Rick Hill

Review of Shoreline Central Market

Overpriced and bad service.

Overpriced and bad service.

Of all the grocery stores in the area that I have shopped at, this grocery store has the most unfriendly attitude that I have encountered. Fred Meyer, Safeway and Albertsons cashiers, counter servers and other employees are all much friendlier and more accommodating to customer service and needs than the employees at Central Market. This is ironic because the prices at Central market are anywhere between 20 and 100% higher than the prices at the large grocery chains and I'm sure their paychecks are also larger. Still the employees rarely smile and emanate the vibe that they are doing you a favor to wait on you. My most recent negative experience and the one that motivated me to write this warning involved a cashier that couldn't be bothered to do her job and scan 5 items from a basket on her counter. Instead she insisted that I remove all items, caddy the basket for her before she would ring up the bill. When I suggested that that was her job, she claimed her "elbow hurt" and refused to proceed at all and made a big scene. She seemed to be confused about who was paying whom in the transaction and got really nasty about it.

When I go to a to any store I expect to be greeted with smiles and courtesy and not to have some cashier make a scene about doing her job. Her comments during the scene seemed to indicate that she felt she was "too good for this job".

Regrettably, this was not the first negative experience I've had at this market, just the most blatant.

Despite some other attributes of the market; quality and selection, I can not recommend this market and will shop elsewhere in the future.