It was with much excitement that I stopped in today, their first day of business.  The store is beautiful, as one would expect.  Clean, bright, and plenty of almost eerily happy and helpful staff.  I expect this will all go downhill over time, but for now it's very impressive.\n\nUnfortunately, by the time I left I felt pretty crestfallen that the Meijer I had been so looking forward to isn't going to become a regular stop for me. The main reason for this is because the store is incredibly poorly laid out.   The sections people visit on a typical grocery shopping trip are separated as much as possible, forcing customers to cut through all the home decor, clothes, automotive crap, and the like I'm guessing for the purposes of encouraging unnecessary impulse buys.  Going to Meijer for groceries on a Saturday is enough of a pain in the ass without having to cover every single square inch of the store to get the stuff I need.  Forget a quick trip in to grab a few items for dinner, it's just not possible.  It's so obnoxious that I can't see myself making a lot of grocery trips here since I just don't have the time or patience for a sight seeing tour of every last thing big box retail has to offer.\n\nThe other major issue I had was that the selection was surprisingly limited.  Their organic produce offerings are negligable.  I went in to pick up four particular, and not at all unusual, items and they only had two of them.  It really sucked to hike all over the store for almost 45 minutes looking for what I needed only to find that they didn't have half of it.  What's the point of dealing with a monster store when you're going to have to make a second stop at County Market or Schnucks to finish off  your grocery list?  It's much easier and not that much more expensive to just skip Meijer.