Pick N Save

Two stars mainly because it serves its purpose as a grocery store! This grocery store makes you appreciate all the other grocery stores. They don’t have self checkout lanes and they barely have more than 2 – 3 lanes open even when it’s getting busy. And whenever they do have most of the lanes open, they really aren’t very efficient with getting the lines moving. If you have only few items to buy, this isn’t the place to shop.

I go to this Pick N Save if I’m on the way to Bayshore Town Center. It’s a little outdated, but the deals are the same. They also don’t have self-​checkout.

Nick m. Has the review for this location nailed, so I really won’t even bother trying very hard on this review. I do live close to here, but avoid it like the plague. Long lines of people choosing what items to buy while they are at the checkout. Not enough registers open either. Spend the time to drive out of your way, and you will be much happier that you did.

I should have known better, when I could simply pull up and find a parking spot easily 4 cars away from the front door. WHY???
Why not check Unilocal first?
Why must I torture myself?
How did I get here?
How do I get out of here?
It’s a TRAP!
It’s easy to get in but once you are in captivity you are stuck in a maze to get out. long lines narrow aisles tricks to keep you grazing and hunting for what you originally came for. The lines seem to be common mostly at Pick n Save stores shopping is not a pleasure here, although I had some nice conversations while waiting in line with a few of the nice customers.
The store seems about average. I was lucky enough to have only 2 products and was able to bring my cash purchase up to the photo desk and was able to get in and out pretty quick. The liquor store next door seem to have a shorter line but had its own separate door to get into that store.
I’ve seen worse lines like this in Miami, those locals are use to government owned stores in Cuba. Where they may wait 3 hours or more just to buy or get into a ice cream shop. My limit is 15 minutes. I cannot support a store that don’t value my time. I would rather have all my teeth pulled out angrily then pushed back into my head without anesthesia. Than to ever return to this store in the future.
I understand managing payroll but this is crazy! This can not continue just because you have no direct competition in the area. If you are the only game? count me out. I’m not playing.

I was so sad when I lived in the area that made this crap hole the closest grocery store to my house. I hated this Pick N Save so much I would drive out of my way to the Pick on 124^th and Capitol in Brookfield, which was an extra 15 minutes away. Not a long drive by any standards, but it was still inconvenient.
So, is this the Pick N Save that Roundy’s forgot? I’ve worked for businesses that were a part of a larger corporate entity and there was always a prevailing anxiety regarding our boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss (a la, corporate). «Corporate said we have to …» or «Corporate doesn’t like it when we …» and «Marge from Corporate was in today and saw …» were the type of phrases you’d likely hear as part of in-​house employee gossip. My question is: isn’t ANYONE working at this Pick N Save held to a standard? Based on the way the place is ran, and the constant state of dysfunction in which it operates, shouldn’t someone’s boss be a little pissed off about things? Someone in the Roundy’s corporate office should be pissed off, damn it!
If I was that pissed off Roundy’s corporate employee, the following would be going on Monday’s angry, angry memo:
Uniforms. I’ve seen a few male employees letting their pants sag so far below their waistline, I could see 75% of their boxer-​covered butts. That’s a lot of boxers to be hanging out above the waistline. Is this allowable Pick N Save uniform policy? Where in the employee handbook does it say, «White button-​down shirt, black tie, black shoes, black pants, and on Wednesdays after 5:00 pm you can sag your pants down around your knees»???
Check-​out lines. If I hadn’t decided to take my business to Brookfield and had continued to patronize this Pick, the total time I would have spent waiting in their egregiously long check-​out lines would come to a grand total measured in years. Imagine one of the busiest times of the week for a grocery store: Sunday afternoon, right after church (at least that’s how I see it). Most of the check-​out lines should be open, yes? At least half of them? Not so, here in Pick N Save Purgatory. One Sunday afternoon, I waited in line for A HALF HOUR because there were only three or four lines open and one of the cashiers was in training. WTF!!! It was after this experience that I decided to never again step foot in a grocery store on a Sunday between the hours of 11:00am and 7:00pm. I honestly can’t handle that much infuriating humanity in such a small space.
Management. I waited at the cash register for 10 minutes (after ALL of my groceries had been bagged) for a manager to come and do a manual override because the cashier had screwed something up (again). I can’t remember the circumstances that lead me to THE LONGEST 10 MINUTES OF MY WHOLE LIFE but, unless I wanted to pay for something that I wasn’t taking home, I couldn’t give them my money until Mr Override Manager Person got back from the Moon. Or Atlantis. Or wherever the eff he was, ‘cuz he sure as all get out wasn’t where he was supposed to be if I had to wait that long. And why wasn’t there another override-​capable manager available when the first four override requests went out across the store’s PA system? It was 8:00pm and only one manager was working? There’s SO much wrong with that.
Employee attitudes. «RHUBARB» apparently wasn’t a word that was a part of my cashier’s vocabulary. Just before I was about to pay for a few groceries one day, it suddenly occurred to me that I’d forgotten to grab a bag of frozen, chopped rhubarb I needed for a dessert. Because I’d glumly noticed in the past that this Pick N Save didn’t always the same things I’d been able to find at other stores, I asked my cashier, «Do you sell frozen rhubarb here?» She looked at me like I was speaking Klingon and snapped with a glare, «HUH?!» I repeated myself. Still glaring, she shouted at me, «WHAT THE HELL IS A ROO-​BAR?!» … I was struck completely effing dumb. After a second or two I told her to forget about it and paid for my things.
Liquor. I understand setting your clocks ahead a few minutes when it becomes illegal for a business to sell liquor after a certain time. I DON’T understand setting those same clocks ahead a full 20 minutes. I’m serious! When I tried buying alcohol at 20 minutes before 9:00pm, my cashier refused the sale. I pointed to the time on my cellphone and said I had plenty of time. Well, apparently there is a function of their cash registers that will not allow liquor sales based on their set time. And their set time was 20 minutes fast. And I was royally pissed off because the next closest liquor store had closed early. And I didn’t get my wine that night.
Offend me with the sight of your boxers? Fine. Waste my time? Okay. Shout and swear at me, the paying costumer? Eh. Screw with my alcohol? That’s a deal-​breaker. After I couldn’t get my wine that night, I was officially done.

Went here yesterday on a whim with a friend to pick up the new Lays potato chips flavors to sample them! This location didn’t have the garlic cheese bread flavor in stock, so we settled on the other two.
The store seemed like most other Pick ‘n’ Saves, but the staff wasn’t the best I’ve encountered. We got in line to check out, but they were apparently evacuating the line next to us. I heard the staff say, «move them over here», as they shifted their few items from one line into the space –in front of us– without asking if we minded waiting for them to be helped. ooooookay???
Meanwhile, the cashier that had moved them over stood there doing nothing. We thought perhaps his register was broken, but nope. It seemed the people that had been moved had a few more than the 15 item limit for his express lane, and rather than just helping them (there were only three groups of us in these two lanes total) he shifted them to budging mode, cutting us off and making us feel pretty awkward. Once we realized his lane wasn’t down, we moved over there.
You know how they tell you what you’ve saved for buying Roundy’s products? Since we didn’t, we were told, «You ain’t saved nuthin’!»
The sheer oddity and randomness of the whole experience had us laughing our @$$es off long after we left.

Worst pick n save ever. I came home to visit so my mom and I came to this pick n save because it was by her house. The lines were rediculous. The produce looked picked through and not edible. And the workers were completely rude. I don’t know why every person had an attitude, especially when I bagged my own groceries and wasn’t rude to them at all. When I worked at grocery stores you’d get fired for acting the way the employees did at this store. Management seriously needs to talk to their employees!!! Places like this make me wish I could give a 0 star rating.

Every time I go in this place, the produce looks picked through, the deli is not up to par, and the check out lines are ridiciculously long; its not a pleasant shopping experience that I have at other Pick N Saves and I do not recommend this store to anyone that lives on this side of town. The Pick N Save on Port Washington Rd. or the store in Shorewood are WAYYY nicer! Let’s get it together mangers.