Safeway Deals & Delivery vs Albertsons Deals & Delivery
Albertsons Deals & Delivery has a slight edge due to its generally better user interface and more reliable search and coupon features, despite both apps sharing similar frustrations.
Both Safeway Deals & Delivery and Albertsons Deals & Delivery offer significant savings through digital coupons and loyalty programs, but both struggle with app stability, search functionality, and in-store usability. Albertsons generally provides a more intuitive experience, though recent updates have introduced bugs for both.
Head to head
You prioritize reliable delivery and pickup service with good customer interaction, and are willing to navigate a sometimes clunky app interface to access savings R14R26R38R59.
You prefer an app that is generally considered easier to navigate and has a more intuitive user interface, and you are comfortable dealing with occasional app glitches and potential inventory issues for pickup/delivery .
Evidence note: Both apps receive a high volume of negative reviews regarding recent updates and app functionality, which contrasts with their high lifetime ratings. Many positive reviews are general praise for savings rather than specific app features. The free nature of both apps means users are more critical of functionality issues.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R4] Safeway Deals & Delivery Trickle in coupons: Remember when you all used to release the coupons for the week on Wednesday? Now you drop a few new ones each day? Really is a slap in the face when I just bought something on Wednesday and now there’s a coupon on Friday.
- [R5] Safeway Deals & Delivery Savings!: Love to clip the weekly coupons in the for u deals and the point system that accumulates each purchase. Really helps with the cost of groceries!
- [R14] Safeway Deals & Delivery Short deadline delivery: Rachel moved mountains to get my order completed and delivered to my boat dock in time for our departure. She even delivered it herself in her own van. An outstanding job all around!
- [R17] Safeway Deals & Delivery Delivery plus: I’ve had the best luck with ordering thru the Safeway app
- [R1] Safeway Deals & Delivery Now useless: So full of sponsored content that you can't find anything. Example: search for very specific like Ben & Jerry's Dairy Free. Says 9 results but wrong. There are 19. 17 are not matching and sponsored ads. Only 2 are correct results which seems too low. 90% is SPAM.
- [R8] Safeway Deals & Delivery Easy to use: Without a doubt, the best app for grocery shopping there is.
- [R10] Safeway Deals & Delivery Microscopic font impossible to read: Can’t read without a magnifier even on my 12.9 ipad, if you're going to make it impossible to read on a big screen, at least give us the ability to pinch and zoom! Links in marketing emails STILL don’t open in the app and don’t offer that option on the web page.
- [R11] Safeway Deals & Delivery Shop: I love how easy this app is to use, once I got the hang of it, I haven’t used the pick up and delivery yet, but I plan to give it a try soon.
- [R3] Safeway Deals & Delivery WiFi in store: It is frustrating to use the app in the store because the Wi-Fi is not very strong and you can’t scan the barcodes to see if you’ve picked up the discount. That’s my biggest frustration. Thank you.
- [R7] Safeway Deals & Delivery To many bugs: It’s having issues connecting, or updating the items to add for the J4U.
- [R9] Safeway Deals & Delivery If it would work…: My local Safeway has “the worst” service so when inside you can’t get your deals. It’s 2026 not sure why this is a problem. Other than that it’s great.
- [R16] Safeway Deals & Delivery App no longer works: Every time I try to log in I get an error saying they’re having technical difficulties and to check back later. It’s been days.
- [R13] Safeway Deals & Delivery Getting discounts is hard, even for employees: The “ CLIP” function is hard to use. It is not straightforward and requires several steps. The last time I was in, an employee tried to get it to work, had difficulty, and only after a few attempts was able to get me the deal price. Besides that, one staff told me that it did not matter that the phone number I was using was no longer my primary phone.
- [R27] Safeway Deals & Delivery Food selection: Poor selection on meats and fresh vegetables when using curbside pickup
- [R20] Safeway Deals & Delivery Love it: This all is easy to use and nicely intuitive. Yes, there’s a learning curve, but it’s impressively short. I use the app weekly to order groceries to pick up, which I absolutely love. Saves me so much time. Wish it could show me amount I’ve spent each week or quarter.
- [R25] Safeway Deals & Delivery Horribly slow: Today this app is absolutely unacceptably slow. Please fix it….
- [R26] Safeway Deals & Delivery EASY: CURBSIDE PICK UP IS ALWAYS PROMPT AND PROFESSIONAL ESPECIALLY TASHA SHES SUCH SWEET INDIVIDUAL LOVE HER
- [R23] Safeway Deals & Delivery Savings: I love the option of getting deals that saves you lots of cash.
- [R49] Safeway Deals & Delivery Great savings tool: The app has literally helped me save hundreds of dollars over the course of a few years. I’m very grateful for Safeway being devoted to offering savings to our communities. I always share the benefits of the app with friends and new acquaintances. I really enjoy how easy it is to find and click savings.
- [R62] Albertsons Deals & Delivery Digital coupons: So easy to use. I love the savings
- [R66] Albertsons Deals & Delivery Love the app BUT: whenever I try and clip coupons in store it ALWAYS glitches!! I always forget to clip and need to do it last minute before check out and it’s nearly impossible to clip all the coupons when it WONT LET ME
- [R104] Albertsons Deals & Delivery Why do we have to do this?: Checking an app in the store is very frustrating and it stops other people a long time, often leaving their children to run a muck while they try to figure out the app to be able to get the discount. It’s really quite ridiculous.
- [R64] Albertsons Deals & Delivery New app update awful: New app update causes the search feature to glitch out and not work without shutting down the app about 20 times. Looks like they have some bugs to fix asap. I will not be using their app or shopping with them until it’s fixed.
- [R85] Albertsons Deals & Delivery Terrible App: The app was bad before the AI update. Now search disappears. AI presents a list of what you previously searched for but doesn’t allow a new search. You go to home and sometimes search appears. When the items appear on screen and you scroll down the app jumps. You have to scroll back to see all the items that were jumped over. I’ve given up on the app and just go to the website now.
- [R116] Albertsons Deals & Delivery Terrible update: App was perfectly fine before this latest update. Now it won’t even load when you search for a product. We also lost the feature where you can click on an item in the weekly ad and it would open up all eligible products for that sale. Please revert to the older version!
- [R38] Safeway Deals & Delivery Cut out the middle man lol: For so long i only shop at Safeway no matter what. For a while was using door dash and uber for delivery. Recently i actually went into the store to shop and was informed i could have saved $10 if I was using the app so I started ordering through Safeway app and what a difference it made for my shopping experience. From savings and clear easy items to click on just real
- [R59] Safeway Deals & Delivery No anxiety: Love the to my door delivery
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store