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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They have “friendly” in their name – doesn’t that count for anything?
Apparently not. Consumer Reports readers gave the Upstate New York chain only fair marks for “staff courtesy”.
“Tops continues to underwhelm me with their merchandise and their employees’ general disdain for working there,” a reviewer writes. “There is NO need to go into this dump,” writes another. “They’ll be out of business in a year, then hopefully we get a Stop ‘n Shop.”
When shoppers at the second-worst store are wishing they could shop at the fourth-worst store, you know it’s bad.
Among the choicest comments: “Convenience store pricing at a grocery store!” “If I didn’t know better it looks like a money laundering operation.” “Just Google ‘Yelp’ and ‘Tops Friendly’ and pick any town. You’ll be horrified.”
We did. And we are.
Image source: Tops
