Wrapping up, we approached the registers only needing tahini. As we navigated around isle 3 or 4, a Farm Fresh employee, walked past my wife & she politely asked, 'Excuse me, can you tell me where we can find tahini?'
It felt as if this gentleman was ridiculously & unsuccessfully attempting to intimidate me and/or my Wife or lure us into a confrontation ... but at a minimum, his behavior was very inappropriate & unacceptable.
You will never wait less than 10 minutes for an item from the deli ... regardless of the time of day or traffic in the grocery store.
Although the deli is always staffed with two employees ... it always appears that only one employee is assisting customers while the other employee is preoccupied, perfectly content watching you watch them.
This store is more of a convenience location for grocery shopping without having to go Inland 3 miles. Prices are fair once in awhile a good deal on poultry.
We went from peacefully pacing down the isles, enjoying quality time with our daughter to being what I can only deem as unexpectedly 'confronted' by a Farm Fresh employee.
Farm Fresh's quality & selection is good ... but not great. The staff, however, is challenged.
I am from Richmond, Va here on vacation. Went in Farm Fresh looking for some supplies ( candy, water, and lunch) and was pleasantly surprised over the luch choices! Fresh made sandwiches and soup, chicken, salads and more. Awesome job!
Their motto may be 'Groceries at the Speed of Life' ... but the less interaction you'll require to complete your grocery shopping ... the faster you can navigate to & stand in the ridiculously slow lines at checkout.
Management contacted me promptly & stated that the employee would be addressed immediately ... apparently, this was not this employees first temper tantrum.
The employee, a giant that is only stocking grocery shelves until finally reunited w/ his brute squad ... & completely towering my Wife, stopped, turned to her & in an ... aggressive, arrogant & disrespectful tone, replied, 'WHAT?!' ... border-line 'shouting' it at her.
That's the politically correct transition of events, however, in laments terms, if this gentleman had approached, passed or crossed our path one more time, 'mean mugging' or attempting to bass on me or my Wife, the situation would have escalated instantaneously ... at the Speed of Life.
I always have a good experience at my local Farm Fresh. Clean store, nice people and fresh produce. What more could you ask for?
They have a decent selection of Boars Head deli meets & cheeses ... but you could arguably track, hunt, kill & cook a wild boar faster than their staff is able to unpackage, slice, weigh & prepare your order.
I rated Farm Fresh 1☆, not b/c the staff is that incompetent, but in addition to their complete inability to grasp the conception of time or urgency ... my Wife, our three year old daughter & I also experienced a very puzzling & troubling exchange w/ a Farm Fresh employee during a shopping trip on the night of September 13th, 2017.
Stunned, she looked to me ... who immediately had turned to her in complete disbelief that he had just responded to my Wife's simple inquiry about sesame paste in that tone. With my undivided attention, I then replied, 'tahini'. He said, 'Isle 1', casts a fixed, disdained stare in our direction & walked away.
This place is awesome everything is so well organized and the people will happily go out of their way to help you.
He then appeared to be pricing merchandise while wondering aimlessly down random isles.
Warm ... & temperature rising ... I commented to my wife that I wasn't comfortable with the demeanor in which he had just addressed her & she too felt that his disposition was as disrespectful as it was unexpected. She insisted that we simply complete our shopping & check out, not wanting any further confrontation in the presense of our daughter.
We found the tahini, then proceeded to the registers, when we passed the same gentleman ... feeling almost as if deliberate. This time he says nothing, but again, literally stares us down in an abrasive, contemptuous stance.
I emailed the Store Manager to discuss this employee, making it perfectly clear that my only intention was to share chain of events & the interaction we experienced w/ one of his employees while simply shopping for a handful of items.
Having no clear conception of his motive, IQ, intellectual ceiling or his menstrual cycle, I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt & contact Farm Fresh to share our experience.
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