Moser's Foods — Local services in Columbia

Make sure you're the correct skin color when you're shopping here! Also they keep rotting produce on the shelves there.

I spent $100 on groceries, then got told I was stealing mulch. I put mulch in a bag and was going to pay for it with my groceries. Donna, their security guard, decided she would take it upon herself to follow us through the store and take down my license plate number. I went to pay for the half contractor bag of mulch and was told they only sell in $24 increments. So, I went to get more mulch that I paid for and was refused service. I've spend close to 10k in groceries at that location and will never be shopping there again. Their manager did nothing to help. Let's pretend for a second that I was going to steal... it certainly wouldn't be $5 worth of mulch after I just dropped $100 on overpriced groceries!

I also found it funny that I'm Asian and got the cops called on me over mulch I paid $24 for, but the white woman a few people ahead of me didnt pay for 2 cases of water. I watched at least 3 other patrons leave with unpaid items in their carts. Donna didn't happen to notice, follow, nor surveil any of them even though she was standing right there the whole time.

Maybe don't hire racists and incompetent kids to run your stores. It is not "common sense" to have someone else load small amounts of mulch. Every other store I've been to has you grab your own if a mini digger is not necessary. Your management is horrible and I hope your company doesn't rest on prejudice like your upper management employees apparently do.

Here's an alternate plan of action for the situation instead of silently following, surveilling, and accusing your paying customers: "Hello sir, would you like help scooping your mulch today? Just so you know, it costs $24.49 minimum. I could go grab a mini digger to help you load it after we go inside and ring you up for it!"

Problem completely avoided. :) I'll go back to shopping at Aldis where they dont hire racists or children to run...

Chris and Kalvin. My Sweetie and I are an interracial couple, we are very disappointed in their conduct and contacting corporate on this incident but, we are NOT homeless just walked for the exercise and since we had a backpack to make the walk home with the groceries easier, Chris determined we were homeless and asked us to leave. It's Sunday afternoon, we are dressed in Sunday clothes, not Rags not dirty not looking not looking unclean. Just there to get something for dinner enjoying our day together. We go a few days a week, and have never had this experience before today. We were discriminated against, because of what an employee assumed because he saw an interracial couple, the book bag was underneath the cart and I welcomed him to look in if he would like. The book bag was not open and you could tell it was flat with nothing in it. This is not the full story I am sending truth of the rest of the incident to corporate and I hope that this issue was resolved because I have never been insulted so much! Truly somatic experience. To be Called Homeless in the store you go to almost every day by 2 men in scruffier less groomed shape. The one on Business loop has major discrimination issues that need to...

Moser's has excellent sales. They also have an excellent meat department. You'll find some items here that you won't find elsewhere in Columbia. The store on the Business Loop has a rather sterile feel to it; and items not on sale can be a bit more pricey than I would expect, given the lower overhead to run a place with very limited amenities. Still, it is a place worth shopping at, whether for specialty meats (and they have excellent butchers), or for their amazing deals you can often find throughout the store. Their periodic tent sales are great for stocking up for essentials. The neighborhood is a bit sketchy; and there are signs about not carrying backpacks. One can imagine that shoplifting has been an issue for the store. Perhaps that is why the everyday prices are a bit high, and the decor seems frozen in time from the 1980's: the resources that could have been used to update the store have walked out through the doors as five-finger discounts. The other Moser's locations in town have a much nicer...