My beef with losing Safeway would be if we lose access to their store brand of products. While it's not all super quality, I've grown up with and am used to a lot of Safeway's products. I've not sampled a lot of Sobey's store brands, because the ones I have sampled were shite. I only liked their cookies. However, I hear other people talking about some of the "complements" products being really good, so it might just be what I sampled - some frozen dinner thing I can't recall anymore other than being awful. The Sobey's deli I used to hit quite a bit, being near my work of the day. It went from quite good to 'meh' over the years. Safeway's biggest minus is you get screwed if you don't have a "club card". To this day, I still just give them my Parent's old phone number from 20 years ago to get the 'club' price.
