Hannaford Supermarkets

Clean, nice staff, great selections.

This store is the first Hannaford I’ve been to where they have reconfigured the cash-​out process.
They got rid of all the bagging staff and now have a queue manager who tells you what cash register to go to. Then the cashier bags your groceries as they ring you up.
This makes perfect sense for the grocery store. While the customer is unloading the grocery cart the cashier is ringing up items. The customer can no longer keep an eye on how much their food is ringing up looking for mistakes or a price that one didn’t realize is a little too steep. Like, «ooooh, $ 876,000.99 for a couple of conventionally grown peaches… keep ‘em.» Or, «hey, those are on sale BOGO, please fix it.»
Additionally, the cashier now has one of those several-​sided spinny plastic bag dispensers like Wal-​mart and not a lot of room for your reusable bags.
Even better, you will find your raw meat on top of your lettuce. I did and I asked the cashier to please not put things I’m planning to eat raw with things that really need to be cooked.
He LAUGHED at me. A teenage, defiant, «I think you’re an old fool» kind of effort-​laden laugh that didn’t make me very happy.
I had to peel my own bag off his spinny thing because he refused to touch, let alone re-​bag, the meat I had pulled off of my lettuce.
Talk about mad!
I’ve had this problem before but not realize it until I get home. I am very careful to unload my cart categorically to avoid this situation. Somehow they always put my raw chicken on top of my lunch meat or veggies. Ugh.
So, all that said. I wish we had a (insert high-​end grocery store chain here). At least when they try to leak salmonella infused chicken juice on my salad It will be a luxurious salmonella salad.