I'm a bit confused here. Amazon said they discontinued setting up stores with the dash cart (the big, heavy cart with a tablet computer in the handle where you have to scan an Amazon QR code to shop and a small basket that only fits about two bags). The Just Walk Out is supposed to be the replacement despite all of its problems. Does this location have both Just Walk Out (cameras that track your items supposedly) and the carts with a screen showing your total as you shop? Because that would be a first, and also solve many of the complaints being discussed here about wildly inaccurate transactions, sale of items by unit that normally are by the pound, etc.CalItalian wrote: ↑May 29th, 2022, 4:46 pmThey have smartcarts in Murrieta. Not an issue.storewanderer wrote: ↑May 29th, 2022, 11:03 amProduce is great at the Long Beach location... multiple visits... Whole Foods level of quality there; at others, it looked terrible (if it was even stocked). Actually I pretty much hate every trip to these stores except for that one in Long Beach. I don't know what the difference is but that seems like a nicer store.CalItalian wrote: ↑May 29th, 2022, 9:43 am My friend and I tried out the new store in Murrieta, California. Extremely disappointing. The good news is the employees are very friendly and helpful. That's about where the good news ends. Prices are astronomical. Even with the $20 off $40 coupon, there wasn't much value beyond deals I find elsewhere. I'm not a big fan of Aldi produce but Amazon Fresh doesn't even measure up to Aldi. Fresh shouldn't be in the store name since it wasn't. Wilted would be a better word. And that's not the only department. Found mold on both packaged cheese and bread. As for the store layout, aisles are narrow and having Amazon employees filling orders along with regular customers is very annoying. Although I see this at Vons and Ralphs, it's not on the scale that is going on in this store. We both used the walkout checkout just to try. My order was correct but it took almost three hours to get my receipt. My friend got a bonus of sorts. They had to check his id for purchasing a 12 pack of beer. He didn't get charged for the beer. Would we go back? Well, I'm a couponer so given the right coupon, yes. Without a coupon, not a chance. My friend said he would never come back and he lives less than a mile away.
I suggest finding a store with the dash carts and using your coupon there. That way you can be sure it applies.
I have had totals as low as $11 using the $20 off $40 coupon. When I see the coupon has applied I am done shopping and I leave the store. I may then walk right back in for round 2. I have no clue how they compute the "spend" part. It seems to compute the spend $40 part based on full price and I guess I had some sale items.
That is a separate note - I thought that California has certain weights and measures standards around sale of certain fresh items like meat, deli items and some produce. I could have sworn Fresh and Easy tried to implement some kind of simplified price policy on items that are not compatible with that law, like selling each New York Steak for $9.99 regardless of weight, and they got fined millions of dollars and had to stop as California requires exact weight pricing in such categories and can't have for example a 12.5 Oz steak and a 11.7 Oz steak at the same price period? If so I wonder when Amazon is going to get in trouble here. It is already very strange that they dropped meat processing in store and went to shelf ready after their first couple months operating the first stores - yet they still have someone in store to handle cutting for just the service case. And that's where the problem will come from - the service case will sell exactly by the pound but the same item is shelf ready with one price on the rack and California Weights and Measures laws will not tolerate this. They would have to restrict the service case to cuts not available shelf ready. Am I right about Fresh and Easy getting in trouble over this? Or was it someone else like Target? I don't remember.