Pick’n Save

Due to the closing of my Shorewood Pick ‘N Save, I have been forced to drive to this store. The parking lot isn’t bad, it is easy to get in and out of. The liquor department is in the store, so you don’t have to do two separate transactions. The produce are is nice and large and they have the biggest deli food/​salad bar/​grab-​and-​go section of any Pick ‘N Save on this side of town. There is even a small seating area.
Due to the increased traffic this store is getting because of people like me, I feel it took them a while to figure out how much more inventory they would need. I have not experienced the lack of items like almond milk, yogurt, orange juice, and fresh chicken in the past couple months. Avoid this store on Saturday afternoons — it is SO busy!!!
I feel like some of the store is newer (I see that they did undergo a remodel) but the middle of the store seems old and dingy. Like the aisles with crackers or pasta… Perhaps it is the lighting.
It’s nice to see some familiar faces here that came from the Shorewood store. It is a fairly convenient location for the area. I’ll be visiting this location for a few more months…

This location is neither great nor terrible, but the cashiers can either be hit or miss.

This place is terrible. Things are constantly on the shelf way beyond expiration– when letting and employee know I found expired product I was told it «wasn’t his department». The store is always messy and poorly stocked. I go miles out of my way to shop at Cermak even tho I live across the street from this store…

I’ve been using this location as my primary grocery store since I moved to the east side last summer. When it comes to grocery stores, I’m really not all that picky. However, I find shopping here unpleasant. The vast majority of employees here are rude, and the nice ones don’t seem to last very long. I get it – it’s only a grocery store. But if I’m handing over my money for their (at times) heavily overpriced items, why am I made to feel like they are doing me a favor? I never come here if I don’t have a decent amount of time because check out lines are usually very long. I am most disappointed in their produce section. I’ve had really bad luck with produce going bad within a day or two of purchasing it, and sometimes it just seems to be very poor quality. I WILL say that they have a decent deli, floral dept, and liquor selection. I don’t think I’m going to continue doing the bulk of my grocery shopping here.

They ran out of eggs. A grocery store, without eggs, on a weekend afternoon.
I think that says enough.

This store underwent a remodel last Spring. The results are GREAT! I think the Produce section is larger, the store is brighter, there’s a new «Grab & Go» bar, interior café seating and so forth. The layout on the East end of the store is more open (florist moved over there), which feels great.
Yes, it is a basic grocery store. But, they’ve got some organic produce, an assortment of vegan options (bratwurst, grill items, fake cheese etc.). There’s a wide variety of ethnic hair care products, some make-​up, a pharmacy, a community bulletin board and they have good sales. They also have eco-​friendly options (paper goods and detergent). It’s on the MCTS 10 and 21 lines.
And, the bike parking is *much* better than Shorewood location! This Pick n Save is solid, in my book.

I have to give them one additional star based on their recent renovation. I can’t express how happy it makes me to be able to purchase booze and my food in one swift transaction. I feel like I live in the suburbs again!

Man, oh man. People don’t seem to like this place very much at all.
It doesn’t really bother me too badly. But it certainly doesn’t deserve much more than 2 stars.
I use this place for the easy items that can be found at just about any supermarket. However, for produce or meat products, it’s wise to go elsewhere.
It’s funny how different one Pick n Save can be from others that are hardly more than a mile away. I’ve used this location for a few years. The other reviews are pretty spot-​on with regard to long lines and uninterested employees.
I know of a few cashiers that are quasi-​friendly from time to time. But they are few and far between.
Metro Market is not very far from here, has more stuff, better choices, and a few robots to use for checking out. It’s a better choice if you’re using a car.
But if you’re just grabbing beer and a few items that have long shelf-​lives, it won’t kill you.

This is the worst Pick N Save I’ve ever been to.
The lines are always super long, there are never any baskets by the door unless corporate is in the middle of an inspection, and the produce manager told me he didn’t know what shiitake mushrooms were.

Forget this store. This is the worst store. Unfortunately it’s the one I shop all the time mostly due to it being like 46 seconds from my apartment.
True story: 6 am phone call from work. It was a banana emergency (yes, this is a real thing at my job). I promised to pick up bananas on my way in. Went to this store at about 8 am. and was one of maybe 10 people in the whole place. As luck would have it, we all rushed to the checkout at the same time. One checkout open. One polite young man staring down a small army of impatient people with varying produce emergencies of their own (probably). 4!!! (I counted) manger-​esque people standing at the front of the store meandering around literally doing nothing. I, being the token loudmouth of any assembled group, said quite deliberately to the young cashier, «IT MUST BE REALLY HARD TO BE THE ONLY PERSON WORKING HERE» which prompted an overstuffed manager to walk over to one of those phones and page for help at the checkouts. Fucking help yourself! Sheesh. It was one of the most pathetic displays of «managing» I’ve ever seen. I know it must be really, really taxing to stand around and order 16 year old kids around all day to feed your inferiority complex, but for Christ’s sake — I had a fruit emergency, man!
This happens all the time here. Management-​type jackholes standing around lording over the checkout lanes like someone is going to walk in and go, «Wow! Now that is one impressive 2^nd shift grocery store assistant manager! Its a good thing Roundys hired him instead of 3 or 4 more checkers who would actually help me get out of this hell hole faster!» Literally every time. Pick n Save could probably save 80 billion dollars a year by cutting out 90% of their management staff and hiring one competent leader for every store.
The only redeeming thing about this place was the weirdo guy who worked in the liquor department who would make unsolicited comments about everybody’s purchases. I’m pretty sure he was always under the influence of something but at he was amusing. But he’s gone now. I think he moved. Or died. Whatever. Sad.

This would not be my first choice in grocery stores, but considering it is only a couple blocks away from my house, I do shop here often. As others have mentioned there can be really long check out lines if you go during the busy hours (weekday evenings, weekend afternoons), but then again all grocery stores are busy during those times. I usually try to go later at night to avoid that chaos. The produce section is pretty good, not amazing. Their meat and seafood section is really lacking, that is one thing I usually do not buy here. Otherwise I have found almost everything I needed for a recipe here (except that one time I needed miso paste!) The liquor store is pretty well stocked and usually has some good sales. The associates I have encountered are friendly, however usually do not know where anything is. All in all a good store to do most of your basic grocery shopping.

Longest check out lines here for some reason.
Friendliest service in the beer store.
It’s a chain grocery store peeps.

Grocery store down the street, I use this store quite alot. It has a liquor store built in and a very nice wine selection. Definitely sign up for a roundys card and you can save yourself some money on groceries and both booze!

What they need to realize is they are in a prime spot and need to step up their game!
I do seem improvement, they are a busy store, they need good managent!!!
Now that I live closeby again, I shop here. It is much better than in the past. The
grocerires are priced either too high or on sale. The management is better, the
clerks are more polite so I am hoping this improves.

This is the worst Pick N Save out of the many that I have been to. Unfortunately it is the closest one to me so I will continue to shop here. Shopping here is always a nightmare tho. The Staff is so unbelievably rude. You would think with a college dorm directly across the street it would not be to difficult to find some decent employees. I have never had a shopping experience here that did not involve me waiting in a long line.

UPDATE!
Never again. Seriously, I’m done. In my most recent trip, I experienced rude and inconsiderate shoppers, the store was out of things I was looking to buy, and the checkout line was atrocious. I’m fairly used to that, as it’s a common occurrence at this store. What I’m not used to is the bagger putting raw meat and veggies together. He also didn’t put refrigerated items with other refrigerated items. I have no idea why. I’m also not used to the Cashier leaving mid order to give her co-​worker an order for McDonald’s, and then having her go to the break room to get her purse to pay her. IN THE MIDDLE OF CHECKING ME OUT. I stood there for 2 minutes while she did this. The people in line were not happy either.
I can endure a lot; I’ve worked in a grocery store. Yes these people are getting minimum wage, but this really is unacceptable. The fact that none of the other employees saw a problem with it speaks volumes. I will now go out of my way to go somewhere else. Terrible.
Never again.

This Pick and Save is my go-​to, ONLY due to its proximity to my house. I could drive an additional mile and hit two Pick and Saves with the same stone, but there’s something to be said for convenience.
That said, it’s pretty dang sucky.
I mean, they usually have what I’m after: organic milk, yogurt, Brownberry Health Nut bread, whole-​wheat tortillas, salsa, Newman’s pasta sauce… you know, the usual stuff.
But! The parking lot is a NIGHTMARE. (I always feel like it’s a disorganized rat race.) Also, the security guards just drive around and around and around, adding to the confusion that many tiny stop signs in one small-​ish space create.
The store itself? Not the best produce selection, but not the worst. I rarely ever buy meat here. That, and there are long, long lines, all the time. The check-​out aisles are never properly staffed, ever.
Staples, for when I’m running low? Check. Entire grocery shopping runs? I’ll drive the extra mile or two.

I am a Pick n Save regular so I have been to numerous locations. This location is dirty, unorganized, and is never properly staffed. I have been there on a number of occasions when there are lines extremely long and only 3 people checking out. It takes forever to get out. Also the store is so unorganized! It’s ridiculous! You could walk around there forever and never find the thing you need!
I tried to purchase some fruit and told the staff some of the grapes were molding. The guy looked at me like I yelled at him and say «okay.» I never saw them come and replace it. Yuck!
They do have a redbox…

This Pick and Save sucks.
While I really don’t enjoy grocery shopping I don’t hate it but every time I go to this particular store I become infuriated. There are multiple reasons that I don’t like it but here a few of my favorite ones.
–The produce is overpriced and unripe.
–There are always out of everything. It doesn’t matter what it is you want, they won’t have it.
–I really think that they know how many cashiers they need at any given moment but then they subtract 3 people. When I am waiting in line in the chip aisle we have a problem.
–Lastly, this store seems to run on a 6 month delay when stocking new products. I am really tired of having to run to Target every time I want to get my Nutella.
There are really no other grocery stores on the East Side of Milwaukee so unfortunately I will have to keep shopping at this location. I guess I could suck too if I had a monopoly on the grocery stores in metro Milwaukee.

It’s interesting to me that the cost of living, I was told, is so much less in Milwaukee than Chicago, but the groceries are slightly more expensive. With that said, this store has virtually everything that one would expect from your basic big box megamart.
The problems were that 1) the guy behind the meat and fish counter had never heard of Red Snapper, 2) the guy that was bagging packed my bread at the bottom of the cart below a bunch of heavier things so the bread got smashed, 3) the fellow ringing me up never acknowledged my presence, he just continued his conversation with the bagging guy about cell phones, and 4) carts were initially nowhere to be found so either someone wasn’t grabbing them from the lot quick enough or the store doesn’t have enough to go around, even considering that they weren’t all that busy.
This is the closest megamart to where I live so I will be back, but they clearly have some work to do to be worthwhile.