I used to be a huge fan of Meijer, but my love affair is fading and I hope Meijer cares enough to see this and take note. It seems increasingly that Meijer is reducing options and increasingly modeling on warehouse quantities. Many if not most of their sales are BOGO types of offers requiring two or more or regular price applies. As a single shopper, this limits any savings and sends me to shop multiple places to get savings. Short dated items are now a mere 20% off regular price when larger discounts used to apply. This also makes short dated items barely less than sale prices of the same item. Meat prices for smaller quantities of meat are considerably more expensive and thus discriminate against solo and couple shoppers. I can't always use bulk packages or have room to repackage and freeze excessive quantities. Shop and scan results in a delay weighting on an employee to check and scan items. Shop and scan also doesn't have sufficient space for bagging purchases. I don't care much for Meijer stores lacking a meat counter for butcher packaging meat selections. The Meijer app is not user friendly for reviewing digital coupons. Since I need to log in, it would be very helpful to select digital coupon categories I want, or don't want, to see. For example, I don't buy kids items, women's items, pet food or pet items, tobacco, baby foods, diapers, cosmetics, and other categories so choosing what I want to see or conversely what I don't want to see would be a huge time savings and cellular data savings. Meijer rewards that can be earned are often as badly discriminative as their sales in so much as smaller households have to spend far more than they probably would on meats, deli, salty snacks, and so on to get a reward. Even families in smaller housing situations are discriminated against because storage of larger quantities isn't always available. The solution to this discrimination is sales and rewards that are available to all. Instead of $5 off when you buy 5 make it a sale of $1 off each. Instead of buy one get half off another make it 25% off each. Not only would this be fairer to smaller households, it's fairer to large households that would be able to find items in stock and benefit from that as well as only buying their needs worth. Less hoarding from overbuying helps reduce waste, makes more available to all, shares savings to all, reduced waste reduces landfill use, and reduces customer...
Read moreTheir animal policy is absolutely not being followed and is bound to result in a tragic lawsuit… Says right on the doors no animals (except for service animals) today while shopping, a man with an obvious trained service animal was almost attacked by someone else bringing in their PET. There was a bunch of commotion, and the dog was trying to charge at him , barking repeatedly… Thankfully, nobody was bitten and they were able to pull the dogs apart.. However I like many other witnesses were appalled to see Meijer team members do absolutely NOTHING about it, & Continue to let this customer and their aggressive PET into the store around other shoppers. Absolutely no safety protocol for their customers. Then to make matters even worse, After they were able to separate the dogs I watched yet ANOTHER customer with a dog walk in, and the associate paid him no mind!! as if there wasn’t a full-blown dog fight less than 10 minutes before . While you are not allowed to deny service to a service animal or ask for paperwork, you are required to verify the service the animal will provide. Turning a blind eye to EVERYONE who walks in with a dog is how attacks happen, Actual service animals , handlers & the general public should have a safe place to shop and the actual protocol for letting any animal in the store should be followed. Service animals are the only ones who are allowed entry into public spaces. NOT your pets. NOT “emotional support” animals. The store needs serious team training...
Read moreMeijer has fallen from its once high standing in Michigan communities. Many store are being allowed to deteriorate. They’re quite picky on where they choose to invest their money in their stores. seems reasonable to say that they neglect the stores that are in poor areas of Michigan. They’ve also put locks on their cart wheels in one location that I am aware of ….this is unfortunate as it makes the carts nearly impossible to push through the store all in an effort to curve the shoplifting. I suppose I don’t believe that is the answer. I grew up at a time that my employees were very hospitable and you couldn’t walk by an employee without them saying good morning/Good afternoon…Can I help you —-not anymore. Many of them have earbuds in their ears. Many are rude. It often feels as if they’re trying to avoid the customers and trying to not engage. The self checkouts….Well, if you’ve been there you know what wonderful machines they are and how good they make you feel at the end. I probably shouldn’t bring up how rude the self checkout clerks often are. I’m sure they get all kinds of grief having to deal with the subpar machines….. if you care even any itsy-bitsy little bit, you would hire cashiers and baggers—-get rid of the self-checkout…. Walk groceries to the cars. Step up and make a real effort! It wasn’t that long ago when Meijer had good customer service. There has to be one person at corporate Meijer that...
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