Plans announced earlier this week to close 10 Safeway stores across Colorado in the next two months will impact more than 600 workers and thousands of customers.
The news not only raised concerns about potential job losses, but about reduced access to groceries for low-income residents — the creation of “food deserts” — and the negative impact the closures could have on Front Range neighborhoods and small towns on the Eastern Plains.
That said, some Safeway customers The Post talked to this week acknowledged their neighborhood stores were old and needed work if they were to stay open…