Safeway

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, a Safeway delivery driver noticed something odd in the parking lot—a shopping cart filled with cans of beans, arranged like a tiny pyramid. No one claimed it, and no one else seemed to notice. Over the next few days, more pyramids appeared—tomatoes, soup, even boxes of cereal. The driver started leaving notes: ‘Who’s building these?’ Finally, an old neighbor confessed she was doing it for fun, just to brighten everyone’s day. Now, whenever someone sees a new pyramid, they smile and say, “Another good deed from our secret Safeway architect!”

2. One night, as an exhausted Safeway cashier was counting her register drawer, she heard someone whisper: ‘You missed a dime.’ She looked around but saw no one. The next day, another employee found a penny on the floor near the same spot. Soon enough, employees started finding coins everywhere—even in the freezer section and on top of the cereal shelves. One morning, a delivery driver found a quarter stuck to his hat. Finally, after weeks of coin-finding fun, the manager announced that Safeway had hired a new mascot—a talking penny named Pennypacker who now lived in the store’s stockroom.

3. In the early hours of one foggy morning, a Safeway security guard patrolled the aisles and suddenly froze—an old lady was pushing a shopping cart filled with nothing but balloons. The guard smiled and asked her gently where she was headed. With a twinkle in her eye, she replied, 'I’m going to throw a party for all the balloons!' Turned out it was her granddaughter’s birthday, and she wanted every balloon to have a friend. The guard helped her load everything into her car, and Safeway became the unlikely hero of that day's celebrations.

4. Late one afternoon, while stocking shelves, a Safeway employee overheard a mysterious announcement over the store’s PA system: ‘Attention shoppers—your groceries will be delivered directly to your home… for just one extra banana.’ Curious, the employee followed the instructions and bought an extra banana with his own groceries. That night, as he was putting away his purchases, a brown paper bag appeared on his doorstep—containing only a single banana. Inside was a note: 'Banana for your thoughts.' The next day, everyone in town started buying bananas.