According to the latest survey from Consumer Reports, which ranks 96 of the country's grocery chains, these ten are at the very bottom of the list.
Consumer Reports ranks them from best to worst, 1 to 96. This list flips it all upside down, ranking them from bad to really, really bad - from the tenth worst store on the list, to the #1 worst store of them all.
So, in order from bad to worst, here are the stores that more than 75,000 respondents told Consumer Reports they liked the least - with some supplementary caustic, critical comments from shoppers who've visited the online review site Yelp.com to tell us what they really think.
Albertsons-owned Randalls in Texas actually got high marks for store cleanliness in the Consumer Reports survey. But it got terrible marks for its prices, and poor marks on just about everything else.
“You may have wondered: What do the nice grocery stores do with rotting produce, meat and any other item that any but those on the most desperate of food budgets might buy?” one Yelp reviewer wrote. “The answer appears to be, they ship it to Randalls.”
Another shopper says he now only uses Randalls “as a last resort when we need something and don’t have time to drive to the better grocery chains in the area.”
But look on the bright side, a third reviewer says. Alongside a long list of “cons”, he found a couple of “pros”: “No one is ever there and parking is easy.”
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