Market Basket

Great produce, always very fresh. Usually short lines or have curbside for shoppers who call in orders.
May 29th, 2023

May 16th, 2023

Just as good as Walmart
May 13th, 2023

Feb 24th, 2023

Market Basket is so far below the quality of the other popular grocers around Beaumont. For one, their prices are ridiculous. I can only assume they mark things up so terribly due to the convenience of their multiple locations. Regardless, even many of the discount pricing promotions in the weekly sales ads are still above what you can get that same product for regularly at Walmart or Kroger. The stores are also significantly less clean and less organized than your standard grocery store too. The thing that really bothers me about this chain though is how intentionally misleading and deceitful their sales ads can be sometimes. On at least occasions, there have been sales promotions listed and pictured as though they would include a particular line of a brand's product, but when you get the store, you find that is not the case. More than once, the steam-in- bag style Green Giant frozen vegetable were shown as being whatever sale price, and the details of the listing regarding the size of the varieties included in the sale were such that the actual item pictured in the sales ad of the stand-up bag style frozen veggies fit those parameters. In other words, the sales ad showed the stand-up style bags, and the printed specifics did not preclude the stand-up style bags from the sale. But upon going to actually purchase any veggies from this style, I found that only the box-style veggies were actually on sale. I hope the manner in which this is misleading (and honestly just deceitful) is abundantly evident. Most recently, there was a promotion for Little Debbie snack cakes for 2 for $4. The sales ad specified it as the "Family Pack," but no such line exists in Little Debbie (at least not that I've seen); there is either the standard size packs or the larger "Big Packs." The two examples pictured in the sales ad though were both of being the "Big Packs" though. So what's actually on sale when I go to the local Market Basket? Of course it's only the standard packs! I have tried to raise these concerns before to associates and supervisors in the actual store only to be told something along the lines of how that is handled by corporate. And when I have sent messages to corporate about this pattern of deceitful advertising, I have been told a simple "sorry" and to speak with managers at the local store. My wife and I moved to southeast Texas from Alabama about two years ago, where we were fortunate enough to have the pleasure of shopping at Publix--the clear standard bearer of quality in grocer industry. So dealing with this kind of awful service and fallacious advertising practices is very appalling to us, given our wonderful experiences with Publix. (If something wrong up for a higher price than advertised in an ad or marked on the shelf at Publix, they would give you one of those items at no charge for the inconvenience of having to get the price corrected.) In either case though, the way Market Basket handles their business is clearly subpar. The ONLY reason I go there is for a few select items from the weekly sales ad. But even then, it's probably only once or twice a month. (And then I have to hope that I haven't been misled by the ad regarding what is actually on sale.)
May 20th, 2023