Greene Grape Provisions Seeks Feedback
Greene Grape Provisions, a new food store featuring fresh fish, meat, bread, cheese, produce, prepared foods, a tossed salad bar and beer, is seeking comments on how we're doing so far and helpful suggestions on how we can improve. Please help us out by taking the time to fill out the survey at www.greenegrape.com.
Your input will help us improve our service and offerings to you. Oh, and you get a free coffee for filling out the survey if you fill it out by Sunday, March 16.
The store is located at 753 Fulton at South Portland in Fort Greene.
Your input will help us improve our service and offerings to you. Oh, and you get a free coffee for filling out the survey if you fill it out by Sunday, March 16.
The store is located at 753 Fulton at South Portland in Fort Greene.
Comments
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Good on you! I certainly will.
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well I didn't make it before 3/16 but I took the survey. Thanks for asking what we think... thats a good step in a great direction!
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It would be great to have a place to buy fresh fish and meat in the neighborhood. I don't trust even Pathmark for fish, and I'm very cautious with their meat. There have been times when I've walked past their poultry section and could literally smell the salmonella.
But I have to tell you that when you guys opened up it was the event that signaled to me that the neighborhood had finally jumped the shark toward gentrification -- as if it hadn't happened already. I have not yet stepped in because even if you do sell great fish and meat I am almost sure I will not be able to afford it. I hope I am wrong, but that is the perception I have based on the look of your store.
But I promise to give you a chance... I learned a long time ago not to judge by appearances. -
I read this posting and went today evening. I was a little taken aback by the prices. The cheapest fish was the Tilapia at 11$ a pound.
Whole foods as a comparision is at least 20% cheaper.
I would think that a neighborhood store that is trying to establish itself would have competitive prices.
The service was also pretty show. Maybe the cashiers should make less small talk and move the line faster when there are 5 people in line.
Really.....make your prices competitive and you will have my business. Otherwise its Fresh Direct or Whole Foods or Trader Joe's -
missed this completely, but i went in there the other day for the first time to get a take-out sandwich and thought it was absolutely terrible.
four employees behind the deli counter. one begins to make my sandwich, then walks away about half-way, not returning for five minutes. other three people stare completely into space the entire time until i ask if someone was going to finish my sandwich, to which they respond with being completely oblivious to my presence. the guy finally comes back and starts working on another order before i have to get his attention. what should have been, at most, a 10-minute experience took at least double that.
no, thanks. -
Lower your prices! I can't afford your fancy fishes.
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I agree with the previous posters. Please try to lower your seafood prices. They are really high. I will shop there more often in general if you lower your prices. You have the opportunity to really do well in terms of cornering the market on good cheese, meat and seafood in the area but right now I might as well go out to eat, because it is cheaper.
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I find the meat and fish prices pretty reasonable for the quality you're getting. Keep in mind they are not getting Whole Foods-like volume discounts. The price of convenience, I say. However, the prepared foods get a bit ridiculous--$8.50 for a modest portion of orzo salad?
Also, the quality of the produce has been just sad. I'd like to see the addition of rotisserie chicken. -
Not only are the prices exorbitant, but the staff has been beyond rude to me and several other friends of mine. I will not be supporting this place.
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Between the high prices and rude staff,not looking like this place will be in business for long. Then again, arent these the same people( owners of Green Grape Wine Shop) that tried to block another wine shop from opening up in Ft Greene, not even close in proximity to theirs? Huh.....karma is a beyaattch isnt it?I still wish them well. Sounds like they need it!
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I actually stopped in this afternoon and bought seafood to prepare for dinner. Quality was excellent but I agree that the prices are considerably higher than Whole Foods, etc. I wouldn't have gone into Provisions today at all had I been working in the city because there are plenty of other options for quality without the price. I will give it to Provisions in terms of convenience but if a competitor opens they are going to have to do something about their prices.
Quality of meat and seafood is very good, I've purchased meat in the past and been very pleased. Dry goods, though.... RIDICULOUS in price. I don't even bother.
I do, however, seem to be at odds with some of the other posters here in that I've always found service to be friendly and helpful. -
how they treat you seems to depend on how you look
as for seafood "quality", i mentioned something about the prices and was cursed out by the fish guy telling me all their fish fresh and other peoples is frozen. all i did was ask him exactly where they get fresh unfrozen red snapper from around here and then he went ballistic. no thanks. i will pass. -
wouldn't it be great if greene grape replied to these accusations? until they do, these anonymous posters' rantings will stand as the gospel.
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ltjbukem wrote: wouldn't it be great if greene grape replied to these accusations? until they do, these anonymous posters' rantings will stand as the gospel.
Gospel? Ha. These anonymous rants do nothing to deter me from shopping there. I have read plenty of crap about Greene Grape from other blogs as well as this board and to be honest... gossip and smack-talk is just as ugly as what these folks are spouting. If I heard some actual FACTS then maybe I'd care, but I haven't yet. All I read are ambiguous comments cloaked in anonymity. -
yeah I tend to take negative reviews from 'guests' with a grain of salt.
especially when 3 of them came on the same night w/in 2 hours of each other. -
Anonymous wrote: [quote=ltjbukem]wouldn't it be great if greene grape replied to these accusations? until they do, these anonymous posters' rantings will stand as the gospel.
Gospel? Ha. These anonymous rants do nothing to deter me from shopping there. I have read plenty of crap about Greene Grape from other blogs as well as this board and to be honest... gossip and smack-talk is just as ugly as what these folks are spouting. If I heard some actual FACTS then maybe I'd care, but I haven't yet. All I read are ambiguous comments cloaked in anonymity.
And yet your response to comments cloaked in anonymity is itself cloaked in anonymity. Jeesh - get a life. -
CHAOCguy wrote: [quote=Anonymous][quote=ltjbukem]wouldn't it be great if greene grape replied to these accusations? until they do, these anonymous posters' rantings will stand as the gospel.
Gospel? Ha. These anonymous rants do nothing to deter me from shopping there. I have read plenty of crap about Greene Grape from other blogs as well as this board and to be honest... gossip and smack-talk is just as ugly as what these folks are spouting. If I heard some actual FACTS then maybe I'd care, but I haven't yet. All I read are ambiguous comments cloaked in anonymity.
And yet your response to comments cloaked in anonymity is itself cloaked in anonymity. Jeesh - get a life.
There's internet anonymity and real life anonymity. On the internet, when you register for a site, that's akin to announcing that you're going to own what you say -- rather than just posting as a "guest." Even one with a cutesy name.
Personally: I didn't take the survey, because I found that it dealt only with Greene Grape proper, as opposed to the Green Grape Provisions store. As for the store, I've only been in there once; it seemed a modest selection of things that looked okay, but the sandwich counter had shut down, so I couldn't try it. Ah well. I'm rarely by that part of the neighborhood anyway, so it's a moot point for me. (But if we could get some kind of bakery or butcher up on Myrtle, that'd be fab, thanks.) -
CHAOCguy wrote: [quote=Anonymous][quote=ltjbukem]wouldn't it be great if greene grape replied to these accusations? until they do, these anonymous posters' rantings will stand as the gospel.
Gospel? Ha. These anonymous rants do nothing to deter me from shopping there. I have read plenty of crap about Greene Grape from other blogs as well as this board and to be honest... gossip and smack-talk is just as ugly as what these folks are spouting. If I heard some actual FACTS then maybe I'd care, but I haven't yet. All I read are ambiguous comments cloaked in anonymity.
And yet your response to comments cloaked in anonymity is itself cloaked in anonymity. Jeesh - get a life.
I am not insulting the reputation of a business. Plus, I am lazy and do not feel like registering.
Looks like you might be the one who needs a life, sweetie
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Anonymous wrote: [quote=CHAOCguy][quote=Anonymous][quote=ltjbukem]wouldn't it be great if greene grape replied to these accusations? until they do, these anonymous posters' rantings will stand as the gospel.
Gospel? Ha. These anonymous rants do nothing to deter me from shopping there. I have read plenty of crap about Greene Grape from other blogs as well as this board and to be honest... gossip and smack-talk is just as ugly as what these folks are spouting. If I heard some actual FACTS then maybe I'd care, but I haven't yet. All I read are ambiguous comments cloaked in anonymity.
And yet your response to comments cloaked in anonymity is itself cloaked in anonymity. Jeesh - get a life.
Whatever..............
I am not insulting the reputation of a business. Plus, I am lazy and do not feel like registering.
Looks like you might be the one who needs a life, sweetie -
I have to agree with the comments about price, especially WRT the dry goods on the shelves. I took a quick pass-through and found the prices (or the products they've chosen to sell) to be kind of ridiculous. Fine if you were doing a hoity-toity one-off picnic somewhere isolated, but not something for the day-to-day. The meat/fish quality looked good. The prepared foods were somewhat in the same stratosphere as the shelf goods.
I didn't find any of the staff rude. I've only been in twice. The significant coffee footprint is kind of weird for a place with no seating.
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