It's a large store with a huge selection. You can find almost anything, with the exception of organic food and specialty foods (allergy-free food, vegan food, etc). There is still some there, but not a lot of variety in what you can find.
I always try to do the self checkout as it is much faster than the cashiers (not blaming the cashiers here, blaming the slow customers). They have a bar which you can put up at the self check out which prevents other people's food from getting mixed with yours while you try to bag, but it is no obvious and it is awkward to use. I hope they will fix this. I had one guy freak out because I started putting stuff on the conveyer before he finished bagging. I told him to use the bar but he wanted to be angry and continued to act like a total idiot. lol.
They have hot food which is nice when you need a quick bite to eat. I really wish they would keep a higher stock of their hot sandwiches as they are delicious and pretty cheap.
The staff is a mixed bag. Some are friendly and helpful and some are rude and stupid. Again, just stick with the self check out and avoid the staff in the first place.
My biggest complaint is about the other shoppers here. They are completely oblivious to everything and everyone around them.
Customers in the parking lot ALWAYS back their cars up while looking straight ahead. If you are lucky they might look in there rear-view mirrors. Attention dumbasses: you are ALWAYS supposed to turn around and look out the back of your car while you back up. You know, that whole "look where you're going" thing.
I nearly got run over by one of these dumbasses who was backing into a parking space. When he stopped I proceeded to tell him that he was, in fact, a total retard and that he needed to look back, not forwards, while backing up. His rebuttal was that I jumped in the way of his car. Keep in mind that he never saw me until I approached his window, so even if I had a death wish and jumped in front of his car, he wouldn't have known since, you know, he never saw me.
People will turn their carts sideways in the middle of an aisle so they can stop and stare at product packaging. When you say excuse me they snap out of their psychotic fantasy shopping world and will spin their carts in circles multiple times trying to figure out whats going on. If you want to get past these people just push their carts out of the way, it's much faster.
One day the exit door was broken and did not open automatically, you had to manually push it open. Meet Dumbass Redneck Trash, aka DRT. DRT did not understand the concept of doors that didn't open automatically. DRT proceeds to repeatedly shove her cart into the GLASS exit door in an attempt to open it without using her two functioning arms. Flabbergasted, DRT proceeds to try and make an exit through the entry door instead. Seeing as how she was no longer interested in the exit door, I use one of my two working arms to open the door and head out. DRT notices that I had solved the enigma of the broken door and tries to race over and jam her cart through the now closing door. She fails and hits the glass door. Now furious, she finally uses one of her two working arms to open the door and flings her cart through. DRT's cart, overloaded with junk to shove down her gullet, starts toppling over, spilling food all over the place. I hear her shout "asshole" as I exit the second door. I am far superior to DRT, so I ignore her and continue towards my car. She finally clamors her troth-feed back into her cart and gets out the second door. Thinking that I did not hear her first insult she exclaims "Hey you! Black shirt! You're an asshole!" I laugh uncontrollably. How could I not? She continues to shout profanities as I laugh my way to my car.
I know that the stupidity of people is not Giant's fault, but I do wish they would hire police to patrol their dangerous parking lots. I also hope they will adopt a different policy than "the customer is always right" as clearly they have quite a few complete idiot customers. Just kick a few of these idiots out and the rest should get the message.
Overall decent grocery store, okay prices, mixed bag of staff, and some human scum customers. read more