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| - I have been going to this location for decades. Literally. The recent staffing decisions have left me with no option other than to shop elsewhere.
It began several months ago in the Deli department. While I have come to expect slow service what I don't expect is to see a discontented employee baiting a customer. This girl put on a great show of not "hearing" this customer until the customer finally raised her voice. Then and only then did said employee put on a shocked face and turn to her coworkers to express her disbelief at the customer's "behavior". Unfortunately for this girl, she turned to me to back her up and I told her "That is not how that when down, so I think you should get down off your high horse and let it go".
Fast forward to a few weeks ago. Same deli, same employee and this time she is dishing the dirt instead of the macaroni salad and she says about a customer she served before me "Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids"". Not the kind of remark any professional business can afford.
This time I took the issue to the Deli manager who assured me she would be all over the issue.
I returned a few days later to get a sandwich meat that they had, apparently, stopped carrying. This same deli manager assured me she would order the meat in and I could pick it up the following Tuesday. Great. Except she never did order it. Which makes me wonder if she ever talked to the trouble making employee.
I don't always shop in the deli so I was still hopeful that this location could serve my needs...until tonight.
I wanted a head of cabbage...there was a misunderstanding about the price so the cashier tried to ask her fellow cashier is cabbage sold by the pound or the unit. The other cashier refused to say anything other than "Look in the black book" apparently failing to understand that it wasn't a code her fellow worker needed. She was SO rude and abrasive that she failed to grasp that if she would stop saying "Look it up you are holding up my line" she would have saved everyone some time.
As it was when she finally understood what my cashier was asking she got embarrassed and proceeded to hold up the lines some more while she made face saving proclamations. What a bunch of nonsense.
Meanwhile the "supervisor" came over to verify the price and proceeds to tell me in an arrogant tone that "cabbage is only EVER sold by the pound". I had to fight the urge to laugh because I'm fairly certain this pricing "truth" is not chiseled in stone anywhere, despite the arrogant assertion.
While all of this was happening I took a good long look around and saw, finally, that this whole location is suffering from some type of internal strife and it is reflected in most ,if not all, of it's employees attitudes. I don't know what the matter is...but I do know that I'm no longer interested in participating.
Long story short, I told them no thanks on the cabbage. Got in my car and went shopping at Albertson's. And I will continue to shop there from now on. Who needs this kind of hassle?
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