Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Unexpected Nighttime Safeway Store Closure

The corporate office of Safeway just notified us that they are closing the SW Safeway store at 6 p.m. today, Wednesday, and will be opening tomorrow, Thursday, at their regular time (5 a.m.). This is due to construction issues at the new Waterfront Station site. I will update this posting when I arrive at the metro station on the way home tonight, if I see anything of consequence.

UPDATE I: It seems that the "construction" is inside the Safeway store. There is no activity around except a small fleet of Total Refrigeration vans outside the entrance.

UPDATE II: Thursday morning at 6:30, the store was still closed. No kind employee at the door to tell you when it would open, no sign indicating it was closed, just yellow caution tape and the same vans. A peek through the window revealed no visible changes. Please leave a comment to let us know how things progress through the morning, and what modifications might have been done.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Come on. Did you really expect anything resembling customer service/relations from that rat hole?

SWDC Blog said...

Ummm, I was trying not to put it that way, but now that you did....

Does anyone know if it is back in business for the day yet?

Charlotte Allen said...

Yeah, it was back in "business" (scare quotes signify ever-diminishing selection of grocery items) by 1 p.m. at any rate. The depressing, understaffed interior looked no different from the way it did on Wednesday.