Price Chopper

We have been shopping there for many years. Just returned from there but also went there to complain about 2 london broils we bought. Cooked one last sunday and it was so tough that none of us could chew it. That included my grandkids. This sunday we cooked another my wife just bought, same result! You could not chew it. When I told the «Meat Manager», his comment was I took to be rude and not customer friendly. He said «Haven’t heard any other complaints, sorry about that», then turned his back and walked away! I guess I won’t be voting for him to be manager of the year and I can always shop somewhere else!

I had to stop going.
This store is understaffed and seems to be busy about 22 hours a day. The result is a store that’s crowded and lines that take longer than they seem like they should. Generally you can use their self-​checkout but certain times even that gets busy.
But that’s not the problem.
Half the employees are terrific, but the other half are completely checked out – I guess that’s the norm at a place where you’re paying people a little bit of nothing and employing a bunch of transient college kids, but it can be infuriating when you need help from somebody who doesn’t have the answer and can’t be bothered to try to find it, or direct you to who might.
But that’s not the problem.
The place has an overwhelming air of being… just dingy. Not necessarily dirty, although I wouldn’t argue if someone else were to describe it that way. But it feels like it hasn’t been cleaned in a very long time – which is funny, since i know for a fact it has! The night-​cleaning crew brook no interference, and are so relentlessly rude and pushy that even before I stopped going altogether, I stopped going during the latenight hours.
The dinginess is close, but it’s not the problem.
The problem is freshness. I’ve purchased milk here before which, when I got it home, turned out to be out-​of-​date. I’ve opened a dozen eggs on the shelves which had only two unbroken and was sticky to the touch. And, on more than one occasion, I’ve purchased ice cream which had clearly been COMPLETELY MELTED and then re-​frozen. How can I tell that’s what happened? Sure, if it were a gallon of ice cream it would be an educated guess at best but one of the times, it was ice cream sandwiches. When they’re all balled up in the bottom of their little plastic wrappings, twisted around themselves and shaped like a Hershey’s Kiss, it’s pretty clear what happened. I understand that this COULD happen anywhere, but not only has it been YEARS since I’ve had anything resembling this experience anywhere else, it happened to me three times in a six-​month period with three different kinds of ice cream.

I’m surprised that there wasn’t any other reviews of Price Chopper. Overall it appears to be the best supermarket in the area. Of course, with Giant and with the lame Wegman’s we have, that isn’t saying much. I guess one reason why Price Chopper hasn’t got as many reviews is they are more about providing the consumer with a good product at a fair price then catering to the look at me, I’m sophisticated and I have a canvas shopping bag crowd that Wegman’s does. While the produce choices at the Chopper might be a little more limited than Wegman;s but they are usually in better shape and better priced (still, I recommend a local farmers market for good veggies). The meat selection is tops as far as super markets in the area goes. Again, the competition is low, but at least I can get lamb and some other meats and the meats (esp. if you get them from the butcher counter) are nice and fresh.