Karns Foods — Local services in Hampden Township

Nice place. Giant sells good stuff and has good brands. Karns does too. I feel though that Karns sort of gave up on "keeping up with the Joneses." As the other grocery giants battle for supremacy Karns is happy doing their thing. Their butcher shop is the best, just try em, they have these awesome value packs of different meats you can get WORTH IT! The rest of the store is a bit dingier the cart kind of crunches on the tile floor but you ain't paying for polish. You don't see hotties in this store, the rich and famous don't shop here. You will find sweet deals, nice employees and what they lack in glitz and glamour they make up for with personality. Remember that really nice girl at school that no one dated because she was homely, she found somebody and that marriage is doing really well. Sure he looks at other women but so do you, it's natural. Let's not get bogged down with if the metaphor is perfect no metaphor is. The point is all your life you've been cheated by a thin coating of paint, an extra dab of makeup. You know how shallow that truly makes you but you can't stop yourself from doing it. Start shopping here, read some short philosophy novels and audiobook some classics. People will begin to notice that you've changed your style. You're a trend setter no longer keeping up with the Joneses but instead you've decided to break outside of the box and make you're own style, or you've turned left off the racetrack of suburban failure and right onto your own path. You don't have to be scared anymore, you know the path and you always have, it's always been deep inside you and you put a muffle on that voice in high school to impress that senior kid who doesn't matter anymore. We all did to some degree. But now you are in bed by 9:30 on Friday night and you've traded your cool shoes for comfortable office attire. So put away the glamorous life and come see this place once in a while. Indulge your inner comfort and be at peace with who you are. Karns has and they're ok. Life is ok, it's all going to be ok. No one cares where the food is from anyway as long as it tastes...

Rotten meat, rotten food. I really like Karns and didn't want to have to write a bad review but I have literally gotten violently ill from food here twice in the past 4-5 months.

The first time was rotten pork that was on special. I bought it and tried to use it the next day. I got very sick and when I returned the unused portion it took 30 min to refund my money. What a waste of time for a busy person.

The second time I bought some Tilapia and when I got home from work the next day I went to use it and it was slimy. Then I went back the next day and when I returned it. it was rancid in the bag. After waiting in line I asked to speak to the manager just to let him know that this was now my second time getting bad food. Keep in mind this was to return a $2.30 piece of fish. The manger should have offered me a $25 gift card or something for my trouble and the poor service.

At this point I decided I was done with Karns meat and seafood, the very things they advertise as being the best, and decided to stick to their soups and hot food and of course the non-perishable items. Well, this didn't work as about two weeks ago the first week of November 2018 I got bad beef-macaroni soup from the hot bar. I got extremely sick, at work nonetheless, and since this was the only food I had for lunch, it had to be it.

The only variable in these cases was the Karns food I bought. Something is seriously wrong with their perishable items meat-seafood, and the hot soup even now. I guess they are trying to extend the shelf-life rather than throw out old items. That or they need trained on foodborne illnesses and transmission.

I am terribly disappointed as this is close to where I live and hate not being able to get all my groceries here. They have forced me to...

Karns doesn't stand by its meat or customers. On the night of February 14, I requested the butcher to select some fine cuts of NY Strip. Returning home, my wife unwrapped the steaks revealing rotten meat reeking sweetly pungent. We discarded them. When I returned to the store to apprise the manager about what had occurred, he was belligerent, confrontational, denying that there was anything amiss with the meat and, further claimed that I had concocted the story.

What has happened to customer service? The manager should have:

1. Assumed responsibility and apologized.
2. Reaffirmed the quality of the store's meat and invited me to view the meat and select some nice fresh cuts.
3. Had a refund been offered, it would have been gladly welcomed - but it was not my intention for informing the manager.

The manager's behavior evidences lack of product quality and contempt for the shopper. I discourage anyone from patronizing Karns...