Category: | Grocery Store |
Address: | 6200 S Pennsylvania Ave, Lansing, MI 48911, USA |
Phone: | +1 517-394-7720 |
Site: | meijer.com |
Rating: | 3.9 |
Working: | Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours |
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A Private User
This is the Meijer I usually shop at. I don’t go here often, but when I need something besides grocery, this is usually it. I don’t like going to this store because it’s really hard to get in and out of. It’s situated between Pennsylvania and Cedar which is a wierd enough tract of land as it is, but add in a mega-mart and the roads just get goofy. I’ve found it’s almost impossible to enter off Cedar Street because the ramps from the Interstate merge right in front of the entrance. Your only choice really is to cross traffic on Pennsylvania. Like most other Meijer stores, this place is HUGE and very hard to navigate. We went to Meijer on this day for two reasons. We had a hundred and five cans to return and we needed charcoal. While I appreciate Michigan’s bottle bill for what it does for the environment, I loathe actually taking the bottles an cans back. I always feel dirty brining garbage bags into a store, but I do like turning them back in at the store because it makes my shopping bill a little lower. It sounds like I’m flip-flopping and I guess I sort of am. There are things I like and things I don’t like, but I am glad Michigan does it. Anyway, the bottle return is visible from the main entrance just past produce. So we wheeled our way around the fruits to get back to the machines. After getting our ten bucks back, we grabbed a few grocery items for our impromptu cook-out. Like I mentioned earlier, we made an unplanned trip to Merindorf Meats in Williamston to get some meats. We didn’t have any buns for my girlfriends brats and I needed a few pantry items. The aisles at Meijer are so wide and so long, it takes a while to get through the grocery section even when you just want a couple things. Next, we needed to get back to lawn and garden to get charcoal. I’m really picky when it comes to charcoal. I never use briquettes. It defeats the purpose. Briquettes are packed with chemicals which leave the flavor on the food. I only buy hardwood lump charcoal which is a little harder to find, but most stores have at least one brand. Now that we were in the back corner of the store, we had to walk a half mile or so to the front to check out. I was having a Pepsi craving and just wanted a bottle before we hit the check out line and even that was hard. My girlfriend finally noticed a cooler that was hidden in the chekc-out aisle. It may sound like I’m complaining about Meijer, but in reality, the store is a necessary evil. The one-stop shopping is nice and since there aren’t a whole lot of retail stores on the south side of Lansing, it prevents us from having to make trips out to Delta Township. I wish the store was about half the size, but other than that, I don’t have a whole lot of complaints.
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Jennifer Smith
Last week, I went grocery shopping at the South Penn/South Cedar Meijer in Lansing. What a joke!! I have refused to step foot in and shop at this Meijer for years and had boycotted them in the past even though its the Meijer closest to me and most convenient one.I hadnt liked the fact that I saw a man be robbed right IN the store in broad daylight and also that the staff there is very unfriendly, seem to hate their jobs, no one knows where anything is at when you ask them and they certainly do not go out of their way to help you. I went on a Monday, last Monday 7/20 for groceries as I was under a time constraint for driving to a different Meijer. So I reluctantly went to this Meijer in hopes that since the renovation that staff and things in general would be better this time around, as I said I had refused to go to this location for years. I was appalled to see the flies buzzing all around the (fresh???) produce, it was awful!! Several plums and nectarines that I picked up were moldy and I had to swat away the flies and nats by then my stomach had turned and I didnt even want any . They were out of the berries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries, even if there had been any fruit worth dragging home I was pretty disgusted by the whole experience. Everything I went to get that was in the ad, they were out of. Ridiculous as it was only one day after the Sunday ad came out. Out of fresh chicken breasts which were in the ad, none to be found. Out of just about everything that I took the time to research everything in the store add and make my list with. I went there with my boyfriend and we both repeatedly said we would never, ever EVER come back, time constraints or not....we will shop at another Meijer in a better part of town which hopefully would stock up more or skip Meijer altogether and shop at Kroger in Holt. How pathetic of a store and South Penn store, you SHOULD be ashamed!! The organic salad mix and grape tomatoes I bought there were turning brown and shriveling up just THREE days after I bought them and they were stamped August 2nd, very very poor condition of your fruits and vegetables!!!! Im not sure what you hoped to achieve with your remodeling, but it sure wasnt anything to improve your store or hire friendly efficient, knowledgable people or staff! I would never ever shop at your location again, and honestly you give all Meijer, just to carry the same name....a very bad reputation. Very displeased!!!
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A Private User
On Aug. 29th at 2:30 am i stopped at Meijer to pick up some pizzas. I grabbed 6 pizzas that were marked 3 for $10 with the ticket stating the sale date 8-29-10. The six pizzas rang up totaling $30.00 I notified the clerk she stated to me the sale did not start until 6am however they set the sale between midnight and 6am. I asked her to honor the pricing and she refused. I asked her at that time if i could speak with the night manager. He walked over to the register and instantly was rude stating he would not change the price and that it didnt start until 6. He turned and walked away refusing to honor the sale price marked and also refusing to talk to me regaurding the issue. At that point he went up stairs over looking the registers and was talking down to me below telling me im wasting my breath as i was talking to the cashier asking his name and a number to get in contact with his boss. When he heard me asking his name he yelled down in front of his employees, my friends, and other customers that i needed to "leave the store and stop being an a** hole". I ended up having to have a cashier go to the pizza isle with me and find pizzas that were on sale up until 6am from the week prior however they were not marked for any sale at this time. i contacted both the district marketing director and the store director. They assured me i would have no more problems with him in that store, appoligized for his actions and gave me a $20 gift card. I entered the store the next 2 saturday nights and have had the same issue with the sales. I have also witnessed other customers with the same problem and this manager being very rude. Corporate has not returned my last 2 phone calls reguarding this night shift manager and the sale pricing. I was greatly embarrassed by having been called an "a** hole" in front of my friends and customers at such a loud volume and such a great distance away. I will not be shopping with Meijer anymore however for future customers this issue needs to be addressed.