Mac's Fresh Market — Local services in Pineville

This became my go-to for lunch plates. I overcame my OCD about employees coming from outside, etc. straight to serving food without washing their hands. Then about a month or two ago, an employee cleaning the rotisserie with a chemical "promptly" attempted to serve me but "unfortunately" did not have the training to know to wash his hands first! Once seeing him hold my styrofoam container with part of his hand touching the inside of it (with his dirty chemically covered gloves hand). I asked him to please remove the gloves and get me another container. He removed the gloves and with a secondary set of gloves he had on picked up my container and continued to want to serve me. I couldn't take it anymore and left I called the office phone and explained what taken place.

About a month after the incident I thought let me give them another chance.

I go in, female employee comes from I don't know where to behind the counter, grabs a container, thumb inside it as usual, can I help you.

Such ashame the Deli employees are apparently not Serve Safe trained.

So, today I thought, let's go see. Drove there, pulled into parking space.

Thought to myself, What are you going to do when they stick their hand in your container again?

I've gambled on losing time convincing myself to drive there.

Do I wanna waste all the time getting inside, waiting in line for the same results.

So, I just left and went somewhere else.

Just such a waste to have a place with Good food, Great portions and such...

Small, local grocery store, always clean and tidy. Staff is friendly and helpful. Limited selection of produce, but it is fresh. They offer a "pick 5 for $20" selection in meat department. Organized and easy to find items. They also have a small deli and bakery. Prices are a little higher than other chain grocery stores, but I enjoy going to a small, easy in, easy out grocery store. You DON'T stand in line half your life waiting to check out, after walking a country mile to pick up a few groceries, to then hike another day to get to your car. They have easy to find staff, that are friendly and actually know where items are located when you ask. They always have enough shopping carts and hand sanitizer available. When I bring my elderly mother, there is always an electric scooter/cart for her to ride, it's fully charged, so we don't have to worry about her not having enough time to complete her shopping. Mac's is a step back in time; they have a REAL person to check out your groceries, not asking you to do it yourself with those awful self-checkout things, a person to bag your groceries, and a person to assist you with your bags to the car if needed. Thank you for remembering what descent service is! I love that Mac's offers all customers a complimentary calendar at Christmas time with beautiful photos and bible verses on each page. Thank you for being such a wonderful example of what a...

Felt very uncomfortable in that store. Just left out of there 5/21/21@4:04 pm. The customers is mainly one ethnic group and the short time I was in there they was cutting in front of me. One lady was pushing her basket straight into me and my kids. I had to push them on the side along with myself. Made it to the bakery looking for a cake. Never was greeted. A man with his phone smack in his face. Never even said hi. The only friendly person was my cashier name Hunter. The environment is totally different here in Alexandria. The store is friendly so I'll continue doing business in Alexandria. Only reason I went to that one is because my boyfriend got my mother's day cake there. He said they have a fresh bakery in Tioga. And we enjoyed my mother's day cake. Today is my daughter birthday so we went there....