Rainbow Foods

Well, begin the funeral dirge for this sad store, now that Whole Foods is siphoning off its business to the south. Tonight at 7:30pm it was a ghost town, and the main entrance was blocked off with a scrawled sign pointing ‘customers’ to the doors marked ‘exit only.’ This fact meant little to the duty manager, who said her district director ordered the weird door thing (at 7:30 on a Monday). With Cub Foods to the east, Walmart & Whole Foods close by, This place should be boarded up by Halloween.

Wish I could give this place a zero. Went in today and some kids sprayed me in the face with something in the produce section. Kind of scared me because it smelled like a chemical of some kind. I hope it was just silly string or something. The register guy didn’t bag my stuff even though it was just a few things. The previous customer was still bagging his stuff so I had to walk behind the register and bag my stuff in the cashiers area. So lazy and weird. Avoid this place!

DON’T use your credit cards here. Employees commit fraud!

Service is slow at times, slower than watching continents drift on NatGeo. Aisles get moved around a lot, I think the bakery is the only thing staying put. It is true, the sliding doors I used to enter from now have EXIT signs.
It is Rainbow. It is a grocery store. I don’t normally critique grocery stores unless something awful happens or in this case there is someone so exceptional that just continues to make your day.
Thank you Vickie, they are lucky to have you there.

I don’t even know HOW to review this grocery store.
Check out lanes are hell. Self serve line never works and you have to wait for help; other lines are backed up all the time!
Good part:
The B.O.S.S sandwich for only $ 5 is amazing and very tasty!
People who work in the deli area; very nice
You’ll really fit in here if you wear your slippers.

Very good prices on certain things, but don’t always count on ample supplies. The ‘mainstream’ grocery of choice for me in the TC.

They had everything I needed, but I did notice a lot of shelves with sale signs were empty — definitely a sign of an insufficient and/​or crappy staff. Some of the produce wasn’t looking so hot and very little was organic. I got lucky and got through checkout fairly quickly, but as I left I noticed 5 people in line behind me, looking pretty defeated.

Rainbow is my grocery store of choice. They have double coupons which I love. If they ever stop doing double days on Saturdays I will probably find a new store to shop at.
This particular location isn’t easy to get to. There is road construction all over the place on the way to this store. The parking lot has plenty of available parking once you get there. I don’t like the way they have the isles set up in the store. They are very unorganized in my opinion. The service is really slow at the checkout and some of the checkers are just plain weird.
Overall, I’d not shop here if it wasn’t for double coupons. You may want to look elsewhere if you’re looking for a grocery store in this certain part of the city.

There’s the part of me that keeps hoping the grocery store options will improve on University Avenue. The only «option» of a nice one would be technically Target — and sadly that’s not an option for me due to a personal decision to boycott them.
I made yet another attempt to shop at Rainbow last week. As usual, I wasn’t very happy at the end of that shopping experience. There were pros and cons to this overall experience, so I’ll list them:
Pro — Lots of good prices on a various items. I’m all about paying less for things nowadays, especially with gasoline at $ 4/​gallon.
Pro — I could find what I needed due to clear signage.
Con — No lights in the bakery section of the store (blown out?)
Con — Not enough cashiers. Long lines. Lots of waiting.
Con — Not the type of produce selection I’d like to see.
And I could go on and on about the odd behaviors of quite a few of the folks shopping there, but in this case, I’ll leave it to myself.
Yeppers, still time to find a new grocery store to frequent. Here’s to hoping that w/​the Central Light Corridor, things will get improved w/​the new foot traffic.

There’s nothing super-​stellar about this place, but it’s where I shop b/​c of the location. The produce section seems a bit limited to me, but I just moved here from California – where the produce section is ½ the store in some cases.

I typically shop at my local festival and grab what I need and get out. I was in the area and needed items for dinner so I stopped by this Rainbow. I loved the store. I know other reviewers were annoyed by the placement of products but I didn’t have a problem. I thought they had a great bulk bin area where you could buy spices, dried fruits and nuts by weight. Way more selection than other grocery stores I have been to. The deli, meat, bakery and flower department looked great as well. I was pleased with the different types of variety of items. The meat department had a whole section of pigs ears, turkey tails, tripe and other different meat products if you are into that sort of thing. Mind you I typically don’t shop at big grocery stores and do not do full grocery store runs so maybe that is why I rated the store higher than other reviewers. I stopped by on a Monday morning and the store was clean and well stocked.

God, this place is horrible to shop at. So busy, nothing is EVER stocked… the strip mall it’s located in is really in poor shape, there is trash all over the parking lot, and ughhhhh, can I really convey how much this place drives me crazy?!? Before I had a car, though, this was the easiest to get to by bus, so we went there. And suffered. But we survived. You just have to sort of deal.
Anything fresh sucks and won’t last worth anything in your fridge. Anything that is on sale… isn’t on the shelves… the staff (who are, presumably, supposed to be stocking the shelves), are MIA all the time, God knows where they are, but I can never find a soul to help me find things.
WHICH IS A PROBLEM, because the taco seasoning, salsa, and other random food items are in the «ethnic food» section, I think… they are in some weird random part of the store. What does a a gal have to do for a packet of taco seasoning, damn.
I don’t know. The Rainbow in the Quarry is just so much nicer than this one! It isn’t perfect, but for a big box grocery store, it just gets the job done much more efficiently. But this places sells stuff that you can eat, so I guess that’s what it was intended to do. Have fun waiting in the line for the registers that wind down the food aisles. ARGH!

Again I returned, and again I was thinking, «Man! What a hole!»
As I sort of expected, again, they did not have enough of a specific item for me to redeem a raincheck and coupon. This was my 3^rd trip there for this specific purpose. I looked around for an employee in that area to ask if there was more in the back, but there was no employee to be found. I ended up walking down to the dairy section to ask for assistance. A nice man made a call to ask about the item and was told there was no more. So the nice man suggested I go seek assistance at their customer service counter.
I explained my problem to the lady and she asked for assistance from «Dan». Even though he was on his break, he listened to my problem and offered a solution. He walked me around to a checkout and advised the checkout girl how to ring up the sale. Issue solved. I was one happy customer and I thanked him gratefully. How nice to encounter a *real live problem solver*.
Yeah! For Dan the manager in the front of the store on 10÷1÷09!
Yes, I’m going to write and send (or bring) a letter to pay my compliments to Dan.

Looking for groceries? In Midway? Come to the Midway Rainbow, where shopping for dinner is a baffling ordeal! We’ve not only reversed the layout of every other Rainbow Foods store, but we’ve made a few other interesting changes, too. Bread aisle? We’ve moved it over to the frozen foods aisle! Just because! Having trouble finding pasta? It’s in the back corner with ethnic foods (next to the soy sauce and tortillas, ’cause they’re all ‘ethnic,’ right?)! But wait! The Arborio Rice for your Italian risotto isn’t ethnic, it’s over in another aisle, two down from the canned tomatoes you can make enchilada sauce with. Have a cartoonish view of ethnicity in cuisine? We’re the place for you! Just wanna grab a couple items laid out in a logical fashion and be on your way? Be our guest, and good luck, jerk!

Rainbow, you feed me on the cheap. You’re much prettier now, too, since the remodel — and what an improved produce selection! I love your ethnic foods section, though I wish you had Oaxaca cheese and local Holy Land products like Cub Foods down the road. But you sell Empire apples and Bagels Forever bagels, so I guess that sort of evens things out.
But who decided to remodel the checkout lines? How could shortening and getting rid of half of the conveyor/​bagging area be a good idea? Especially when you rarely ever have people bagging groceries? The cashiers don’t like it, and neither do I.