Tinsley's IGA Super Market

User Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

Tinsley's IGA's food prices are too pricey for the area AND it is the only "brand" store within 15 miles. Consumers need to notice expiration dates on fresh and canned food items (not sell by date), since the "nice" employees do not always pull expired items from the
shelves.

The store, being located near an open field on two sides, also has field mice running around the store under the shelving units at all times of the year. Again, the "nice" help tells customers, "Oh yeah, we have 'em all the time, ha ha."

The owner, Bill Tinsley, as nice as he is, is not like his father who founded the store. His father enforced the wearing of aprons for meat clerks and store logo shirts for check out clerks. All employees were made to wear their hair away from their face, ponytails for females and hair nets for meat and produce department personel. Today, customers are treated to the sight of female belly rings, lower back tatoos, sagging jeans, hair in the face and objectionable worded t-shirts since there are no appropriate dress codes enforced any longer. There is one particular clerk, a female employee who has been there several years, that is always found back in the meat department sitting on the meat table and finding ways to flirt with the young men who should be doing their job and not messing around with her during work hours. In any other work environment, this would be grounds for dismissal, but apparently not at Tinsley's.

I shop there only when I absolutely have to and only for a couple items at a time. I cannot afford to shop there exclusively when there are two discount grocery stores and Dollar General store nearby. I prefer to shop in Bellefontaine at Fulmers Community Market, Kroger or Aldi's and am willing to drive out of my way for cheaper and fresher food and professionally attired employees, who are just as nice, if not nicer than any employee found at Tinsleys. Plus, the added bonus is expired food is removed promptly and there are no mice droppings to contend with at those stores.

Save yourself alot of aggravation and bypass Tinsley's if you plan on saving money, especially if you're going to be purchasing alot of food. You can save so much more by spending your hard earned dollars somplace else in these tough economic times of the "Great Recession". Of course if you have a bottomless bank account and don't mind a belly ring or two, Tinsley's is for you!

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User Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Tinsley's has very nice people. They are pretty high on their prices but the sales they have are really good. I love going there to get sale items.

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User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

HAPPYANN01: like the prices.meat a little high. on ground beef. the people are very nice.

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