S&S has gone DOWNHILL the last few years, both in quality, availability, and price. At least I knew where everything was so trips were fast.

Then our local one did a complete rebrand/aisle shuffle for no discernible reason, and now you can't find anything and things are not in logical places anymore.

Then they added those weight-sensitive self checkout machines, so even the benefit of fast self-checkout was gone (if you don't time the scanning and the bagging perfectly the machine locks up and you have to wait for the lone attendant).

So I started using the self checkout gun. But now their price bar code machines in the produce section almost never work or they constantly are out of paper. All four of them. It's insane.

After a week or two of that bullshit I realized it was just a slow slide to absolute shit and started planning my shopping better so I could do it once a week with a car (one car household that's needed for commuting) and go to Wegmans. They're not perfect, either, but as long as you like their store brand it's definitely cheaper AND the quality of the produce and meat is phenomenal.