The Valley West store and Grand store in WDM still have 4-8 self-checkouts. Maybe fewer criminals over here than Ankeny. They did dump the big ones with the rollers though.
Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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The AgronAlum household of 5 is
Sams - Big stuff
Fareway - Meat
Aldi - Almost everything else
We went from Sams to Costco for a year but ended up ditching Costco and went back. I can't imagine how much money we would have spent going to HyVee or Fareway for everything. We're running around 800-1000 a month as it is. We also do a lot of bulk meats (and deer) and stick it in the chest freezer. The only time I really step foot into HyVee is if I need a specialty item or everything else is closed.
Which is crazy.
It's never been a true low cost option. Service. Helpful smiles and whatnot....
20 years ago I saw staff run to the front of the store, grab umbrellas, and walk customers to their cars.
Then load up the groceries.
Now they don't have the customer service and can't consistently beat a Costco or Aldi.
I exclusively shopped at HyVee the first 30 years of my life and when kids came along, I branched out and was floored at how much money I wasted over the years. I do spreadsheets for spending and the baby stuff alone was $1500/year from our first to second child.
I know nothing about business but most of their ideas the last 8-10 years are super weird and off putting.
I liked those.
I don't mind scanning my own stuff, it's doing that and bagging at the same time while others are waiting behind that can get more annoying
I don’t think they had the big ones open in Ames for more than a few months. Wonder how much money they lost on installing those wastes of space.
I laugh at them every time I see them in their ******* flack jackets bagging groceries. Halfway expect one of them to pull up in a mini humvee and frag a dude for sampling a grape in the produce isle.
Definitely is. Back in the day when I use to work Loss Prevention we use to catch a lot of people not scanning hundreds of dollars at a time through self checkouts. I can’t even imagine how much shrinkage they have from them.
Guessing they were causing too many insurance claims, my wife handled a bunch where kids would get their fingers caught in them. That & the space they take up.
I still don’t understand why they went away from the fulfillment center method for the shopping. Keep all of the lazy people’s groceries away from people that are actually doing their own shopping.
When I worked there you couldn’t have a pallet or anything out during the day so that shoppers weren’t inconvenienced.
Ours has transitioned a few of the self-checkouts that they put in a few years ago back to regular checkout stations.
Sam's Club now has the tollway type scanners set up. No more random scans of a couple items in my cart and receipt when I leave, they just wave you on through.
Either way I'm still bagging my own because there is never any baggers around.
Yep, I was really happy with the big ones. I could scan my groceries and bag them faster than the actual clerks could.
You guys need to shop at Mennonite stores, which are basically Sam’s Clubs for the Amish.
