A & P Food Store

Check your dates on what you purchase. Several times I was not able to buy items because they were sitting on the shelves with expired dates. Their answer was «sorry about that» each time.

Unpleasant shopping experience

It’s a supermarket. They’re open super late. They have organic and healthy options and those k-​cups without the bottoms on so your coffee doesn’t taste like plastic. But mainly, they’re open late and therefore, five thousand stars. An additional star (we are now at 5,001) for feeding my severe and destabilizing addiction to the elusive cereal we all call Waffle Crisp (which is now only ever found in the a&p). Go when no other human is shopping and you will have a fabulous experience. I promise.

I have tried to shop at this store for years but everytime I walk in the produce dept is so dirty and messy and items are outdated etc, that I walk out. I live nearby and wish someone would take over and clean the place up but I drive to the one in Woodland Park which is immaculate. It has and remains to be a giant disappointment. I walked in yesterday after years and tried to buy parley, it was old and had brown spots all over it. I asked for fresh and about 8 minutes later someone walked out with a ‘fresh’ box. opened it and put it on the floor .I looked through and it still had brown spots on it. the end.

Because i am literally a stones throw from here, it is my go to emergency store. Produce is ify at best, meats are fine and there is even a very helpful Croatian butcher who will stear you in the right direction. Avoid bakery, Deli and fish at all costs. A bit over priced for groceries. Handy and congenial employees.

Its fine. Great easy parking lot. Select your veges carefully. They can often be very fresh and great. Sometimes not though, so beware. They have a prepared food section, which is also hit or miss, although the sushi guy who was there for a long time was great. He left and the replacement is fine, just not as experienced I think.
The store is an odd one shape wise. some aisles are shorter than others and you will do alot of turning around etc.
Its an easy store is you know what you want and where it is. If I were coming here for the first time with a long list Id be baffled by the locations of some things related to others.
But gotta love the parking lot. Best in town by far.

I felt this store was expensive for what you get… The store is poorly organized and has a weird layout. I’ve had a couple experiences where the cheeses I bought were not fresh. It is just an over all poor shopping experience. Although this is the closest to my house, I go out of my way to other stores unless it’s an emergency.

2 stars because they are open regular hours and they are there when I forget to get something at Whole Foods, the Farmer’s Market or anywhere else on Earth besides this A & P.
2 stars for self-​checkout. Self-​checkout is supposed to be one checking themselves out, however, at this A & P you need an attendant as often as you make it through just to buy band-​aids. It’s inevitable that something goes wrong every time you use the self-​checkout.
2 stars for the service. Actually 1 star, but the list wouldn’t look right. Grumpy, unfriendly and patently unhappy cashiers and workers will brighten your day… never.
2 stars for the awkward layout — some short aisles, some long aisles, a roundabout of a fruit and bread area — and the always moldy berries.
If you forgot something and don’t want to go back to Whole Foods and you live around the corner from this A & P, sure, hit it up for salt. If not, go somewhere else unless you want to be fighting with a self-​checkout machine over said salt.

Pretty poor shopping experience — particularly in a nice suburb.
— Dimly lit and kind of dingy
— Often out of stock (particularly frozen veggies)
— Totally indifferent staff, many of whom clearly don’t like their jobs. The checkout is almost comically negative — you feel like you’re imposing on them. God forbid a checkout person actually say hello, respond to a hello, or smile.
It’s fine for packaged goods in a pinch, but it’s a pretty poor supermarket. I know they’re not trying to be Whole Foods or Fairway, but other mainstream chains seem to do a much better job.

If I could give this place zero stars, I would. Avoid at all costs. Poor selection and RUDE, unknowledgeable staff — if you can even find someone to help you at the deli/​seafood/​meat counter. Go down the street to kings.

This place is just okay. Yes some of the workers are cranky, and yes the layout of this place is weird, but hey, it does the job. You get what you need and you get out. Granted the only reason why I come here is because its the cheapest supermarket around, I think everyone else would agree.

I find the workers in this store to be reallynhelpful… finding things, suggesting items plus pleasant. I love the fresh salad bar… good chicken salad, very fresh lettuce, spinach and greens… peppers, onions, corn chick peas all the stuff I like… and the ready made salads. broccoli and cranberries etc… are great… freshly made sandwiches… any sort of combination.(I like horse radish mayo on my turkey sandwiches) and they always get it… the plant and fresh flowers are always attractive… and they must sell a ton of yoghurt. always being re stocked… I glad this A and P iss here…

A & P Fresh my butt!
Worst food shopping experience I have every had. They didn’t even have close to everything we needed. Everything was priced more than other food stores. The produce was in horrible condition. Half of the food was torn or open after we got it home. The staff was aloof and unhelpful. The checker felt it was more important to talk to his co worker than check us out. I not only will never shop there again I will never shop at another A & P. Absolutely horrible!

While I do like this store (pretty good produce), they are lacking in other departments.
It’s OK if your in a pinch.
The only thing that really gets me about this place — and it seems to be common for A&P stores — the checkout.
They never have enough people working the registers. You can zip through picking up all you need in 5 minutes flat, and then wait 20 minutes on-​line.
Even worse, you can get that cashier who YELLS AT YOU when you touch her order separator (or what-​ever that thing is called)

Is it weird to write reviews of grocery stores? I get really emotional about my grocery shopping experience, and there is the slim chance the store or district manager reads this and takes my feedback to heart… so here goes.
This A&P drives me nuts for a few reasons.
— Location and size make me expect it to be a convenient in-​and-​out type grocery store. One where maybe you are shortchanged on selection, but have the luxury of being able to go in-​and-​out in a few minutes. It’s SO not the case here. They almost always have only one register open, the self-​checkout lines are horrendous — if the self-​checkout stations are even working. With this store you get all the downsides of a smaller-​format store, without the upside of having it be actually convenient.
— They don’t display prices well, especially in the produce and baked goods areas
— The lineup those stupid cardboard display things all over the friggin’ store, making it nearly impossible to navigate without knocking things over. Since I made this observation, I’ve noticed other stores that I frequent do NOT do this and it makes getting in, around and out of the store so much easier.
Ahh — I feel better now that I got that off my chest!
The only good thing I can say is their produce is always pretty good.