Albertsons

Although the store seems clean and stocked, I literally waited 20 minutes for the deli. When I finally received my turkey… it was shredded in pieces. Unbelievable! !!

always well stocked with items that i need on a regular basis. they offer a pretty selective variety of brands. the very own albertsons brand products are just as good as the more known brands. their deli always provides fresh and warm foods for me to take home. their fruits and veggies stay hydrated and well maintained. i have never taken home a dry veggie or bruised fruit. service and help is great and all the staff members are so friendly. sometimes i go in and end up shopping long enough for my bladder to signal. and gosh even their bathrooms are kept clean.

Clean, well-​stocked. Self-​checkout, good meat selection, no silly ‘club’ discounts or memberships, nice parking lot, etc.
I actually go out of my way to come here sometimes. The stores near me don’t have self-​checkout, and the Albertson’s near me closed.
By the way, for people complaining about a lack of ‘organic’ options… all food is organic or you couldn’t eat it. ;) I actually boycott ‘organic’ (labeled) food since it’s a silly trend and the food isn’t any more nutritious. I also don’t want to encourage those who are attempting to capitalize on public naïveté and scientific illiteracy.
Plus, if people want to spend extra money on trendy food ideology then there’s always Whole Foods (Whole Paycheck). I am glad if Albertson’s isn’t wasting shelf-​space on nonsense that crowds-​out ‘regular’ food.
Good store. Wish it were closer.

This Albertsons has really gone downhill. All they care about is saving money at the customers expense and convenience.
They typically only have between 1 – 3 cash registers open so that you’re forced to use the self check out. However, they never have anyone working at the self check out area and those machines are super weight sensitive and constantly need employee assistance. So you’re left standing there waiting.
The other thing I absolutely hate is that their bags don’t have handles. WTF! This is the first supermarket I’ve ever been to that doesn’t have bags with handles. You can sometimes request some from the employees but they frequently run out. When I complain to employees about this, they simply tell me that they like the handle bags also but those are more expensive so the manager only orders a small/​limited number of those bags. WTF. I can pretty much only carry 2 bags then. Absolutely ridiculous.
You are better off going to the Ralphs on McBean.

I love how this place moved in right in front of my community. If I forgot butter, I can just simply drive down ¾ mile and pick up some butter and rush thru the self checkout service and I’ll be home within 5 minutes. They are always clean and their staff is friendly. I just wished they had more organic choices

Every time I visit this store it takes 10 times longer than it should to check out. The self help always requires manager validation, which if you’ve seen the managers move can take a loooooonnng time. The checkers are generally not much better. Maybe I’m just unlucky, but every time I get in line, the checker is barely able to finish a transaction w/​out needing help from a manager. In addition, many of them are «trying to be friendly» or something, so they are talking, talking, talking, as if they are at the hair salon while people are grinding their teeth in frustration. I seriously dread going in there simply due to how long they take. The produce section is way below average in quality.

No organic veggies or fruit. Horrible layout. No handbaskets. Plastic «reusable» bags that are useless. Both entrance doors were locked with signs directing me to other entrance. Finally entered via the exit. Cannot self check wine. I can go on and on.
I have gone on three separate occasions and just didn’t feel it. I will drive the extra 2 miles to Ralph’s.

This is the one of the best bakeries in town if you need a tasty cake on short notice. I was having a craving for yellow cake with chocolate frosting. They didn’t have anything like that made up, but the baker offered to frost a single-​layer round white cake for me right there. In less than five minutes I had something to satisfy my craving. I have never seen such immediate problem-​solving, and all with a smile and an apology that it took so long! «Yay! I’m a fan» is right!

We visited this Albertsons with a prom «emergency». We don’t live in this area, but we were taking our son to pick up his girlfriend for senior prom yesterday. We opened the corsage he had purchased and picked up just that morning from a Ralphs store and the white roses were turning brown at the tops and inside, even though they had been refrigerated since picking it up. We had no time to turn around and go back to the Ralphs we purchased it from. We couldn’t possibly allow our son to give his girlfriend a white rose corsage that was browning. We pulled into this Albertsons to see if we could get a corsage made last minute. It was the best decision we could have made.
I was met by a friendly younger man at the floral counter. He let me know that the florist had left for the day not too long before we arrived, but he said that he would try to find someone to help. The store manager, Jessica, came over to help me out. We purchased a dozen red roses and Jessica jumped into action. She knew we were short on time and had to get this done to make prom right for my son’s girlfriend. She remade the corsage, having never done it before. She quickly studied the other corsage and made another one that was twice as beautiful as the original. She worked quickly and was extremely friendly. My son’s girlfriend loved the corsage!
We could not have had a better experience than we did at this Albertsons. Jessica literally saved prom for my son and his girlfriend! We are so pleased and happy with the service and everything. If we ever need flowers again, we will definitely go out of our way to get them from this Albertsons. If we lived closer, we would totally go there for our shopping needs. When we are in the area and need something, we will be sure to stop there. I very highly recommend this Albertsons and their exceptional customer service!

I go there for self check out because I’m usually in a hurry and don’t have all day to chat with the checkers. There are a few checkers that are there that are nuts — I mean full blown NUTS! One of them stalks you through the check out line, comments on your food choices, asks about where you got your shoes or purse, just nuts. Then there’s this girl with stringy hair that tries to run you over with her push broom and talks to the canned products, asking them how they’re doing. I’m staying away from this mental institution!!!

Best market in the Scv

For anyone with little ones in SCV: Watch out for the really ugly scary witch on the left side of Albertsons on Copperhill (in the front of the aisle, near the aisle where the cookies are I think). My daughter screamed and cried so much when she saw it two weeks ago. It detects motion, so it will turn to you and open its eyes. Really not funny! Now I have to beg my daughters to go in Albertsons with me, and if they do, they are freaked out that they’ll see it. I’ve asked the manager to please please take it down for the other young kids — or atleast change it to something a little less scary. But they did not. Told my kids its not real, but its really scary to look at for a kid…

I live right across the street from Albertsons, and if I ever need to buy fresh produce, I have to drive to the nearest Ralph’s, or Sprouts to buy quality produce. Anything in the produce section is absolutely disgusting. You will always find rubbery shriveled up cucumbers, moldy mushrooms, onions that have gone completely black and soft, moldy berries, and what finally set me off is when I cut into a normal looking red bell pepper, and found some weird dark mold, with black bugs inside. I’m completely in aw on how the manager tries to sell this sorry excuse for fruits and vegetables. Don’t let the clean store fool you, because their produce is dirty, old, and disgusting! If their produce is this bad, I couldn’t imagine trying to buy their meat or seafood. No thank you! As of today, I’m officially done with this store! This supermarket deserves a –1 star!

Good clean store, helpful employees make this a good quick trip store. A bit pricey but «doable».

Always clean, and super friendly staff!
The bread is always hot and on tie fro the bakery.

HELL-​A-​COOL-​OF-​AN-​ALBERTSONS! There, I just made up a new word. Look for it in the next edition of the Oxford Dictionary.
This place is spotless! Amazingly clean and stocked to perfection. Friendly employees that are very helpful. I love this place!
You get the super loud Unilocal style clap! There, did you hear it?

This grocery store seems to be on the slow side. Their service, check lanes, and the store overall doesn’t look busy. Anyway, I try to avoid coming here to this particular Albertsons unless I literally have to or its just about on my way towards somewhere I gotta be because I find myself always waiting, and waiting, and waiting just to pay for my 1 or 2 items. They NEED more cashiers! Seems like they need better management or a new one to run the store and figure that MORE CASHIERS AND CHECK LANES ARE NEEDED to be open. There aren’t too many people shopping here, but there are people that buy lots of stuff, like a shopping cart literally FULL to the top, which takes a while to ring up and I’m just standing behind wishing that I had options of lanes to choose from.
MORE lanes open, please!!!

I love this Albertsons. Everytime I’m going to make something new or old I always come here for everything I need. They always have what I need and the people are really helpful and friendly. :]
The thing that keeps me coming back here, aside from the options they provide food wise and their customer service, is the fact that they are priced pretty decently. They aren’t overpriced like Ralphs on McBean or places like Pavillions and Whole Foods. Thankfully.
I absolutely love their deli sandwiches, the club is the best! I have had a few problems with service there though. As in the white people get served first despite the fact that you’ve been standing there for 12 fucking minutes, but all that hasn’t happened for quite some time (basically since I complained). :D
The guys at the meat department are VERY helpful when I’m in need of something and cannot find it. They even pulled a prepacked rib roast out and cut it to the proper size I needed! Woo, go them!
Ultimately this place does have a few flaws but they are not fatal for me at all. I go here no matter what and I will remain that way until I move away from the SCV.

Their produce section has some pretty hard-​to-​find items in it. I was able to find celery root for my borsch. They didn’t have parsley root, but the produce guy said he would special order me some. I thought that was pretty stellar of him.

Crazy about food, or just crazy?
In the never ending struggle between convenience vs. quality, convenience largely wins out-​especially when I do my grocery shopping after work. That’s why I go to Albertson’s. I like the fact that it is close to my neighborhood, and the people are very cool. That’s why they have 2 stars. The rest is bunk.
They surprised me with their produce today. I was looking over the tomatoes and many of them were moldy! The meat/​seafood department is deplorable. On one occasion it took a kid over 10 minutes to skin a salmon fillet (I kid you not). On another occasion, I bought cooked shrimp on special and when I got it home the consistency and smell were completely off thus ruining a really good shrimp and orzo pasta recipe for me forever. Here’s a tip: buying meat or seafood as a «best buy» or «super saver» is NEVER a good idea. Sounds obvious, but that’s one lesson I had to learn the hard way.
Last week I was craving some Brent and Sam’s chocolate chip cookies, so I bought a box. As I was enjoying them today I was reading the box with the expiration date… Why in the hell did they expire over 2 weeks ago?! Yet another indulgence, ruined!
Between the bad produce, expired baked goods, and sketchy seafood, I think I’m going to have to convert back to Whole Foods!