A Safeway store in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood was forced to temporarily close its doors this week after Santa Clara County health inspectors found contamination from vermin, according to officials.<\/p>\n
The temporarily closure affected the entire store on Hamilton Avenue, including the deli, bakery, sushi area and Starbucks inside.<\/p>\n
The county said health officials closed the Safeway on Monday because rodent droppings were found throughout the store. The investigation began after the county received a complaint from a member of the public.<\/p>\n
In a statement to NBC Bay Area, the county’s public health department said its investigation found evidence of vermin in multiple locations, leading to the immediate temporary closure of the store. The department also said routine inspections of food establishments are part of its protocols, including unannounced inspections based on the food safety risk associated with each operation.<\/p>\n
By late afternoon Tuesday, Safeway requested a follow-up inspection and provided a pest report showing the violation had been corrected. Officials verified the problem had been resolved and immediately approved Safeway to reopen.<\/p>\n
Shoppers who spoke with NBC Bay Area on Tuesday said they were surprised by the closure.<\/p>\n
“It’s shocking, it’s frightening, it’s unbelievable,” frequent Safeway shopper Joanne said. “I come here, I go to Lunardi’s, I go to Trader Joe’s, but I just wouldn’t expect this here.”<\/p>\n
The shopper added the violations could make her reconsider returning to the store.<\/p>\n
“I have to think because that’s pretty serious. I’d have to think about it. It’s a shame,” she added.<\/p>\n
NBC Bay Area reached out to Albertsons Companies, which owns Safeway, for comment but has not received a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Safeway store in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood was forced to temporarily close its doors this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-465061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}