I wanted to like this place but too many strikes against it. My usual go to is TJs, with HT and Publix filling in the gaps. I'm a transplanted "Cali girl" though.
1. Do not expect any sort of customer service while shopping. The only places I saw employees was at the register and behind the various departments like bakery. In fact I didn't see many people stocking shelves. And there was no one to help if you had questions while shopping around the store.
2. I've gone twice and find the shelves rather bare on the fresh food side (produces, dairy, etc). However the general goods (clothes, decorations) were full.
3. I tried about 15 store products and only one beat TJs or name brand.
4. Be VERY careful of their meat. Neither the beef nor the fish looked good at all, most of it actually looked spoiled. Finally I found some chicken wings that looked pretty decent and decided to try those. Maybe I should've heeded the fact that the guy in front of me at checkout was returning chicken that was spoiled, but I figure I could smell it and see if it was OK. So the next night I made chicken wings and wouldn't you know both me and my son got sick from it. Then a few days later I was speaking to a neighbor about the store and she mentioned that she had bought spoiled meat there she threw out. Ok three strikes on the meat, IMO.
5. Is this a grocery store or dry goods store? At least at Target or Walmart you know what they are, this place has a feel like they don't even know what they're trying to be.
I'll be back to stock up on the one item that my son really liked (waffle mix). But I doubt I'll be back for much else. it's worth it to make the drive to TJ's and I'll just keep going to HT and Publix as well.