consumer reports rates supermarkets

[alocispepraluger102]

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It's not just Donald Trump who's yelling "You're fired!"

Consumer Reports, in its May issue, says a third of its subscribers fired their supermarket in the past year. In an article titled "Best & Worst Supermarkets," some 24,200 readers get a chance to vent about 42,700 shopping experiences. More than half say they have at least one complaint about their current store, and almost a third have two or more.

The biggest complaints, says project editor Tod Marks, include markets setting their prices too high (cited by 43 percent of shoppers as their reason for firing a store), not having enough checkouts open (cited by 27 percent), having rude employees (17 percent), or not having advertised specials in stock.

Inept bagging, scanner overcharges and missing price tags round out the gripes.

[BeBop]

They can measure consumer sentiment about this and scanner overcharges and mis-bagged produce all they want. My grocery dollars to to Piggly Wiggly.

...or, in a pinch, H.E. Butt.

[alocispepraluger102]

They can measure consumer sentiment about this and scanner overcharges and mis-bagged produce all they want. My grocery dollars to to Piggly Wiggly.

...or, in a pinch, H.E. Butt.

isn't that a porn shop chain??? :rolleyes:

consumers overwhelming dislike ringing up their own groceries, but in 10 years, we will all be doing it, all the time.

[JSngry]

I personally prefer ringing/bagging my own groceries...ensures that the produce gets handled with the TLC it deserves.

But I don't particularly enjoy being in line behind others who decide to try doing it...some clown taking five minutes to inspect a freakin' can of biscuits looking for the UPC, then trying to scan it from the end, or some such...THEN it comes time to pay and they stare at the screen trying to figure out what PAY NOW means, then where the card goes (and which way)...THEN they realize that they have to bag the stuff and it turns into a "where were you in kindergarten the day they taught shapes, and have you suffered head trauma since then that has ruined your spatial discernment" and...GOOD LORD - these are middle-aged, middle-class-or-higher professional people and they can't even scan a bar cod or ten, slap a card in a slot, push a few keys, bag a few stuffs, and then get the hell outta the way without SOME kind of drama, like it's the "computer's fault" that you're a technological moron who can't' get over the fact that you gotta actually do SOMETHING besides just stand there and be served? It takes 15 minutes and a manager's multiple assistances to do five items? (Yes, I've watched that scene go down) Really? You sorry-ass self-entitled ignuntfuck SQUANDERERS!

These people drive, and they vote. One way or another they gonna kill us all.

Peace out, yo.

Edited April 3, 2012 by JSngry

[alocispepraluger102]

JS on a roll-

he comes by his screen name honestly. :tophat: :tophat:

[BeBop]

I personally prefer ringing/bagging my own groceries...ensures that the produce gets handled with the TLC it deserves.

But I don't particularly enjoy being in line behind others who decide to try doing it...some clown taking five minutes to inspect a freakin' can of biscuits looking for the UPC, then trying to scan it from the end, or some such...THEN it comes time to pay and they stare at the screen trying to figure out what PAY NOW means, then where the card goes (and which way)...THEN they realize that they have to bag the stuff and it turns into a "where were you in kindergarten the day they taught shapes, and have you suffered head trauma since then that has ruined your spatial discernment" and...GOOD LORD - these are middle-aged, middle-class-or-higher professional people and they can't even scan a bar cod or ten, slap a card in a slot, push a few keys, bag a few stuffs, and then get the hell outta the way without SOME kind of drama, like it's the "computer's fault" that you're a technological moron who can't' get over the fact that you gotta actually do SOMETHING besides just stand there and be served? It takes 15 minutes and a manager's multiple assistances to do five items? (Yes, I've watched that scene go down) Really? You sorry-ass self-entitled ignuntfuck SQUANDERERS!

These people drive, and they vote. One way or another they gonna kill us all.

Peace out, yo.

Yesterday, I came close to telling the person in front of me "Oh, it looks like the self-checkout is broken", just to steer her to the help she needed, in a traditional checkstand. But me, I'll check myself out anytime: groceries, Home Depot, hotels, air travel...

[JSngry]

I personally prefer ringing/bagging my own groceries...ensures that the produce gets handled with the TLC it deserves.

But I don't particularly enjoy being in line behind others who decide to try doing it...some clown taking five minutes to inspect a freakin' can of biscuits looking for the UPC, then trying to scan it from the end, or some such...THEN it comes time to pay and they stare at the screen trying to figure out what PAY NOW means, then where the card goes (and which way)...THEN they realize that they have to bag the stuff and it turns into a "where were you in kindergarten the day they taught shapes, and have you suffered head trauma since then that has ruined your spatial discernment" and...GOOD LORD - these are middle-aged, middle-class-or-higher professional people and they can't even scan a bar cod or ten, slap a card in a slot, push a few keys, bag a few stuffs, and then get the hell outta the way without SOME kind of drama, like it's the "computer's fault" that you're a technological moron who can't' get over the fact that you gotta actually do SOMETHING besides just stand there and be served? It takes 15 minutes and a manager's multiple assistances to do five items? (Yes, I've watched that scene go down) Really? You sorry-ass self-entitled ignuntfuck SQUANDERERS!

These people drive, and they vote. One way or another they gonna kill us all.

Peace out, yo.

Yesterday, I came close to telling the person in front of me "Oh, it looks like the self-checkout is broken", just to steer her to the help she needed, in a traditional checkstand. But me, I'll check myself out anytime: groceries, Home Depot, hotels, air travel...

Oh HELL yeah!

I mean, all you have to do is be able to read, understand what touch-screens and barcodes are, and hope for some good programming. You don't always get that, but otherwise, unless you're very old and or totally rural, this is al kinda...basic stuff for how life and commerce roll these days. If you're a successful-enough person who has managed to reach your early 50s or so without ever having to deal with this stuff, it means that you've led a life based on getting other people to do your work for you, which, hey, I'm all ok with that, but what kind of decisions based on what kind of perspective are you going to have about bigger things if a simple bar code on a can of biscuits causes a meltdown of your mental reactor or you seem to not grasp that a touch screen can only begin to work if you TOUCH THE SCREEN? They got babies in China that can fix a car in seven different languages by remote control and you can't even know which side of the ATM card has the magnetic strip?

Good lord JESUS help us. We ain't gonna make it like this!

[jazzbo]

H.E. Butt for me, though usually via their high-end Central Market incarnation, which is four blocks from my house, one of the reasons we bought the house (having rented six year two blocks away).

Jim's handle actually has nothing "angry" in it or behind it Cola man.

[JSngry]

I'm actually a very happy guy who laughs at his anger as much as he does those who provoke it!

A friend to all but the willfully slothful, that's me.

[Chuck Nessa]

Wish Wegman's would start moving westward. I really like them when I encounter 'em.

Count me in as a self checker.

[Tim McG]

I liken self-checkout to drum machines and computer generated musical loops: They eliminate jobs.

Besides, I get real tired of trying to figure out every store's list of icons and mechanics; standardize the damn things!

Give me a human being anytime.

[rostasi]

I'll take a good, appropriate, well-programmed drum machine over a lousy ineffectual drummer.

®ø∂ (taking cover from the approaching tornado)

Now Playing: Wojciech Kilar - Mina-Dracula (Dracula) (1992)

[JSngry]

®ø∂ (taking cover from the approaching tornado)

WTF?

[rostasi]

WTF?

http://www.weather.com/

First wave may come thru your area

and second wave may hit mine.

®ø∂

Now Playing: Don Byas - Stormy Weather

[Aggie87]

HEB's all we've got here, unless you count Super Walmart, which I don't. HEB ran Albertson's out of town 20 years ago, who couldn't compete volume-wise.

Generally happy with HEB's customer service, prices, and products. As much as you can be, anyway.

[Tim McG]

I'll take a good, appropriate, well-programmed drum machine over a lousy ineffectual drummer.

®ø∂ (taking cover from the approaching tornado)

Now Playing: Wojciech Kilar - Mina-Dracula (Dracula) (1992)

I'd just get a better drummer.

[BeBop]

®ø∂ (taking cover from the approaching tornado)

WTF?

From CNN:

Tornadoes were spotted in the Dallas-Forth Worth, area, prompting the National Weather Service to issue tornado emergencies.

Video from CNN affiliate WFAA shows truck trailers being lifted and tossed like toys. Aerial footage also shows damage to homes; a Tarrant County official confirmed damage in the city of Arlington.

[rostasi]

Sirens are blowin'...and the hail is here.

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[Shawn]

I usually shop at Ralph's or Albertson's here, Trader Joes is a little too far from the apartment and who really wants to compete with West Hollywood parking just for the benefit of shopping there.

[Dan Gould]

Publix works for me, and they seem to work for the survey respondents too.

I notice too that they didn't get the memo about shopping clockwise or counter-clockwise. There are entrances on the left and right, and I have seen Publixes with produce at the right front, right rear and left rear. Only place I've never seen it is the left front corner.

[Tim McG]

I usually shop at Ralph's or Albertson's here, Trader Joes is a little too far from the apartment and who really wants to compete with West Hollywood parking just for the benefit of shopping there.

The only Trader Joe's we have is about 40 miles from here, but not a bad drive. Having lived in SoCal, the LA traffic would deter me, too.

We shop SaveMart and WinCo in our neck o'the woods.

[BeBop]

Publix works for me, and they seem to work for the survey respondents too.

Ah, memories. I did three meals a day for six weeks from the Publix across the street from my Fort Lauderdale hotel.

[marcello]

Wegman's is a hometown product, although they are in five states now ( in fact one of the Wegman dynasty used to live across the street from me).

The stores and the produce are immaculate. Picture perfect, in fact.

The store closest to me has so much variety, along with restaurants, prepared meals and products of every variety that I couldn't begin list everything here.

I know that the stores in other states are so popular that they are actual destination for people and families. No shit.

They are also generous employers who take check out boys and girls, pay towards their education, and turn them into managers.

Really a class organization.

[Chuck Nessa]

Wegman's is a hometown product, although they are in five states now ( in fact one of the Wegman dynasty used to live across the street from me).

The stores and the produce are immaculate. Picture perfect, in fact.

The store closest to me has so much variety, along with restaurants, prepared meals and products of every variety that I couldn't begin list everything here.

I know that the stores in other states are so popular that they are actual destination for people and families. No shit.

They are also generous employers who take check out boys and girls, pay towards their education, and turn them into managers.

Really a class organization.

I just know them as the best food stores I have ever seen. Sadly only get to visit them in Buffalo.

[BeBop]

Trader Joe's is okay, I guess...unless you want to buy produce. What they've got gets packaged in some pretty weird ways, and I don't think I've ever seen any produce sold in bulk/by the pound. But hey, their stuff has cute names.