Mercer Market — Local services in Aledo

I'm not sure if I will be back to buy groceries here. The cashiers were just standing around talking and not being helpful to each other. I had a discrepancy on the price of an item and the cashier argued with me instead of checking on it or having the cashier behind her check on it who didn't have a customer to wait on. So I just passed on the item. I will buy it later at another store. There is a promotional program running and the cashier didn't mention it. When I brought it up she seemed annoyed. Not that it took a lot of effort on my part, but I had to load my groceries in my own cart. I know that may sound petty, but another paid employee was just standing around doing nothing. I brought all of this up to the manager on duty and he didn't seem concerned. I try to give business to small town stores even though prices are usually higher, but not when I get...

I love my hometown market. Its just sad that prices have to be so high everywhere. Im supporting myself and my 2 others financially all by myself and I struggle to keep food on the table. As soon as minimum wage goes up everything else spikes in price so realistically it defeats the purpose to raise the minimum wage if nothing really changes. Our local markets can't compete at the level a Walmart or other big stores do. Even Walmarts prices in some areas have become steep as well. My kid was begging for a snack and asked for something as simple as string cheese and for just a package of 12 sticks of string cheese was $5.89 .89lb of ground round buger was $5.41 I could keep going. I maybe had 10 items in my cart and spent $94.00 thats almost a quarter of my check. I just can't wrap my head around how anyone survives anywhere with the prices of...

Extremely friendly staff even if they're very busy if you have a question or need to be shown where something is at they take the time to help. However their meat prices are very high with Covid-19 happening they're blaming it on the meat packing companies not delivering enough meat to them but if you go to other stores in the region their prices have remained constant during the pandemic. I know they're a family owned store but some of their other products are very expensive as well but luckily for the other products I mentioned there is a Walmart right beside them where you can get the...