Shoppers Food & Pharmacy

Donuts! Best whipped frosting! Need I say more? I have to say the bakery is amazing. The store could use an update but the prices are decent and they carry a lot of international foods if that’s your thing.

Great prices, nicely laid out and doesn’t change every week. The best doughnuts anywhere and a very nice, fresh vegetable department. Checkout can be rough as they are always short staffed. Workers are courteous and generally nice.

I love this Shoppers. The store is clean and this store usually always have what I need. Lines goes pretty fast. Pharmacy is fast!!! The staff are friendly.

Very clean and big shoppers. Everything is so organized.
I went in for donuts for my husband, and they had a nice fresh donuts at 5pm! It was delicious and fresh.
Self checkout was easy to use and efficient rather than waiting in line.

I definitely find a cost savings at this chain. I particularly like this store because it is never crowded, there are rarely lines, and they sell Coke Life. They also sell Iams wet cat food and a few other items I do not like to be without. The store is clean, well organized and I like finishing out my Mount Vernon Plaza run by cruising through to pick up perishables. Speaking of, the produce is great. Not a ton of organic options at this location, but there are other places I go to for those items anyway. On that note, there aren’t a lot of «gourmet» or «artisan» options here either. This is just your run of the mill, good ‘olé suped up piggly-​wiggly hawking mostly P&G or GM goods, with a healthy dose of Goya thrown in for good measure.

Shoppers, at least at this location, is adequate. It’s big and the prices are better than many other of the grocery chain stores there in the Alexandria/​Ft Belvoir part of Richmond Highway. So for the price it’s good.
Pluses:
— Prices are good and generally are better on many items than Safeway and Giant.
— Donuts are HUGE
— Floral prices are great
— They have a large international food section
— Fruits and Veggies were fresh the times I have needed them
Minus:
— Staffing. other than at the register or behind the bakery counters I had trouble finding someone to ask a question to.
— Customer service counter rep was surley, angry even.
— Many homeless folks panhandling in the parking lot.
I guess you come for the lower prices and understand that the issues you get are just part of what this Shoppers is at the moment. That could all change with management oversight and training– but they will have to want that.

It’s nice to shop at a grocery store that has generous aisle space. The grocery cart and I never have to squeeze in between another customer and a stocked shelf.
The produce is sensibly priced.
The meat case is fine.
There is an outstanding presence of generic pantry and household staples prominently displayed.
The dairy and frozen food cases are always well stocked.
And those colossal donuts are the best sugar and pastry fix a body can consume.

This is a good place to get some grocery shopping on! They have a wider selection of items compared to the Giant right next to my house and the staff is a lot friendlier.
My bill overall always ends up cheaper here than at the «other guys». Nothing ever goes on sale but part of the draw is, the don’t jack prices up, just to make you feel like you’re getting a deal. The price you see is the price you get.
Plus, they sell Lebanon bologna which I haven’t seen at Giant or Safeway. …And the doughnuts are pretty delicious.

Man, I’m glad I didn’t read the reviews before coming here! I popped in here mother’s day weekend after dropping the dogs off to get groomed at the Petsmart in the same plaza. I wanted to try these «colossal donuts» I had heard about. They had a wide selection of donuts, and they were putting out hot fresh ones while I was browsing. The store is laid out kind of odd, and the prices weren’t actually any cheaper than Giant or Safeway on the various items I was there to purchase. The real kicker was the lack of cashiers, and a single checkout lane full of people and their groceries. Donuts were DELICIOUS though! Moist, sweet, and jumbo size. Wow.

The Pharmacy associates are the bomb dot com. They are very informative an knowledgable. Best thing is they remember my name and call to check on me. Im not sickly nor do I take many meds.
The store is huge, but a long way from wholefoods. Its between an Aldi and Giant. Most Shoppers are ghetto, this one is a few steps above. The salad bar, has frozen veggies like they keep them over night in the freezer. I will pass on that.
The prices are moderate, some deals, but I rather Wally World or Wholefoods.

Obviously go to Giant or Safeway nearby instead of this place if you can. However, I do go because it is the closest to my house when I need some chips or beer or whatever, they can’t mess that up. The workers aren’t so bad either, friendly service and helpful if you ask.
They claim to be cheaper than other grocery stores and even have a cart of food and compare the prices to Giant when you walk in (I believe all Shoppers do this). This may be true that everything is slightly cheaper, but nothing is ever really on sale except for a few cents. If you want cereal but are not sold on one brand but open to all kinds of good cereal you can always find a bunch on half off sale at Safeway, but never here at Shoppers. Lots of other examples similar to that.

While in the produce section, I observed a produce worker pick up loose green beans (about 20) that were spilled on the filthy floor, and put them back in the produce bin pile.
That has got to be some kind of code violation.
If they do this kind of grossness in the main area with customers around, I can only imagine what they do behind closed doors.