Giant Eagle

About the same as others. The store is large. Has a Get-​go. Parking is decent. Nice set-​up.

I remember Giant Eagle was nothing that out there and interesting but my dad seemed to enjoy it well enough to shop there every week for groceries after Tops shut down. I personally never really cared for it but there are some good and bad things that I discovered in this supermarket.
They have a nice selection of pre-​made foods such as thier own personal bakery and salad bars, both of which tasted really good and was the sole thing that kept me going back. It’s a large store with the aisles all arranged like domino’s but each neatly stacked on the shelves.
I like Giant Eagle for what it is but as is, it is nothing to get all excited about… it’s just good, but not super.

Very unique grocery store because of the size of their pre-​made food section. They make delicious pizzas, sushi, offer a huge salad bar and prepared food bar, and their selections are delicious. I go here almost every day for lunch because of its proximity to my workplace. Much better alternative to all the fast food places nearby. Their lemon chicken salad (at the deli) is phenomenal, as well as their buffalo chicken pizza and crunchy sushi. Only problem I have with their salad bar is that the lettuce (be it mixed green, spinach, romain, or iceberg) is not entirely fresh most of the time. You kind of have to pick through the pieces to get the freshest available. But it’s not that big of a hassle. And you can use the food you purchase towards fuel perks (another reason to go for lunch).

This store is unique as far as giant eagles go. The beer selection is ridiculous, in a good way. By far the best beer selection I’ve seen at any grocery store with more choices for the «create your own six pack». My boyfriend loves to try different beers and we could walk around that section all day looking for new bottles to take home.
They have a good selection of gluten free products for a fair price. Much cheaper than the specialty grocery stores I have tried.
Beauty selections, ready made food, «eat in» café…these are some of the new additions they’ve made in the past couple years that really make it stand out. I’m not a big fan of the home made organic soaps, (frankly I think they smell horrible) but there is a huge display in the beauty department for people who enjoy that sort of thing. Obviously this store is my jam, I’m the duchess!

This is an ok Giant Eagle, nothing special. Kind of a pain to get in/​out of but that seems to be the case wherever you go in Brunswick these days. Where did all of these people come from?

Hope the reno took care of that rank fish smell that lurked around the seafood dept and extended to bakery and deli. I never made it past produce and when I was in a pinch for dry cleaning they had a couple righteous ladies working over there.
Still happy to not frequent anymore.

I’m posting this in regard to the in-​store Bakery. I’ve shopped at Giant Eagle out of convenience. I don’t want to make it a habit. I will, however, skip the bakery from now on. In summer, the self-​serve donut case was filled with flies, to the point that the Medina County Health Department visited to check the situation due to customer complaints. Hairs are often found on cookies and other items. Aren’t sanitary procedures followed here? Walking by the counter, you can hear a lot of coughing in the bakery, which makes me think how much crap ends up on the food. Needless to say I don’t buy anything at all from them. A new location in the store is being prepared as part of Giant Eagle’s renovation… I hope that the new bakery is clean and they hire people who are not pigs. But still I will buy nothing from here. Most of their products arrive frozen and are simply heated in the oven. You might as well buy Entenmann’s or Hostess– cheaper and I guess much more sanitary.