Xpect Discount Stores

The selection is terrible and the service is worse. Xpect is like an indoor junk yard. I tried to grocery shop here and couldn’t find anything worthy of putting in my cart. We got to the front with only a toy my daughter had grabbed and insisted she wanted. It’s a good thing she brought her cash allowance because I didn’t have any cash on me and I don’t use discover card. I will never go here again. We go to Price Chopper now, and get real products and good service!

They have great produce and have many items I can only find in Xpect stores. I shop here once a month for their seltzer and to buy local sausage.
While the selection and prices are great, you will spend just as much time waiting to check out, or checking out as you will spend shopping. This store has some of the slowest registers I’ve ever been in!
Also, they only accept cash, check, or discover cards.

Best place to get all the basics. The dairy section is great and their prices make a huge difference in our budget. I save at least ¹⁄₃ to ½ of what I would spend across the street at Stop and Shop!

Fun grocery store/​job lot. Dated interior but the prices are very fair. I enjoyed the knick knack area that had lots of stocking stuffers for the Holidays. Cool old school Toledo scale you can weigh yourself by the check out. And yes it’s true, cash, check and Discover card only. We also enjoy the Big K-​mart next store.

This is an interesting place to food shop
The produce is very inexpensive and some of it is of wonderful quality. The rest of it belongs in a monkey cage
2 liter sodas are always 99c
Quirky items like a package of real Italian espresso for $ 1.69
Brands of certain foods that you won’t find anywhere else
Great buys on locally baked fresh bread
Good frozen food selection
A wonderful old fashioned scale that a weigh myself on once a month located right near the exit
A few things that may find disturbing–
Very tight aisles and large shopping carts are a bad combination
Birds seem to inhabit certain areas of the store
They only accept cash, Discover and EBT
The first few visits here can be frustrating but once you learn about which items are at deep discount it’s well worth the visit !!

The limit of using Discover card at checkout OR cash or check is totally inconvenient. But, perhaps their savings from not paying visa fees per transactions are passed on to customers? The store is small but I found items here that were absent from stop and shop and price chopper: pat Thai noodles and bean sprouts! Meanwhile, they carry emeril pasta sauce and price chopper does not! I found them to have a good selection of things in their produce section despite it being small. If you want a store with lower prices and decent selection of products and you don’t mind feeling a little crowded while carrying your cash to pay, try this store.

Great place to pick up odds & ends. I do food shopping here on occasion. Great prices on soft drinks, canned goods & produce. The produce is hit or miss, but the prices are great. So if you’re shopping for a dish your going to cook same or next day, you can get a bargain.
Check out lines are usually long, but if you spot the service desk and nobody’s there, they’ll check you out.
Remember, it’s cash or discover card only. No Visa/​Mastercard/​Debit. I believe they do take personal checks, but if you bounce it you’ll end up on the wall of shame.

sometimes this place is hit-​or-​miss. its in this little run-​down looking shopping plaza next to a fading k-​mart. x-​pect seems like its always packed with older people trying to save money and cause shopping cart traffic jams. (in other states, x-​pect is known as ‘marcs’)
in the past i bought food that was way past its expiration dates. always check the dates here. i dont really look at the produce. they sell utz chips, my favorite — the lines here tend to suck. they are slow and crowded. if you dont have cash, prepare to wait. i dont think they take charge cards at all.
if you have an hour to kill to buy a soda or candy bar, check it out.

Never been able to do much shopping here since the lines and wait are kind of ridiculous. I may be going at the wrong times though.

Quirky is the best way to describe this bargin basement grocery store.
If you’re careful and know exactly what you want, treasures abound. Just, don’t expect things to have the shelf life (especially produce) it does from Stop & Shop or Price Chopper. Once you accept that fact, you can save a TON of cash here. Produce is best eaten a day or 2 after purchased here.
There’s also the liquidation section. It’s a hodge-​podge of miscellaneous items. Basically it can be anything XPect’s gets on closeout from other companies. I’ve seen LCD TVs to diaper changing tables to lawn furniture. Almost like Ocean State Job Lot in that section.
If you have a pantry, canned goods and shelf stable items are the way to go. Why pay 2 to 3 times as much when you can get it here? Soap is soap is soap. There is a reason the majority of customers are the 65+ crowd. All the national brands are here, along with others you’ve never heard of.
The main draw back is that most credit cards and debit cards are not accepted. They take Discover, cash or checks. This saves on the fees all credit cards charge for their use, so while it’s a minor inconvience, you’re saving because of it. Lines can get pretty long at peak times, another consistent draw back, but go early or middle of the day and you shouldn’t have a problem.
Have an open mind and you won’t be disappointed.