Safeway

Visit your neighborhood Safeway located at 490 L St NW, Washington, DC, for a convenient and friendly grocery experience! From our deli, bakery, fresh produce and helpful pharmacy staff, we've got you covered!...

6 / 10
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Address

490 L St NW (at 5th St NW) Washington , D.C. 20001 United States

Credit Cards Yes (incl. American Express)

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Amanda Greene

Quality meat and produce and great grocery selection. Good deals in the giant beer & wine section . Lines are long and slow. Produce can occasionally be sparse between shipments. Great store overall!

Amanda Greene

I love this grocery store !! It's enormous w/ great selection and prices. Huge wine section . Free 90 min parking in garage when you ask a cashier to validate . I always use self checkout.

Kori

Only one non-express lane, one express lane, and self-service open on a Monday night at 7:30. UNACCEPTABLE.

Michelle Parks-Robinson

Conveniently located. Always clean and well stocked. Love Safeway fresh, store packaged produce.

Maria Jackson

This safeway has a really good selection of organic and vegetarian/vegan options

Lorraine-Lori Johns

We had friendly cashiers . Found everything we needed in the store. Validated our parking ticket.

S

There is a CoinStar machine here. 9.8 cents on the dollar or free to use if you take a gift card to amazon or half a dozen other popular websites.

Serhii Lutsko

Place works till late night and it's nice overall

foodie huxtable

Awesome booze selection. Wine and craft beers galore!

BeSuperCreative

Underground parking garage ...make sure you validate your ticket for free parking :). Be prepared to wait in line . Always crowded ....check out at the Starbucks :)

Jen Mareck

A Wells Fargo branch is going in!! I can get some banking , grocery shopping & a coffee all in 1 trip!!

Cheryl Zandt

Aisles perpetually clogged with pallets (see pic) and large oddly placed product displays. Obstacle course shopping!

Stephen Fraser

Produce is rarely fresh. Go to the new Giant in CityMarket at O.

Antonio Edwards

Love this store so sorry not living in the neighborhood no more

Nick Gray

Long lines at night after 10pm :-( A local told me, "It is like this every night. And the self checkout lines are never open."

Kim Miller

rude staff , low quality produce , self-check out lanes at the end of the store are never open, and homeless people will ask you for money outside and inside of the store

Mike Radio

Why are only 2 check-out lanes, including self-check-out, open? The lines are reminiscent of USSR ar the moment.

JL

Hope you don't mind bagging your own groceries .

Kori

This place always only has 1 lane open for every 100 people. Prepare to wait... Awhile.

AJ Siegel

Cashiers were so slow. I recognize it was late at night, but they had 3 registers open and all had lines into the aisles that didn't move

Bill Sweeney

Keep your receipt so the people by the door can scribble on it like TSA agents!

Matrika B-T

watch out for chatty cashiers ...you'll never get home.

barbi

Bring a book & something for the kids to do while waiting in line . Also expect cashiers to be either pissed off or mentally checked out. Keep expectations lower than normal & u wont be disappointed

Chris Moore

The line here late night was insane. It was over an aisle long.

Kelly Ferenc

beware of robbery while waiting in line and right outside of the sliding doors! happens all the time!

Tracey S.

Their employees lack basic customer service skills and act like they could care less in general. The actual supermarket is very nice with great food selections, but too cramped in the aisles .

Melissa Y.

Journeyed here for ice cream only to find that everything in their freezer is soft and melted and disgusting, DO BETTER

Brandon Smaglo

Clerk would not bag groceries . While bagging my own, clerk then fussed at me for taking too long to finish and sign receipt. I feel like I should be on payroll when I shop here.

Michael Moroney

You haven't true incompetence until you've shopped here.

foodie huxtable

Parking garage validation available (90 minutes)

Andrew Marshall

Open 24 hours ! Sweet!

C Schanette

Management is not very helpful. Personal calls take priority. Check out clerks are GREAT.

Jeremy Jeffery

You can still buy Wine on Sundays here!

Jeffrey R

Open 24 hours . Hot food in the deli is not that bad.

Y MBK

Great grocery store . Annoying how they have bacon in two different places tho :/ eggs too.

dgalbers

In store Starbucks. Couple blocks from DC convention center . Stocks FreshPet.

David Knight

I have never been in a store where more people were as rude and disaffected. And I mean everyone. Staff and customers. I HATE it here.

Mark O'Leary

After work on a holiday weekend and no carts or baskets and awful customer service to match

Phillip Perry

Don't come here on a Sunday or Monday night. Otherwise be prepared for a LONG wait in line .

Devon W

Good luck trying to shop here on a Sunday evening. The shelves are basically empty.

Josh

See Roy the someliel for tasting and pairing tips

Maggie Esq

Check meat for expiration date, sometimes it is expired or expires that day

Progressive Bag Affiliates American Chemistry Council

Make sure you bring back your plastic bags for recycling !

Kate Combs

You have to show receipt to exit

Juan Manuel Pachon Jimenez

Free Internet Access...!!!

Jennifer Stapleton

Shop here. It's union!

Jaime Benavides

Gourmet sandwich bar is getting worse and worse. They ran out of Sandwich supplies by 1230?

Lisa Buckley

Holy terrible service. You can tell the employees take no pride in their work or company.

Miguel A

Now open 24/7

Reed Parker

Out of meat in meat market today

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