Southgate Shopping Center — Local services in Des Moines

I stopped here to check out Jay's CD And Hobby and I was blown away. It is geek heaven. Retro Video Games from every system imaginable. They even sell peripherals for those glorious old consoles from my youth. You rarely see Atari 2600 games in a hobby shop anymore and when you do there are usually around 10 of them and put of the those 10 it is a forgone conclusion that 3 of them will be Tank and the other 7 will include Pac Man, Defender and Yar's Revenge. Not here though. They have Super Nintendo games N.I.B. with the H seal still not cracked. And if your gig is action figures there are hundreds of them. Hundreds. Jason Voorhees. Michael Myers. Ash. Freddy Krueger. LEATHERFACE!!! And I have never seen a store with as many POP Figures. There is also a healthy selection of movie memorabilia and current generation video games as well. And like the store name implies there are some pretty hard to find Cd's too. And a fairly decent selection of old vinyl to boot. There is a game room in back that hosts Magic tournaments regularly and if you are a tabletop gamer, look no further, they have you covered there as well. And as a bonus there is a bin by the front door that has little toys that they give out free to the next generation of gamers, so while your little one is on cloud nine with their free toy, you are free to walk around and drool to your heart's content. I have found the promised land. And I now know what true Nirvana looks like. I see a lot of trips to Des Moines in my future. In the VERY...

It's alright, I had a little difficulty finding a staff member to help me bring up a specialty item that was for sale out in front of the store the lady that was working seemed not willing to want to help. Instead of hoping me outside she sent me inside to the customer service where I had to ask a few more people until eventually someone was able to bring it up and they did great can't complain because it was resolved in the end didn't have to wait that long. Could use a little more help outside is all they don't have a fancy new garden center like all the other ones so for what they got it was perfectly fine for me I suppose just had to ask a few extra times to find someone to ring me up not that big of a deal. Other than that everything was great even my one issue wasn't that bad the individuals that customer service were extremely helpful even when they weren't able to help me themselves they were able to resolve the issue at least. They went out of their way to help me resolve the issue instead of just sending me to have to go and look for someone like the first person did that was busy working on the plants like watering the...

Pros: Clean, updated, friendly staff, fuel rewards program, convenient, good prices. Great sales prices.

Cons: Because this Hyvee is located in a lower income area, the food choices arent the same as higher socioeconomic areas. The Army post Hyvee and Fluer Hyvee are very good examples of this. Much less health food options.

They also tend to Jack up the price on ebt items & tack fuel rewards perk cash on those EBT approved items to gain sales. Prepacked mac salad/slaw/beans is often seen doing this. These usually have less net weight, are a day old, have big fuel rewards points, higher price than the same non pre packed hyvee brand stuff, AND displays a EBT approved sign. Minus one star for being shady.

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Lastly, customers at this hyvee tend to park at the entrance and block traffic frequently which makes...