I made the mistake of stopping "quickly" in yesterday to grab a few things instead of driving to N. Smithfield. My goodness the store and employees were even worse than the last time I was there in October...I was going to make chili and needed 2 packages of 85% hamburger. So I ran in to grab that and a few other things. The store was very crowded (zoo like) because the Pats were playing, I witnessed employees cut patrons off in the aisles without saying excuse me (it was kind of like sport for them, very odd). The meat department wasn't well stocked at all, I assume because everyone was cooking for the game. The hamburger section in particular was pretty empty, no 85% burger. I walked over to the where the butchers work and waited 5 minutes for the Manager (ADAM) of the meat department to even acknowledge me, he saw me but continued to work pretending I wasn't there. I finally said "excuse me", he walked over and stood at the window glaring at me. He never said "can I help you?", "Hello", not a peep! I finally said "hello. how are you today?". He didn't respond, I asked if he had any 85% ground beef as there was none out front? He never said a word, just walked away and got a bin, labeled a few and brought one out to me...I needed two, so he had to go back and get another one for me...he brought it out and handed it to me, still not saying a word. I said "thank you and have a great day"...he's a manager, a leader of the company. He is supposed to lead by example and set the expectations of the rest of the employees of this store. His poor attitude and complete contempt for me was heard loud and clear....Adam if you're that miserable you need to find a different profession. I finally finished my shopping and went to check out. I found a line that wasn't too long, only one person in front of me and they were almost done checking out. I placed the divider bar on the belt and then removed all my items from the basket. I stood there listening to the check out person "Sandra" complain non stop to the people in front of me about how tired she was. She was a train wreck, she was either drunk or on something, She looked like she just rolled out of bed. Her hair was filthy, tied up with an elastic but most of it falling out, she was talking non stop, most of which didn't make any sense. She would stop working and start looking around and start making comments about things, it was very bizarre. I could tell the people in front of me just wanted to leave but tried hard to be polite, however they were engaging her to continue with her craziness by being nice to her. The person bagging was finishing up and the Cashier looked down and noticed she didn't ring up a package of "blistex". She tried to hide it because the people had already finished paying but she saw me watching her. She took the receipt from the register and glanced at it quickly and said " I'm too tired to see if I scanned this or not, here just take it" !!!!! and handed the package of blistex to the customer. I don't think they understood what was going on, so the man just put it in his pocket and they left. I don't know why I was so surprised but it shocked me to see how the cashier handled the situation. Now it's my turn, I push my basket thru to where the bagger is and ask him to please put as much in bags as possible as I don't like to waste them. He says no problem, very nice kid. The cashier asks how are you and I say fine thank you. I don't dare ask how she is because for the last 5 minutes I've already heard all about how tired she is....sure enough she starts. "I'm so tired, I just want to go home and sleep, I could lie down right here and sleep, I want to walk out of here and not come back", etc, etc, etc....I do not acknowledge her behavior at all and she stops talking...she gets it, I am not playing her game. Ok, now it's time to ring in the hamburger, for some reason it does not barcode in, she tries typing it, still nothing. Another cashier comes over to assist, she tries several times and finally figures out what the issue is and it rings in, my cashier never asked "hey, how did you do that so next time I will know how to do it" she is too busy leaning on the counter behind her talking to the next cashier, watching people, making comments, etc.....the other cashier walks away and my cashier is too busy not working so she doesn't notice! I'm standing there waiting and she's standing there not working! Crazy....she finally gets back to doing her job and finishes up my order. I will give her credit she noticed that she missed a coupon on a package and asked the bagger to grab it so she could scan it in. I pull out my cash to pay ( had several hundred dollars as I needed to make a deposit) she comments on my money...are you kidding me?... I pay and run for my car. As I put my bundles in my car I am confronted by a homeless man begging for $, perfect ending to shopping at this store. I gave him $5 just so I wouldn't get mugged....NEVER AGAIN. read more