Safeway

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. In Safeway's dairy aisle, a regular noticed milk bottles occasionally rearranging themselves on the shelves. His young daughter insisted they were dancing when nobody else was around. One day, a delivery driver overheard the girl whispering to her dad, ‘They’re doing the milk bottle tango tonight!’ Soon after, customers started noticing that whenever she approached, the bottles would indeed shuffle in time with her giggly little footsteps. Safeway decided it was just another quirky local tradition—until someone suggested hiring her as the store’s unofficial mascot.

2. In Safeway’s produce section, every morning at exactly 8:30, apples would start rolling down the aisle toward the cash registers. A little girl named Emma, who often accompanied her mom, would stop and watch in wide-eyed wonder as each apple bounced past her cart. One day, an elderly gentleman noticed the apples’ daily journey and decided to help out. Every morning he’d discreetly push them back onto the shelves just before they reached the checkout. Soon enough, word spread among the neighbors that ‘Grandpa Bob’ was keeping Safeway’s magical apples in line. The only mystery left was whether Grandpa Bob ever stopped to chat with Emma or if he simply enjoyed watching her smile.

3. At night, when Safeway closed its doors, a mysterious voice announced over the intercom: ‘All employees must leave immediately—we’ve run out of bananas.’ One evening, a delivery driver heard the message and thought it was a prank. He went back inside for one last banana. The next morning, everyone found him still standing in the aisle, holding an armful of bananas and muttering, 'I’ll never ignore that voice again.'

4. In Safeway’s frozen food aisle, whenever a little boy entered, packages of ice cream would suddenly slide off the shelves and land in front of him. One day, an old man entered Safeway, pushing his shopping cart slowly. As he approached the freezer section, a package of ice cream rolled towards him, then another, until they formed a small mountain. The old man looked up, smiled, and said, ‘Finally, someone else who appreciates my sense of direction!’