Sainsbury's Reviews Summary

Category: Supermarket

Address: Hectors Way, Newbury, RG14 5AB, United Kingdom

Phone: +44163532119

Rating: 4.2
based on 134 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "Over the last 2 years I have had consistently excellent customer service at this Newbury store."
  • "Thank you so much to the staff who looked after my mum today."
  • "She always has a smile on her face and nothing is too much trouble for her."
  • "The Argos staff were extremely helpful. I can only commend the customer service."
  • "Always good deals on and the staff are always friendly."
  • "Staff are present, available and friendly."
  • "I love this shop. The staff are always friendly and helpful."

Cons:

  • "Keep your witts about you people, this company certainly puts processes in place but sadly they don't lean towards benefiting the customer."
  • "Not a single sorry was said through the whole dealing with this, all staff looked completely disinterested."
  • "4 young members of staff at customer service point, no social distancing and they seemed far more into their own conversation."
  • "The lady there needs to be taught some customer relations."
  • "Old check out ladies who are rude and miserable with faces like thunder give me deep joy."
  • "Some staff are discriminating racists."
  • "Staff didn't appear to care. 2 people on the till who didn't know what they were doing."

Store Layout & Stock

Pros:

  • "Big store and loads of choices in each department on display from normal shop to homewares and clothing."
  • "Lots of clothing upstairs, and now plenty of home wares in front of the entrance to the store."
  • "A big supermarket with Argos on the ground floor and Tu clothing and Specsavers upstairs."
  • "Nice big Supermarket. Clothes and café upstairs. The rest on ground level. Plenty of customer toilets. Clean and tidy."
  • "This supermarket is huge! It has everything you could need."
  • "Very large Sainsbury's store with a lot on offer."
  • "Food always well stocked, good selection of homeware and pretty big clothing selection."

Cons:

  • "Twice in the last 6 weeks your products have been moved to different shelves, this morning, I gave up."
  • "Disappointed, didn't have the products I required! Even their highly rated vegan cheese was not available."
  • "Most fruit has already gone off before it hits the shelves and masses of products are out of stock all the time."
  • "Parking spaces are a lot smaller than they were, some shelving needs rethinking especially the bread areas, very awkward for older people (too low!) (Too high!)."
  • "Good shop but the layout is all over the place, people are constantly pushing and racing around."
  • "It's a huge store, lots of choice, but let down by access, they permanently closed the extra doors, and the self checkouts being out of order a lot of the time."
  • "There's a few gaps on the shelves due to Brexit / Covid / Ukraine."

Value & Pricing

Pros:

  • "They have matched more and more items to Aldi price point giving more reasons to visit the Sainsbury’s."
  • "Excellent range of products. Tesco has reduced the number of product lines it carries and for those that miss particular lines are likely to find them in Sainsbury's."
  • "The prices great the staff always help the use of nectar cards are great."
  • "Got some great bargains in the reduced section and a massive slice of hot pizza for £1 and so was very happy."
  • "Enjoyed my shopping spree in Sainsbury's today. Food selection very good. Several reductions on offer."

Cons:

  • "I am supposed to be saving money and instead, I am losing it to your poor service."
  • "I fail to understand that Fuel in Wantage (not Sainsbury's) is 1.57/ltr and Newbury Sainsbury's is 1.76/ltr. They are profiteering."
  • "Breakfast prices are ridicules!! £6 For a breakfast which you don't get no beans and only 1 slice of toast."
  • "Great supermarket but one huge con for the vouchers that say, 'spend so much and get 180 points'."
  • "Very disappointed. Ordered a tuna (freshly made bloomer) absolutely no more than a teaspoon of tuna in one side."

Facilities & Services

Pros:

  • "Covid aware and organised. Rarely any queues. Plenty of parking."
  • "Good parking and the disabled bays (which I sadly need) are in good positions for the entrance."
  • "Very easy to park, lots of space as there is also an upstairs area."
  • "Nice big car park, always easy to get a space on the top floor."
  • "Lots of parking - on busy days check up on the second storey as often those spaces are much more free than downstairs."
  • "Had breakfast in the cafe upstairs, which was very well cooked and yummy."

Cons:

  • "Just wasted £6 on carwash...was supposed to be the premium one but didn't even clean the wheels!"
  • "They have closed permanently cafe so we could have a drink and cake."
  • "Really shocking customer service. Got my daughter a gift card that didn't work when arriving home."
  • "Went for lunch only advice don't bother. Had an English breakfast. Sausage Undercooked bacon burnt no beans mushroom was a spunge full of grease and no beans!!!"
  • "Like many places it has introduced aggressive car parking enforcement with cameras."
  • "A complete pain to get in and out of, the upper car parking level doesn't inspire confidence with its myriad metal patches."
  • "Don't use the male toilets you have lost your sense of smell it is atrocious."

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