All of the Weis markets have consistently performed poorly at keeping the same products on their shelves week after week, ever since they bought out the Giant stores in Broome County. The Giant wasn't great at it, but Weis is consistently much, much worse. I mean, one day I went into the Upper Front St Weis looking for fresh chicken--and they had NONE. What other supermarket do you know that can run completely out of chicken? (I've given up on certain products that the Giant stocked but which Weis does not, such as Progresso white clam sauce, peanut oil, spaetzle, and dried tortellini; I just order them online.) But the Weis at the corner of Robinson and Broad in Binghamton has been the worst, and on Friday, April 26, 2024, it hit a new low. They've been "remodeling" to add new display cases. Most of these cases have a lot of extraneous equipment built into them to separate and organize the groceries; that equipment takes up space, and the result is that there is less room for groceries overall in the store. Along with that, they completely reorganized the location of most products--again! It's always a guessing game as to where to find anything in that store. So what was missing this week? Well, they've completely removed their entire line of bulk deli items--various salads and pre-cooked foods; all that's left now are a small variety of prepackaged Weis-brand salads (potato, mac, cole slaw), and a tiny selection of whatever few specialty salads the staff feel like loading into four or five containers and setting out for purchase. Also missing are the following items that I try to buy pretty regularly: Hormel and Dietz & Watson cooked ham (missing at least a week); Bachman Butter Twist Pretzels (missing 2 weeks in a row); Chili Cheese and Barbecue Fritos (missing for at least 3 weeks); all PopCorners chips (gone for about a month now); plain Sun Chips (missing for about two months); ANY Sun Chips (missing this week); extra large Spanish yellow and white onions; Goya and other frozen vegetables that used to be in the "Mi Tienda" frozen food section, which disappeared about a month ago; named varieties of ground beef (you know, "ground chuck", "ground round", ground sirloin; instead we get only a lean-ness percentage) (missing for several months); real bone-in ham steaks (not processed fake ham slices; missing for several months). This is NOT a "supply chain" problem, and these products have NOT been "discontinued", because I can find these products at the Upper Front Weis, and/or in other supermarkets in the county. This is PURELY a problem with the people who make purchasing/stocking decisions for the Robinson St store. If the issue is "we don't stock it because more people are buying groceries online", then I suggest they consider that the more they reduce the available variety of products, the more people will desert the Weis for online shopping. If the issue is, as I'm beginning to suspect, "The Robinson St store is in a poorer, mostly nonwhite neighborhood, and therefore ...", then they should just be ashamed of themselves. read more