best grocery store?

I only go into Compare for things like cleaning supplies....there's always a bad odor in there...have they been able to get rid of that?

Keyfood at 5th ave, has a parking lot and a good selection of produce, specialty cheeses etc. Roomy! Friendly cashiers. The 7th ave one is now clean and also has a good selection. No parking lot and not as roomy. Friendly cashiers optional.

C-Town is also good with a nice selection of produce etc. and friendly cashiers. No lot.

Pathmark behind Lowe's is down right scary.

Costco is great for meat, poultry and bulky things of course.

pastoralia wrote: [quote=Peanuts]I only go into Compare for things like cleaning supplies....there's always a bad odor in there...have they been able to get rid of that?

Yeah, it's almost like it's becoming a real grocery store and not an enlarged bodega.

I live around the corner from the Compare and I looooove it for canned goods and frozen stuff. I don't know if I'm ready to get produce or meat there yet, but their canned goods are generally way cheaper than C-town. And the stink seems to be gone!

I need to start a car pool to Fairway, Costco and/or Trader Joe's!

qmarnor wrote: [quote=tajmb]Fresh Direct. Paying the delivery fee is worth it to avoid the surly check out girls at both 5th ave and 7th ave Key Food stores.

I agree. I can't believe those Key Food cashiers on 5th keep their jobs the way I see them mouth off at paying customers weekend after weekend. One day I saw one cashier screaming at a woman, who could not speak english, about her food stamps debit card until the woman ran sobbing and humiliated from the store. How long are the managers over there going to operate under the assumption that people are willing to pay to have their food thrown at them by a hostile checkout person who refuses to make eye contact or speak when spoken to and then talks smack about me to another cashier in front of me as I am hastily bagging my own food while the next customer's food is being chucked at me? Avoid the 5th Ave Key Food. No one needs to be near that kind of negativity.


Wow, I have never ever seen cashiers at the 5th Avenue Key Food behave like that and I shop there twice a week for years now! I can't imagine Dellio and the other managers would put up with that-now, 7th Avenue Key Food is another story!

Rockergirl said:

1. Fairway
2. Fairway
3. Fairway

It's seriously the greatest grocery store I've ever been to in the US. You can take the B77 bus there from 9th st, then a car home costs around $8 or they will delivery your groceries for free & you could take the bus back.

Fairway is a neat store. I shop there sometimes and I really like it.

But if you want the ultimate grocery store, you have to get to a Wegman's. They have them in Ithaca, Rochester, and several other upstate cities, as well as in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Walking into one of their stores, I always feel like the Robin Williams character in Moscow on the Hudson, the Russian immigrant who is seeing an American supermarket for the first time. It's like going to heaven!