Giant Eagle

Recently Giant Eagle has updated there website. You can now view their inventory online. You still have to apply for a card in order to use the automatic registers. I will say one thing for them: Their produce section is probably the best of the big three.

Fuel perks are awesome! I buy all
My gift cards here to get more perks and fried chicken is great! I usually have great friendly service only once or twice was it the lunch meat ladies that were so rude to me. I just killed them w kindness, but it was a huge turnoff compared to Rest of staff. Some young ones work in fried chicken area and can also not be the most friendly but ah not a big deal I guess. I spend a bunch of money here feeding five kids and a husband. I’m always here. 2x a
has always been good. Busy though. I love this place!

Excellent store, friendly employees and great fuel perks ! Even if I’m not next to this store, I drive to it just because I know my experience will be great and I won’t have to deal with nonsense. All you can ask in a grocer, and then some. The store manager Dave is wonderful ! Great place !

Best fried chicken in frederick!!!
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always friendly and helpful!
Great prices! I love the fuel rewards!!!

This place has gone downhill. It all started with them discontinuing their food perks. And the produce has sky rocketed. They got rid of a lot of good brands. Their self checkouts need updated. I am used to GE in Pittsburgh and Ohio. It’s a shame this store has gone to doo doo.

Just went to buy some deli turkey and to my surprise Giant Eagle is selling it for 8.99 a pound! What is up with this? Never have I see such an outrageous price for turkey! I know this sounds trivial but come on!

Great selection of ethnic, organic and vegan food with everything else you would want from a grocery store! This place is a diamond in the rough. It could be cleaner and it could be newer but it has a great selection of food. The only thing more I would want it more selection in their prepared food. I would stop there to pick up dinner if they made more healthy dishes. They have the ingredients but probably not the staff to prepare good healthy dishes with a bit is zest. Whoever buys for them is doing a great job. They have a great variety!

Love this grocery store. It’s close by and it’s always my go to when I’ve forgotten something or need to pick up a few things. Produce is always really fresh and well stocked. Meat selection is great as well. Love picking up some fun gourmet cheeses and sushi, too! Store seems clean and well maintained and they run some great specials in their weekly ads that keep me coming back throughout the week.

Good, solid supermarket (West Patrick location) with many surprising finds — crawfish tails and frog legs in the seafood department, along with wild salmon and seasonal Florida pink shrimp. Many organics in the produce department. Used to carry a variety of Bell & Evans chicken products, but lately only seem to carry boneless breast portions and whole turkeys during holidays. Do have a nice selection of lamb products, including shanks and whole legs. Seem to have a varied cheese selection but nothing unusual or very aged — still travel to Trader Joe’s or Wegman’s for cheese.
Catered a party and ordered a cake from the bakery department — many people at the party specifically asked where the cake had come from because it looked so nice (a photo on icing) and tasted better than other bakery cakes. Very helpful and friendly bakery staff.
Did not really know this supermarket chain before moving to Frederick, but have grown to prefer Giant Eagle over Safeway or Giant for most staples, and a good resource for some less traditional products too.

This place is exellent! Wonderful services and fantastic food (especially at the meat counter. the people that work there are knowledgeable and trustworthy!). The store is always clean and the food is always fresh. I definitely recommend it!

I had never even heard of Giant Eagle until I started frequenting Frederick Maryland. There are a couple that I know of but this is the one I like the best. Sure it’s located in a ghetto-​ish area but I have made sure to visit before its dark out for fear of the shady looking parking lot. They have a great natural foods section, nice selection of nuts, organic veggies, bakery items, and nice enough staff.

My go to grocery store in Frederick. I can generally find everything I need here, even organic and natural products. I think the meat and fish sections could be improved. I would like more environmental information about the fish I am buying. They do not have a ton of natural meat options, but they do carry Bell & Evans chicken. They have an excellent cheese section.

Christine and John in the pharmacy are the BEST! They always greet me and my husband by name and go out of their way to be sure my needs are always taken care of. I wouldn’t dream of going anywhere else. In this day and age where customer service is almost dead — they EXCEL at it. Thanks so much!!!

I grew up with GE in Pittsburgh, so when Martin’s/County Market became a GE, I was pretty thrilled. OR that was till I saw their prices. Definitely not what I sue to pay in Pittsburgh. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that GE is more than Giant or Safeway for the same goods. The Super-Value,-Family-Fun-Club Card helps a lot, the fact that they can not look your card up by phone number is a major issue for me.
So, why do I ever shop here? Two reason, one, selection. The 40 store being bigger than the 7^th street store (about to be enlarged) has the best selection in town (till Wegmans opens) The other reason is they have the best seafood department of any grocery store in town. All the complains above are negated simply because you can actually buy free seafood and have a huge wet dream selection of fresh seafood.

Giant Eagle is my favorite grocery store in the Frederick area. They aren’t the cheapest, but cooking and eating the right food are extremely important to me and they have everything that I’m looking for. Their meat and seafood selection is fantastic. It’s the main reason that we come here. Everyone is very knowledgeable and can give you recommendations for substitutions if what you are looking for isn’t available (which is rarely the case). The experience of the staff and the personalized service feels like you’re at a neighborhood butcher shop. I like their produce section; they usually have the more «atypical» items like dandelion greens, celery root and lemongrass, they have a pretty good selection of organic produce and they make a point of carrying local produce when it’s in season. Their cheese selection is fantastic and the people selling it REALLY love to tell you about it. I’ve learned a lot of information about cheese and discovered some great cheeses from the people working this section. Their international section is also good and although their organic and «health food» section is small, it has great products like all of the Bob’s Mill grains and mixes as well as frozen and dry Kashi products.
I like the Golden Mile location better than the 7^th Street location. I’m not sure why. The parking lot on Patrick gets a little crazy, but the aisles seem wider and the 7^th Street location doesn’t seem to have all of the same products (e.g. Patrick St has a bigger «Better Than Bouillon» selection). I guess the 7^th Street location is just smaller overall… Oh, and the 20 cents off per gallon of gas at GetGo for every $ 50 you spend is a huge selling point for me.
The only thing that I don’t like is something that I’ve just noticed recently. It may have been happening all along, but there were three things that caught my attention this weekend that kind of bother me: 1. They had chicken marked down for quick sale because it was getting ready to expire. On all the normal packages the price per pound was $ 4.99. They jacked the original price of the quick sale meat up to something like $ 5.45 and then changed the «new» price to $ 4.99 to make it look like you’re getting a good deal. 2. They had lean ground turkey for $ 4.99 per pound, with the price prominently displayed. Under it was EXTRA lean (all white meat) turkey with no prominent price displayed so you just assume it’s also $ 4.99. I knelt down and saw that there WAS a price for the extra lean, but it was tilted backwards so you couldn’t see it without really looking and it was at least a dollar more per pound. 3. We like preservative free bacon (it just tastes better). Their selection includes Coleman and a couple of other name brand «natural» meats along with Giant Eagle’s brand. GE was the only one without a price listed, but it’s store brand, so you would assume that it’s the cheapest. At check-​out we discovered that it was actually more expensive than any of the name brands. I’ve always heard that grocery stores make very little profit overall (compared to clothing, electronics and other retail); something ridiculous like 3 – 4 cents on the dollar. I know they need to scrape for pennies to make a profit anywhere they can, but I just don’t like the sneakiness and I wonder in what other ways are they doing it?

Giant Eagle is a wonderful place! I like to think of it as the working man’s Whole Foods. No knock on Whole Foods, but honestly a weeks worth of groceries should be my whole paycheck.
Giant Eagle has great prices and the knock 20 cents off of every gallon of gas for every 50 bucks you spend. In this day and age that can really add up for all of you commuters out there.
I will get around to reviewing the 7^th street location at a later date. It is actually closer to my house, but I come to this one because of the organic food selection. Otherwise they are even in my mind. Of all of the places you could shop for groceries in the Frederick area, this is my choice!