My two cents as a newbie (relocating and purchasing a home) (Spokane: sales, apartment complex)

[pnwguy2]

Is there a Safeway nearby? Just asking, because as most know, they are basically the same company now.

However, Albertsons still seems to have lower prices, but doesn't offer a savings card. Albertsons does offer a gas card, though it seems to me that Safeway has more gas locations, perhaps to use at Safeways more than Albertsons. Perhaps a company goal to get more Albertson users to go to higher-end Sateway? Just a thought, nothing more...

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

Is there a Safeway nearby? Just asking, because as most know, they are basically the same company now.

However, Albertsons still seems to have lower prices, but doesn't offer a savings card. Albertsons does offer a gas card, though it seems to me that Safeway has more gas locations, perhaps to use at Safeways more than Albertsons. Perhaps a company goal to get more Albertson users to go to higher-end Sateway? Just a thought, nothing more...

Personally, I prefer the Rosauer's on 29th. Safeway (across the street) is dark and gloomy, and Albertsons has always struck me as cult-like. The few times I've gone there, I felt like the only stranger in a tight-knit little western village. It was like the Body Snatchers. I kept waiting for one of the pod people to point me out and chase me out the door...


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo

[pnwguy2]

" I felt like the only stranger in a tight-knit little western village. It was like the Body Snatchers. I kept waiting for one of the pod people to point me out and chase me out the door..."

I love your posts, Yeledaf!

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

" I felt like the only stranger in a tight-knit little western village. It was like the Body Snatchers. I kept waiting for one of the pod people to point me out and chase me out the door..."

I love your posts, Yeledaf!

Well, I'm holed up here with about a yard of snow piled up all around my house, and during the night the city snowplows will berm in my driveway, effectively cutting me off from the outside world. Not much else to do but pull up a nail-keg close to the potbellied stove and tap out messages on C-D. Sure hope that load of supplies gets in on the mornin' dogsled. Otherwise, I'll have to make do with stale Cornflakes, Campbell's cream of quinoa soup, and a leftover holiday fruitcake.

Winter in Spokane builds character. And fosters eccentric behavior.

[mistyriver]

i usually shop at Rosauer's and SuperOne on 29th. The Safeway is really bad. I've finally given up. They can always be relied upon to be surly, have only one line open with long lines and they just seem to be generally screwed up.
The Albertson's is in my daughter's neighborhood and the employees all seem to know the customers and their kids. They walk to the store and they do special things for the kids on Halloween. I don't usually shop at Albertsons but the community is sad that it's closing.

Getting a little tired of the snow. Was supposed to drive to Sandpoint tomorrow but the forecast is calling for more and blowing snow. Our house is on a hill which seems little till you deal with the bending, steep driveway in the winter. My husbands dream is to jackhammer the thing up and replace with a heated driveway like our neighbor has. Except: cha-ching.

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by mistyriver

i usually shop at Rosauer's and SuperOne on 29th. The Safeway is really bad. I've finally given up. They can always be relied upon to be surly, have only one line open with long lines and they just seem to be generally screwed up.
The Albertson's is in my daughter's neighborhood and the employees all seem to know the customers and their kids. They walk to the store and they do special things for the kids on Halloween. I don't usually shop at Albertsons but the community is sad that it's closing.

Getting a little tired of the snow. Was supposed to drive to Sandpoint tomorrow but the forecast is calling for more and blowing snow. Our house is on a hill which seems little till you deal with the bending, steep driveway in the winter. My husbands dream is to jackhammer the thing up and replace with a heated driveway like our neighbor has. Except: cha-ching.

Loved the news story today about the Californian who tried to rob a store because he needed bus fare to get out of Spokane and away from the snow...

[rumi79]

I'm still pretty happy with all the snow! I have not seen this much snow in my life! The kids made an igloo in the back yard and with the amount of snow we are getting almost every other day, I think we can make a whole village.

It's funny how everyone I talked to when I came in for my interview last February was telling me how you don't have a lot of snow, but if it snows it would stay for a while because the temperatures would be around 32 in the winter. No one mentioned frigid winter (other than Yaledaf lol) to me. But as I said in the summer, we are embracing the cold, having fun in the snow, the kids are learning to help our elderly neighbors by shoveling their driveways; life is good (minus my achy tailbone which I injured by falling on my butt while hauling away the trash)

[OneTimeSEALover]

Ah, the snow. I remember it from the 1940's. When we lived there, also, the radio station played Hank Williams. The very first country music I ever heard was on the radio in Spokane. We had farms. The last one was on Euclid near Otis Orchards. Across the road was the Spokane River. Amazing how little was necessary to keep kids amused. Spokane today is not anything like what we knew. But it is interesting to read the problems of today.

[ShellBell7984]

Thanks for the info! We're relocating in June and have been looking for this kind of info

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by ShellBell7984

Thanks for the info! We're relocating in June and have been looking for this kind of info

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