Winn Dixie

This is probably my least favorite of all the Winn Dixie’s as someone was shot outside the store a few months back and I do not feel safe to go here alone. Stopped by for a few grocery items but had my step son go with me. They did not have his coffee ice cream but at least they carry Michelob Light the only reason I come back.

This Winn Dixie is not a very nice one. I stopped in because it’s the closest to work and I wanted to pick up a few things while I was out. First off, it looks super old from the outside. I couldn’t even find the entrance! Another man also was walking around the building with me because we couldn’t find a working door!
The inside looked just as run down as the outside, just very dated :(I barely saw any employees and the ones I did see we’re just standing around.
I am a Publix fan but don’t mind coming here for necessities. I will drive the extra half mile next time and stop into Publix instead. The only positive: I found the yogurt I have been looking for :)

I purchased some bread in this place and then 3 days later, someone stole my credit card number. I called in my bank and it was this same Winn Dixie. Won’t recommend this place as this place is suspicious

This store is pretty junky. Definitely seemed shady. Employees that didn’t seem to know where anything was, sketchy characters hanging out in the parking lot. Eh, I wouldn’t choose to come here again, but I missed the Publix next door and needed cold water. It fulfilled my needs.

This particular store needs a serious upgrade, shady neighborhood makes for some interesting clintele but overall seems safe. Always a cop in the parking lot so I guess that kinda tells you what you need to know.
Nice produce section, but very little in terms of organic but again the local customers for the most part probably don’t go for the extra expense.
I like the rewards that get you lower prices at the pump if you go to Shell.
It’s on my way home… that’s it’s best feature.

This is a tricky review.
These stores are definitely not as nice as, say, your Publix supermarket. They are usually right by each other or at least in the general area.
So maybe this store is Less nice. BUT the cheapness and the specials make this the place for me to come back to again and again.
Every isle has specials; 5 for 4 dollars, 10 for 10, and my favorite with my high proteinness: Buy 1 get 1 free in the meat isle, especially with things like chicken and pork and fish and beef… Wait. That’s meat…
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Nevermind.
Anyway I found this stuff, Publix has it too I think, I never saw this in Grocery stores before so either I’m blind as a bat OR this is something that MI grocery stores just did not have.
Near the Deli/​Bakery part of the store where they sell In-​Store made garlic bread they have these DIRT CHEAP bowls of garlic spread for sale. This stuff is the cats-​ass! I eat high protein 6 days a week and mostly use a little oil or something to keep things from sticking to the pan. This stuff is AWESOME! And it must be semi healthy (maybe) because the next day I still weigh lighter and don’t get the puffyness in my face from when I do my cheat day.
Now here’s the third thing. A little story; yes my reviews are long and hard but some people like it that way.
I went to this one the other day. They had pork chops on sale — 2 for 1. The sign was there in front of stacks of porkchops. I grabbed a couple and went to the register.
*Beep*Beep*
Full price for both items. I told the cashier about it. She said there was no sticker on the items. I say that I got them from a section where there was a clearly marked sign, item description and all. She goes to check…
Of course she come back and says, «Nope… These aren’t on sale.»
I said, «Well are you sure, because there’s a sign there and everything?»
It wasn’t a big deal to me, really, I just know what I saw so I wasn’t trying to be MR Difficult or anything.
She gets the manager.
I say, «Maybe I’m wrong, let’s go look.»
So we go and this manager lady comes with me. Sure enough the sign is there. There are more of the same porkchops sitting there.
Wait — this get’s funny.
The sign in front of the porkchops, multiple signs actually, say in big red letters on a yellow background «BUY 1 GET 1 FREE»
The manager lady says, «No… these aren’t buy 1 get 1 free.»
I say, «Wait… Look at the sign. It says right on the sign…» and I read the sign and then read the package on the pork — same item.
She says, «No it’s not.»
I felt like I was in a Monty Python skit.
I’m like, «Read that sign. What does it say?»
«Buy 1 get 1 free.» she responds but she’s getting a little hostile.
We go on like this for a couple minutes and she just starts getting nastier and nastier trying to convince me that «buy 1 get 1 free» doesn’t mean buy 1 get 1 free.
I’m like, «I really don’t have time to do all this argument nonsense. I just wanted to show you this so that everyone that comes in doesn’t have to spend 5 minutes arguing with you about porkchops.»
She glares at me and spits, «I’m not arguing with you. If I was arguing with you I would be raising my voice and I don’t…»
«I don’t want to argue with you about whether we’re arguing or not. And what’s with all this hostility?» This was getting ridiculous. I’m thinking, I just wanted to show her the sign, not have a 5 minute argument about porkchops. I actually was ready to get something else when I walked back, I just wanted her to understand the mistake.
She starts talking about how she doesn’t need to get hostile with me and argue because if she was she would…
More arguing. Finally I was like, «Look, it would have been nice for you to say, ‘Oh sorry, we must have made a mistake.’ and then I would have got something else. I’m trying to help you out so you don’t have to have other customers come in and have 10 minute arguments about porkchops.»
She starts rambling something else, all the while getting more ornery, so I cut her off. I ask, «Do YOU have a manager?»
She almost screams at me that, yes she does. She tells me his name and then calls for him, and then Guess what?
She starts MOVING the porkchops away from the Buy One Get One free sign. LOL!
And then when he gets there she slinks off without a word as if nothing happened.
But here’s why I kept the good rating, maybe even bumped it up a star. The Store Manager was cool as hell. I explained what had happened and he actually listened patiently; said, «go ahead, there must be a mistake, grab the items you had and I’ll take care of this, I’m sure you’ve had a long day… You don’t need this kind of problem.»
He was like Kool and the Gang. He followed me to the front of the store where I had my other items sitting at the self checkout, Insisted on ringing my stuff up and bagging it for me and off I went. VERY COOL! 4 stars!
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