Artie is a great butcher! Very helpful and friendly. Cooked this on our Traeger smoker/grill for New Year’s Eve!

The best grocery store in town. Also, the only grocery store in town.

This was my all night store hookup before covid.But it has all my food needs. Staff is very helpful. And added bonus is the Starbucks right across the street.

We have tried several Safeway stores within reasonable driving distance and this location has become our go-to. It is well stocked and organized and counter check out is normally quite fast without long waiting lines. Parking has always been available. Only wish is that it would stay open a little later

The staff is pretty friendly and helpful. The store always looks clean and organized.

It is the only grocery store in our town, and we have many older people here. It is a very affluent community, in the past Ive been puzzled about the lack of higher quality produce and such. They do seem to be making an effort, things are looking better the produce is looking better, and usually the people are nice.

A little bit pricey very nice store all in all

The checker was so very nice today. I really appreciated his kindness

Great place to meet up as a halfway spot from Antioch and Hayward

Its Safeway in a nice area so they have decent products.

It was awesome!!! I love this Safeway, its a nice set up and a beautiful location!!.

Only a few minutes from Oakland but what a difference clean inviting open late. Staff was kind and friendly. Highly recommend if you dont mind a little of drive.

I wish there could be better with customer service and treat all the customers the same it seems if you dont have the right complexion you might not make the connection they need to adjust that and treat everyone as an equal!

I can say with certainty that Safeway has better prices than many competitors with an equal selection of products. Even if the Albany store is smaller than others nearby.

I love Safeway great desserts fantastic salads and sandwiches and chicken and basically whatever you want Safeway is the bomb

Excellent experience at my sons store

Our latest experience was great. Precise and accurate items. Nothing was skipped or forgotten

They have everything youd expect a supermarket to have.

Love it, however prices are still too high. I still prefer Luckys.

They dont sell any screwdrivers

If you need practice waiting in line and or being ignoredby staff,this is the place. count on 1 person checking and 1-2 out of 3 self check outs working,if self check out light starts blinking, well good luck getting help with that,some of the longer term staff are nice,but i think managment knows we only have 1 grocery in town,so they are ok with C- work ethic and staffing. short staffing surely makes it harder on the staff that does care

Dropped off donations today.

It was way safe

They come in here for years friendly staff

I love Safeway, but with the hours of service that have been cut back is annoying because their is no other Safeway near me that is open later hours.

I love Orinda Safeway. It is so easy and small.

Excellent, though behind on restocking 3 day sale items

100% clean!!! N was perfect; PLUS was played by the rules safe Big thanks to my strawberry reserves!!! NJoy!!!

Everything expense 🥴

If you like paying $1,000 for your groceries thats a place to go

Nice clean fast friendly

Awesome Safeway in a great location!

I LOVE shopping at this store! Great employees and selection of all products

The blue cheese is not expensive enough!

Rude checker closed the line on me after acknowledging me as her next customer. Asked that I wait in the aisle due to maintain social distancing which I was happy to do. She closed her register as I walked up and did not offer to take me on another register but instead relieved another checker. As she was waiting to relieve the other checker she proceeded to touch her hair and glasses (while wearing her work PPE gloves) potentially spreading germs to customers’ groceries.

Well maintained and full stocked store. They have everything.

Store management should consider staffing more cashiers in the evenings. This store consistently has a 5-6 person line at each register, but only 2 or 3 cashiers working. I avoid this store when I can as a result, since Ill save 5-10 minutes if I can stop elsewhere for groceries.Updated to 1 star from 2. 5 PM on a Saturday. 30+ people in line. Two cashiers.

I love Safeway

Most Safeways are hit and miss, so coming to Orinda was a surprise. The hand sanitizer was in a easy-to-find place, and the security guards actually looked friendly!

No worries. They have it all. And hand sanitizer.

The lines are always way too long during peak hours (after work). I mentioned this twice to the manager on duty and the reply, both times was simply ones of not caring. This Safeway is horribly mismanaged. There are plenty of good grocery stores near me. I will be shopping elsewhere.

Fast friendly service

Great location not many people feels great to shop there

Went at 6:30pm on a Sunday. No crowds, it was easy to keep my distance from others, and they had everything I needed.

They always have the items on my 90+ yr old moms grocery listAnd now I can go thru the store from Left to Right, since I know the store from getting moms groceries weekly for the last 5 weeks ! 😁

Terrible service, Just like other reviews said Waiting line always long, one cashier kept complaining that I used self-checkout, needed her to check the weight sensor twice. By the way, she was standing at 3 ft from me and doing nothing, which also happens before Thanksgiving. Ill never go to this Safeway, though this Safeway is closest to me.

Even with COVID the Orinda Safeway is STILL understaffed — with too few registers open — so there’s long lines (spaced six feet apart) winding through the store. Not cool! If Safeway really cared about customers’ safety rather than their profits they would adequately staff their stores, so customers can get in & out quickly, and minimize their exposure. Until they do, I will go to another grocery store that cares more about my safety.

Good produce... good prices on everything except beef.

I love shopping at Safeway for their pastries

Ok store. Kind of antsy. But nice store

High prices

I shop at the Orinda Safeway regularly. It is an okay place to shop but if you are not from Orinda the locals and the staff seem to be able to smell you because their noses always seem out of place.

Love my local Safeway. Nice and convenient. Always great service and they always seem to have the basics for such a small store.

The store on Patterson Blvd is absolutely amazing! Its a smaller store, so dont expect the variety in inventory, but if you want a clean, well organized store, this is the one. The produce also seems fresher here than in the bigger store.

Good selection late hours

Totally Awesome. Better than any I have ever experienced.

Nice, smaller grocery store and convenient for me to stop in on my way home to Richmond.

I end up stopping at this Safeway 4-5 times a week for the past 9 months or so and have never had issue. Everyone is always friendly, even during lunch rush and are very on top of opening new checkouts when there is a sudden influx of people wanting to check out which I really appreciate since most of us at lunch only have so much time and dont want to spend it in line.

This one is one of the biggest grocery store in San Francisco. I love the fact that its open 24hrs everyday. This is one of the only store in local area that has almost always all the produce all day. Certain pastries run out before 8am. I do hate the fact that there is hardly any employee around to help. Thank goodness for shelf checkout. Certain frozen foods run out sooner than youd expect and are not in stock in for a day or two. Their hot food bar is mah at best. Theyve gotten little better with in-store coffee shop. Restrooms are clean considering how many homeless people use them.

Wow In this health crisis I went shopping and just left Safeway in Orinda - I was so impressed by the stores cleanliness and staffs professionalism in their clients welfare .They had blue lines for distancing when paying and a staff member cleaning the conveyer and pay area as well as the bagging area after each customer .Thx for making my trip less paranoid during this chaotic time

Very good

Very freindly peoples work in here.

Everything including gladiolus!

Place is very clean and organized, easy to get in and out...but like every safeway... still pricey.

Lots of GF n DF fun options ...even Larry n Jenny were impressed with my snacks.

I like Safeway, but this store is horrible, long lines, no staff and Deli is worst. The machines to cut the meats are always filthy! I hope they fix this store or shut it down to be replaced by a brand that understands service and practices good food hygiene.

Customer service was excellent 👌 but they really need to beef up the organic kombucha drink section

Three people in the deli and only one willing to help customers during the lunch hour Rush even after she ask for help multiple times.

I love that safeway caries so many great items, but I feel as though I have wasted away my life waiting in their lines with checkers that do not care about the wait times for their customers. They have four express lines and two regular lines open during a busy time. There is no sense of urgency, none.

Good conventional shopping this Oakland CA original rooted store (sold many moons ago) generally keeps prices decent. Nothing standout about the place from what I can tell.

Feed me! Yes it did. Thank you.

Had just what I needed.

Eh. California grocery store arent like ones in the mid west.

Poor service, the cashier didnt greet at all, she didnt offer me even a bag for my grocery, bad service! In a really nice neighborhood.

Its a Safeway and they seem to have everything you need from frozen foods, a decent meat counter and even Dragonfruit occasionally in the fruit section. Parking isnt bad. Bring your own bags. They always have a good sized backup when Ive been there so dont be in a rush. The checkers are friendly but the place is understaffed for people checking out. If you arent in a rush, no worries.

Excellent chicken and coleslaw (deli) $7.00 meal deals . great for lunch!

Good fresh produce. Orinda Ca. Store No one was at the register rang the bell on the conveyor finally had to go find someone. Once there he got on to me for not ringing the bell loud enough. SMH. Then I used the debit machine asked for cash back and pressed $40.00 button. He went to give me money and said in a kinda short tone ...in the future we only give $20.00. I replied.. it showed $20, 40 and 60.00 on the machine menu. He said thats wrong. Then reached in his till and pulled out a note that said 20.00 only. I just laughed and walked away because you cant fix stupid

Huge store! Great shopping experience. Always spend too much money there. Lots of parking. Great location.

Great store

Just like every other Safeway. I like Safeway much better than Whole Foods.

Stocked and clean and always a friendly crew.

Very clean. The staff is always very nice. Open 24 hours. Loses one star because it is quite a bit higher in prices than a lot of places I go, and their selection for special diets (IE Gluten or Dairy Free etc.) is very minimal.

Decent selection of products. It has a good selection of hot soups a chicken buffalo wing bar and an olive bar in the deli.

It is good place to grocery shopping, i go there very often. the supermarket located in safe and nice place, plenty of parking space, there are two banks nearby for the ATM.

Really Professional staff.

They just added self service checkout! And always a nice cool place ro escape the heat in Orinda!

Like always

Fast

Self checkout not working. Slow service. Cashier wiped her dripping nose then handed me my change with the same hand. Thanks lady

Middle of the road, Ive been to better and worse Safeways.

They do a pretty good job of making this store slightly more upscale. Love the flower vendor.

They move things constantly, so its difficult to find what you want. The long lines at the checkout counter is a deterrent, too. The help and the selections are fine!

The hours posted here are not the actual hours

Great free parking and a well laid out store.

Its fine. Fancy groceries for a nice neighborhood

No matter time on day, this store is always one or two lanes short of whats required. Dont even think about it around 5:30 PM....

Frankly, i do not understand the three reviews with rude noted. Ive been shopping almost exclusively there for over 35 years, and I have yet to have a bad encounter! If you cant find something, help is always given. Checkers are polite and kind. Id check my OWN attitude if I were you.

Make sure you go on $5 Fridays thats the best deals

Great Store had fun shopping then walking right out the door to my awaiting train.

I dont usually shop at this Safeway but was in the neighborhood. They had everything that I needed, but I found the aisles very narrow and customers need to practice patience and consideration to navigate, which everyone did.