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J Wainwright
Jul 31,2024I have stopped shopping in my local Spar unless I only need one item and I’m desperate. The till prices are much higher than the shelf edge tickets on too many items . Offers are not passed on unless you pick them up on it. I feel really sorry for the pensioners and others who can’t go further afield they are getting ripped off daily.
Pete Wright
Jul 09,20241 st June i bought a 250g of Soar rice and when i got home realised it was underweight. It weighed 96g. I did a review on here to warn others and eventually made contact with someone from Spar who wanted photos of the packaging. Then started asking for all the other details such as barcode, batch number etc. Sent him photos of everything. Now he says I have to send the package off for inspection. No way am I sending this away. There are 2 reasons he wants me to send it. To prove that it is in fact underweight and unopened. Or to send them my evidence that I in fact ever had a bag of their underweight rice. Having read some of the other reviews, mostly very poor indeed I think it is to dispose of the evidence. A Yorkshire lad will not be fobbed off.the
Dylan Spaffews
Jun 27,2024To say the SPAR is bad is a massive understatement, The drinks are way too expensive, I don’t want to pay £2.50 for a short small drink, these prices go up all the time by the way and ANYWHERE else is much cheaper, the workers clearly don’t enjoy working there as they all look so down and get all aggressive over little things. This shop is just a complete waste of time, it’s easier to just go the extra walk to another shop
Richard Harris
Jun 26,2024Pewsey Spar. Jessica gave an incredible customer experience. I'm blown away that customer service like this still exists in such a harsh economic climate. Absolutely recommend this store for all needs.
Jessica Molland
Jun 26,2024Very bad experience
Natasha Kelly
Jun 21,2024Unfriendly manager who seems to not treat her staff well! Would not shop here again because of this!
Lisa Davies
Jun 14,2024Went to the spar in Tyndall street Cardiff and realised after I got home that he scanned the toilet roll twice absolutely disgusting and it's really expensive too
Matthew
Jun 02,2024Went to visit spar last week with my daughter and we both was assaulted in the carpark by a very aggressive woman. She hit my daughter and punched me 5 times, kicked me in the groin area and pulled my beard. As I don't hit women, u just pushed her away but the staff came out and automatically took the woman side because she was "female" and asked us to leave and told the woman to come inside. They didn't ask all of us to leave just my daughter and I. Pure sexual discriminate at it's best. As a male I must be the aggressor in the staff's eyes. I will never use that store again. They allowed the assault of a potential customer and I minor. Being a male does NOT justify being painted the aggressor. I will be making a formal complaint. They need to learn that sexism against men is not tolerated in this society.
Andy H
May 16,2024Wow Expensive!, customer service leaves a lot to be desired, empty shelves( and the old line " if its not on the shelf we ain't got it!"
Josefa Penaflor
May 16,2024My husband bought an electricity top up 20 pounds and gas 20 pounds yesterday. According to my husband the gas top up there was an error but the teller took his pounds and gave a reciept without amount I've noticed my husband kept looking the dashboard for electricity at home andbdaid it didn't come up. I've told him it will come up straight away once you top up . So I looked at his reciept and there is no amount means there is no purchase We went to the shop and I was told by the manager that on their CCTV they handed back the 20 pounds to my husband as seen on CCTV I've asked my husband and he said he have 40 pounds yesterday and the teller only gave back 20 pounds fir the gas because it won't go through Then rhe manager gave me the reciept that there is no purchase from yesterday Why it wasn't given yesterday I think they have an error system in that shop and probably rhe stop needs more training Very disorganised and the other teller said to involve the police I was ripped off for 400 pounds from a plumber who asked for deposit and didn't turned up the job We are not getting money from other people or to rhe businessman but wants to be honest My husband is am honest person but he really told me that he didn't get the 20 pounds and he thought the purchase has gone through I've lost my trust to the shop I will not recommend my husband to purchase their again Seems they are thinking their costumer had got dementia and my husband mind is clear and intact
Mrsdottie P
May 15,2024Spar gillingham Best customer service. Has a great variety of produce Some prices can be a little to much for some items. But that is the same anywhere ypu go now days But the customer services beats the coop by far! Love they got subway at back of store.
david
May 13,2024Not very often I use Spar, but just as well, as the rare occasions I have had the horror to enter this diabolical store, I have been left with a sense of anxiety and anger! My experience relates specifically to Spar in Blandford. I have seen other Reviews refer to staff as being unprofessional, rude, ignorant, spaced-out or whatever. I suppose, my grievance also relates to that aspect of non-existent customer service! In particular in relation to Spar's contract with Yodel Parcel Delivery Service. The question that keeps pop up in my mind is this: if Spar Blandford, or and other branch of Spar, or Spar as a business, is not happy with its contractual obligation to Yodel by accepting the parcels from customers, I presume, in exchange for a remuneration of whatever agreed amount, why is it then that Spar continues with their contract with Yodel? And, most crucially, why is it that Spar, have accepted the financial remuneration given by Yodel, then behave in such unprofessional and crude manner towards Yodel customers. Is the intention then to destroy the customer- base for Yodel and create a reputational shame on Yodel, speeding up their demise from the market? Does this then nominally indicate a commercial sabotage aimed at Yodel, in a joint conspiracy with Yodel's competitors? All these are food for thoughts- Questions need to be asked and answered. I have had 2 bad experience so far- Once my parcel was refused for no obvious reason. I then travelled some 20 miles to another Yodel agent in Bournemouth. It was accepted with no issues. On second occasion, the obnoxious woman (possibly a high ranking shop- older- woman- assistant) claimed that no parcels would be taken until later in the day! No reason as to why and when? The biased assertion was clearly based on her limited and distorted view of the world that we, the people customers, live on Spar's door step and can pop-in and out at anytime just to catch her in a compromised mood when she would be ready to accept our parcels! As there is a 10mile return journey for some of us, decision was made to take business elsewhere, clearly. So, Yodel's fault for allowing such diabolical people destroy their reputation. And shame on this joke of a business, pretend supermarket thingy called Spar, staffed by outerspace spaced-out creatures with huge antennas on their empty heads with no smile, compassion, mannerism or professionalism.
Robert Wells
May 04,2024Constantly charging a high price than advertised on the shelf. Baschurch, Shrewsbury.
Draig Ysbryd
May 03,2024Absolute rip off. Visiting family in the area and couldn't believe how expensive it is. Employees seemed nice enough, but the manager (I think her name was Gwen) was so rude to a number of customers. Couldn't believe her disgusting attitude. Never, ever will I step inside that establishment again. And my family members that are local won't be either. Shameful
T Ireland
Apr 28,2024I went into Blandford market place spar. Asked the guy at the counter if I could please have someone else serve me. He said sure. Went towards the back and said to a colleague in front of a customer and said here’s the nutter from last time. That broke my shell and then became a nut. Especially when the old gentleman looked over towards me when Alex said the nutter from last time is here. I wasn’t a nut then. But I became a nut when you called me a nutter. You’re a disgusting disgrace. Even your own colleague Samuel said that didn’t need to be said. If it wasn’t for Samuel and the old gentleman it would’ve went down much worse this time. Sack that Alex before I activate my social medias and completely ruin your shop. You lot should be ashamed for keeping that scum in the position of power. Let Samuel tisbury or Samuel tilbury be the store leader. He was a gem 💎 that day. Thank you Samuel for all your kind service and decent hospitality. I appreciated that and appreciate you. Thank you ❤️🤍💙 but Alex you are a dirty filthy human. And what goes around comes around. Trust.
Andrea Rawling
Apr 13,2024I bought Spar own brand baked beans - yuck - hardly any sauce at all and tge beans were so dry. Was really looking forward to my beans on toast - really disappointed. The Spar own brand "butter spread" isn't very nice either - tastes like plastic.
Jon S
Apr 13,2024Just opened a Spar "meat feast" pizza. It looked pathetic, barely any topping or tomato sauce, a smear of disgusting looking brown paste for "meat" and five very thin pieces of pepperoni. It smelled awful out of the pack of goodness knows what. I didn't think supermarket pizzas could get any worse but this is rock bottom. A joke. Just awful. Also, the prices of alcohol! Ludicrous! £7.25 for a pack of John Smiths smooth bitter which I bought in the Coop recently for £4.25. RIP OFF! And just to confirm it tasted like it smelled: weird.
Connor Fawcett
Apr 12,2024Burnley Road Accrington. Special Needs Carly overcharges you and you are expected to go out of your way for their mistakes. If not trained to a decent standard and make customers go out of way is this normal?. Receipt number 07722886015724972341. Time 13:41 4items.
Toby Laverack
Apr 06,2024I use this place for convenience but the other nearest shop is just 1 minute which I will be using from now on. Everytime myself & others use the services there is always some sort of problem, the till staff are nice but quite obviously undertrained in various aspects of the job. Quite often you can be stood for 5 mins plus waiting for them to stop stacking shelves & chatting on the headsets, the customers come first in this scenario they are the one with the money. The Manager is not a manager more like a glorified key holder unable or more likely incapable of making a management decision. I was a regional manager for a similar business for a long time & I would identify on site management or lack of as the problem here, they instantly come across with an aggressive, argumentative not my job attitude but that's not my problem anymore I know a few people & myself that will give it a miss
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TC Mann
Aug 09,2024When trying to use "Evri" returns the assistant said the label code was invalid, & I had to print a label, but their printer wasn't working. I took the same parcel to a second shop where it scanned without issue, though the assistant there was "too busy" to fill in the receipt ticket, until I refused to leave without it! A third shop employed young girls completely devoid of manners! Clearly the staff issues at Spar are not limited to any particular store! edit: When a complaint is sent to Spar they simply "forward" it to some other business, effectively saying "it's not our problem". How many customers know they aren't shopping with Spar!!!!