Cary Square Shopping Center — Local services in Cary

This review is for ALL grocery stores owned and operated by the same holding company of Albertsons holding company.

Has anyone noticed the deterioration of Jewel grocery stores quality. The staff are great quite friendly and helpful. Their grocery product is extremely poor. The produce is old, extremely so. I come from a farm family. We live in the grain belt. Where is our fresh food going? Fresh food should be the norm here. Apples are a perfect fruit. They can be picked in the fall and remain fresh through the winter. The pioneers kept them in a root cellar where the temperature remained a constant cool in their root cellars. This way, most produce could remain a staple to the families while living through the cold winters.

This holding company has many grocery stores under their umbrella, i.e., Jewel, krogers, Albertsons, and Marianos they are destroying the fresh food industry. Their potatoes are experiencing the same fate as the apple, rotting in our veggie drawers. Today, if one buys their apples and potatoes from this CA. based store we will be lucky if they last the week. The skin on the apples are so waxed and thickened they are difficult to bite through to get to inner fruit. I wonder if that is the purpose of the wax? To prevent the apple from ripening naturally. and eat the apple. Their potatoes are the same type of produce rotting in ones veggie drawers within a week, maybe two if we were lucky. Their freshness does not end with the failure of their produce. Saltines (premiums) were a staple in my home. I can not count on them any longer they go stale sometimes b4 I get home. I mentioned this to the Jewel employee, and it was suggested I buy a smaller box. hmmmm, smaller box, more money less product NO!! thankyou. Saltines were perfect for upset stomachs, colds, etc. No longer thanks to Albertsons (Jewel) food stores. They have also confiscated Marianos, who was founded by the laid-off CEO of Dominicks when Albertsons bought the now defunct Dominicks. You can see the change in ownership. When Marianos was first concieved and implemented, it was done by a midwesterner in the grain belt. who knew how to be a fresh food grocer in the Midwest. We actually had a store again with good products fresh food with fresh squeezed orange juice. Great service and midwest quality. Whelp, the holding company owning Albertsons, has now bought many Marianos not all because they would be a monopoly. They have not figured out how to get around that law yet so they can take all our grocers down the crapper with them and the rest of our chain grocery stores. I don't know about anyone else but employee owned companies for me going forward. They have destroyed the taste of fresh foods. Don't let them...

Stopped at Taco Bell drive thru. It's very awkward to turn into the drive thru. To make the hard 180° right turn, you have to swing way into the strip mall parking (left) to make the right turn, or else you have to turn right and then backup before completing the turn. There are a lot of cars moving in the lot, so this is awkward. They good was very good - totally up to Taco Bell standards, so it is worth getting into the drive thru. PS Parking and walking in is very easy and simple, no...

Little bit of everything here. Ace Hardware prices are a tad high but they have great staff and service. Breaking bread is a Best of the Fox winner. Starbucks, McDonalds, Subway, Papa Saverios, recently Kojaks moved in. Chine House for great Chinese (wish they delivered and they would get a lot more of our business) Jewel Osco always working to stay current. One of the better Great clips in the area and some other specialty shops. I think it's a great combination of quality...