According to a new survey from Consumer Reports that ranks 62 of the country's top grocery chains, these 16 are at the very bottom of the list.
We've flipped the list on its head, to rank the stores from the bottom up. So, in order from bad to worst, here are the stores that more than 50,000 respondents said they were least impressed with, and why - with some help from the wonderfully snarky and brutally honest reviewers on Yelp.com.
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Kroger likes acquiring well-run grocery chains. It’s not known for buying fixer-uppers.
But it got one in Wisconsin’s Pick ‘n Save, which it bought in 2015.
“Here’s a place to do your grocery shopping if you have low self-esteem, like to waste your time, and like to buy aged produce and products beyond their expiration dates,” a Yelp reviewer writes.
Consumer Reports readers and Yelp reviewers alike were displeased with Pick ‘n Save’s prices. And that’s not all.
“The produce is somehow simultaneously overpriced and expired, the floor was last mopped in 1992, and the service is disgustingly awful,” a reviewer writes.
Kroger is working to upgrade Pick ‘n Save stores this year. And apparently not a moment too soon.
Image source: Pick ‘n Save
