Sunshine Food Stores — Local services in Brandon Township

Right now, this is really the only grocery option in Brandon, so it’s where most of us shop by default. The good news is that the selection of food, drinks, and alcohol is solid — they pretty much have everything you might need on a day-to-day basis.

That said, the prices are steep. For example, a small package of blueberries is $8 — when you know you can drive to Sioux Falls and get the same thing for $3, it starts to feel unfair, especially for a local store. It’s tough on the community when the basics are marked up so much. I’m genuinely looking forward to some competition coming to town to help balance things out.

On the positive side, the pharmacy staff on the Lewis side are always kind, helpful, and professional. Their prices seem fair, and the service is consistently great.

As for the Sunshine side, the newer staff members are friendly and welcoming, which is a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, some of the longtime employees who have been there since I was a kid still come across as grumpy and uninterested in customer service. It’s been that way for years, and sadly, it hasn’t changed.

All in all, it’s a convenient stop if you’re local, but the high prices and mixed service make it hard to love. Here’s hoping for improvements — and some healthy competition soon.

Just sad when you see people that no longer drive and this is their only option for food. Thankfully, nowadays, I think a lot of people are able to use DoorDash or free delivery through...

I very much dislike the self checkouts. However, I think they hire the crabbiest cashiers in hopes customers will feel better about using the self-checkouts so that you don't have to deal with the attitudes. One lady worries about the teens coming in goofing around more than she does the person she's checking out at the time which slows down the checkout process OR she's picking at her nails or coughing all over stuff. some of the teens complain about how tired and busy they are, they barely smile if at all. they mumble when they talk and when they talk it's simply "wanna receipt?" The stockers talk about people while stocking in the isles. They don't say excuse me: they expect the customer to move to the side for them...

One of the supervisors is super nice but also super loud. talks to other employees over 2-3 different registers at times to tell them something. try walking over to them and having a respectful communication with someone instead.

I guess I need to go to SF in order to get that "Helpful Smile in Every Isle" sure not going to get it here...even tho we pay enough to deserve...

I’ve always loved Sunshine, but today I was blown away at the pure disrespect from 1 employee. I believe his name was Aiden. I was in line and notice his disrespectful behavior almost immediately. He was ringing up a guest and didn’t say a word the entire time until the end and all he said was “receipt?” and then just threw it on the little table next to the chip reader. You could very easily see he just didn’t care. I don’t want to be disrespectful towards him, but he just seemed like a punk. Leaning up against the little partition in between each register, going as slow as he wanted, not talking to the guest, etc…

I worked at Sunshine in the past when I was 14/15 in Hartford and I always treated all my guest with the upmost respect. Engaged in conversation. Held a door for them. Brought groceries out for them. Told them to have a good day, etc….

Aiden didn’t do any of these things and I hope this isn’t what the rest of the Brandon Sunshine employees are like.

If they are, send them my way. I’ll teach them proper...