Town & Country — Local services in Valparaiso

This place has taken a recent turn for the worse. T&C has been my preferred grocery store because of cost and location, but lately the drop in quality and affordability has been making me question that preference. One thing I have noticed is that 9 times out of 10, if something is on sale, there's a reason. For example, my latest bad experience:

I bought a package of raw chicken wings for what I though was a good bargain. The sell-by date was marked as two weeks later, which doesn't make sense for chicken, because the typical shelf life is 3-5 days. Another odd thing was that the label said Strack and Van Till on it, but I didn't notice this. The next evening I opened the package and realized from the smell that they were very spoiled. So I took the wings back to the store's front counter and told them they were spoiled, and they asked for a receipt (which of course I didn't have) and then informed me I had gotten them at Strack's, which initially had me confused because I hadn't noticed the label, and I question my sanity more with each passing year. I went back to the poultry section and found about 20 more of the same packages with identical labels and sell-by dates and brought one back to the manager to show him, thinking he might want to check them to make sure the whole batch wasn't bad, but he just asked me what was wrong with them. Long story short, I got my refund but was pretty frustrated by the whole experience.

I could list a half-dozen other recent grievances but I don't want to turn this into a novel. The most infuriating thing is that sale items usually have something wrong with them that you discover after you get home.

In general, prices have gone way up while quality has noticeably dropped, and I'm seriously considering picking another store as...

I am disabled . i have survived a widow maker heart attack . I am high risk and have been told this virus i most likely not survive. I ordered food and order got screwed up not by shopper but the system added my last order to 2nd order. I tried 3 times to get them to fix the order , ended up being told i would get 35 dollars off next order . that was a lie. the system they use for ordering for those stuck at home is very flawed . when you get someone online ( you cant call them ) you are put on hold then it times out i made 7 calls online trying to just get them to get it right . I will not shop here or stracks because in this pandemic i will risk death before i go to these stores. i hope everyone reads this and stops going to...

This Town & Country is right next to the busy bee. Laundromat, that is the only reason I go into this grocery store. Everything is super sprawled out. Things that you would think are in certain departments, but aren't. You also have to watch expiration dates, more than once I accidentally bought expired food. They did not take it back.

T&c has an okay deli and fish market (which sometimes stinks). They have THE BEST soda selection I've ever seen in a grocery store. All in all, it's not a shining example of "clean." I can not speak for the staff.I've never dealt with them. I always use self check out. That's One great thing about Town & Country is their grocery bags. They are big white heavy-duty plastic bags. ☆☆☆☆☆ = 5☆ For...