Metropolitan Market Kirkland

Cakes and mousse cakes of various sizes - best selection around
Apr 7th, 2024

Hands down my fave grocery store in the area. Always new things to discover, but the main reason I love shopping here is how great all the employees are! Friendly, helpful, knowledgeable and ready with a smile. Shout-out especially to Mariam and Alejandro this afternoon.
Apr 6th, 2024

Apr 5th, 2024

Mar 12th, 2024

To everyone complaining about rude staff: they're rude because they're under so much stress from the horrible leadership. You don't know when you go in to work there whether you will suddenly be suspended or fired, because the store director twists words and enforces policies inequitably. He fired someone for being friends with a coworker outside of work (by trying baselessly to claim they were in a romantic relationship), and suspended a single dad for a whole month suspiciously soon after he rejected the advances of a store admin. But allows the same store admin to be in a relationship with someone IN THE CORPORATE OFFICE because she's his favorite. Assumedly in collaboration with him, she created a handwritten list of employee names labeled To-Watch. Some of the most unproblematic people were on it, and all of the Black team members at the time were also on it. When it was found, they tried to claim it was for tracking employees time accuracy. But no one believes them because if you're trying to correct people's behavior you don't put them on a list that says To Watch and then wait 11 months to tell them they're on it. That's the tip of the drama iceberg. The store director is two-faced and loves lying. The union does nothing and HR protects all of his double standards. But there's more than just drama! Multiple workers, including store admins who frequently "help" in Bakery and Prepared Foods, have expired food handler certifications (this is illegal and disgusting). A rat was found in the produce department and two team members had to step on it to kill it. Prep Foods has so few team members compared to the scale of the department that food in storage areas spoils and no one notices. Bakery cakes get dry and stale because no one knows how old they are because no one marks them with a date when they're delivered. Absolutely toxic cesspool. So yeah, no wonder workers here are "rude." They can't wait to get out of there, themselves.
Mar 5th, 2024