Weis, "Where Freshness Matters", except at the Mifflintown location. Being the only grocery store in town, there is no pressure/competition to create a store that promotes freshness, competitive pricing, and an overall positive shopping experience.
Guaranteed that every time I visit I will find expired items in multiple parts of the store, so much that it is almost a game to see who can find the most expired items. It becomes frustrating when I forget to check everything and get home and see that items are not in date causing a trip to return. Once there was a moldy pre-packaged pizza crust, which I removed from the shelf and just set it onto of a display in a very visible location. Two days later it was still there. When I brought it to the attention of the management, the response was, "that is our distributers responsibility." I guess store pride is not important.
While most cashiers are friendly enough, the overall attitude of store employees/management appears to be, "You can shop somewhere else if you are not happy." Responses to questions/concerns are received in form-letter replys. I could probably look past several of these concerns if the prices were low, but since there is no competition, this Weis is actually more expensive than the nicer Wegmans store in the city.
Even though there is the potential to be a customer friendly community store resembling of years past, this Weis has chosen to capitalize on the monopoly it has in the area. read more