Gerbes

This Gerbes is fairly date for services and amenities provided by grocery stores in this day and age. The ceilings are seem fairly low and lighting is not very bright. Decent selection of basic necessities. Greatest asset for this store is the self checkout. Quick and convenient. It’s seem most people avoi checkout in the store.
This location is getting ready for a 6 million dollar renovation in early 2015. Also they will be adding gas station to this location. Will update my review when it’s all completed.

I’ve never found the Gerbes on Broadway to be particularly «clean», but as visited this past Thanksgiving Eve, the unmistakable smell of rotting flesh filled the store. It wasn’t overpowering, but it was definitely… present. Like maybe some meat had gone bad. I did my shopping along with hoards of other folks and neglected bring it up as I checked out. I mean, they had to know it the whole store smelled like a corpse, right? As I do almost every time I shop there, I swore off Gerbes on the way out the sliding doors.
A week later I’m back at Gerbes to get a gallon of milk. I mean, who’s going to drive the extra two miles to Hy-​Vee for milk? But a week later the store still smelled as if someone had died in one of the aisles, then laid there to rot among the pickles and salad dressing. But that was only the second most offensive thing I encountered three feet though the entrance way. The first was a table-​top display featuring a dozen or so copies of Sarah Palin’s «America by Heart.» My own beliefs aside, it seems inappropriate to push divisive politics in the innocuous surroundings of a neighborhood supermarket.
This time I asked to speak to a manager. I was told that the smell of rotting flesh was actually the result of a backed up sewer line. «We’re on it,» said the man with the name tag. As for the Palin book, I told the guy that I didn’t mean to be obnoxious about it, but I couldn’t help being offended. He told me he my comments were duly noted and left it at that.
Damn you Gerbes! Why do I even try?

The store itself is pretty run down and could use a facelift. The selection is decent and they do have some good mega sales. Love the fact that they double coupons. Most visits I use the self checkout lanes and while I love the convenience, the cashiers that monitor this area are often slow and less than friendly.