Sainsbury's Reviews Summary

Category: Supermarket

Address: Woolsack Way, Godalming, GU7 1LQ, United Kingdom

Phone: +441483418564

Rating: 4.1
based on 141 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "What a pleasant experience dealing with Nathan in Customer Service."
  • "The staff however are always very helpful and pleasant."
  • "Helpful staff, including the shop assistant who uses a walker. πŸ’― % respect for her."
  • "The staff are polite, professional, helpful and knowledgeable about products."
  • "If could not find what I required staff were very pleasant and helpful and took me strait away to the item that I needed could not ask for better service."
  • "staff are super helpful everyone is lovely"
  • "The staff has always been helpful and friendly everytime I've needed assistance."

Cons:

  • "Staff and customer services isn’t bad but sometimes a tad lackadaisical."
  • "Staff seem disinterested"
  • "The customer service here is absolutely awful too."
  • "Lazy younger Staff who are constantly seen standing around talking."
  • "Unhelpful staff, incorrect pricing, many empty shelves with no one restocking, smartshop system not working properly."
  • "Customer services respond in a very formulaic way; you can feel the insincerity dripping from their lines."
  • "The staff at the Godalming Cafeteria is incompetent, lazy and ignorant."

Store Cleanliness and Layout

Pros:

  • "Clean and tidy filling station with small convenience store."
  • "Very clean, masses of choice and quite convenient."
  • "This Sainsburys is large, light, and has a particularly wide range of fresh vegetables."
  • "I love this shop! The products are amazing and everything is arranged very nicely."
  • "Sainsburys Godalming is a very modern supermarket built with a spacious car park with family friendly bays near the storefront."
  • "It's a supermarket! Good size and selection across a good range of food and other items."
  • "A large space with a great amount of stock."

Cons:

  • "Multiple lines out of stock, pallets and cages blocking aisles."
  • "the toilets are disgusting,shelves are half empty"
  • "The shelves are filthy and many times an item I've selected has been covered in leaking milk, etc."
  • "Pallets and cages blocking aisles."
  • "Store signage, as with all sainsburys, is ineffective as you can't see what's in any aisle until you get to the aisle."
  • "This shop very often has empty shelves."
  • "the store also provides at least 3 mobile units for which there is no charge"

Shopping Experience

Pros:

  • "It's a great large Sainsbury's. Winning feature for me is the Sushi Gormet counter where you will find a sushi chef prepping food live at various times."
  • "Staff very friendly and ample car parking."
  • "Nice large store plus free parking. In addition this branch also has a petrol garage with a car wash."
  • "Nice and large, includes clothes and household items as well as obviously food and drink, has a little cafe, toilets and a garage."
  • "Great food. Lots of variety."
  • "Great place, they make the pizzas there for you."
  • "Good range of groceries, clothes and household goods."

Cons:

  • "Recently every time you go in, they are out of something, then end up in Waitrose."
  • "food OK, but not value for money"
  • "the dates on the food are terrible if you want to do a week's shop you've got no chance you're lucky to get two days out of it"
  • "four tiny potatoes, this is not on. Food not value for money, very poor"
  • "never any trollies at the doors"
  • "Lots of gaps on the shelves force you either to go without or to buy more expensive substitutes."
  • "place is understaffed and understocked"

Parking and Accessibility

Pros:

  • "The car park has cameras that record the cars index and time you in and out."
  • "I actually enjoy shopping here, nice big car park, petrol station, cash machines."
  • "Plenty of parking."
  • "There is ample parking."
  • "Large car park, large shop with plenty of choice, a cafΓ© as well a clothing section and an Argos."
  • "+ 3 hour car park (free)"
  • "This recently extended supermarket in Godalming is very to use for those using a wheel chair"

Cons:

  • "No stars - spent 100 quid in the shop - 40 quid online because staff didn't even know they had swim suits in store - which it turns out they did - 8 pounds in the restaurant and what do I get for my loyalty a bloody parking ticket..."
  • "Smart shop been broken for days, half the self service check outs are broken"
  • "It is ridiculous that there is no people on the tills the supermarket is packed and no real people to serve u only row of row of self-service tills."
  • "the number of times I have turned around because the queues are too long"
  • "Queues at check outs."
  • "Gone seriously downhill."
  • "Misleading pricing. Chocolate bunny clearly said it was 50p on the shelf but charged 60p at the till."

Cafe and Food Services

Pros:

  • "Argos & Habitat are also at this branch, also at this branch you can get a cup of tea or coffee and even a cooked breakfast or lunch if you desire."
  • "Had a lovely breakfast here."
  • "The warm quiche, very nice"
  • "Lovely lunch in very busy cafe. The constantly smiling friendly man on the till cafe is a legend."
  • "Great location, lots of parking and pretty much everything you need is here including Argos and a nice cafe."
  • "Cafe upstairs, Argos inside. TU Clothing, kitchenware soft furnishings etc, are all available in store as well as general supermarket goods."
  • "Amazing Sainsbury’s and probably the best I’ve ever been to."

Cons:

  • "Visited Godalming and decided to eat in the upstairs cafe. Unfortunately since Tuesday of this week my friend and I have had severe diarrhoea and haven't been able in 3 days to eat."
  • "The store itself is good but the cafe is dreadful."
  • "I used the canteen there. Never again very expensive and the food looked rank and so little serving plus the time it took to arrive."
  • "Nasty breakfast in Cafe, wet watery mushroom leaking liquid into eggs, wet soggy bacon, hash brown like a cleaners mop, soggy toast."
  • "Absolutely appalling service. Godalming Sainsbury's cafe."
  • "CafΓ© made us feel like intruders - all except 2 tables not to be used, no hot food except for 1 panini."
  • "Cafe disappointment - No oat milk for latte on Wed 27 Sep. Despite this, problem not rectified and No oat milk again today 29 Sep."

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