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    2.4 (108 reviews)

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    Heat and serve food has gone down.
    Patrick E.

    One of the not so nice Mariano's I've encountered. Comparing this place to Vernon Hills location, it definitely is sub par. Sometimes they will have 1-2 register open on a weekend, and self check out is closed. Corporate has been notified.

    No single bread in the baskets and out of the one we came for.
    Heather l.

    Every time we go shopping on the weekend the store is out of everything we need. The produce section is decimated, the produce that is there are the ones no one wants and there seems to be no restocking. You have to go at 6am in Saturday morning or there's nothing left. Typically we try to go early Saturdays but the last couple of months since the weather has been nice we've had other plans, so we've been going early (like 7-8am) Sunday mornings and there's NOTHING. We moved here from out of state a year and a half ago and we love the selection they do have when it's there, but we would like the option to go grocery shopping on either Saturday OR Sunday mornings. Hopefully they get it together. Another thing that I'm not thrilled about are some of the staff... the deli department always seems pretty unfriendly, with the exception of a few people and there is a young blonde girl who works in the coffee area who has no manners or customer service, she's been quite rude a few times. I'll update with her name once I get it, but for management she was working this morning (5/12/19) and has a blonde ponytail and is probably about 17-19. Someone should talk to her about her overall attitude/customer service and facial expressions when assisting people. All I want is a nice place to shop with options, maybe we will be going back to Jewel.

    Kettle corn
    ALice A.

    Pretty disappointed in their fresh popped popcorn. I decided to give their $3 kettle corn a try. It looks delicious but boy was I wrong. There was a lot where it was super salty. Yuck! And some were burnt. Totally ruined my desire to munch on these. Now it's just sitting on the kitchen counter hoping someone else will eat it... Aka BF... (Doc's Popcorn in Gurnee Mills isnt bad!) Besides their waaay too salted popcorn, I still frequent marianos because of the good variety of foods they carry. I would use to buy their muffins / pastry at the vernon hills location since they make it fresh there. But I have a feeling the gurnee location gets theirs delivered from vernon hills so sometimes even tho the sell by date is still good, the pasty in it isn't.... So be careful when getting those! Its always a bummer bringing home delicious looking pastry only to know that after the first bite, its been sitting in the store for awhile... blah! Their hot foods selection is great too if you want something quick to eat. They also have OK sushi. Two things always get when I'm there is their fresh squeezed orange juice and their ROUNDYS brand organic milk! Tastes so much better than the brands you find at jewel or Walmart. The employees are pretty friendly and helpful. Makes shopping there so much more pleasant! =)

    Pretty good selection of imported foods

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    A number of shelves were completely empty. No lettuce, not too much meat etc. what's happening?

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