text: If you live in the city of Pittsburgh and do not want to drive to WalMart Giant Eagle otherwise known as the Dirty Bird or Gian Iggle if your accents just right is where you will shop Period end of discussion Generally I think monopolies are very bad and this goes double for grocers because they know their customers are held hostage and can thus attempt whatever fuckery they would like Over the past decade most other Giant Eagle locations in Pittsburghs East End were shuttered meaning that the NegleyCentre store serves everyone nnPerhaps my biggest gripe with Market District is that our bills at this Giant Eagle were consistently higher than our bills at any other grocery store in any city I have shopped in and that is WITH the coupons and Advantage Card discount added on I guess in the end calling something a Market District Giant Eagle is a clever way of telling customers We stock all the same crap you would find at a regular store but now we can charge you even MORE for pretending it is premium organic or has been blessed by Emeril Lagasse You also need to know that overcrowding is unavoidable at this store unless you like to start your errands around PM and even then it is helpful to remember that customers exceed checkout lanes Good thing we lived within walking distance of this location because parking at this store is only marginally easier than driving a caravan of elephants through Manhattan at rush hour nnThis store was never wanting for basic grocery staples when we shopped but the Market District moniker somehow demanded that the aisles be set up to be as maximally nonsensical as possible Do you want juice Save your sanity and do not expect it to be near the other juicesyou will want to look near the pasta of course To keep you on your toes the store managers also randomly change the aisles at this Market District around a couple times a year This is a common retail trick intended to create excitement among customers but really all it does is make getting groceries as enticing as getting kicked in the balls And who is stocking the produce at this place Everything we bought would rot between hours after we brought it home and the peppers and tomatoes regularly looked like Mickey Rourkes face after his plastic surgery disastersnnMy last visit to this Market District store left me with an exceedingly sour taste in my mouth thanks to some shady hijinks at the pharmacy We picked up my husbands script for a Schedule II medication and soon after discovered to our mutual horror that the pharmacy had shorted us pills or maybe that is an innocent mistake A pill shortage on a pill prescription means someone chose a career in pharmacy to feed an addiction or run a little hustle on the side and it means my husband will be going without We asked the manager Dude what the fuck and the response we got was We did not do nuthin Two weeks later they had the nerve to RoboCall my husband asking if he was interested in some valuable grocery coupons Nice attempt at a save there Bub but next time do not snatch our money and we will not need those valuable coupons after all Is not it also fascinating that we have been shorted on scheduled meds at other pharmacies before but no one pockets our migraine meds antibiotics or other items you cannot sell to teenagers in an alleynnTwo stars because the checkout staff is nice and the pastakosher deli selections rock Otherwise it is a grocery store and a belowaverage one at that