Giant

Terrible customer service, people standing 4 deep in line and the snarling employee at the cigarette/​customer counter wouldn’t check out two item unless I was buying cigarettes. Won’t be back

Every time we come to Giant my wife and I always have a pleasant experience. They always have what we need and have helpful employees. Mike (older gentleman) the cashier is the best of them all. He always smiles and you can tell he takes pride in making people leave happy! Kudos to Giant.

I’d expect better from this store’s bakery, but the Crisco infused icing on their taste-​free cakes is just plain flat. Obviously made on the cheap. Hello, Wegmans.

This Giant is pretty decent. It has plenty of self check out lanes that making checkout faster.
Produce is a hit or miss. I prefer shopping at other places for produce but sometimes I’ll grab some organic bananas here or a couple bunches of cilantro, which is pretty clean and has less dirt then some other places.
Pharmacy is pretty nice. It’s organized and efficient and quick. When you drop off a prescription, you get a number. A LED screen near the ceiling will flash your # when your order is ready.
My favorite thing in this store is a small department by the produce section that is devoted to allergy friendly foods, as well as organic foods. This is the only store I have found here that has a decent selection of dairy free, egg free, nut free cookies, pasta, and ice cream. I am thrilled that I can come here and make one stop to pick up all the snacks my allergy sensitive toddler likes. Now when his older brother eats an Oreo, my young toddler can also have his own egg free, nut free, diary free version of ‘Oreo’ too because this Giant has it! They also have Earth’s Best organic baby jars too which are usually on sale and cheaper then Baby R US recent price hike of this product.
Great store!

Not a fan! The only thing good about the place is that it is less than 5 min from my house. But if you want something fresh «Do not go here» the fresh everything is not so fresh.

Meh. I am at this Giant all of the time because it close to my house. The service is awful. The produce is sometimes moldy. I don’t blame the cashiers though– it’s the management who is at fault because they never have enough people working.
You can forget about anyone offering to help you with 2 exceptions: the butcher is very nice and the Hispanic gentleman in produce dept is very helpful. The other produce guys won’t even get out of your way when they are restocking. Sheesh.
On a positive note, the store is clean and they keep the outside very tidy.

This is and always will be my favorite grocery store, been coming to Giant since I was a kid and love everything about it, the freash fruit, meat selections, and seafood is money, I have never used the pharmacy here but my aunt has no problems when she does, the prices are good for me and I constantly use my giant card to save even more
Giant is a great grocery store

This Giant is probably the best one I’ve shopped in. Conveniently located down the street from my house, this store always carries a good selection of packaged food in the Nature’s Marketplace section… vegan (and gluten-​free stuff if you swing that way) items are much appreciated! In the regular butter section they have Earth Balance, in the refrigerated milk section they have refrigerated nondairy milks (in addition to the tetrapak boxes in Nature’s Marketplace). The produce here is okay, I think it’d be great if they had more organic stuff but they do at least carry organic salad mixes and bags of organic apples. Also the Bolthouse Farms juices are delicious (right next to the produce section near Nature’s Marketplace). They have a good international foods selection, too, they even carry Masarepa! The staff are friendly to me. People tend to think that the automated check-​out lanes are faster, but wait until you get an item that doesn’t ring up correctly or someone checks out in front of you who doesn’t know how to use the machine — it throws a wrench in your plans of a hasty exit. If no one’s around, use the automated check-​out lanes, but otherwise you’re better off with a trained check-​out person (plus — they get to keep their job).
The pharmacy here is pretty good. There are a few pharmacists who are not so friendly. But when I needed a prior authorization for a prescription the pharmacists faxed the needed documentation to my doctor’s office right away. When my disorganized doctor’s office lost the fax, the Giant pharmacist quickly re-​faxed the information. I appreciated their competency, you won’t get this kind of service at all pharmacies.
Locally, this Giant certainly rates better than most of the available grocery stores. The exception would be Wegmans in Dulles 28 — a bit further away but has a much bigger selection (and of course, bigger crowds). Still, for me, Giant is great.

This is my favorite Giant to go to in the area. I can count on fresh food items, good spirit selection and a clean store.
The parking is plentiful.
They have online grocery ordering via Peapod.

The butcher will give you smaller portions, and he’s so nice!
I have a hard time giving a review for a place like a grocery store. I shop here because it’s close to me… End of story really. They have food, I like to enjoy food and it’s a great combination that’s been working out for years!

I didn’t do inside but I did use the Redbox kiosk. It should be noted that the kiosks are outside. This is great because I don’t have to fight people inside the store. I only need to find a spot in the parking lot and that wasn’t much of a challenge on a later Saturday afternoon.
I have never been a huge Giant fan because the prices are normally higher than most local grocery stores so I probably wouldn’t stop to buy anything here if I was in the area again.

Its the closest grocery store to me. Its clean and the staff is friendly. I dont shop around for the best prices on groceries, so I cant compare prices. Never had any issues with returns. They always run out of Dr Pepper though. you would think they would order more. The only negative is the produce department. Other stores in the area have fresher produce, but I dont find it bad enough to go somewhere else.

My wife and I shop at this giant all the time (two to four times per week) because of its location.
We go there for most grocery purchases. The prices aren’t too bad. My biggest complaint here is the freshness of meats and vegetables. The vegetables are never in super great shape, and sometimes they’re all really bad. I always have to dig through the onions to find good ones, and I’m not an incredibly picky person. I just want one that looks like it wasn’t found in a dumpster.
The service isn’t awful. I almost always use the self-​checkout, which usually means I don’t have to wait in a long line, and I get checked out faster than if I went through the normal line. When I do go through the regular checkout, I seem to be treated fairly. Last time I was there the kid at the checkout was messing around on his cell phone some, but it didn’t really bother me (again, not that picky). It didn’t slow down my service any.
One time I bought some tortillas that I noticed, upon arriving at home, was covered in mold. I went back and they let me return them without question. One thumb down for the bad tortillas, one thumb up for the good service on the return.
My three stars say it all. This Giant is just okay.

We used to frequent Cascades Giant for years until they were bought about by another company (new logo time). Now, we shop at Wegman’s down the road because the produce and prices are consistently better than Giant. The produce department at Giant has significantly gone downhill. I rarely even find a zucchini from Giant that I would serve to my family. Prices are high all across the board. The cashiers are usually young and don’t have any urgency or pride in their job.
The positive of the store is the pharmacy. All of the employees have worked there for years and they always remember our names, very helpful and the generic antibiotic cost is just $ 3.

This is our regular typical grocery store pharmacy. The hours are reasonably convenient. The attendents are polite. Generic anti-​biotics are given free. Generic prescriptions are $ 9.99 for 90 days.
The record keeping is less than impressive however. In the last year, I’ve had two annual monthly prescriptions continually get out of sych despite them being written, submitted and refilled at the same times.
Attempts to get these elements corrected have fallen on deaf ears with avowals that there was no mistake and I just need to contact my doctor.
It’s convenient but I’m becoming convinced that mail order pharmacies are better for recurring prescriptions.

Good but I go here because its close. Milk is cheaper at wegmanns though. I shop here for convience walking distance from my home. Good items nice staff prices could be lower.
Good salad bar, specials and deals can be a value. Milk is 1.00 more her then Wegmanns.

Located in Cascades Marketplace, this is a convenient grocery store and is where I go to get things I can’t get at Costco, mostly those things which would be way too much (in quantity) at Costco. I also come here to get fresh flowers if I need them, or when things are on sale, namely Barilla pasta sauces. I also come here when I need some quick produce, but mostly I go elsewhere for produce as it can be pricey here and the quality is not that great. Their deli dept is decent, the attendents have always been nice, though not always knowledgeable. They have self check-​out lanes which I love, I wish they were 24hrs though, because I like to shop later at night when there aren’t any crowds. They close at 9pm :(