D’Agostino

Every time I walk out of this store, my blood pressure is up and I swear I’m never coming back in.
To say the cashiers are jaded and indifferent is too generous — they appear miserable and act as if they’re doing you a favor by checking you out. Want to ask them a question? Don’t expect a response.
Not to mention the quality of the produce and meat. Everything looks like it’s been sitting out for days.

Do not buy there any «fresh» meat /​chicken!!! Last month a threw away 2 pounds of ground beef. the color inside was much darker then it should be. for some reason the meet was nice from the outside but quite discussting inside. … today i wanted to give them a second chance, silly me! I dumped pound of chicken because the smell was horrible !!! At first a thought there is a gas leak, but then i realize it come from the chicken!!! Never coming in there again! O. M. G.

I shop here because it’s very close to my hotel. The price is a bit higher, the fruits & vegetables are not really fresh. The store doesn’t has everything you need but if you are in Manhattan for a really short time and you want some basic things, this the place to go. Again the price is not very responsible for the value you get.

Not an attractive supermarket. It doesn’t seem like there’s a responsible manager on premise. It never smells attractive in the produce area, often looks dirty. The deli area needs improvement– they shut one of the two slicers around 6 PM. Some workers are pleasant, some not; it surprises me the managers don’t insist at least on a minimal level of courtesy from everyone. Sale items are mismarked. In short, D’Agostino doesnt seem to care, even with a brand-​new Fairway close by.

You know what’s funny? THIS location is a lot better than the one down the street not too far from it lol (the other one is at 38^th St, 578 3^rd Avenue). 578 has the cashiers with the attitudes, whereas 528 (this one) has nicer staff. And both chains are within close proximity of each other. Weird isn’t it? I think I will stick to this location from now on whenever I need to shop for stuff for the home.

Just recently moved here, so I didn’t know any better. Come here on occasion because it’s right across the street from where I live and I am generally a lazy a… Seems like the workers don’t really give a sh… but whatever, I usually am not a needy grocery shopper. Positive: they always have my PopCorners Kettle Chips in stock. Double negative: ordered a very good/​decent sandwich from the back corner deli area and the lady took 30 minutes to make my sandwich (no, she wasn’t helping anyone else). She had to go and grab, like, an onion from the produce department, etc. something like that. Opposite of most New Yorkers, I HATE waiting and so I was just about to stab my eyes out with some cheese wedges. Triple negative: I was charged $ 7 for a box of cereal (!!!) cuz I didn’t have enough «DAG» points to get the «on sale» price. Whatever the… that means. Never again!

This store is the closest to my place so I have to shop here. It’s a bit expensive and there are a few employees that are actually nice and seem like they care about their job. The manager is a joke and has 0 personality and doesn’t know his head from his ass!!! The only good thing about this store is they offer a rewards card, every $ you spend you get a point. I shop every week so it adds up.

Serviceable but very expensive. It’s definitely not the best supermarket around, but when your only other local option is Gristedes, you really can’t be all that picky.

I am extremely put off by the employees at the check out line. They are very rude and not at all pleasant. Lines are ridiculously long due to the employees’ lack luster work performance. I will purposely avoid the D’Agostino’s at 35^th/​36^th street on 3^rd Avenue, and only go to the one on 38^th street & 3^rd ave from now on.

DAG, and this DAG in particular, currently holds the tiltle of ‘worst grocery store of all time’ in my opinion. I reliably want to put a shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger everytime I leave. Most of the time now my routine is to walk in the door intent on giving it another chance, just getting the one thing I desperately need, and getting out. In reality, I head straight for the exit as soon I get in.
Okay sorry, a little practical stuff:
Their «rewards» or «points» system is an exercise in self-​flogging. Their prices are as high, or higher, than places like Whole Foods. The quality is on par with Key Foods. The employees are miserably depressed seeming. I’ll stop there, I think you get the point.

Terrible quality of produce. It’s like shopping for bananas at a 7 – 11. And I realize NYC is expensive, but their prices are unjustifiable.

I bought some lettuce at D’Agostino this weekend and when I opened it up at home guess what I found in there… a dead roach! I’m done with them and I encourage you all to avoid the store too. It’s completely unsanitary.

Am I really reviewing a D’ag? I suppose so; it’s that bad. I’ve actually complained to the manager and he didn’t seem to care. This is one of those stores where the employees will ask you to wait until they are finished chatting with a coworker. It’s overpriced as you’d expect a Dag to be, but it seems no one bothered to train the employees, or even explain to them the basics of manners or even common courtesy. These guys have made me SO much more loyal to Fresh Direct.

This store is crap. Everything is so ridiculously overpriced. $ 6 for guacamole, really? Not even the fresh, homeade kind. More like the kind manufactured from Frito-​lay company that comes in a tin peel back lid can. $ 8 for a Caesar salad that tasted like it was bad last week? The chicken was so dry it was inedible. The croutons were soggy and there wasn’t any dressing to be found. I would rather starve than to grocery shop here. Complete waste of money.

Searching for the closest grocery stores to my new neighborhood led me to here. I signed up for the Rewards Card so hopefully that will be make a difference in the future. I will just have to get used to the fact that everything in NY is expensive!
Anyways, it is possible to buy frugally here. I didn’t bother with the produce though, it made me a bit nervous. I will probably get my fruit at farmers’ markets or the street stands.
But don’t buy cereal here! For $ 6 a box? Better go to Kmart.
Overall, there is a very small selection. I couldn’t even find raisins for my oatmeal =(

It cracks me up sometimes that people are so ignorant (i.e. the other guys review). I’ve been going to D’Agostino’s for 10 years. First of all, it’s Manhattan and this store is expensive (get over it). Also, if you can’t read the point system. Do what I do. I’ll be standing there to pay and the cashier will say. Would you like to use your points for strawberries, milk, or whatever, you say YES. That’s it. You don’t make the rules. And what really pissed me off is this jackass not understanding the loving nature of all those cashiers that bag and ring our groceries up. IT WAS A JOKE, get over it, Drama Queen.

That’s it! I’ve had it with DAG!
Lazy bones that I am — when it comes to grocery, I always go for convenience rather than lug the stuff over a longer distance.
I should have realized early on that this was a bad relationship. All the signs were there: Defective goods (not once have I found the eggs to be not broken, the apples and bananas always spotty), past their prime (meat/​milk) and pricey to boot! Should have dumped its sorry ass much earlier.
I rationalized the decision to stay on the occasional concern exhibited at check-​out: «You gonna have all that ice cream?» or «Didn’t your momma tell you to eat greens».
And later on, to their reward (points). But, I was rudely awakened a few days back on the reality of the reward.
As I waited in a long line to pay for the groceries (operational inefficiency, poorly trained newbies on top of all their virtues), I thought I’d encash some points.
Store Manager (doubling up to bag the groceries, given the line): That will be $ 97.37
Me: I’d like to encash some points.
Store Manager: You can’t do that today, sir.
Me: Why? Didn’t I buy juice
SM: Yes, but today you got Florida Natural, not Tropicana.
Me: Er, okay. How about milk?
SM: Sorry, you can only encash that if you can see the full moon on a rainy night!
Me: But, I have 4,797 points! Surely I must be able to use them for something?
SM: We intend to fully honor those when the Chicago Cubs win the World series! Ha… sucker!
Well, not exactly, but you get the drift.
I swear their points system must have been thought out by the evil Catbert as a means of tormenting shoppers.
So, I say fare thee well, DAG.
Whole Foods, I think this may be the start of a beautiful friendship!

Store manager called. Found my $ 10. Picked up yesterday. Cashier screwed up my change and owed me $ 10. Ran an audit of register and it was off. Took 25 minutes. Had to leave.