Stay the hell away from Stop and Shop on Lake Ave Ext/Mill Plain Road in Danbury. I shopped at this location, with many complaints to management but it just gets worse. I HAD to give them one-star to post, otherwise, it would be minus stars!
Yesterday, I tried to shop, cos they decided to task their lower-paid, new employees with pulling stock and attempting to rearrange it, leaving a huge mess everywhere.
On top of that, with ZERO notice of this, they decided to remove every self-check-out to put in the same kinds of machines at other locations, like near the Walmart store on Rte. 6. Well, they didn't hook 'em up. They're just sitting around in a rectangularly roped-off area, non-functional.
Yep, NOT SET UP. They had 4 checkouts open with ridiculous lines and they actually walled off, completely walled-in the butcher department so you can no longer see them or speak with them in there. So what ARE they doing in this secret section now? There's certainly "no transparency"! For all I know, they could be combining dog and cat into our ground beef.
Finally, they installed sky-high walls around the EMPTY Customer Disservice section. No one home....
In frustration, I yelled up (most people know I don't NEED a mic) at the manager's office, that we should have gotten some kind of notice about this lack of self-checking out as there were never any signs posted. I left my FULL cart, including frozen and refrigerated items below their "lookout window" and walked out.
They sell food that goes bad -fruit rotted in a couple of days. That's why you'll see these ridiculous buy 1, get 2 free. NO GOOD unless you live with a pack of wolves that eat everything in sight.
The last straw was forgetting to bring back a THIRD quart of light cream yesterday, previously, 2 store-branded quarts, and this last time, Hood. Not a big fan of wasting five bucks for it, only to find it all curdling at the top because this stuff sits unrefrigerated or frozen for HOURS before it hits the shelves.
Then, I went to the Route 6 store and re-shopped all over again, rather than give that store my money. After all this, let me state that the employees themselves are caring, hardworking people. Upper management is a complete joke in this franchise.
It's one thing to save decent money, shopping smart. It's another to shop smart, only to have to throw out spoilt food and drink. Despite
They lost me as a customer. The route 6 store seems less crowded for sure and I will either shop there or find another store without the prices of Trader Joe's. Ugh, a store for the well-off.
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