For the last two weeks, Safeway had suddenly been getting things right. We probably shopped at the Kaneohe store at least five times over the past couple of weeks without encountering an error. This was a dramatic change from the previous several months when I could count on errors appearing every time we shopped there. [...]
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Antique Alley, a unique resource of modern cultural history and artifacts, is being evicted. The store on the ground floor at 1347 Kapiolani is owned and operated by Pake Zane and Julie Lauster. It has been the one stable business in a building that has seen numerous others come and go over the past 25 [...]
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This in from an old friend regarding Safeway Stores price guarantee: Hi Ian, Thank you for telling us of the semi-secret policies of Safeway. Today my wife got a good sized bucket of ice cream FREE, after being overcharged and getting the store clerk to read the policy. Fantastic!! Thank you again, Take care Thanks [...]
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Supporters of a bill that would increase the minimum wage for 74,000 of Hawaii’s lowest paid workers say the bill could die unless Senate President Donna Kim’s drops her insistence on major new concessions to employers. House and Senate conferees are scheduled to reconvene this morning for last minute negotiations on SB331. House and Senate [...]
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Star-Advertiser reporter Al Yonan put a spotlight on corporate CEO pay today. It’s packed with detail, although not much that might be construed as criticism. Someone had the idea of comparing CEO’s pay to the total market capitalization of their companies, a comparison that I suppose is supposed to suggest these outlandish salaries are really [...]
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Stop by Civil Beat today to read the latest in my series of reports on Safeway’s overcharges. This time I’ve focused on the company’s little known price guarantee and its value to consumers. The very first comment is from someone who complained up to the manager of the Ewa Beach store. The manager sure as [...]
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Those of you who don’t have Civil Beat on your regular daily reading list, you might want to check out my Hawaii Monitor column this week, “Frivolous Claim Over Sovereignty Snags Homeowner.” It’s an odd story of an unexpected and obviously bogus title claim hitting a homeowner in Kaaawa just when the sale of his [...]
Safeway was, it seems, technically correct. On closer inspection, these signs detailing “Safeway’s promise to you” are posted in our Kaneohe store, as the company’s director of public and government affairs said yesterday in an email. But it turns out the photo provided as evidence, taken by the district manager, is not at a regular [...]
