East Bay real estate
fromSFGATE
2 weeks agoAnother Bay Area Safeway store set to permanently close
The Safeway at 231 W. Jackson St. in Hayward will permanently close Feb. 2; 76 employees will transfer to nearby stores as the lease ends.
Even though it's been a few years since I worked at Trader Joe's, I still cannot unsee many of the rude (and often quite bizarre!) behaviors that customers repeated on a near-hourly basis. I'm no grocery sociologist, but I do believe the combination of generally chipper employees, 1950s surf rock blasting, and free-flowing samples of your favorite desserts, seems to bring out something in Trader Joe's shoppers that has them, well, not on their best behavior.