Woolworths Dinsdale

Nostalgia took a beating yesterday when I thought I'd just pop into the Dinsdale Woolworths for a few items since I was up that way for appointments and this was my regular for 18 years. It's not something I'll do again anytime soon. Entering the complex, I was met by massive potholes along the drive through from the Tuhikaramea side. At the door I was greeted by a large display sign of the weeks specials but inside I was met by empty displays for specials items. THIS WAS AT 12 NOON on a MONDAY. If you can't be organised for a Monday??? Some staff were actually really in the way of shoppers as they were there with their wagons stocking the empty shelves at Midday! There were a flow of customers there, but not in such a volume as to excuse so much missing product. Final insult was no toilet paper in the loo. So who is responsible for upkeep of the entire site? For perspective, if you are a local and use that store.. take a trip out of Hams to Woolworths in surrounding towns to see what organisation and availability looks like. This is NOT a criticism of the staff - they were lovely, but management/owners certainly need to step up and improve standards to meet those currently maintained by other outlying Woolworths operators..

Shelves are often half empty. Not exactly a Health & Safety conscious store either.

I always find dinsdale too swamped and I have to wait a long time for them to get my online order ready and I quiet often have to ring ahead of time to get them to bring my order out into lockers and their excuse is always that they are swamped. Time to use a different store for my online orders, we pay extra for the convenience but it's not convention in this store

Knowledgeable staff, eager to help. Sometimes they can be stress when too busy but ok. Shelves always full. Like the free fruit for kids.

Agree with the previous reviewer. Mgmt needs to have more staff on tills for those doing weekly shops. Total pain having scan a trolley full. Even the dreaded yellow place is better than this. I'm going elsewhere in future.nAlso the instore music is loud and intrusive.