Saar's Super Saver Foods — Local services in Kent

GIVE TO PEOPLE REALLY IN NEED or REPUTABLE CHARITIES SAARS needs to STOP THESE SCAMS in front of their STORES

Gypsies begging for MONEY right under produce tents outside the store. They always have at least 1 child and a sign claiming they need DIAPERS FOOD etc. Not sure why STORE allows this kind of begging just as you enter and exit store. They don't need extra money pretending to be NEEDY to ENHANCE their free housing, free food stamps, free everything, etc. These same gypsies pool their resources and live in huge houses and drive almost brand new vans. You need new vans so you can drop them off in front of EVERY grocery store, busy intersection, Walmart, etc.

KIRO 7 TV’s Dave Wagner investigates panhandlers with children Nov 19, 2019, 3:27 PM

Women begging with young children at their sides have become a common sight on the streets of downtown Seattle — and KIRO 7 TV anchor Dave Wagner spent half a year investigating the trend to see if the situation is really what the panhandlers claim it to be.

“What we’re seeing is a lot of women with children on downtown streets — we know that panhandling is prolific in Seattle, and it’s also legal, unless it’s considered aggressive,” he said. “But in this situation, we see children ranging in age from very young, maybe a year old on up to 10, 11.”

Their handmade signs say that they need money for rent or food, claiming to have just lost their jobs or fallen on hard times in some other way.

Many of the female panhandlers whom Wagner observed arrived and left together. One man interviewed by Wagner said that he has seen a van driving around dropping off and picking up panhandlers.

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“They were definitely working in tandem,” Wagner told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson.

One evening, he followed them onto the bus they took, not knowing where or how far they would be traveling. With the help of a Romanian interpreter, Wagner was able to understand the women and children’s conversation, centering around how much money they had made on the streets that day. One of the children with them carried an iPhone.

Over an hour later, Wagner followed them off the bus to an apartment complex with a swimming pool — a far cry from the life of desperation described on the cardboard signs.

“We went through a wooded area and into an apartment complex where rents range up to about $2,200 a month,” he said. “It wasn’t really the down-and-out life that is being portrayed on the streets.”

At one point in the report, a concerned citizen can be seen confronting a panhandling woman with a child in an apparent deep sleep in a stroller. To prove he is awake, the woman touches his face, lightly shakes him, and calls his name, but he does not stir. The worried passerby states that the child has been like that for hours and appears to be drugged.

“We saw other children in this woman’s arms who also looked like they were in a very deep sleep,” Wagner said. “So it’s concerning, it’s concerning that kids are out there day after day after day, in the elements, being exposed to this.”

Ross Hunter, secretary of the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, expressed concern over the video of the unresponsive child, noting that a child should not typically remain still after attempts to wake them up. However, he said that the law prevents his department from stepping in unless it can be proven that a child is clearly in danger.

“The question is, do our laws adequately protect these children on the street?”...

When it first opened this store was pretty great, over time corners have been cut. Staff often leave half loaded carts blocking the aisle as they restock during the day, even if they seemingly are going away for hours at a time they leave them out. Food quality is also hit or miss, and always be careful of the "discount" stuff as it's often covered in mold and other signs of going bad. Yet they just leave it on the shelf with a $1 off sticker.

Prices in general are hit or miss. Most things are no cheaper than any where else you might shop. The only real "savings" are the sale prices and bulk discounts on things like meat when you buy 10lbs or more at once.

The worst part though is customer service, or the complete lack of it. Tons of people in the store speak no English or otherwise have no idea where items are in the store if you ask them a question. Cashiers are prone to ring up your items as the wrong item, or fail to scan the discount code for things like day old bread. It's also not uncommon for them to charge you for bags, either more than you got or charge you when you didn't take any.

Which leads to the last problem, they treat you like an utter criminal if you bring in a bag, even a tiny single reusable cloth bag. They want you to leave the bag at the front, but provide no bag check slip or locker to put it in. Just relying on the cashiers who barely care to not just hand it out to any one who ask for it. They will take no responsibility if it goes missing but demand you turn it over.

Mean while women can walk in with purses the size of duffel bags and I have never seen them stop a baby stroller, no matter how easy it is to steal with them. So yeah I can understand there is a theft problem with the store, but it always feels like they only selectively punish people. Honest people with a tiny bag get targeted, mean while a women with a 3 kid stroller, purse and a baby bag can clean...

Love their fried chicken, but seriously called today and was transferred to the Deli and Chicken, a lady answered speaking Spanish, I asked about fried chicken pan pricing only response from her was no speak English only Spanish. Called again and guy say I will transfer you to someone who speak English, again the same lady answered and speak Spanish when I ask for chicken prices she says no speak English, no speak English only Spanish and continued in Spanish. When I go to Saars in Kent, WA in the Deli and fried chicken side, all three ladies speaking Spanish, I asked who did I speak to the phone and kept saying no speak English only Spanish, the lady in front of the other two said that would be me. I was surprised and ask her you can speak English here but on the phone, you can't speak English, she says I can speak English, and goes to grab another lady, all I wanted to know was why she couldn't she speak English and explain to me when I called 3 times and she just says I was doing my job, so I keep asking why couldn't you explain to me in English over the phone but you kept saying no speak English, no speak English. The store manager arrives with his sidekick and tells me I was wrong, the policy states I can't call to place a chicken order I have to come in person, and I can't tell the Saars employee what to do, even though I tell him how she says she no speak English on phone and she can speak English in person how am I to understand, the manager tells me she is the manager of Deli and Chicken side that is her job. I am so disappointed and frustrated with how I was treated, so in Saars when you called if you don't speak Spanish then we are not acceptable. This is the USA where English is our first language, I have no idea why Saars in Kent, WA would...