Hy Vee Food Stores

This store is great! I received my first aisles online order today. It was on time and accurate. The delivery girl was very personable. She even brought my cold items up first so that they weren’t sitting downstairs. I highly recommend this service!

I like this Hy-​Vee as the second best is Sioux Falls. I prefer the smaller one on 57^th. This store has anything you could possibly want or need. There is a huge selection of products and services to choose from.
The only downside is that the prices can get high. With Costco and Fareway you can find things cheaper. I still recommend this as a great place.

I like «this» Hy-​Vee on Minnesota Avenue due to the following reason: the variety of items offered. I haven’t been to another Hy-​Vee in Sioux Falls that has an extensive selection of cheese and other items. The Louise Avenue Hy-​Vee near Empire Mall does not have a lot of cheese and items. Besides the cheese, I find myself often at this Hy-​Vee on Minnesota because you can usually find anything you need (including a large selection cheese!).

Nice, big store with a large hot food and deli area. They seem to be open when you need them and I really appreciate their liquor store, which has a diverse and satisfying array of beers, wines and spirits. Handy!

By far the best Hy-​Vee in town. I keep thinking of Des Moines, IA since the grocery store choices are almost zero, either Wal-​Mart or Hy-​Vee are your main choices in Sioux Falls, little to no competitors mean higher grocery prices.

This is the most obnoxious Hy-​Vee by far! The health market section is mixed in on the regular shelves and stuff is hard to find. It’s also the busiest and most expensive Hy-​Vee. Also, back in the summer I bought some grilling utensils and they were bagging them all separately. When I told the man I could just put them all in the same bag he said, it doesn’t matter, the bags are just made out of oil and they’ll just –poof– burn up and disappear! I really wanted to tell him, um DUH, that’s why I don’t want to waste them you f — — idiot! Unless you want to rely on the Middle East for the rest of your life. anyway…
my first job was bagging groceries at HyVee on 26^th and Sycamore so I remember the days of double bagging everything. But we are smarter now and my soap can be in the same bag with my milk and it is not going to kill me. for real.

Expensive and all stores have different pricing for same items. Overall: convenient but expensive.

HyVee is my favorite grocery store out of the options we currently have in town. The Minnesota avenue location is very nice. Big store.
The problem with this and every HyVee is that the teenagers don’t know how to treat a customer. Talking to their friends is way more important than helping customers. That is a problem for me.

While this review is specifically linked to the store that I visit the most often, I really want it to be a review for basically all Hy-Vee’s in Sioux Falls, as they are all now basically the same in both style and selection.
To really understand where I’m coming from for this review, I think you first need a bit of background on me. I recently moved to Sioux Falls from Ann Arbor, MI. If you don’t know much about it, Ann Arbor is a fairly expensive place to live. Accordingly, food prices tend to be higher there. However, because of the type of place Ann Arbor is (upper class and liberal), unique and specialty food items are much more readily available, so those types tend to be reasonably priced. In the seven months or so I’ve been living here, I’ve found Sioux Falls, and Hy-​Vee specifically, to be the exact opposite in terms of food prices. The basic, general items tend to be cheaper, but the specialty items, if they are even available, are usually much more expensive. Being a vegetarian (along with my wife), I tend to rely on these specialty items a bit more than the average shopper. In turn, my grocery bill tends to be higher than I want it to be. Now, to the point of this rambling: Most people will have no issues with Hy-Vee’s pricing and therefore would give them a higher rating than what I have. Also, it is definitely the cheapest grocery store I have found in Sioux Falls so far.
As far as selection is concerned, Hy-​Vee has most things that I need/​want on a regular basis. As I mentioned above, I may not always be willing to pay their price for some of the specialty items, but at least they have them available if I absolutely need it. Their produce seems to be of pretty good quality, although this is probably their weakest area in terms of selection. The building is always clean, well organized, and spacious enough that it rarely feels crowded.
One thing that Hy-​Vee does particularly well is the management of the checkout aisles. They always seem to be adequately staffed with efficient checkers and baggers. My waits have always been more than reasonable. Plus, the checkers are always friendly and helpful. If you’ve heard of Hy-​Vee, you probably know their slogan is «Where there’s a helpful smile, in every aisle.» While it’s pretty cheesy, there seems to be some truth to it.
Overall, Hy-​Vee is a pretty good store, and it will probably continue to be my main grocery stop for the foreseeable future.