@@Tony-mh3dm pls you know how good we had it in 2019 Seems like a lifetime ago 2020 was by far the worst hope things get better off in the decade then it started 1980 was one of a time year though.
Yeah me too except putting up with those mean little brat 80's bullies with their mullets and ripped jeans from grade school ...my gosh they were a pain lol
Safeway was a place where you could work in the day with a strong union and decent pay and retirement. Most of my sister-in-law's siblings retired from there with nice homes. Raleys was the same. These were good jobs, unlike today.
Very true. My brother started as a courtesy clerk (bag boy) in 79’ and moved all the way up the ladder into upper management retiring with a glorious pension, excellent benefits and a home as well.
They’re still good jobs!! I just got back into the business a month ago and they’re paying $27 per hour…. And the benefits are still pretty good only $15 dollars for medical for your spouse and free for the employee! And they’re still awaiting another raise soon I hear, topping them out at 28.50. So I think it’s still a good job.
God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
I was 6 months old when this was filmed 😜 I just turned 43. Over the last year or so, I’ve had this odd longing to go back in time. Things are so generic, impersonal, unsatisfying these days - maybe I’m a dreamer, I dunno. I think things now just suck. These videos catapult me for 10 minutes to a time when cell phones and social media didn’t exist. Aging sucks - but that’s not why I want to go back. I’d take being 43 in 1980 over 2023 any day. Thanks for sharing these moments in history. By the way - I grew up here in Los Gatos, CA and remember shopping at Safeway as a kid. The clanging of the big metal carts, the chime on the loudspeaker, it all came rushing back! 😊
it's all relative. Min wage was $3.10/hour then. All these "wish I could go back to cheaper days" makes me laugh. They weren't any cheaper, again, relatively speaking.
@ianhereinaz1 $20 back then is the equivalent of little over $73 dollars today. I'll be lucky if we get non processed meat in our diet and get a week's worth of groceries for less than $100
I was just thinking about what someone would think from that time if I had described the cost of groceries today.. and then I realized that the amount of information required to describe the reasons for the inflation, economic downturn and utter state of American society would probably have us in a conversation for hour assuming they didn't run the opposite direction raving mad.
Actually, if I am not mistaken, inflation was pretty bad in the late 70s and early 80s as well. So, the people back then probably felt the same way that people do today.
This is amazing. It’s like traveling back in time. Love the attention to detail by the film crew, showing things such as the receipt tape printing, the shopping cart return, the products on the shelves, inside shopping carts, etc. In addition to that, I was only one years old when this was filmed but my Dad worked at Safeway at the time. I feel like I am stepping into his world and getting a new perspective on how things were.
My first job was at Safeway in 1986 right out of high school. They actually sent their cashiers to a 5 day expenses paid checkers training seminar back in those days. At the time, the grocers union was strong, and all of the grocery chains had not yet been monopolized as they are now.
@@gnnascarfan2410 A series of failed grocery union strikes in the eighties and early nineties where the union conceded to less demands than what they bargained for. Also the arrival of big box non union grocery stores such as employee owned WINCO.
@@Cfchild1I know this is old comment but, Yes, and ever since Albertsons bought Safeway, it went bad to worse. I remember a Safeway worker told me he got paid $10/hour, and later his wage increased to $20/hour in *1 year,* but this was back in the early 1990s before it became monopolize in 2008 since Albertsons bought it. Right now Safeway is a $hitty company that pays you in pennies, and they only give you 20 hours to 24 hours a week, and you have to wait 10 years to get a sinority status to get those 40 hours a week you wanted, and so as the time schedules with better benefits. Let's be realistic here, we don't have 10 years, and the only people that gets to have full time shifts are the managers, and team leadership. Favoritism plays a huge role on the company, and now more, and more new workers are leaving because they aren't given the 40 hours a week as they promised with little pay, especially the checkers. That is why tell people to stay away from applying Safeway, and never trust the managers in Safeway, they are nothing more that cold hearted, and pathological liars.
The 80s was such a magic time! There were still problems, but nothing like now a days, things were so much simpler back then, life was just better, wish I could go back.
maybe where you worked... i worked grocery retail from 68 until 98.. checks where by FAR the #1 method of payment for that entire time.. debit cards is what changed that..
Now these days, just about every employee at every business assumes every customer is paying with debit or credit, annoying. I usually try to have cash on me!
Minimum wage in 1980 was $3.10 so a cart full of groceries still would have been expensive. Between the OPEC oil embargo of of the 1970's and the high inflation, it was a rough time for consumers in 1980.
It is so surreal to see unscripted footage of an average day in a grocery store in 1980. The interior feels so natural and calm compared to modern stores. People properly dressed is a rarity in my area.
I love your videos so much,I was 15 in summer of 80 ,notice people weren’t obese as they are today ,also no one would be caught dead wearing pjs in public.l have noticed how people really read the labels and inspected what they were buying.Love looking at all the clothing styles and hair styles love going back in time .Thank you❤
Wait, by 1982 some people's looks might have changed.Cause of music. Spiked hair. Flashy clothes. , Street corner rock stars were basically everywhere bands like Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoades . Van Halen. Are just a few who made it happen. And yes I was there, survived the best years of my life🤣
This is my second time watching this. Safeway was my grandma's favorite store you couldn't get her to shop anywhere else. She was slow not because of her age because my mother said when she was a kid and went to the movies they were always late. You went with her Grocery shopping she could spend two hours easy in the store. She passed away about when this was made 1988. I miss the 1960s to the 1980s. Now I'm a old man and the memories of my family is the only thing that keeps me going.
The reason people could eat bread and sugar in the 40s through early 80s and not become obese or diabetic was because it was NATURAL CANE SUGAR, not the chemical crack they use in everything today known as High Fructose Corn Syrup (HCFS). In addition, the bread back then was healthy NON GENETICALLY MODIFIED GRAINS, NOT SATURATED IN MONSANTOS ROUND UP and they added healthy, metabolism boosting IODINE to the bread back then as well. Today, these evil bastards who are pawns of satan add BROMINE instead of iodine to the mass produced bread products. This "bromine" is the main component in TERMITE POISON!!! This is why everyone is FAT because our bodies store the POISONS IN THE FAT TO PROTECT THE ORGANS!! THIS IS ALL DONE WITH MALICE
I remember as a kid in the 80s going to the Safeway 2 block away from my house. This Safeway would have a toy display right in the entrance for all of us kids to drool all over! Most of the diaplay toys were complete sets of Transformers, He-Man and Barbies! Also remember them having a few Arcade machines in the corner. This was great so kids would stay busy while the parents got busy getting groceries.... Oh the amazing simple times of that amazing era, Will NEVER, I WILL SAY IT AGAIN... WILL NEVER EVER NEVER BE A TIME LIKE THAT AGAIN!!!
I worked for lucky supermarkets in Glendale California from 1985 to 1989 . Had a very good time. I believe we were one the first supermarket stores to introduce debit payment around 1987/88
The differences in the store and the products, between then and now, is very interesting. But, of most interest to me, is the difference in the people. The most stark difference is the difference in body shapes (weight).
As a kid in the ‘80s, I remember eating a lot of junk food, yet I was still scrawny. I think the difference today is that people don’t get nearly as much exercise as they used to. I remember walking all over the neighborhood with my friends, riding bikes, running around in the back yard….Video games were very rudimentary (I never played them) and we had only a few TV channels, so we were forced to entertain ourselves in more physically active ways. And of course there was no Amazon delivery or even restaurant delivery-I remember it was a big deal when Pizza Hut started delivering, which I think was sometime in the ‘90s. If you wanted to buy a product or food, you had to actually go out and get it.
THE profusion, the near opulence of choice on shelves! STOCKED, completely, all the time. Ppl didn’t seem to get on each other’s nerves as badly. I was a young women then and wdve never DREAMED to go out of the house as many do today. I actually ENJOYED every kind of shopping. Safeway was the best. Truly, the staff was amazing! Help with my groceries at the checkout and at the car! The list goes on and on, and yes, like many others, I, too, miss those days. Ppl say it’s always been bad. Not true. Not true at all. As much as I love these, they’re bittersweet…Thank you, though, for posting these for us.
I completely forgot that shopping carts used to have license plates on them (I don't know what they were called but I remember that's how I thought of them). These videos are great. They really bring you back and make you remember things you didn't even know you forgot.
Not sure if it was the case at this particular store, but many stores offered to bring your groceries out to your car via a drive up lane. They would write your cart number on your receipt, and that is how the employee knew which cart to load in your car.
I was 4 years old in 1980 so I tagged along on my mom’s trips to the grocery store. I’m pretty sure we shopped at a Safeway. It’s interesting to see how many women were wearing skirts and dresses back then, versus today. As a kid in the ‘80s, I remember our grocery store sold records that were a compilation of about 15 of the latest radio hits. I loved to buy those and dance to them at home with my friends. Ahh, the memories! 🥰
God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
@@wandaborowy9400 God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
@@wildlifewarrior2670 God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Its so cliche but so true..times then seemed so simpler and slower paced. No teens walkin around with their pants down to their knees for one thing lol..love the 80s
This is indeed the “social Safeway” on Wisconsin Ave. in Georgetown DC. It’s an affluent neighborhood so people might be somewhat better dressed here. The store here was brand new at the time, having opened in May 1980. I remember my uncle talking about the controversy over the new store which was replacing a 1950s Safeway on the same spot because the locals objected to the large parking lot out front, whereas the old store was directly on the sidewalk. He said (snooty) Georgetownians thought cars were ugly and wanted the car park put in back. Ironically this store was demolished in 2009 and replaced by a new Safeway which is once again located on the sidewalk, this time with a parking garage for the ugly cars.
That would have put me at 16 1/2, and just about to finish my sophomore year in high school in North Texas. Safeway was still a very prominent grocery chain in our market then. By 1987, all our Safeways would be permanently closed. Safeway bought the Texas-based Tom Thumb and Randalls grocery chains in the 90s.
God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
@@MisterMikeTexas God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
@@gregorydahl God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
@@GideonMadu well in my opinion, having lived before Facebook and cell phones, etc, it was a happier time because we actually interacted and spent time together and were paying attention. Not having everything be so convenient made for adventures and experiences that sadly, the younger people will no nothing about.
@tristezzalamentoluciano265 I think that's not 100% true. You assume it was a happier time because of your limited viewpoint or your lack of a wide look into people's lives. Divorces were becoming a common occurrence. Teens felt isolated, and stressed due to having to live up to standards instead of choosing their own path, and that's even before social media became prevalent. No one paid any close attention to the rampant predatory practices of corporations selling products to kids. People interacted for sure, but that's nothing special. Reagan and his administration screwing everyone but the 1%ers over to this very day Idk where the idea of less convenience made for adventures came from, but I think you've been letting too many movies get to your head
People pay attention to predatory practices of corporations today? I think it's gotten much worse. What do you think facebook et al are if not predatory? As far as President Reagan, EVERYONE benefited from the low inflation and low unemployment. He didn't win the 1984 election by a historic landslide for no reason
You noticed everyone is in calm and collective no one is in hurry racing to the checkout line no attitudes no one on a cellphone no screaming kids nobody doing selfies or TikTok videos and absolutely No Karens
@@bobtodd2424It's not that nothing bad happened. It's that it wasn't common for one person to treat another like an expendable obstacle. People who didn't live in this time period don't see the ways in which social media has negatively impacted how humans fundamentally view one another.
WOW, look how clear the aisle are! I wonder why they didn't stuff the aisleway with goofy stuff so no one can easily get by....like todays stores. The wonderful modern age we live in!
I love these old videos because they remind me of a time that I don’t know but that I know that I would of loved. I love watching these videos because even though I wasn’t born yet (1991) it reminds me of my mom mom for some reason. Maybe because she always talked about the 80’s ! I miss her everyday! Thanks for these amazing videos :)
I believe this was filmed during the month of July 1980.....at 9:10 mark🔎 I can barely recognize the TV Guide on the metal stand as the TV Guide, July 19, 1980 issue with a cartoon illustration of- Lauren Tewes, Gavin Macleod and Ted Lange of 'The Love Boat' on the cover, this was fascinating hope to see more uploads like this!
Good find. I worked in a grocery store in 83-85 and this is how I remember it. Checkers had to manually input the prices and put codes in for the produce. Union checkers made 11.55/hr in southern california in 1984. You could buy a house back then on that wage if you had a good size down payment. Today houses are way too expensive for a grocery worker to buy in southern california.
@@akrenwinkle Yes. United food and Commerical Worker union for Southern California. Journeyman checkers, produce, meat, etc in 84-85 were making $11.55/hour plus night wage or holiday pay. I was a box boy and made $4.50/hr.
My favorite memory of Safeway circa 1980 is when my bff and I would spend hours and many quarters playing the newly installed Pac-Man machine in the store. Pac-Man had just hit the scene and It was a revelation. The greatest video game of all time. Instantly addicting.
I worked in A Red and White grocery store in the early 90's. i was in high school, and loved every thing about it! worked with great folks and loved my customers!
everytime i watch those kind of videos, I feel like someone from today has travelled back to the past! I say this because of the way these videos were filmed as if to show the differences and the changes . They were just filmed perfectly and payed attention to so many details!!
How would you know all these videos would be priceless now? Had I know I was going to miss my past so much I woulda have done the same cuz the 80s and 90s were the best years....you must be a time traveler
I was 15. Now I'm nearly 58 and a grandma. Time flies! Before young people had tattoos covering their bodies. Before music went waaaaay downhill. *sigh*
Yes the music was WAY WAY WAY better back then, it had SOUL.....no comparison to the soul-less, auto tuned, talentess, boring "hip hop pop" junk they call music today.
@@8luvbug Because she's bitter. Why any of these old hags are worried about things that have zero effect on them, I have no idea. It makes them feel superior, I guess. Insecurity is no joke.
Not to mention all these shitty gangster rap music songs that talk about drugs, sex, money, narcissism, glorifying about thug life, beating up, or shooting somebody to death. Yes, music truly has gone down the crapper...
My family and I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area when I was a toddler, just a few years after this video was shot, and I have memories of us doing our grocery shopping while living there at the nearby Safeway. Even though there had been some minor changes to the interior and some new/different products on the store shelves by the time we lived there, and the fashions were a little different, my goodness does this still look a lot like the Safeway we shopped at. I even remember the beautiful huge windows toward the entrance/cashier area and the brown/beige color scheme of the interior of the store being very much like this one. Thank you for the amazing jog down memory lane for me with this video, even if 1980 was a bit before my time.
Amazing uploads man, just discovered your channel. Three big things stand out to me, No phones No one cares that the camera man was recording And the prices of items have gone up dramatically
Wow. I was 16 in 1980. I loved going to the grocery store with my mom. Look at this. It’s so eerily quiet. No cell phones. Everyone being patient with everyone. Everyone being patient in line. Nobody starting fights. Nobody screaming at the cashiers wanting their money back. I could go on. ❤️❤️😂😂😊😊
We used to have a Safeway. We shopped there often in the early until late 80s when it shut down. Now it has a laudrymat and other little venues inside parts of it.
The Safeway in my hometown went out of business 30+ years ago. But I remember the layout and still have dreams where we are shopping there. Thanks for the memory!
Amazing footage thanks for posting. I was 15 during this time frame, forgot how people wore those long white socks with rings at the top and unreal how little some wore in the grocery store. Sure miss this simple life time period when people were decent towards others, no wild fights and loud screaming like the crazies do now. Most paying in cash
Now I don't feel so bad possibly "offending" the older generations when I wear my summer outfits in the grocery store! They were really putting it all out there their dang selves! Lol
Tube socks! Short shorts! So quiet & peaceful. Polite & nice. Not acting like but wipes. Imagine that. Back then it wasn't tolerated to behave like a savage in public .
man wish we could go back to certain things and seeing people actualy look at each other and engage and not have their faces in their phone is wonderfull
But lots of floppy sandals, skimpy sundresses, mini-skirts and see-through blouses. I grew up in the 1980s and saw those myself. Fun as the 1980s were, that era was not idyllic or perfect and people were not perfect back then either.
I love how almost everyone is well dressed and put together. NO bonnets on their head, no pajama pants or slippers...no baggy, saggy pants or anything of the kind. Class and
Back when I was a little child, I remember my Mom shopping at a Riverside supermarket that use to be in our area as she took us kids along with her. This video looks very much like back then in those days. The large brown paper bags here that were always used before plastic bags became common bring back the memories of childhood as well. I love how the Safeway logo is proudly displayed on the front of the shopping carts to.
nice, quiet and orderly. between the old cranky cash registers of the 70's and the constant beep scanning of more modern times. wish i could go back there, turned 24 that year now going on 67.
No tension in the air. Nobody stealing. People knew when to move out of the way without asking. Organic. I fear we'll never get back to times like this.
@@vampirerobot Inflation adjusted, the price of eggs in this example in video of .74 were only about 25% cheaper than today. Yes 25% is significant, but not in multiples in actual buying power of today vs 1980. I think I saw a dozen eggs for about $4 recently in Wal Mart. $4 today and inflation adjusted would have a buying power of $1.09 in 1980.
I was born in 1980. Depending on when this was filmed, I was either a baby, or my mother was pregnant. Fascinating! I have many early childhood memories of shopping at Safeway!
I was 13 in 1980 and having the time of my life and everybody I loved was alive now most are gone now. watching this video I can't help but to think at the time this moment was being recorded there's a young me having the time of my life at that exact moment in time.
Paper sacks not plastic bags. I didn't see a pop bottle return area. They were being fazed out about that time. A sacking job was a well paying job at some markets. Around 86' I worked one autumn slicing hams and pricing turkeys. Most enjoyable job I ever had. Fresh donuts every day and many options for lunch.
I lived near a Safeway during the 80’s. My brother would save our change to get a Snickers and a 6 pack of Coke. The freezer was located in the middle of the store with no door. They had a promotion to get a free encyclopedia. I loved reading that book.
Safeway still exists. It would be cool to shoot a scene-for-scene comparison of people shopping at a Safeway today. There will be no men in suits or wearing short shorts, for sure!
They have barcode scanners. Was probably a relatively new upgrade. Up though the 70s, many stores still had cashiers who typed in prices manually. Often from memory for speed. As another mentioned, much of the checkout process hasn't changed other than the addition of self-checkout. And less staff. Back then, it was common for two workers on each lane. One ringing and one bagging. And around that time started the question of Paper or Plastic. Now some stores have switched back to paper while others eliminating bags entirely.
@@brendaechols5929 We have paper bags in Finland - with handles! Always worth a chuckle when I see Americans carry their grocery bags in their arms in movies. Handles, such a simple invention yet so convenient...
I won't even go to a grocery store on a weekend or a busy time.. people are freakin zombies they run their cart right into you like you aren't there and then act confused.. same as drivers on the roads.
I love how almost everyone is well dressed and put together. NO bonnets on their head, no pajama pants or slippers...no baggy, saggy pants or anything of the kind. It was a different time. An amazing time, at that.
I worked at Safeway 1972-1992 this brought back some fond memories. Good company to work for back then . It was a good job ,I was fortunate to buy my first home at 19 years old they paid well back then . Now I’m getting my union retirement it’s too bad how things are so messed up now. When Albertsons bought them out it’s not the same.
People routinely paid with checks for larger purchases. Merchants often got screwed over with bad checks. Later in the 80s there was real-time verification which held the line up.
my high school graduation year. Things seemed so carefree then. And just think how many of these shoppers are dead now and the younger ones are in their 70's. A lot of the packaging hasn't changed
I remember those carts, as a kid, when I'd go to SW w/grandmother, I would sit cross-legged under the basket as she pushed me around and did her shopping, it was so much fun....56 yrs old!!!
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This was great. The closest we can get to a Time Machine. I'll take 1980 any day over 2023.
Me too
Me, too.
2023 is the worst year yet.
@@Tony-mh3dm pls you know how good we had it in 2019 Seems like a lifetime ago 2020 was by far the worst hope things get better off in the decade then it started 1980 was one of a time year though.
1980 started the decade when our college kids beat “those commie bastards” in hockey
I would give nearly anything to be able to go back and live my childhood in the 80s all over again.
As long as i keep my wisdom/smarts from now.
@@slowpoke96Z28 nope, would rather experience it all again with the innocence I had at the time. Born in 1975. Straight Gen-Xer
Yeah me too except putting up with those mean little brat 80's bullies with their mullets and ripped jeans from grade school ...my gosh they were a pain lol
Me to!
Yes! Say that again!
It’s so refreshing not seeing people on phones while they shopped. God I miss the 80s.😢😢
Back in the no shirt, no shoes, no service days. Now people look like they just crawled out of bed
I was just thinking this. If there was a split screen image, we’d really see how far we’ve fallen.
Exactly
. . . and tripped head-first into a tackle box!
@@cityofabscissae The Waffle House waitress style
Most of them have
All the young adults in this video are now in their 60's/70's..... damn time sucks man!
You ain’t kidding I’m almost 65 seems like yesterday
I am going to be 62 in April...
Adam and Eve are to blame
Some of them are dead also I'm 62 better than being dead.
Yeah, my parents turned 27 that year. Now they’re about to be 70 in a couple of months.
I was born in 1980. And I agree with many other commenters. I'd give anything to go back to this time.
Me too, I was born in ‘81. I miss this era of time so much
I really miss this time before social media took over every aspect of society. Wish I could go back
Yes. Now everyone is disconnected socially (ironic isn't it?). Back then we were connected socially (in person).
@@og2tone492 Your low IQ comment is testament right there.
@@og2tone492ok Karen. 😎
@@og2tone4922023 was not better. 🤦♂️
Theres nothing social about social media
Safeway was a place where you could work in the day with a strong union and decent pay and retirement. Most of my sister-in-law's siblings retired from there with nice homes. Raleys was the same. These were good jobs, unlike today.
Yep in the past 40 years the capitalist class has crushed working class wages and living conditions.
True
Very true. My brother started as a courtesy clerk (bag boy) in 79’ and moved all the way up the ladder into upper management retiring with a glorious pension, excellent benefits and a home as well.
Now someone working at Safeway might be living in a vehicle.
They’re still good jobs!! I just got back into the business a month ago and they’re paying $27 per hour…. And the benefits are still pretty good only $15 dollars for medical for your spouse and free for the employee! And they’re still awaiting another raise soon I hear, topping them out at 28.50. So I think it’s still a good job.
It’s amazing how few people were overweight back then.
Good observation.
Fast food and the stress of getting ahead let us to this.
And 40 years later people still don't know how to move their carts out of the way.
God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
lol
Or return them properly (can't move it another 2 inches to the rest of them).
I noticed that too. People still oblivious to the world around them.
Ahahahaha, Yah Good Catch 💯 👏✌️👍🤣
I was 6 months old when this was filmed 😜 I just turned 43. Over the last year or so, I’ve had this odd longing to go back in time. Things are so generic, impersonal, unsatisfying these days - maybe I’m a dreamer, I dunno. I think things now just suck. These videos catapult me for 10 minutes to a time when cell phones and social media didn’t exist. Aging sucks - but that’s not why I want to go back. I’d take being 43 in 1980 over 2023 any day. Thanks for sharing these moments in history. By the way - I grew up here in Los Gatos, CA and remember shopping at Safeway as a kid. The clanging of the big metal carts, the chime on the loudspeaker, it all came rushing back! 😊
" I’d take being 43 in 1980 over 2023 any day."
34.....I feel the same
Like the World was at peace
I was 2 years old at the time
So you're complaining about cell phones, but yet you just watched the video with a cell phone or some other device....
Back then..$20 could get your cart filled...
Still gets you a lap dance though
it's all relative. Min wage was $3.10/hour then. All these "wish I could go back to cheaper days" makes me laugh. They weren't any cheaper, again, relatively speaking.
@ianhereinaz1 $20 back then is the equivalent of little over $73 dollars today. I'll be lucky if we get non processed meat in our diet and get a week's worth of groceries for less than $100
@@ianhereinaz1 Yet somehow our grandparents and great grandparents were able to afford homes with low pay.
@@ianhereinaz1 Used cars certainly were cheaper.
1980! If I could trade then for now, I'd do it in a heartbeat! Things just sucked so much less in 1980!!!
Fully stocked shelves, staffed registers, people wearing appropriate attire. SEND ME BACK!
The shoppers would have heart attacks if they saw a reciept from today. They would be like, this is not real!
If they ever stopped bitching about how much more everything costs in 1980 than it did in 1940.
@@fuktiktok8611 lolololol
I was just thinking about what someone would think from that time if I had described the cost of groceries today.. and then I realized that the amount of information required to describe the reasons for the inflation, economic downturn and utter state of American society would probably have us in a conversation for hour assuming they didn't run the opposite direction raving mad.
Actually, if I am not mistaken, inflation was pretty bad in the late 70s and early 80s as well. So, the people back then probably felt the same way that people do today.
@@mew6491 cause of the only president on par with Bidens awfulness, jimmy carter? lol
This is amazing. It’s like traveling back in time. Love the attention to detail by the film crew, showing things such as the receipt tape printing, the shopping cart return, the products on the shelves, inside shopping carts, etc.
In addition to that, I was only one years old when this was filmed but my Dad worked at Safeway at the time. I feel like I am stepping into his world and getting a new perspective on how things were.
Great Comment!!
Much much better times.
Lucky you only one year old back then
@@vampirerobot It would b nice to know what city or state this was!
@chairlesnicol672 8:39 the sales receipt says Georgetown not sure where. Maybe Washington D.C.?
I was 23 in 1980 and my kids were 5 and 1. Time has flown by. Seems like yesterday.
Precisely...I Was 11 In 1980...
I was born 11 years later 😭 missed that decade unfortunetly
@@tennillej9601 Twas A Splendid Decade...💙🩵🩶🔥🔥🔥
No self checkouts. Those were the days!
...and cash was king (still is to me).
Amen to that!!!
Damn! My mom was 20 years old..she’s now 62 jeez I appreciate life a bit more 😅I feel like I’m looking through her memories.
Everyone was dressed nice, and well behaved. Nobody bumping into each other, staring at a phone
you mean all those grown men in shorty shorts with tube socks?
And no one in their PJ's with fuzzy slippers
@@itsgoingtobeok-justbreathe4808 lol but it looked normal back then. Now it seems pretty strange.
@@RandoReelss For some, yes, however I sill use a desktop.
Well, yeah, cell phones were not invented yet. You should throw away your phone if you find it so offensive.
Holy cow, nobody on his cell phone! Love to go back in time. Life was good.
Sh** looks boring....... I was born in 1995
@@ShawnA3104 It was FAR from boring.
@@ShawnA3104
It was much better than today. Trust people when they tell you this.
@@mercuryrising2424 💯
Why ‘his’? Are you sexist against men you misandrist!?
My first job was at Safeway in 1986 right out of high school. They actually sent their cashiers to a 5 day expenses paid checkers training seminar back in those days. At the time, the grocers union was strong, and all of the grocery chains had not yet been monopolized as they are now.
Out of curiosity when and why did the grocers union fall apart? What happened?
@@gnnascarfan2410 A series of failed grocery union strikes in the eighties and early nineties where the union conceded to less demands than what they bargained for. Also the arrival of big box non union grocery stores such as employee owned WINCO.
@@Cfchild1I know this is old comment but, Yes, and ever since Albertsons bought Safeway, it went bad to worse. I remember a Safeway worker told me he got paid $10/hour, and later his wage increased to $20/hour in *1 year,* but this was back in the early 1990s before it became monopolize in 2008 since Albertsons bought it. Right now Safeway is a $hitty company that pays you in pennies, and they only give you 20 hours to 24 hours a week, and you have to wait 10 years to get a sinority status to get those 40 hours a week you wanted, and so as the time schedules with better benefits. Let's be realistic here, we don't have 10 years, and the only people that gets to have full time shifts are the managers, and team leadership. Favoritism plays a huge role on the company, and now more, and more new workers are leaving because they aren't given the 40 hours a week as they promised with little pay, especially the checkers. That is why tell people to stay away from applying Safeway, and never trust the managers in Safeway, they are nothing more that cold hearted, and pathological liars.
The 80s was such a magic time! There were still problems, but nothing like now a days, things were so much simpler back then, life was just better, wish I could go back.
I worked as a checker in 1980. Most people paid in cash. Very few checks. NEVER credit cards.. we did not even have a machine for credit cards.
maybe where you worked... i worked grocery retail from 68 until 98.. checks where by FAR the #1 method of payment for that entire time.. debit cards is what changed that..
I still pay in cash, but I get dirty looks from cashier 😂
Now these days, just about every employee at every business assumes every customer is paying with debit or credit, annoying. I usually try to have cash on me!
My mom paid by check@@michael-dx3lc
I was 14 years old in 1980, just bring me back in a time machine and I'll feel right at home .
Man, I spent over $400 on groceries the other day. $400 back then went a loooong way. Can you imagine if you had $400 in grocery money?
Minimum wage in 1980 was $3.10 so a cart full of groceries still would have been expensive. Between the OPEC oil embargo of of the 1970's and the high inflation, it was a rough time for consumers in 1980.
You could've fed the neighborhood with $400.
@@texaswunderkind my dad was a grade school janitor and was making $8 something an hour. So, I guess we were doing ok since I was only 4 years old.
$400.00? You would need at least 2 refrigerators and a big ass freezer.
$400 what are you buying a bunch of steaks?
It is so surreal to see unscripted footage of an average day in a grocery store in 1980. The interior feels so natural and calm compared to modern stores. People properly dressed is a rarity in my area.
1Dozen eggs .74 cents
1 Dozen eggs today 7.70
I was 20 years old in 1980.
Loved all the 70s 80s and in 90s everyone had a job and made good money.
Same age and you called everything right!!
Now everyone broke. 😅
I was also 20 that year.
I love your videos so much,I was 15 in summer of 80 ,notice people weren’t obese as they are today ,also no one would be caught dead wearing pjs in public.l have noticed how people really read the labels and inspected what they were buying.Love looking at all the clothing styles and hair styles love going back in time .Thank you❤
everyone was smoking 2 packs a day to kill their appetites!
I know I didn't see many heavy people at all! Don't blame it on smoking.
Exactly. And a camera didn't freak people out back then either.
Wait, by 1982 some people's looks might have changed.Cause of music. Spiked hair. Flashy clothes. , Street corner rock stars were basically everywhere bands like Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoades . Van Halen. Are just a few who made it happen. And yes I was there, survived the best years of my life🤣
No tattoos either.
Nobody glued to their phone whilst shopping. A most glorious time to be alive
In many ways it really was a better time
It sure was, not perfect, but better.
I agree , it was much better
Nope
@@8luvbug Yup
@@flutebasket4294 I was speaking from my experience
This is my second time watching this. Safeway was my grandma's favorite store you couldn't get her to shop anywhere else. She was slow not because of her age because my mother said when she was a kid and went to the movies they were always late. You went with her Grocery shopping she could spend two hours easy in the store. She passed away about when this was made 1988. I miss the 1960s to the 1980s. Now I'm a old man and the memories of my family is the only thing that keeps me going.
god bless you sir. 😊💝🙏
Wow!! I love it! I was born 2 years later! I sometimes wish we can go back in time. ❤️
Same!! I was born in beginning of May in 82! Times were simpler and less confusing like they are now back then.
@@LoneTaurus82 oh wow!! I was born in May as well towards the end of May!
The food was fresher and better tasting in these times. How I would love to go back!
The reason people could eat bread and sugar in the 40s through early 80s and not become obese or diabetic was because it was NATURAL CANE SUGAR, not the chemical crack they use in everything today known as High Fructose Corn Syrup (HCFS). In addition, the bread back then was healthy NON GENETICALLY MODIFIED GRAINS, NOT SATURATED IN MONSANTOS ROUND UP and they added healthy, metabolism boosting IODINE to the bread back then as well. Today, these evil bastards who are pawns of satan add BROMINE instead of iodine to the mass produced bread products. This "bromine" is the main component in TERMITE POISON!!! This is why everyone is FAT because our bodies store the POISONS IN THE FAT TO PROTECT THE ORGANS!! THIS IS ALL DONE WITH MALICE
Not to mention a lot cheaper
No GMOs either.
or something with your taste buds perhaps?
I remember as a kid in the 80s going to the Safeway 2 block away from my house. This Safeway would have a toy display right in the entrance for all of us kids to drool all over! Most of the diaplay toys were complete sets of Transformers, He-Man and Barbies! Also remember them having a few Arcade machines in the corner. This was great so kids would stay busy while the parents got busy getting groceries.... Oh the amazing simple times of that amazing era, Will NEVER, I WILL SAY IT AGAIN... WILL NEVER EVER NEVER BE A TIME LIKE THAT AGAIN!!!
That's a nice memory...thanks for sharing 🙂
I worked for lucky supermarkets in Glendale California from 1985 to 1989 . Had a very good time. I believe we were one the first supermarket stores to introduce debit payment around 1987/88
Do you remember Alpha Beta?
I used to go shopping with my wife at Lucky's in the 80s at Central & Chevy Chase
The differences in the store and the products, between then and now, is very interesting. But, of most interest to me, is the difference in the people. The most stark difference is the difference in body shapes (weight).
yeah that's always notable in old videos and pics.
People were more healthy beautiful because they spent time OUTSIDE IN SUNLIGHT
I saw several overweight people in that store I don't know what video you're watching
@@MsVicki73 yes but the difference is that today you would only see several people who AREN’T overweight.
As a kid in the ‘80s, I remember eating a lot of junk food, yet I was still scrawny. I think the difference today is that people don’t get nearly as much exercise as they used to. I remember walking all over the neighborhood with my friends, riding bikes, running around in the back yard….Video games were very rudimentary (I never played them) and we had only a few TV channels, so we were forced to entertain ourselves in more physically active ways. And of course there was no Amazon delivery or even restaurant delivery-I remember it was a big deal when Pizza Hut started delivering, which I think was sometime in the ‘90s. If you wanted to buy a product or food, you had to actually go out and get it.
God,I miss those days. Simpler times. So glad I was born in the late 60's. Wish we could go back.
THE profusion, the near opulence of choice on shelves! STOCKED, completely, all the time. Ppl didn’t seem to get on each other’s nerves as badly. I was a young women then and wdve never DREAMED to go out of the house as many do today. I actually ENJOYED every kind of shopping. Safeway was the best. Truly, the staff was amazing! Help with my groceries at the checkout and at the car! The list goes on and on, and yes, like many others, I, too, miss those days. Ppl say it’s always been bad. Not true. Not true at all. As much as I love these, they’re bittersweet…Thank you, though, for posting these for us.
I am an oldie but goodie. I am 68 . Alll three of my daughters were born in the 70s decade. I want to go back in time. Life seemed simpler then.
I completely forgot that shopping carts used to have license plates on them (I don't know what they were called but I remember that's how I thought of them). These videos are great. They really bring you back and make you remember things you didn't even know you forgot.
Not sure if it was the case at this particular store, but many stores offered to bring your groceries out to your car via a drive up lane. They would write your cart number on your receipt, and that is how the employee knew which cart to load in your car.
I was 4 years old in 1980 so I tagged along on my mom’s trips to the grocery store. I’m pretty sure we shopped at a Safeway. It’s interesting to see how many women were wearing skirts and dresses back then, versus today. As a kid in the ‘80s, I remember our grocery store sold records that were a compilation of about 15 of the latest radio hits. I loved to buy those and dance to them at home with my friends. Ahh, the memories! 🥰
I was 5
Now women wear,sweats,yoga pants, leggings,I have seen even pajamas bottoms at grocery stores.
God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
@@wandaborowy9400 God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
@@wildlifewarrior2670 God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Its so cliche but so true..times then seemed so simpler and slower paced. No teens walkin around with their pants down to their knees for one thing lol..love the 80s
I thought teens with pants down the knees was a 90s early 2000s thing? Unless Gen Z is bringing that back too.
I agree but I was never a fan of those short shorts (athletic shorts) on men. Looks very silly.
This is indeed the “social Safeway” on Wisconsin Ave. in Georgetown DC. It’s an affluent neighborhood so people might be somewhat better dressed here. The store here was brand new at the time, having opened in May 1980. I remember my uncle talking about the controversy over the new store which was replacing a 1950s Safeway on the same spot because the locals objected to the large parking lot out front, whereas the old store was directly on the sidewalk. He said (snooty) Georgetownians thought cars were ugly and wanted the car park put in back. Ironically this store was demolished in 2009 and replaced by a new Safeway which is once again located on the sidewalk, this time with a parking garage for the ugly cars.
That would have put me at 16 1/2, and just about to finish my sophomore year in high school in North Texas. Safeway was still a very prominent grocery chain in our market then. By 1987, all our Safeways would be permanently closed. Safeway bought the Texas-based Tom Thumb and Randalls grocery chains in the 90s.
The frys grocery still has those same bread shelves
God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
@@MisterMikeTexas God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
@@gregorydahl God of Heaven, please change the past back in reality here on earth so, My sister, Jennifer tang and her friend, Dylan Lewis will be born as their new lives on June 25th, 1993. But, also McKenna Grace and her best friend, August Maturo will be born as their new lives on July 1st, 2000 and then, Daven Wilson, Hunter Pecunia, Sierra Mccormick and Aedin Mincks will be born as their new lives in June 30th, 1997. After I will be born without autism, spectrums, disabilities and disorders as my new life in reality on earth on June 20th, 1997 to avoid Getting Mad, Talking Hands, IEP Meetings and Summer School and become a typical, average, ability, skinny, and helpful person to change my life by watching educational channels on tv, speak with my first words and playing toys, interventions and games, when I can be a 2 year old back in 1999, spend more times with my sister and her friends, my aunt, my uncle and their friends my mom, my dad and their friends, my cousins and their friends and my grandparents in Sterling and new friends who are typically average ability skinny kids in Sterling Elementary School when I can be a 5 year old back in 2002 so they can learn to spell my name with words, draw and paint a picture, read and write on a book, make money, doing chores and jobs at my old house, 216 W Balsam RD, Sterling, VA, exercise inside and outside in the community, singing a song, counting numbers, go out to play and eat and go to Sterling Middle School and Parkview High School to study algebra, biology, English, chemistry and geometry with me when I was a 12 year old back in 2009 and a 15 year old back in 2012 and get IPhone 1 when I can be a 10 year old back in 2007 as a second chance and I swear that we all become our younger selves again back in reality here on earth to start my life all over again before we all died and Rest In Peace to heaven win the future and change and altered timeline and history back in the past, so the children actors and children actresses can become Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Byclosser, Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Bijinder, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Inazuman, Gransazer, Justirisers, Sazer-X and Metal Hero and then you altered time back in 2001 so the US Government can create a distraction by calling the Airport Security to prevent Osama Bin Laden, the airplane hijackers and the 9/11 terrorists before they were about to hijack airplanes and destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Stonycreek Township in Somerset County at Pennsylvania. Right After, you altered time back in 1963 so Jack Ruby can distract Lee Harvey Oswald before he was about to kill John F. Kennedy. But, also altered time back in 1968, so the police can attack James Earl Ray before he was about to kill Martin Luther King JR. and altered time back in 1914 so the Police can attack Gavrilo Princip before he was about to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
One thing I love is how nobody is on a phone. Love it. We were a better society before all that.
Could you elaborate on that, because I get the feeling that someone just wanted to get on with their day without having to talk to some stranger
@@GideonMadu well in my opinion, having lived before Facebook and cell phones, etc, it was a happier time because we actually interacted and spent time together and were paying attention. Not having everything be so convenient made for adventures and experiences that sadly, the younger people will no nothing about.
@tristezzalamentoluciano265 I think that's not 100% true. You assume it was a happier time because of your limited viewpoint or your lack of a wide look into people's lives.
Divorces were becoming a common occurrence.
Teens felt isolated, and stressed due to having to live up to standards instead of choosing their own path, and that's even before social media became prevalent.
No one paid any close attention to the rampant predatory practices of corporations selling products to kids.
People interacted for sure, but that's nothing special.
Reagan and his administration screwing everyone but the 1%ers over to this very day
Idk where the idea of less convenience made for adventures came from, but I think you've been letting too many movies get to your head
People pay attention to predatory practices of corporations today? I think it's gotten much worse. What do you think facebook et al are if not predatory? As far as President Reagan, EVERYONE benefited from the low inflation and low unemployment. He didn't win the 1984 election by a historic landslide for no reason
Back when reality was reality.
You noticed everyone is in calm and collective no one is in hurry racing to the checkout line no attitudes no one on a cellphone no screaming kids nobody doing selfies or TikTok videos and absolutely No Karens
Yes because nothing bad ever happened back then?
@@bobtodd2424It's not that nothing bad happened. It's that it wasn't common for one person to treat another like an expendable obstacle. People who didn't live in this time period don't see the ways in which social media has negatively impacted how humans fundamentally view one another.
@@whozyourdaddyExactly!
@@whozyourdaddy 100%
WOW, look how clear the aisle are! I wonder why they didn't stuff the aisleway with goofy stuff so no one can easily get by....like todays stores. The wonderful modern age we live in!
I love these old videos because they remind me of a time that I don’t know but that I know that I would of loved. I love watching these videos because even though I wasn’t born yet (1991) it reminds me of my mom mom for some reason. Maybe because she always talked about the 80’s ! I miss her everyday! Thanks for these amazing videos :)
I believe this was filmed during the month of July 1980.....at 9:10 mark🔎 I can barely recognize the TV Guide on the metal stand as the TV Guide, July 19, 1980 issue with a cartoon illustration of- Lauren Tewes, Gavin Macleod and Ted Lange of 'The Love Boat' on the cover, this was fascinating hope to see more uploads like this!
I was curious and wanted to see what Lauren looked like these days so I looked her up. Don't.
Good find. I worked in a grocery store in 83-85 and this is how I remember it. Checkers had to manually input the prices and put codes in for the produce. Union checkers made 11.55/hr in southern california in 1984. You could buy a house back then on that wage if you had a good size down payment. Today houses are way too expensive for a grocery worker to buy in southern california.
@@seanf5634 You sure about that wage?
@@akrenwinkle Yes. United food and Commerical Worker union for Southern California. Journeyman checkers, produce, meat, etc in 84-85 were making $11.55/hour plus night wage or holiday pay. I was a box boy and made $4.50/hr.
@@seanf5634 That's great. American Dream was possible. Unlike now.
My favorite memory of Safeway circa 1980 is when my bff and I would spend hours and many quarters playing the newly installed Pac-Man machine in the store. Pac-Man had just hit the scene and It was a revelation. The greatest video game of all time. Instantly addicting.
I worked in A Red and White grocery store in the early 90's. i was in high school, and loved every thing about it! worked with great folks and loved my customers!
everytime i watch those kind of videos, I feel like someone from today has travelled back to the past! I say this because of the way these videos were filmed as if to show the differences and the changes . They were just filmed perfectly and payed attention to so many details!!
É como se soubesse que hoje isso iria tá um cáos.
Здравствуйте, это , мысль!!!!!
Oh! Love this! Thank you SO much. What a treat to watch.
How would you know all these videos would be priceless now? Had I know I was going to miss my past so much I woulda have done the same cuz the 80s and 90s were the best years....you must be a time traveler
Concordo.
Just found this channel and subbed instantly. This is a gem. Gonna go and binge watch now.
the seventies and eighties were the best years
Everything seems so calm and slow-paced.
Makes you realise that the life hasn't changed all that much in terms of the basic day to day life of just doing your groceries
I was 15. Now I'm nearly 58 and a grandma. Time flies! Before young people had tattoos covering their bodies. Before music went waaaaay downhill. *sigh*
Yes the music was WAY WAY WAY better back then, it had SOUL.....no comparison to the soul-less, auto tuned, talentess, boring "hip hop pop" junk they call music today.
A very judgemental grandma at that. Why do you care about someone having tattoos?
@@8luvbug Because she's bitter. Why any of these old hags are worried about things that have zero effect on them, I have no idea. It makes them feel superior, I guess. Insecurity is no joke.
Yes before cellphones at least people were looking at each other
Not to mention all these shitty gangster rap music songs that talk about drugs, sex, money, narcissism, glorifying about thug life, beating up, or shooting somebody to death.
Yes, music truly has gone down the crapper...
My family and I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area when I was a toddler, just a few years after this video was shot, and I have memories of us doing our grocery shopping while living there at the nearby Safeway. Even though there had been some minor changes to the interior and some new/different products on the store shelves by the time we lived there, and the fashions were a little different, my goodness does this still look a lot like the Safeway we shopped at. I even remember the beautiful huge windows toward the entrance/cashier area and the brown/beige color scheme of the interior of the store being very much like this one. Thank you for the amazing jog down memory lane for me with this video, even if 1980 was a bit before my time.
Amazing uploads man, just discovered your channel. Three big things stand out to me,
No phones
No one cares that the camera man was recording
And the prices of items have gone up dramatically
✅✅✅ I agree
Because there was no Social Media and people were not rude about uploading the videos on Twitter, and other web sites including this one.
Wow. I was 16 in 1980. I loved going to the grocery store with my mom. Look at this. It’s so eerily quiet. No cell phones. Everyone being patient with everyone. Everyone being patient in line. Nobody starting fights. Nobody screaming at the cashiers wanting their money back. I could go on. ❤️❤️😂😂😊😊
We used to have a Safeway. We shopped there often in the early until late 80s when it shut down. Now it has a laudrymat and other little venues inside parts of it.
The Safeway in my hometown went out of business 30+ years ago. But I remember the layout and still have dreams where we are shopping there. Thanks for the memory!
Main thing I notice is no morbidly obese people waddling around.
Or riding in the store scooters.
I think people got a lot more exercise back then, the era before home computers and internet
@@kris78787Now all our parks are deserted. 😞
Amazing footage thanks for posting. I was 15 during this time frame, forgot how people wore those long white socks with rings at the top and unreal how little some wore in the grocery store. Sure miss this simple life time period when people were decent towards others, no wild fights and loud screaming like the crazies do now. Most paying in cash
Glad you enjoyed it!
Now I don't feel so bad possibly "offending" the older generations when I wear my summer outfits in the grocery store! They were really putting it all out there their dang selves! Lol
Damn I was 12 years old 55 years old now
Tube socks! Short shorts! So quiet & peaceful. Polite & nice. Not acting like but wipes. Imagine that. Back then it wasn't tolerated to behave like a savage in public .
@@abelmontalvo4052 how was it living in 1980 🙂
I'm seriously loving this channel! I was born in '83 and love looking back to that era.
man wish we could go back to certain things and seeing people actualy look at each other and engage and not have their faces in their phone is wonderfull
Everything in that store causes cancer
Yes I remember
I don’t know why someone decided to film this but it’s kind of tempting to record a supermarket today for future viewing.
The attire alone. No pajamas. No behinds hanging out. People behaving civilized
But lots of floppy sandals, skimpy sundresses, mini-skirts and see-through blouses.
I grew up in the 1980s and saw those myself.
Fun as the 1980s were, that era was not idyllic or perfect and people were not perfect back then either.
Look how thin everyone is! Go shopping now and 75% of people are overweight
@@brianmeen2158:
Being thin is not a virtue. Let's end the fat-shaming.
I lived in the 1980s and there were plenty of heavyset people.
@@Coryraisa Self discipline is a virtue, our lack of self control is shameful.
@@Coryraisa Right? These people need to take off the rose colored glasses.
I love how almost everyone is well dressed and put together. NO bonnets on their head, no pajama pants or slippers...no baggy, saggy pants or anything of the kind. Class and
Back when I was a little child, I remember my Mom shopping at a Riverside supermarket that use to be in our area as she took us kids along with her. This video looks very much like back then in those days. The large brown paper bags here that were always used before plastic bags became common bring back the memories of childhood as well. I love how the Safeway logo is proudly displayed on the front of the shopping carts to.
nice, quiet and orderly. between the old cranky cash registers of the 70's and the constant beep scanning of more modern times. wish i could go back there, turned 24 that year now going on 67.
More polite!
No tension in the air. Nobody stealing. People knew when to move out of the way without asking. Organic. I fear we'll never get back to times like this.
Most shocking, is the lack of overweight people.
ohhh how my heart yearns to go back ..... thank goodness fr videos like these you upload for us, thank you 🙏🤗
According to the receipt, large eggs were 74 cents a dozen. Those were the days.
And this was during the near peak of inflation
@@vampirerobot Inflation adjusted, the price of eggs in this example in video of .74 were only about 25% cheaper than today. Yes 25% is significant, but not in multiples in actual buying power of today vs 1980. I think I saw a dozen eggs for about $4 recently in Wal Mart. $4 today and inflation adjusted would have a buying power of $1.09 in 1980.
@@pete49327The hot dogs were 1.79 I think. That was actually pretty expensive back then.
...and long ago they knew what dozen meant...
I was born in 1980. Depending on when this was filmed, I was either a baby, or my mother was pregnant. Fascinating! I have many early childhood memories of shopping at Safeway!
I was 13 in 1980 and having the time of my life and everybody I loved was alive now most are gone now. watching this video I can't help but to think at the time this moment was being recorded there's a young me having the time of my life at that exact moment in time.
Paper sacks not plastic bags. I didn't see a pop bottle return area. They were being fazed out about that time. A sacking job was a well paying job at some markets. Around 86' I worked one autumn slicing hams and pricing turkeys. Most enjoyable job I ever had.
Fresh donuts every day and many options for lunch.
I lived near a Safeway during the 80’s. My brother would save our change to get a Snickers and a 6 pack of Coke. The freezer was located in the middle of the store with no door. They had a promotion to get a free encyclopedia. I loved reading that book.
I just turned 50 I was so blessed to grow up in the 80's best decade ever!
I love everything from the retro decor, classic labels and old timey cash registers.
I was 14 years old that year. I started working in the grocery business in 1984. Spent 30 years in grocery.
I was 14 years old. I really miss these days. A lot!
At 6:52 that lady looked and dressed like someone from 2023. Ahead of her time!
Safeway still exists. It would be cool to shoot a scene-for-scene comparison of people shopping at a Safeway today. There will be no men in suits or wearing short shorts, for sure!
They have barcode scanners. Was probably a relatively new upgrade. Up though the 70s, many stores still had cashiers who typed in prices manually. Often from memory for speed. As another mentioned, much of the checkout process hasn't changed other than the addition of self-checkout. And less staff. Back then, it was common for two workers on each lane. One ringing and one bagging. And around that time started the question of Paper or Plastic. Now some stores have switched back to paper while others eliminating bags entirely.
I just remember brown paper bags. They were so annoying to carry. Heavy. Awkward to hold.
My grandmother retired from a grocery store in the early 80's and she had to memorize the prices.
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Funny, my grandfather retired from Lucky in the 70's and they used to label the items with a stamper.
@@brendaechols5929 We have paper bags in Finland - with handles! Always worth a chuckle when I see Americans carry their grocery bags in their arms in movies. Handles, such a simple invention yet so convenient...
Yes. In NYC plastic bags were outlawed. You get charged like 5 cents per paper bag or you have to bring your own bag
I won't even go to a grocery store on a weekend or a busy time.. people are freakin zombies they run their cart right into you like you aren't there and then act confused.. same as drivers on the roads.
I like when that lady said "The last thing I need is my picture taken in this outfit"...
I love how almost everyone is well dressed and put together. NO bonnets on their head, no pajama pants or slippers...no baggy, saggy pants or anything of the kind. It was a different time. An amazing time, at that.
Seems like you're talking about Black People.... With the adjectives you put....
@@ShawnA3104 I mean if the shoe fits 🤷🏻♀️
@@ShawnA3104 you should seek reparations for all the harm his comment did to you and all of your ancestors
@A.J. Fisher Sounds like you're describing the 90s and yup it's sad it happened right after the 80s decade.
@@BudFuddlacker yup and we'll get it soon enough
That takes you back to the 80's.this video is no exception.
I hope so Matthew
I'm truly fascinated by these types of videos
I worked at Safeway 1972-1992 this brought back some fond memories. Good company to work for back then . It was a good job ,I was fortunate to buy my first home at 19 years old they paid well back then . Now I’m getting my union retirement it’s too bad how things are so messed up now. When Albertsons bought them out it’s not the same.
IBM 3663 cash registers with distributed hardware (keyboard on a long wire, probably the rest of the terminal under the counter)
eggs were 74 cents, get me a god dam time machine
Cash, no cell phones , No Karens and people were polite :)
People routinely paid with checks for larger purchases. Merchants often got screwed over with bad checks. Later in the 80s there was real-time verification which held the line up.
my high school graduation year. Things seemed so carefree then. And just think how many of these shoppers are dead now and the younger ones are in their 70's. A lot of the packaging hasn't changed
Me too !!
I remember those carts, as a kid, when I'd go to SW w/grandmother, I would sit cross-legged under the basket as she pushed me around and did her shopping, it was so much fun....56 yrs old!!!