Albertsons Deals & Delivery 17+

Now working for me

Well, order and pick up has worked twice now. Unfortunately, today it took me a long time to place my orders. It’s too hard to read - that includes start, finding particular items and making try at some discounts.
The drive today will be much later than I prefer. Too many cars and tucks maneuvering in too small space makes it nerve racking for me. I’ve yet to find a Handicap designation on any pickup spaces. At night (like now) this store needs better lighting which might also help with pedestrian safety. In this lot pedestrians have to walk in the narrow space between vehicle lines along with cars going in and out and even backing out, as we ll have to do. I wish all stores had walking space between the fronts of parked cars.

Hope someday it will work on my iPhone. So far never has. Now I have the icon come up and can’t delete. Doesn’t even show in settings so I’ll just try downloading this to see if it works. I’ll update review later.

Worst “Update” to Date

This used to be a simple, straightforward app. You could look at the weekly ad by categories or by the actual image, and simply tap to add an item to your shopping list. Same with coupons and other savings. Clip it, then look at your collection and Tsp to add to your list.

Those days are LONG gone! And each successive “improvement” only makes it worse. The latest is a whole app overhaul and it’s practically unusable. Primarily, if you ever manage to get items to your list, they are placed in drop-down categories requiring extras steps to check what you need. But that’s once you get there. No matter how you view the weekly ad, you can’t add anything to your list. You have to remember what you looked at and then go to Deals to find it. Of course you can just start in Deals and forget the ad, because it claims to have those deals under that tab, too. But they don’t. MANY times I have actually remembered what I looked at and it doesn’t show up anywhere! If I do a search it will come up, but nowhere else. And then there are items in the ad where that’s the only place they exist and you just have to deal with. Their work-around is to go to your browser, then to the web site, and only from there can you add everything.

This app is complete junk. A massive time waster, and probably a money waster as well with the convoluted and scattered and incoherent “organization.” My work-around? A complete different store that respects me as a customer.

Developer Response ,

We are sorry to hear you are disappointed in the new app update. We have shared your comments with our App Development Team for further review. Should you need any further assistance, please feel free to chat with us on the mobile app by visiting Need Help under the Settings page or visiting the website using your mobile browser so we can further assist you.

Not worth your time

Anything you can do in this app is doable on the website. When it works you get reasonable prices on products, even deals occasionally. You can spend reward points for special coupons like a free item or a few bucks off. But when browsing the store and finding sale prices that require the app, they make you scan or search for every single item you want the digital sale price on. You already are giving them your phone number, email, address and shopping habits. You’re letting them run Google Analytics, AppsFlyer Analytics, and others in the background. And their server uptime is spotty so you won’t even be able to connect and download these “sales” anyway. I’ve measured how often this app fails to connect over the last 3 years and it’s not good. I like this companies values but this app should be for delivery and other useful features, not turning thrifty shopping into something so complicated, especially for their large demographic of older users who struggle with tech already. There’s also too many tabs for each section of the current UI, it really should be condensed smarter.

Finally, they block VPN users. This is unacceptable especially given users would often be on their free Wi-Fi in stores. Their error messages don’t even communicate that that’s why it isn’t connecting.