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Reviews about Farm Fresh

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  June 19, 2020, by Chris Hamlett
  Farm Fresh's quality & selection is good ... but not great. The staff, however, is challenged. Their motto may be 'Groceries at the Speed of Life' ... but the less interaction you'll require to complete your grocery shopping ... the faster you can navigate to & stand in the ridiculously slow lines at checkout. You will never wait less than 10 minutes for an item from the deli ... regardless of the time of day or traffic in the grocery store. They have a decent selection of Boars Head deli meets & cheeses ... but you could arguably track, hunt, kill & cook a wild boar faster than their staff is able to unpackage, slice, weigh & prepare your order. Although the deli is always staffed with two employees ... it always appears that only one employee is assisting customers while the other employee is preoccupied, perfectly content watching you watch them. I rated Farm Fresh 1☆, not b/c the staff is that incompetent, but in addition to their complete inability to grasp the conception of time or urgency ... my Wife, our three year old daughter & I also experienced a very puzzling & troubling exchange w/ a Farm Fresh employee during a shopping trip on the night of September 13th, 2017. Wrapping up, we approached the registers only needing tahini.  As we navigated around isle 3 or 4, a Farm Fresh employee, walked past my wife & she politely asked, 'Excuse me, can you tell me where we can find tahini?' The employee, a giant that is only stocking grocery shelves until finally reunited w/ his brute squad ... & completely towering my Wife, stopped, turned to her & in an ... aggressive, arrogant & disrespectful tone, replied, 'WHAT?!' ... border-line 'shouting' it at her. Stunned, she looked to me ... who immediately had turned to her in complete disbelief that he had just responded to my Wife's simple inquiry about sesame paste in that tone.  With my undivided attention, I then replied, 'tahini'.  He said, 'Isle 1', casts a fixed, disdained stare in our direction & walked away. He then appeared to be pricing merchandise while wondering aimlessly down random isles. Warm ... & temperature rising ... I commented to my wife that I wasn't comfortable with the demeanor in which he had just addressed her & she too felt that his disposition was as disrespectful as it was unexpected. She insisted that we simply complete our shopping & check out, not wanting any further confrontation in the presense of our daughter. We found the tahini, then proceeded to the registers, when we passed the same gentleman ... feeling almost as if deliberate.  This time he says nothing, but again, literally stares us down in an abrasive, contemptuous stance. That's the politically correct transition of events, however, in laments terms, if this gentleman had approached, passed or crossed our path one more time, 'mean mugging' or attempting to bass on me or my Wife, the situation would have escalated instantaneously ... at the Speed of Life. It felt as if this gentleman was ridiculously & unsuccessfully attempting to intimidate me and/or my Wife or lure us into a confrontation ... but at a minimum, his behavior was very inappropriate & unacceptable. We went from peacefully pacing down the isles, enjoying quality time with our daughter to being what I can only deem as unexpectedly 'confronted' by a Farm Fresh employee. Having no clear conception of his motive, IQ, intellectual ceiling or his menstrual cycle, I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt & contact Farm Fresh to share our experience. I emailed the Store Manager to discuss this employee, making it perfectly clear that my only intention was to share chain of events & the interaction we experienced w/ one of his employees while simply shopping for a handful of items. Management contacted me promptly & stated that the employee would be addressed immediately ... apparently, this was not this employees first temper tantrum.