Shoppers

Havent had any problems here, and a double thumbs up for the best donuts around.

Nice that it is clean, but I live near it and would still rather go to giant. Closing they said it was 5 mins later than it was, nothing was in the right spot… it said the case of water was 3.50 ended up being 4.99… i would hate to see the price of the other one… And the manager didn’t care. Got in my car at the least busy part of the parking lot and people came down where I was and honked at me to move. (Umm hello! Parking lot!) Anyway… only in emergency situations will I come here.

We do most of our shopping at Walmart but use Shoppers when we do not feel like fighting the crowds, especially during the holidays. Shoppers is the same quality as any of the other mid-​level grocery stores but is cheaper than Giant, Safeway, or Food Lion. The Shoppers on Liberia used to be favorite Shoppers because I think the lighting is a little better or maybe it is a little cleaner but this one became my favorite after I found the HUGE walk-​in beer cooler. They have a pretty good selection of local breweries and most of the national breweries. I can usually find what I am looking for here unless it is an out of the area microbrew or an obscure macrobrew.

If you like green lamb and coffee creamer that turns chunky a full month before its ‘Best By’ date, this is the place for you!
Seriously, we’ve had so many problems with perishables from this store, it’s not even funny. Prices on their goods aren’t that great either. Stick to Giant or Costco.

Not much to say about Shoppers. One thing though, I never have wait in a long line. They usually have an overstock of Cashiers or at least their Self-​Checkout is always working.
BTW Get those ginormous donuts!

This is a well run grocery store with good product selection. The beer selection in the walk-​in cooler is excellent.
Other reviews incorrectly note that one may not roll the shopping cart out to their car. In fact, there is a metal barrier fence that forces one to roll their cart about 30 ft. down the sidewalk to which point there is a ramp and crosswalk. This avoids the problem of having to stop for 5 different shopping carts when driving through the parking lot.
The self-​checkout lanes are awkward. There are 3 of them plus a side one that has its own lane, and it is always ambiguous whether there is one line for «next available» lane, or separate lines for each checkout. Rude customers routinely skip ahead of the line for the self checkouts.
In general, though, shopping here is much more pleasant than at Wegmans or Whole Foods and I am much less likely to get run over by a shopping cart or hit by a car in the parking lot.

Surprisingly, I like this store. I’m usually a Farm Fresh shopper, but if I can find quality and fresh food for less money I’m all in. The store is always clean, the staff nice and they usually have everything I’m looking for.

I come here occasionally since it’s close but it’s pretty gross. The produce section usually smells like rotten fish coming from the seafood dept a little ways down.
Went here one time to pick up asparagus and they had none. Went once for spaghetti squash and once again, they had none. Strange that such a large grocery store just doesn’t have such common items. What a headache having to make another trip over to giant. Suppose I should have just gone there in the first place.
My fiancé recently bought lamb here, 3 days before the ‘sell by’ date, only to open it up at home and get overwhelmed by a rancid sulfur odor and hidden green meat. I wouldn’t purchase meat here if I were you.
It’s definitely worth the drive out to the Gainesville or Fairfax Wegmans for an enjoyable grocery shopping experience.

This place has a few things that differentiate it from the rest of the pack.
First, you won’t find the parking lot full of stray carts that ‘busy’ NoVa shoppers habitually abandon so the rest of us have to push out of the way to park.
At this location, you leave your cart outside and carry to your car OR pull your car up and load.
Second, it’s big and clean and has lots of choices. Yes, it does sound like a lot of other grocery stores BUT here you don’t have to be a ‘member’ of their program to enjoy their low prices. I espcially like their low price on StarStruck coffee, more than a dollar cheaper than most stores. They also carry the Kashi brand of single serving frozen ‘steam in a bag’ meals that many other stores have given up on, thank you H&T.
Third, this is THE stop for cold beverages, craft, microbrew or other brews.
They have a ‘huge’ walk in cooler where the brews are kept at a constant 32 degrees.
The choices… it will make your headspin.

This grocery store has a decent selection with affordable prices. This, plus the convenient location, brings people here in droves during all hours of the day or night. Thankfully they keep plenty of check-​out lines open (including self-​service) to handle the volume. I also appreciate how the employees working the customer service area frequently bring people from longer lines to their counter so that the flow does not become stagnant.
Now that my pleasantries are out of the way… let me tell you what «grinds my gears» about this place: DISGUSTING BATHROOMS. I’m talking obviously not-​cleaned-​in-​forever floors, toilet paper dispenser broken/​laying on the floor, not a drop of soap and ZERO paper products of any kind (toilet paper or hand towels). I hope to GOD/​ALLAH/​ANY OTHER SUPREME BEING THAT WOULD LISTEN that there is a secret, perfectly sparkling, clean bathroom for the Shoppers employees.
But I doubt it.
To me, if you do not pride yourself in ALL aspects of your business, even simple things such as keeping a bathroom clean and orderly, there are other (larger) things that will quickly follow suit downhill. Have some respect for yourself and your customers, Shoppers. Fix the bathroom!

I have been here 3 times now and have had 2 bad experiences. The main problem with this place is that when you try to take your groceries out of the store they have these gates in the front that don’t let you take your basket to the car. You see women with their children having to leave their food while they walk back and forth. I even saw an old lady confused about how to carry all her stuff to the car which looked like it was going to be a lot of work for her. Baskets are all stacked at the gates. I hate this.
Next 2 of the 3 times I have gotten in line they only had 2 clerks on checking and we got stuck behind people for about 10 – 15 minutes waiting for someone using food stamps. No one was sent out to help speed up the line and the other option is self checkout. But you can’t do self check out when you have 6 different types of veggies. I would see workers just stocking but still not coming to help speed things up.
Good food selection there but overall dread having to go here.

Everything I need is always out of stock. Plus this location doesn’t have anything anyway. Dirty too. Now that WalMart is carrying my la yogurt banana, I have no need to come here. Sure, the prices are cheap but you guys need to restock when things sell out. I can’t tell you how many times there’s a price sticker for what I needed but the space is empty

this place is kinda cheap not to bad. i always jump from one grocery to another but between this and giant i like this place, i wouldnt want to get meat from here, lets just say ive heard stories. some of the staff are a bit rude i mean if you dont like your job the get the fuck ouuta there

This place used to be tolerable but is now a dump. Their fruits and vegetables are the absolute worst (whole shelves either missing, rotten, or nowhere near ripe/​picked prematurely). The store is dirty and I’ve never seen more than 2 – 3 cashiers on duty despite all the post-​work hours rush. They only have three self-​checkout stations and the lines for these are usually terribly long because they don’t have enough cashiers manning the regular checkout stations.

Excellent prices and stock but need more employees to be working to handle more customers

I am new to this area, tried to find a grocery store near my place, my very 1^st visit came with BIG disappointment. Bought 6 bottles of mountain dew and found they are all expired by 1.5 months. Back to the store and thought I was unlucky picking up expired ones. Sorted the whole rack, nothing is good. Qued for 20min @ customer service to get refund, nothing seemed to react for this.
I would doubt the freshness of the food there and will never go back.

Hard to find items and employees don’t even know where items are located. Prices ring up higher than marked on shelf and no employee around to help at the self service check out lines. Using legit online coupons are hit or miss. Some cashier will accept them others won’t. Overall prices are decent but not the lowest in the area. Sometimes you can get a very good deal here when they run a triple coupon special.

I shop here regularly and have so for many years. Even before the remodel I was happy with the place, but now that everything is new and bright and things have been rearranged it’s even better.
The produce always looks good and the variety is also good. The selection of fruit alone is pretty impressive.
Since the remodel, a meat and seafood counter is available too. Always stocked and looking tasty. Some fat steaks that rival Wegman’s.
Excellent alcohol selection too. Lots of wine and a chilled beer room. Yes, beer room! Awesome.
But then again, I am probably preaching to the choir. Some people wouldn’t be caught dead at a Shoppers, no matter how nice it is, but to me it’s about good product at low prices.
Also, the self-​checkout lanes always work and are faster and easier to use then at some of the competition.
The Redbox is kinda in the way, but I use it all the time and never seen it out of order.

I went back to this shoppers today.
PROS; they remodeled and now have a grand opening sign hanging up. it looks 100x better
CONS: the Redbox Machine here is ALWAYS having issues when returning DVDS. I don’t know why I bother coming here to return DVDs to the broken machine.

I tolerate this store because they have a huge selection of sometimes hard to find items. The store is a little dark and the lay-​out is super annoying (you have to go through the produce and meat section to be able to get to the grocery aisles. It is frustrating! They have a nice International food section and there are some great buys on Hispanic fare (some of the non-​name brand beans and sauces are cheap and better).
They used to have a phenomenal «triple coupon» sale but changed the rules a little and that is annoying.
I usually can get everything I need a shoppers. It isn’t the nicest looking store and the cashiers are really slow. There are a few that are just beyond annoying (yelling to each other, talking to friends, super duper slow). All this being said, I still shop their because their prices are pretty darn good.