DO NOT COME LOOKING FOR THE "FRESHER THAN FRESH" PRODUCE BEING PROMOTED BY METRO MARKET aka PICK 'N SAVE. Some one needs to advise this Metro Market of these promotions. The PRODUCE is often literally rotten, laying on the shelves. I guess with shortages, they figure that having bad produce is better than NO produce. The few produce clerks they have are seldom seen on the sales floor, and when they are out... they move like senior citizens or are standing around chatting with other store employees. Today there were many "holes" in the produce dept. I had to ask someone to call a produce clerk to see if they had two of the things they were out of. He went to the back... checked, and as I waited, he came out of the back room... and started having a social conversation with another store employee. After a minute or so of patiently waiting... I approached him, interrupted his conversation... and he said "we dont have any" and went back to his conversation with the other guy. Last week, the clerk was putting new tomatoes on top of the old soft ones that had fruit flies around them. No rotation, no pulling bad stock. I have also noticed a lot of Fruit Flies handing around the dept... so sanitation does not seem to be a priority either.
I am aware that everyone is hiring and many people do not like working in "cold" areas of the store. But this is also the FRONT of the store where you walk in.. making a very bad impression.
Other parts of the store are not so bad.. a lot of "out of stock" items and again, I understand that with the current supply issues. Check-outs lines... normally long lines of shoppers trying to make purchases... and only one or two registers open. People with $200 dollar orders should not have to be doing self check-out... because the lines are so long... again, hiring issues abound in our area. read more