Shoppers – Pharmacy

Right in the corner and the shopping carts are outside. Big, open clean place. The veggies and fruit looked nice. Nice meat. I saw a prepared food type deli for non cookers. I also saw a bakery. Lots of variety in stock, I would shop there, if I lived here. Of course it’s is no Wegmans, but closer and convenient. I was backing up with my cart, looking at cork openers and a door opened to a giant walk in cooler full of beer! If you want «‘the coldest beer in town» this is your place. They have a pharmacy. Nice employees. They appreciate reusable bags, but plastic is still free.

It is always clean. Great prices and the folks are really friendly. I enjoy coming here for our grocery needs.

This Shoppers is your pretty run of the mill bargain grocery store. However, I will say it’s much brighter and more spacious than I remember it’s Fairfax counterpart being. Also the layout of the personal hygiene/​non-​grocery items is much nicer; it looks more like a Harris Teeter than a Shoppers.
The couple of employee interactions I had were fine. I wouldn’t say this place is known for it’s customer service, but it wasn’t bad either.
Honestly, I would prefer to shop here than the Safeway down the street.

This Shoppers is only 2 minutes away from where I live and I’ve been shopping for groceries in this place for 3 years now.
Competitive prices. I find some items here that are cheaper than other grocery stores. They recently made some MAJOR design changes and they now have a club card for their customers which is great because they didn’t have that before. Their produce section is now fresher than it used to be.
I never had to shop anywhere else because 95% of the time, I find what I’m looking for there.

I went to this particular Shoppers location and there is nothing good that I can say. I went in to get a few items and I saw all the lines were extremely long. I decided to just grab a Mountain Dew and a few other items.
All of the self checkout lines were backed up and there was one cashier in the entire store. There were, at least, five people waiting at the one cashier and another five waiting at the self checkout. It is safe to say that I will not be back.

store is open at 6: ooam but coffee is never on time or not all of the donuts are out. the workers are on break. come back at 7:00 maybe they will be ready by then.

I’ve had lots of «mixed feelings» about a lot of places I’ve been to recently — here, there were one or two things I found to be really exciting, but there were some «bummers» too.
The positive: They have a HUGE bakery section with a MONSTROUS donut wall! More donuts even than Costco. We had our faces plastered to the glass drooling at the huge selection of Boston Cremes, Bear Claws, my favorite ones with sprinkles and white frosting and an interesting new one we hadn’t seen before that has caramel-​flavored frosting. The donuts looked fresh, unlike how they usually are at my Giant, and I was sooo pleased by the selection.
One more positive, you don’t have to sign up for a membership card to shop there. That is annoying at Giant and stuff, so kudos to Shoppers for that. Also, the grocery store is enormous.
Now to the negatives: I was tasked with buying tomatoes. They had a big bin of tomatoes, but they were SO squishy. It took a long while to find tomatoes that were hard enough to slice without spattering juice all over. It seemed like the majority of the tomatoes were going to go bad in a matter of days. I touched some other fruits and vegetables and wasn’t really too impressed with that section. As we usually go to the grocery store specifically for produce, this was a problem. Also, we got a Shoppers brand pizza here to eat at home — the crust was awful! It had no taste at all and a horrible texture. I would not buy their pizza again. And, the magazines at check out were not up-​to-​date.
So in the end this was just OK. I would DEFINITELY come back here again for donuts, or if we needed packaged foods and wanted a better selection than Giant. But I would not get pizza and would go elsewhere for produce. Prices are reasonable but H Mart is cheaper, as is Costco for some items.

This place is fast becoming my favorite place to shop for veggies, sandwiches, and pizza. The deli area rocks and has a massive selection of all the game day essentials. In fact, I tend to spend most of my time in this section, for it contains all the major food essentials that anyone might need… Ok, granted, I’m no Gordon Ramsey or Emeril, but it still has quite a lot, even for a foodie hack like myself.

This grocery store is fine. I don’t have any complaint about this place. They have good selections of items here and the prices are competitive with other stores. The checkout lines here are pretty short so it’s easy for me to get in and out.

It’s a grocery store plain and simple, but not the closest one to my house, that would be a Giant, however I find myself driving the extra couple miles to go to shoppers rather than the other. Their staff is very friendly, their produce department is very well priced and has a ton of stuff, they have a bakery, and a very good fresh seafood department. They also have the self checkout lines which, as long as I’m NOT behind some moron who does not know how to use them I can usually get in and out of there pretty quickly. You don’t need a stupid club card or anything like that to get the savings either which is really nice also. I will keep shopping here for the time being.

The pharmacy staff is always top-​notch, they take that extra minute with you that really makes all the difference. I have always had nothing but positive, quick & friendly service here!

Went here yesterday to get seafood, they have good prices and selection on crab legs and lobster.
I saw a rather large cockroach (the kind with wings) crawling on the floor a couple months ago when I was shopping here. In spite of this I still go back occasionally, mostly for canned and sealed stuff. They have Tennessee Sunshine hot pepper sauce — hard to find that in other stores.

The grocery store isnt as «sparkly» as some other Shoppers Ive been in. However, in the Kingstowne area, it is the most decently priced. I dont always get my produce here, but I do buy the majority of my other groceries here as well as pharmacy items. Haven’t shopped at the deli or bakery –just never need to sto by there. The staff are friendly. Sometimes the store is a little busy, but if you go during the down time of the day-​early afternoon or late evening, there isnt a problem.

This was the last stop on our neighborhood grocery store trifecta tour — a worthy adventure destination, but five minutes from our doorstep!
Inside the store, it was surprisingly HUGE. Not pretty, sparkly, shiny or anything like that — but simply, HUGE. Oh, and kinda early 1990’s-ish, too. Still, the variety was astonishing — from everyday staples that you could find in any grocery store — to more regional favorites and things… generic $ 1 stuff, and surprisingly, even organics and natural products.
The most interesting corridor, though, had to be the international area. Though heavily weighed on hispanic/​latino foods, it was pretty neat to see products usually not seen on store shelves.
BONUS SECTION:
As we approached the check-​out area, my husband and I were summoned, like moths to a flame — to the store bakery. There, we were hypnotized immediately by large yellow boxes of what seemed like… endless…amounts…of…donuts. Like, at least a dozen. For $ 2. This, my friends, we could not resist. (And no, the donuts were not in the shape that fellow Unilocaler Mark S. indicated on his review — I guess Shoppers had a year + to improve)

This is really not my favorite grocery store in the Kingstowne area, we have a choice between Giant, Safeway and Shoppers. There are many things that weird me out at this location, here they are in no particular order:
1. The produce isn’t the freshest — especially avocados that seem days from being the slightest bit ripe.
2. Heavy emphasis on over-​processed food — not a lot of fresh ingredients here.
3. The overall cleanliness of the store seems to be non-​existent (it just «feels» dirty)
I’d rather spend a couple extra dollars and head over to Giant where the produce is fresh, there is more selection and the clientele are nicer (oh yes, the people who shop at Shoppers — not so nice).
I will throw Shoppers a bone — if you want a large selection of cold beer for your weekend festivities you need to come here. They offer a walk-​in beer fridge. Nice.

Girlfriend and I went here to get some donuts. I wanted the fruit filled custard ones near the top. but when I reached my hand in there. I realized that there were LOTS of little fruit flies flying around. We decided not to get those.
Went with some regular donuts near the bottom of the display. the top ones seemed to have lots of flies in them.