Ok, so many of you buy crickets from the store weekly like i still do(even though i also use roaches) and many of you shop at petsmart and petco.
I personally liked petsmart better for a long time but now I have sent their corporate a complaint.
Over the past six months i have noted the size of their "large" crickets go from one inch or 3/4 an inch adult crickets, to maybe 1/4 to 1/2 an inch in size yet the same price.
so now we have to feed our beardies even more, costing us more money. im fed up with it, i tried to talk to the store manager about it and he said he cant do anything about it so i went over his head and sent the text below to their corporate. If you are no longer happy with the size or your crickets i would say to send a message to them as well. I will be keeping updates on the emails they send me to resolve this issue and if not properly resolved i will take action to make sure people stop shopping there.
"Dear petsmart. I have been a long time shopper at your store, spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars. I bought (rescued) a bearded dragon from your store a year ago in march and have spent around $700 on the first set up and hundreds more over the year in crickets and other needs to keep a healthy bearded dragon.
Over the past six months I have noted the size in your “large” crickets has gone from 3/4 inch/1 inch in length, wings, and fully adult crickets, to piss poor, deathly looking crickets who don’t even measure between ¼ inch and 1/ 2 inch. That’s hardly bigger than the small! Now I went from spending around 50 dollars a month in crickets to 70 because they no longer feed my bearded dragon right.
I know you buy them from a supplier who grows them and sends you them. But there must be product control. You cannot continue this, if this problem is not fixed not only will I take my business elsewhere to petco (which has large crickets) but I will post on every reptile forum, facebook, twitter, tumblr, and your website to not shop at your store for anything reptile related much less crickets. I have had trubble in the past and kept silent but this is the very food the animals you sell eats!
Someone buys a Chinese water dragon from you guys and it grows to 4-5 feet long, do you think a half inch crickets going to fill him up? No. I have a bearded dragon who is almost two feet long and still growing and he needs food, not snacks.
I await your reply"
I personally liked petsmart better for a long time but now I have sent their corporate a complaint.
Over the past six months i have noted the size of their "large" crickets go from one inch or 3/4 an inch adult crickets, to maybe 1/4 to 1/2 an inch in size yet the same price.
so now we have to feed our beardies even more, costing us more money. im fed up with it, i tried to talk to the store manager about it and he said he cant do anything about it so i went over his head and sent the text below to their corporate. If you are no longer happy with the size or your crickets i would say to send a message to them as well. I will be keeping updates on the emails they send me to resolve this issue and if not properly resolved i will take action to make sure people stop shopping there.
"Dear petsmart. I have been a long time shopper at your store, spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars. I bought (rescued) a bearded dragon from your store a year ago in march and have spent around $700 on the first set up and hundreds more over the year in crickets and other needs to keep a healthy bearded dragon.
Over the past six months I have noted the size in your “large” crickets has gone from 3/4 inch/1 inch in length, wings, and fully adult crickets, to piss poor, deathly looking crickets who don’t even measure between ¼ inch and 1/ 2 inch. That’s hardly bigger than the small! Now I went from spending around 50 dollars a month in crickets to 70 because they no longer feed my bearded dragon right.
I know you buy them from a supplier who grows them and sends you them. But there must be product control. You cannot continue this, if this problem is not fixed not only will I take my business elsewhere to petco (which has large crickets) but I will post on every reptile forum, facebook, twitter, tumblr, and your website to not shop at your store for anything reptile related much less crickets. I have had trubble in the past and kept silent but this is the very food the animals you sell eats!
Someone buys a Chinese water dragon from you guys and it grows to 4-5 feet long, do you think a half inch crickets going to fill him up? No. I have a bearded dragon who is almost two feet long and still growing and he needs food, not snacks.
I await your reply"
Bought my new baby this year and put him on roaches, but the moment I fed him crickets (just for a treat) he got parasites not even a week later. He went through 2 rounds of treatment to get rid of them since the vet said he had a huge infestation. I'll never buy crickets or even mealworms/waxworms from these pet stores again because all of them end up being sick or dead.
