This place is the absolute worst.
Somehow, they never have milk. That's like the whole reason anyone would ever go to a store like this where all the shelves are too close together so only one person can be on any aisle at any one time. When they do have milk, it always expires in 5 days or less.
You want to use the self check-out, but the employees won't let you. I've literally had several of them berate me for trying to use it saying it is putting them out of a job. Um, there's only ever 1 employee working the store at any one time anyway. They aren't going to fire you, genius. The employees berate you on a regular basis, actually. Remember the days when a customer was always right? Here, at the dollar general, the customer is always a punching bag.
Take what happened the last time I was there as a good example: I wanted to use the self check-out, but there was a pool of water in front of it and cones around the pool so you couldn't use the self check-out. I guess the employees are getting creative about deliberately preventing customers from convenience. Anyway, I had grabbed a few re-usable bags from my car. They happen to be the color and style of bags that Walmart uses. I handed them to the cashier (because I couldn't bag my own groceries because that cashier had literally put water in front of the self check-out so I couldn't use it) and he ignored them and said something about having Walmart bags. I asked him what was wrong with that? They don't even say Walmart on them. "That's our competitor." He said. He then proceeded to put my groceries into Dollar General bags and tried to hand them to me. I had to negotiate with him to allow me out of the store with my groceries if I unbagged the groceries he had bagged and put them into my own re-usable bags because the whole point of having re-usable bags was not to use new ones. Thankfully, he did not decide to hold my groceries hostage.
Grocery shopping is supposed to be a simple experience. You scan and bag your groceries and leave. Now that the employees have taken to berating me and doing whatever they can to make that process less simple, I'm not going to this store anymore. I'm going to Walmart from now on. I'll post something on Nextdoor so I can pick up milk for others who, like me, have come to hate this store, its employees, and everything about it. read more