Thank you Zach. I have already been contacted by a manager named Beau. He asked for details via…read moreemail. I gave him a detailed account of our experience but never heard back from him. That's when I shared my experience with others. If there is an update to store policy that I am made aware of, I plan to go back to the Hy-Vee I used to love and update my review. On my last trip, I discovered this HyVee in Waverly will only price match one item per transaction. After choosing one item and leaving the others, had to check out at customer service. The assistant manager didn't know how to do it and came up with the wrong price. Left my entire cart and went to Fareway where they happily price matched HyVee. Fareway is now my go to grocery store in Waverly.

If you are looking for a restaurant that serves an early breakfast in Waverly, you should consider…read morethe cafeteria inside the grocery store. You go to the counter, look at the breakfast specials, and then place your order with the person behind the counter. They will hand you a plastic table number, and if you order a drink, you will proceed to the sidebar where the coffee cups or glasses are located. Caribou coffee is the main brand served at this Hyvee. I had the combo of eggs, pancakes, potatoes, and bacon. It comes freshly cooked and delivered to your table. This was my first time ordering breakfast this way at a Hyvee grocery store. The pancakes are actually very good. I found out why I was taken here. It is the only place serving a cooked breakfast before 9 a.m. in this town.

You folks in Iowa have no freakin' idea how good you have it with Fareway. I live in Fairfax…read moreCounty, Virginia and we have nothing that is even close to this place. In particular, the meat counter is spectacular! When I was in Vinton a couple weeks back I counted 8 butchers behind the counter. Eight! You would have to visit 8 stores to find that many here. Folks are friendly, prices reasonable and did I mention the meat counter? Super duper recommended.

This is a pretty standard Fareway. It's not nearly as big as the one in Independence, but I…read morecertainly don't always feel like driving 20 minutes to go to Indee. It's very clean, and it's a very well-taken-care-of store. They even do a great job of getting in some of the newer types of food products. The shelves are usually stocked, and while they don't have the variety a big-box store does, this is one of the few places in town to get a good selection of groceries. Okay, it's pretty much the only place in town, and it puts the grocery selection of K-mart or Shopko to shame. I haven't had any particular issue with things being regularly out-of-stock, and they seem to do a decent job of keeping the shelves stocked. Cashiers have always been nice, and they do a good job of customer management here. They'll call up more cashiers when the lines get long, and I've never waited more than a couple minutes to check-out. Very satisfactory in terms of most stores in Oelwein (and most stores, period. Very good line management) I still don't understand the aisle organization in the store, though. There's water on the far side with some groceries then there are some aisles of cleaning supplies, then we have aisles of cookies, and then refrigerated and then frozen. The aisle organization makes no sense, and despite shopping here regularly for over a year, I still have to look through nearly every aisle when I want to find something. Parking lot is nice. I've never had any issues parking or getting out of the parking lot. Unlike some of the other lots in town, this one isn't in disrepair or going to pop a tire from their potholes. This Fareway does NOT have a fresh bakery, but they do have some bakery items. They do have a full-service meat counter as well as some types of health foods (though not a lot) like almond milk or soy milk. There is no bicycle parking, but in hilarious Oelwein fashion, there is horse parking. Prices are pretty good. Not great, but not insanely high either. If you buy the items that are on the weekly sale (especially the front page of their ad), you can get stuff for cheaper than you could find in Waterloo or Cedar Falls. The fact that Fareway employees go out with the carts to load up your car drives me absolutely insane, though. I mean, insane. I'm sure some people really like it, though, but I'd rather just deal with it all myself. Final thoughts: I'm glad this is in Oelwein or I'd have nowhere decent to get groceries. It's a surprisingly great store for this area, and they've done a good job of taking care of the property and the stock. It's obvious that whoever runs this Fareway cares about presenting a decent appearance and isn't just relying on the "this is the only place people can go" factor. I enjoy shopping here (aside from the aisle organization).

they offer a wide variety of deli products and have great customer serviceread more

What an amazing market! Such a breathe of fresh air from corporate supermarkets. Such variety and…read morefresh made salads and sandwiches as well. I highly recommend the homemade bread pudding.

The place is great for international food. It would be great if they took requests. I have tried to…read moreget the clotted cream from Devon Cream Company, the same vendor used for the fresh cream they order, not sure why this can't happen or who would need to be reached out to. I would like the store to carry the clotted cream that goes with scones. Thanks.

HOOOORAY WOOOHOO YIPPEEE KAYAYAYAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! local, organic, family run market that…read morecarries all the yummy real fresh food that was made close to- or in your hometown! Well, MY hometown :-) lucky me I just found this place- spoke w the owner who is a super cool chick- scored some local butter for 2$?!? and organic milk 3.49$ (SERIOUSLY?! its that much for Organic Valley @ the grocery!!!) and apples (honeycrisps- 2 for a DOLLAR!?! 2.58/lb @ the grocery!) and some garbonzo bean flour to hone my hummus makin skills. Their prices are WAYUNDER what you would expect for such stellar food and if you know me you know I LOVE LOCAL :-) and they carry grass fed beef and eggs and cheese and chicken and sausages and bratwurst and sour cream and yogurt and pumpkins and....for a little hometown grocery this place HAS IT!!!!! (closed Tuesdays)

Coggon Market and Catering is a small grocery store with an exceptional meat department. It is…read morevery small and run by a husband and wife team who are very friendly and helpful. Their meat department is first rate (I drive 45 minutes one way to buy their meat) and their catering department is excellent. I highly recommend Coggon Market and Catering to everyone who asks me about grocery stores. :)

A nice hidden jewel! I had a taste for middle eastern food and came across this place. A grocery…read morestore with a food counter and a simple menu. I ordered a spicy jumbo chicken Shawarma with a mint yogurt drink. The shawarma was amazing and the mint yogurt brought back memories. The service was great and I wish I would've gotten more stuff. Overall great experience and I will be back!!!

I've seen this place so often and finally stopped in a few weeks ago - amazing. Yes I have been…read moreback. Had a spicy schwarma (excellent) from the kitchen area and incredible fresh pita bread. Fun to see the variety of product available in the grocery store too. Feels like I've travelled out of the country when I shop there, in a great way. Very nice employees. This is a great unique place you should check out and give business to.

It's always crazy-busy. Parking is a pain, aisles are full, lines at the registers ... and I don't…read moreget it at all because their prices are so high compared to the competition. Shopping here is too hectic and not worth it.

it was a busy evening in store. we met friends for drinks in Wahlburger's restaurant late…read moreafternoon. Festive enough: a Coca Cola semi was parked out front all decorated & lit for Christmas season. inside Santa was available to pose for pictures and a string quintet from WCF symphony was playing in food court. Great ambiance and it's all downhill from here on. Friends were sitting at restaurant bar with an inch deep moat of water under their stools, it was coming from restroom and no one had come to do anything about it. I'm guessing restrooms are 40 feet down a long hall from dining room and goes by a door to kitchen somewhere back there because a chef kept delivering food from that hall and through pool of water. There was no bartender on duty. we had to summon anyone to get us drinks. A grumpy deli manager finally showed up and delivered our beverages. Then a kid arrived with a stack of towels to mop up water. I asked if he couldn't use a mop, but said he didn't think they had one, oh well. The deli manager went back to his food prep counter and offered no suggestions, help or encouragement to young man cleaning up mess. We never got a smile, greeting or asked about more drinks. Kids were banging their silverware on dining table in middle of room & as our party broke up, my husband & I decided to move out to selfserve deli tables, get a meal from food court & sat to enjoy music. There were a lot of dirty tables and being near front doors it was cold and drafty. Something should be done to enclose east side of deli dining room! Our food was okay, fried chicken dinners. I needed groceries from cheese island so proceeded to shop the store. I noticed produce area floor needed to be swept and mopped as I walked through. This is not where I do my regular grocery shop, only for gourmet items. I had a long list, my back was aching from time on bar stool so kept plugging through. First stop - cheese island at 7:15 PM & staff was cleaning slicer & covering the food in display cases. I have no idea what times specialty shops close, but this was ridiculous. They didn't want to but they relented, put slicer back into service and cut ham & cheese to my request. Next stop was meat counter & they didn't have any fresh chicken breast with skin & bones intact. Staff had to go looking for it in self-serve case. Meat staff wasn't certain where to find a couple more items on my list, so I asked to have help meet me. I waited about 5 minutes, no one came so I set out to try looking for big tortillas, dried fruit & jam. The meat staff came out to ask if anyone had ever arrived & so he found a couple young kids who knew exactly which aisles i should check, they were correct. By now I had been all over half of store, was really in pain, so I called it a night and headed to check out. I'll go to my little grocery another time for rest of the list. As it was, 2 paper grocery sacks cost me $54.00 each! The store seems to have plenty of staff around in various areas, but to me it appears that no one is working very hard, rather they are working hard to look like they are working. Somewhere it gets lost in translation that staff are loafing off. From what I observed this evening it seems none of young folks were ever trained to WORK, they seem not to know what they should be doing and the managers are sick of babysitting. The only saving Grace was that symphony group were finished performing at 8:00PM as I headed to my vehicle. I'll add one star to my review because that was really enjoyable.

Great service and selection. Happy to have a full service grocery store in Williamsburg.read more