Once again, as usual, this is the worst grocery store in the valley. A busy Saturday and two cashiers, out of 1/2 gallon milk, couldn't get the (national) brand of orange juice I wanted, $8.99 for a pack of Oscar Meyer hotdogs and moldy blackberries! The management of this store is beyond terrible. I'll go back to using the Monterey store, though I should just chuck Albertsons all together. read more

Albertsons - What's really going on with grocery prices. - Grocery Near Me - Palm Desert, California

This Albertsons is clean and the staff is very helpful and friendly. The produce is decent and there are a variety of salads and seafood. read more

I have to add that it is a pleasure every time I go to this store and I go to the deli section and Juan serves me, this guy always takes care of you with a great attitude and smiles that really mean it..congratulations to this store havin Juan as an employee here.. my best neighborhood store read more

Albertsons - Grocery Near Me - Palm Desert, California

This store is within walking distance of my sister-in-law's house and so it's a popular stop. When I was there yesterday I got to enjoy quality customer service and it's always nice when nice people work at a store you like to frequent. On a sidenote, they do have a comprehensive alcohol section if you're into that kind of thing. read more

Albertsons - Behind lock and key - Grocery Near Me - Palm Desert, California

Mandy, the manager is unfriendly and rude. I was in there about 12:30pm today and needed help and she was combative and in my face. She should NOT be customer facing. read more

I have recently started ordering groceries online and then pick them up from the grocery store. This store has some very good employees bringing the groceries to my car. They remember me, are quick and efficient. It's a great way to read more

Unbelievable, this girl called. Kelly always asked me - and all customers Are you going to bag your own groceries? She's rude, has no sympathy for older people she is mean to her own coworkers, I have heard the way she talks to them or how she talks to customers about her coworkers. I would take this to corporate. These girls belongs to work someplace else. Not here. She will not help no one with digital coupons, and when she makes mistakes, she will send them to customer service instead of taking care of her own mistakes. she's always chewing gum, being unprofessional, Who Is the manager here ?!!!! read more

The Albertsons market in Palm Desert is not dog friendly. I parked in the back of the garage one day. In fact a couple of days I needed the shade for my service animal in the car. The manager met me outside and told me I'm not allowed to be there anymore. So in essence they are not dog friendly and with that I will not shop here anymore as my local neighborhood market since I lived just down the street. Are you a pet lover or if you're a pet lover, don't bring your animal here. They don't like animals and they surely don't have good service. Here You think for a manager he would be nice enough to allow me to stay there but no. read more

This grocery store has the poorest customer service because of the way it distributes its employees. There are way too many running around inside and outside of the store, and way too few cashiers. On one recent visit, they had 2 employees trying to hustle $5 donations from customers while making folks wait in long lines to check out. They play confusing grocery pricing games which lead to customers paying higher and higher prices. If they put half the effort that they put into confusing customers with pricing games into providing more cashiers and more helpful customer service, it would become a much better store for everyone, young and old, rich and poor. Bottom line is it's all about profit over customer convenience and reasonable prices. read more

As previously reported, I'm not a fan of many supermarkets. I left my heart's love for them in NY State when I visited the Finger Lakes region about 20 years ago and discovered Wegman's. That's the gold standard for me on mainstream grocery stores. This Albertsons did nothing to move the needle. We were in the desert the week of Thanksgiving. Having shopped for T'Giving dinner items at Jensen's and Costco, Albertson's was just for fill-in items. Their prices are lower than Jensen's, but the store isn't as attractive. They aren't as organized as Costco, which despite being mega-crowded, still worked like a humming machine to get in and out of there. I recall thinking that this location was a bit of a shabby sister in the Palm Desert area where so much is upscale and elegant. It did appear dated and not that interesting, visually. We got in / we got out. When in the area next time, we would probably be looking to see what other options exist in the vicinity. read more

Albertsons - Bulked-out items. - Grocery Near Me - Palm Desert, California

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Great service. Great prices. Wonderful selection! I went to a nearby Fresh Fare last night and paid $20.00 more for what seemed like a lot less. Picked up nonfat cottage cheese, delicious fresh salsa, Wasa bread, grapes, watermelon, blueberries, Ciobani nonfat Greek yogurt, 2 bags of mandarins orange and 2 boxes of sparkling watermelon water. That's breakfast, lunch and snacks for me and to share with friends this weekend. read more

Albertsons has the best ordering and pickup! Andrew, Geo, and the rest of the staff are tremendously supportive. Even with food allergies replacement choices are typically spot on. If it's not the chat feature is handy. Now that we have done this many times, the staff even know our orders. Ultimately, their consideration for food choices for our family is what is appreciated. Their added smiles and friendliness are an added bonus read more

Not only was I treated incredibly rudely by the employees here but the manger well let's just say he needs a lesson in manners and needs to wear his mask instead of allowing it to dangle from one ear! Creep....The worst store ever. Add to that their regional office and regional director not caring and they don't deserve my business. How this manager EVER got in this position I don't know. Aside from that too many other places to shop in the area where they are nice and know how to treat people. Hey I try to be patient but enough already! read more

The best apple fritters! When I'm in the mood for donuts, I go early and usually buy them all. I noticed if I go late morning they have like one left, sometimes none at all. The fruit and veggies here are very fresh. Everything is fresh here. They have a great selection for everyone from dieters to vegans to meat eaters. The store is VERY CLEAN!! It's a pleasure to shop here, everyone is nice too read more

Albertsons - Best apple fritters! Ignore the chocolate donut that's from Walmart (I went to 3 grocery stores that morning LOL) - Grocery Near Me - Palm Desert, California

This is the best Alberstons! It's like having a small local community store available, but with the supply and resources of a large store. The employees are very friendly. Veronica at the cashier station is WONDERFUL, so pleasant, always has her warm friendly smile. She makes my day. I have seen her lovingly help needy customers with patience and caring. The Produce Team are also VERY helpful making sure customers' needs are met. The Produce in this store is superb. The manager of the Liquor Department is like having family there ready to help. He has walked me around the store helping me find odd items for my recipes. All this is made possible by this store's leadership team, the caring, friendly, helpful culture that has been here for the 10 years I have lived here. Thank you all. read more

hi! I shop at the absolutely best Albertsons on Washington Street in Palm Desert. First off, I want to commend Angel, the manager, for all of his help one day with our albertsons APP. He went out of his way, and spent around 20 minutes helping me get my boyfriends App up and running. He's a wonderful manager and cares about his customers. secondly, I would like to thank Jessica, our cashier, for always being so sweet. she works so hard and I appreciate her so much! Lastly, I wish I could remember the name of the nice gentleman in the produce section who always greets us with a smile. He's around 62, with moustache. he's so friendly and helpful. Guys, you feel like family to me. I know most of you, and also know my way around your store so well. Thank you for making me feel so welcome! Mary Parks read more

Stopped to pick up vegetables and fruit. Everything looked and felt old. Back to Staters even though I live less than a mile from Albertsons on Deep Canyon! read more

It's kinda sketch at night not gonna lie, but otherwise it's a satisfactory experience. Some girl, Stefanie or something was pretty chill and pointed me in the right direction, and that cashier Noah was kinda dope. read more

Albertsons - The place - Grocery Near Me - Palm Desert, California

Still allowing dogs that aren't Service Animals in the store. Three in the last three visits. Violation of the health code

I bought an order through FTD that took over 8 hours to get delivered to me through dash. Get where I'm going with this? It came in a soggy box. Flowers started to wilt in 1 day. Smelt terribly after 2 days. FTD gave me a refund after showing them pictures. Told me they would never use them again. My point, don't go through FTD of course. Crappy flowers through substandard contractors. Most important, DON'T BUY FLOWERS FROM ALBERTSONS!!!!! Especially this store! I've concluded that the FTD designed floral arrangement sold by this Albertsons had been sitting in the display cabinet A LONG TIME!!!! Bad Business Practices of supervision by this store manager, what the hell else are the other employees getting away with, and one hell of a lazy employee wanna be florist? This is flowers. I wouldn't buy food there!!!!!!! read more

The staff at Albertson's are nice, and I have no qualms with them. The merchandise is clean and unexpired, unlike those unscrupulous merchants at Stater Brothers, or maybe I should call them Crooks Brothers. ha ha! Alas, before I digress further, I thank the Albertson's staff for their loyal service. But the customers are a whole other story! By golly, if my Sunday pastor saw what the Coachella floozies were wearing, he would have a heart attack. I wish they would institute a dress code for customers. May I remind you there are children here and upstanding citizens, such as myself, of the utmost moral compass. I need not subject my eyes to that! My poor, poor, wife Patricia, may she rest in eternal peace, would be throwing a fit knowing what this town has turned into. read more

I normally go to the one on Washington and after coming here I will continue to go to the one on Washington. I couldn't find something in the dairy section so I saw two employees talking to each other it was a man named Fabio? Or Fabian and I didn't see the young lady's name. He was very rude. He gave me this look when I said excuse me I'm sorry but could you help me find this and just have me a disgusted look like how dare I interrupt him. All to not even look and just said we don't carry that and walked off. Rueben ended up helping me and he was really sweet. Albertsons do better with how your employees treat customers. read more

***** One win for positive people! **** Wow! I'm very impressed with this market! This Albertson's is huge! The isles are super wide. Everything is super clean and organized. The staff is crazy friendly! I'm not sure if it's because it's the market or the people of Palm Desert that are friendly, but it has left me with a positive impression. Even the patrons of the market are super friendly. Everywhere I walk people are smiling, having a good day, and enjoying their life. Nobody holds back asking "How are you?" or "Have a nice day." Also, Jason the cashier told a customer that she dropped money ($10) on the floor. You definitely get a thumbs up for being honest Jason! :-) If more people adopted the positive attitudes of the folks around here we'd all have better days. It doesn't take that much effort to be nice to each other. Deli food = Nice selection. Freshly made chicken. Shopping area = clean Staff = friendly Restroom = clean read more

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The veggies and non-perishables are good. However, the meat selection has failed me twice now. First, it was chicken breast that went bad the day after I purchased it. Now, it's a $9.00 steak that looked great from the top. But once I got it home to grill, I flipped it to season and discovered a whole backside of fat that I had to cut off. This is very aggravating. I just paid for fat, not steak. read more

Albertsons - All the fat I just cut off a thin slice of meat. - Grocery Near Me - Palm Desert, California

Huge store and extremely clean, and very organized and well stocked. I was surprised once I walked inside just how impressive this Albertsons was. As an executive, the Store Director needs big kudos from the District Manager for this Albertsons. Great prices as always. Great selection. Friendly staff read more

This Albertsons sucks! Store is dated, everything costs a lot more than it should. And it's a hit and miss on customer service We won't shop at this location ever again read more

This Albertson's is the best in Coachella Valley. The Monterrey store is nice but too big for me. This store is bright, clean, well-stocked and easy to shop. Its employees are all friendly and eager to help. Produce is fresh; love the ready to heat/bake entrees; some great sale items; friendly cashiers and baggers and the pharmacy staff went over and above to help me procure Covid tests free of charge. BTW, no I'm not ill but thought I should have some available just in case. These tests are free until May 5th. Whenever I am in the area, I stop and shop at this location. Unfortunately, the Albertson's on Washington at Hovely is as bad as this outlet is good. Oh how I wish the Albertson's closest to me could be this terrific. read more

Always helpful and usually well stocked. The management has been good and not too much change of staff. Cant say the same about rRalphs across the street though. read more

This place just sucks!!! I've been blowing my money at this dive for years, watching as they Thrive from all the others closing and immediately raised their prices and reduce their staff. But hey when you have but heads like we have in the government it all makes sense we can continue to build all kinds of resorts in this valley and try and attract all of the snowbirds but you know what snowbirds aren't stupid they're smart they have lots of money and they can go wherever they want and this is the last place they want to be. Albertsons? U suuuuuuckkkj! read more

I DO NOT RECOMMEND this pharmacy! Larry is the WORST pharmacist, I've ever worked with in my life. He Does not follow up on transferred prescriptions. He has no capability to call another pharmacy to find a prescription. I called myself and had no problem multiple times!! Had zero trouble finding it ,even if it was under my dogs name! it's still under my birthday AND my last name AND my phone number! There's absolutely no customer service and he has a BAD ATTITUDE at the same time! I have health insurance and I can take my business anywhere. I will not pay for service like this, neither should anyone else! I was looking for a very specific prescription to keep my dog from going blind! I just have to say great job Larry, in delaying me for OVER A WEEK! Since my prescription was for a dog, I highly do not suggest this pharmacy, if it's something for you personally or your child ,as they are highly incapable!!! read more

Seems like with everything that's going on companies want to have less people and I think they forget there's people still working. This is the second time I've come this week and I only have a 30-minute lunch and I was in line today for about 13 minutes last time I was in line for about 10 minutes so I just had to drop what I bought and had to drive back to work I had to order something from Postmates paid 10 times more to eat but had to eat this Albertson sucks it's slow I don't know what they're doing I used to be really well-managed needs to be a bunch of checkers used to be in and out with the quickness so I wouldn't recommend coming here if you wanted lunch. read more

This is one of my favorite stores because they have a huge inventory and carry almost all the products I am looking for. The staff are friendly and very helpful, especially Lydia who will go out of her way to walk you to the item you are looking for. I love the fact they have a blood pressure monitoring machine, redox movie rentals, lottery machines, a great florist inside, great coffee bean selections, and a new bank opening soon insidem read more

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This Albertsons location always has what I need and the customer service is great. My go to when I'm in the area.

This store has a price reduced section. Most of the items are marked 50% off. However they are also marked with a price for the 50% off. This price is often very high. Be careful you may pay more than you would if you bought at full shelf price. This practice is very sneaky. read more

We stayed in a vacation house not far from this Albertsons. Typical for all Albertsons it was a bit expensive, but very clean and well stocked. Also it was fully staffed so in and out was great, efficient and quick. Unfortunately while in the store I had to use the restroom. Walking from the impeccably clean store into the bathroom was like walking to another planet. Like a gas station bathroom at the end of a freeway off ramp. It was awful. I'm surprised I didn't need a key chained to an oil can to get in. It was a gender-neutral, one-at-a-timer. I can't even imagine what my wife would've thought. I even noticed that the toilet paper roll wasn't even installed into the dispenser. It was just sitting on top of it. Blech! Clean up the restroom and get five stars. read more

Our Palm Desert Albertsons is a clean, attractive, well-stocked store in a very convenient location for us. The two pharmacists with whom I have had contact are friendly and efficient. Surprisingly, it seems to have a dearth of customers. We did pretty bIg shopping last Friday. Upon rolling our cart up to the only check stand open, due to the fact there were so few shoppers, we took our place behind a woman almost finished with the process. I heard the male employee at the cash register say to her gruffly, "I already told you that once." Her male companion's mouth and mine dropped open simultaneously. Who gets spoken to like that in a supermarket? She left with packages, no further rudeness. Our turn. We were greeted courteously. He held up an article I had picked up from the Sav-On section and kindly said, "If you buy two of these you get $5 off." That sounded good to me so I agreed to buy two. A female checker who had no customers was bagging for him, although he hardly needed it. It is a loooong way from where we were, back to the section where this item is shelved, and as has always been the case in these instances, the bagger does a quick sprint and comes back with it. I looked at her, she looked at me and it was obvious I was going to be the sprinter. Let me add, she is a GREAT deal younger than I. That accomplished, she didn't want to put my paper products in bags and when I insisted she bristled slightly. Before exiting the store I scanned my register receipt to see if we got the advantage of their steak sale; buy one, get one free. Nope, charged for two steaks. Over we went to the courtesy desk where we were given the refund for the get one free steak. I will continue to patronize this store because it has everything I want and our visits are usually not this eventful. read more

Albertsons bakery and deli always deliver quality. I always order my party trays from them. Staff is great and trays come out excellent. Thank you! read more

I go here about 4 times a week and it's always good. I usually get the sushi which is really good and helps fight my cravings. Their prices are pretty good and food is good. read more

OMG. I usually don't write reviews on grocery stores, but this one is so fabulous. I hate grocery shopping in San Diego. Our neighborhood VONS is packed, parking is tight and sometimes have to drive around the lot to get a space, narrow aisles, and it is stressful. And there is nowhere else to shop. So, perhaps, I am awed at ANY grocery that is better than were we shop. SO......when we went here, I was astounded. It is HUGE. Plenty of parking. CLEAN. Friendly staff at the deli counter. Deli had fresh food (the Ralph's also on the 111 had some crusty old food). So much selection. Lots of wide aisles. I love this place. Wish I could shop here all the time. We actually ATE in the store! (We were on the move, and on our way out of town) It was hilarious....there are tables and chairs, easy chairs, a coffee machine, water fountain and even a candle display on the table. Such ambience for a supermarket :) read more

I've only been to this Albertsons when I've stayed across the street for Coachella. I like that they have a back check-out section (not sure if this is just for Coachella weekends or year-round), but it's nice for when you want to use the side exit to get to the shuttle stop. They had everything we either forgot or ran out of: drinks, razors, sun block, gum, coolers, etc. The people here were friendly. While using the self-checkout, my $5 dollar bill got stuck in the machine. It kept trying to process my money, but instead ripped it in half. The lady opened up the machine and after she finally took the money out, used a different $5 bill. I apologized of course for the inconvenience, but they were nice and not too bothered about it. read more