hangs out?”