Buckley Commissary — Local services in Aurora

I think the testing of a person's patience is critical to individual development, and that is exactly what you'll find at Buckley SFB commissary... a community of shoppers who are intent on either making you the best version of yourself or watching you struggle to maintain any essence of higher civilization. The store is scattered with 90+ year old vets who have already served their country faithfully and now regularly congregate for their bi-monthly grocery hauls, eager to replenish their wares. Did you only need 2 items and planned for a quick 10 minute errand? Well, think again because while there are indeed 8 perfectly operational self checkout lanes, you'll likely find each and every one of them already occupied by none other than our beloved heroes. You'll think to yourself that this is fine because you're the next person in line and out of so many lanes one will surely open up, but what you're forgetting is that each and every one of those lanes picks and chooses which credit cards they'll allow to pass, and as luck would have it, they all just decided to reject these unsuspecting buyers. You'll sigh quietly to yourself as you watch the one associate the store employs to go lane by lane helping each person until they've all been taken care of. After roughly 10 minutes of waiting, a single ray of beaming light breaks through the clouds storming in your mind and a single lane becomes available. You smile ear to ear and rush forward quickly scanning your paper towels and bag of Calidad Tortilla chips. You hastily pay for your items and rush towards your freedom, but then you see it. The one exit out of this prison is blocked by a single unaware shopper who is struggling to push their cart through the narrow opening. Almost instantly your heart drops as you and a whole store's worth of customers pile up behind this person silently pleading for the nightmare to end.

-They do have really good...

Been coming here since February of 2021 and I have some mixed feelings. Usually I use the self checkout but when the lines are long I go to the ladies that check people out. Well almost every time I am in one of these lines someone has always been rude. Today I was being helped and the lady at put all my things at the end of the counter space for the groceries. She rang me out then said thanks, and walked off. I’m not sure if this is normal but I was made to bag my own things. I’m not sure what the point of have registers open if all they do is scan the stuff...

Items that have expired are always on the shelves. I have to check every single date on everything. Before I started doing this, I would get items 4-8 months passed expired date. I would give them to the front end and they would tell me they would take care of it. I go back the next day and those exact ones back on the shelf. Every single time, different products, always back on the shelf. From baby food to yogurt. Make sure to check expiration dates on everything before you...