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YEah, sadly albertsons bought out safeway a few years ago and the deals have gone downhill big time since then.

I used to save 60% + when I shopped before the takeover. They would often have 10% off your entire order, or 10$ off an order of 50 or more (about once a month for a week). They had way more buy one get one frees etc.

Since then the average you can save (not including points etc) has dropped to 30-40%. If you add the points in that does bring it up a bit more, possibly to about 50%.

That being said, even the BASE price without deals is cheaper than cotsco, and yeah, the meat is better quality at safeway (all of them). Costco meat is slightly above walmart in quality, safeway meat is slightly below Haegen etc (very high priced grocery stores).

Anyway people won't believe that safeway is still so much cheaper, I have literally shown friends the receipt and explained how to use the app to add coupons digitally etc, but they just never switch over.

If you spend $200 a month on groceries, you could save almost 100$ of that by shopping at safeway using the digital coupons and buying based on what is on sale every week.

If you shop for a full family, that could save you significantly more than that.

IF there is a safeway near you, go to their website, and sign up for a card so you can use just 4 you. The discounts you get from the just 4 you digital coupons stack with any specials in store. If a gallon of crystal gyster water is normally 1.25 but there is a weekly sale on their flier dropping it to $1 each, and then a just 4 you coupon that reduces it by 40 cents, each gallon of crystal gyser is only 60cents.

In some cases these combine to allow you to buy/stock up on things for insanely low prices. $1.50 for a can of tuna fish, on sale that week 4 for 3$, with a just 4 you discount of 50cents per can, and you end up paying $1 for 4 cans of tuna.

Back in the day with the 10% discounts etc it was REALLY great, since that stacked with everything else. This was pre-covid and back then boneless skinless chicken breasts were about $2 a pound. A sale would drop em to $1.30, digital coupon drop it to 80 cents and the 10% off your entire order would let you get the chicken breasts for 72 cents a pound.

Now I usually stock up on meats based on the sales. Tri tip bottoms out at $5 a pound, rib eyes are (unless it's a holiday), 7.99 a pound. T-bones are always on sale but I don't really like them anymore, but 5.99 a pound etc. I always have enough meat in my freezer for about a month in case there are no sales (which never really happens).

I stock up on things like chilli (nalleys') when it's $1 a can or less (just recently it was 2 for 3$ and then -1$ from a digital coupon, so $1 each), tuna (deal mentioned above), pasta sauce (both prego for semi-home made where I add beef/sausage bell pepers etc, and Ragu for "microwaved fast" dishes) usually for about $1.50 each. Cheese is ALWAYS on sale at safeway but it also lasts forever in the fridge. I get the lucerne swiss and stock up when it's about $1.50 each package. They have the whole milk Galbani Mozzerella on sale alot as well, usually $6 but often on sale for 3 (which is when I stock up on it). Great to add extra cheese on a pappa murphies pizza, to make lasagna, to cut up and add to a salad etc.

I can't stress enough how much it would help people if they looked into safeway and shopping using digital coupons and based on weekly adds. Winco, Fred Meyers, Walmart, Costco etc, none of them come close to comparing.