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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Yet another Albertsons-owned chain appears on the list.
Consumer Reports readers rated Chicago’s Jewel-Osco particularly poorly for its prices, but Yelp reviewers have plenty more complaints.
“The produce is old/bruised, the entire store is filthy and their check-out lines are inefficient. You’re better off grocery shopping at Walgreens,” one disappointed shopper writes. “I avoid it like the plague, because honestly, you’ll probably get the plague if you eat anything from here,” another adds. “I would’ve rather gotten a root canal than gone to this Jewel,” opines a third.
Another reviewer pleads with neighbors to do their shopping somewhere – anywhere – else: “Don’t shop here. If less people shopped here it would go out of business and maybe something else, something nicer, would replace it.”
One can always hope.
Image source: Jewel-Osco
