Seve's C-Town - BAD NEIGHBORS!
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Captain Salty wrote:
Good selection (not awesome) and very much overpriced.
Bierkraft on 5th Ave Union/Berkeley (one of the best beer selections in the *world* but a little pricey.)
Best in the "*world*"?
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Captain Salty wrote: Thrifty/American on Court St.
Court Street? What about the Red Hook Fairway? :?
Bierkraft on 5th Ave Union/Berkeley (one of the best beer selections in the *world* but a little pricey.)
I don't want to get a peg-leg across the mush from the old Cap'n, so I am merely going to point out that Eagle's beer selection is, by a large margin, more numerous than Bierkraft, and then qualify my remarks by explaining that I endorsed Eagle because it seems obvious that a random beer-seeker will have a better chance finding something they'll like. ...That being said, I still like C-Town and I am sorry for the off-thread interruption.
That's as pithy as I can be.
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refridgerating the beer means it doesnt last as long though
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If you DO have a car, I can't recommend the Stop & Shop on Avenue W enough...
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Subject: How can anyone like Steve's C-Town? You people are crazy.
slopeguy, I agree - I hate, hate hate Steve's C-Town.
The ONLY problem is that we have no options - not enough supermarkets around NYC, including Bklyn. We need a big supermarket with good mgt. and staff - 'customer service oriented' - with C-Town prices but GOOD service.
If had someplace else to shop I'd do it in a heartbeat. When I do have a car I shop at Key on 5th - down near St. Mark's place.
Yeah - Steve's has a good beer selection/decent seafood selection/pretty good fruit and overall decent prices
BUT unfortunately: THE personnel (and it's a trickle-down thing) is AWFUL - rude, inefficient - etc. The trickle-down - is from the main manager - a jerk named Newland who is truly a despicable person - RUDE - MEAN - > several people I know have had run-ins with him. He acts like the store is his little kingdom and sets the tone with the cashiers. He's antagonistic with the customers. People have complained and his boss won't fire him for whatever reason.
Instead of shopping being an enjoyable or even normal experience, it's usually an ordeal. -
Subject: Someone need to take C-Town on
They think they can get away with all of this stuff because essentially they have a monopoly. -
I've never had a problem with anyone there and I go once or twice a week. The cashiers aren't what I'd call *friendly*, but I've never experienced any actual rudeness.
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laura wrote: I've never had a problem with anyone there and I go once or twice a week. The cashiers aren't what I'd call *friendly*, but I've never experienced any actual rudeness.
AGREED!
sloperez, perhaps it might be "your" attitude, not the employees. :evil:
Everyone's always nice to my wife and I. But, that's 'cos we're nice folks and treat the employees as they treat us
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Subject: Re: How can anyone like Steve's C-Town? You people are crazy
sloperez wrote: slopeguy, I agree - I hate, hate hate Steve's C-Town.
Newland has worked there for over 10 years.
The ONLY problem is that we have no options - not enough supermarkets around NYC, including Bklyn. We need a big supermarket with good mgt. and staff - 'customer service oriented' - with C-Town prices but GOOD service.
If had someplace else to shop I'd do it in a heartbeat. When I do have a car I shop at Key on 5th - down near St. Mark's place.
Yeah - Steve's has a good beer selection/decent seafood selection/pretty good fruit and overall decent prices
BUT unfortunately: THE personnel (and it's a trickle-down thing) is AWFUL - rude, inefficient - etc. The trickle-down - is from the main manager - a jerk named Newland who is truly a despicable person - RUDE - MEAN - > several people I know have had run-ins with him. He acts like the store is his little kingdom and sets the tone with the cashiers. He's antagonistic with the customers. People have complained and his boss won't fire him for whatever reason.
Instead of shopping being an enjoyable or even normal experience, it's usually an ordeal.
I know him personally for about the same.
He has worked himself up from the security guard to manager
he does feel superior to most Americans, especially women and when I 've questioned him about it he claims that most Jamaican men are
the same way. He is perverted, I can recall punching him in the gut when
about nine years ago his simple flirting escalated to smackin' me on the ass in one of the aisles. Our friendship pretty much ended there, but ever since then I cringe when I happen to run nto him in the store. -
jennitrixie wrote:
FYI the Key Food on 5th Avenue delivers
Grocery shopping is the only time I really miss having a car. Sure, Costo and TJ's and WF and even the Atlantic Ave. Pathmark are great price or selection options, but not as a single person on foot (or subway).C-Town is the best supermarket within easy walking distance.
This is true. It's also a very sad statement. Seriously, I agree with most of the praise here, but most of it amounts to, "You can find stuff on the shelves! It doesn't smell like puke! They don't price-gouge! And I've never seen a rat!"
I will say it has turned me into more of a European-style grocery shopper (getting what you need for the next day or two, rather than loading up a car). And I've found small gems, like better-quality cheaper "exotic" produce at the 5th Ave. markets that cater to Mexicans/Latin Americans (my roommate gets the fixings for her killer tomatillo salsa down that way), nice bakeries, excellent Italian sausages and stuff at Russo's, etc.
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There's a C-Town run by Seve Ballesteros?
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I have to admit, that typo drives me nuts every time.
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laura wrote: I have to admit, that typo drives me nuts every time.
Huh? Am I missing something here? Granted my spelling and grammar are not #1 on the lissst...or is that list? -
lostingreenwoodhts wrote: [quote=laura]I have to admit, that typo drives me nuts every time.
Huh? Am I missing something here? Granted my spelling and grammar are not #1 on the lissst...or is that list?
I think she's referring to the name of the thread, which mentions "Seve's" (instead of the correct "Steve's") C-Town. -
Yep. And in response to Mr. Larkfield's post.
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laura wrote: I've never had a problem with anyone there and I go once or twice a week. The cashiers aren't what I'd call *friendly*, but I've never experienced any actual rudeness.
Not to derail this thread, but this is perhaps the funniest story ever written about a cashier that should be familiar to Prospect Heights people (over at the Met Foods on Vandy):
"She’s a middle-aged woman with badly dyed red hair and a thick Russian accent. She scowls at every item that rolls towards her... If she could get away with balling up the receipt and hucking it at my face, she would. She is not a nice person. So of course I’ve been trying to make her my friend..."
http://finslippy.typepad.com/finslippy/2005/04/why_i_should_pr.html
Also, Foxy Brown used to be a cashier at that Met Foods in PH:
“Abdul of the Met said Foxy Brown used to bag there … the current cashiers proceeded to go absolutely nuts. They said she still comes in, but didn’t know she worked there.â€
http://brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=895#895
FULLY DERAILED!! PH Rules! Heheh!! -
I was just in C-Town ... I had never noticed Newland before, but after reading about him here, when I saw the name on his shirt I couldn't help but mentally narrow my eyes and hiss, "Newland!" in a Jerry Seinfeld voice.
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Subject: Racist woman-hating mgr. at C-Town
Seven24 - THANK YOU!!! for validating my Newland perception/interactions.
He's not just obnoxious - he's a pig and a woman hater AND has made my shopping there (which used to be so-so) really, really unpleasant, because he hates me now since I told him off like you did. It's obviously b.s. (his statement to you that all Jamaican men hate women and treat them like scum) and is a racist statement.
I'd like him to actually lay hands on someone and have them call the cops on him. -
I don't mind Steve's C-Town. Its conveniently located across the street from the gym. They usally have what I am looking for (though the stockers do NOT move out of the way when you are trying to, I don't know, actually reach for some damn spinach!). The prices are competitive and on Saturday mornings a group of cute firemen shop there. I ignore the rudeness and just do my thing. Try listening to am Ipod while you shop. It will block out most of the annoying stuff).
This is NYC so my standards of customer service are diminshed. -
Duffy'sSis wrote: The prices are competitive and on Saturday mornings a group of cute firemen shop there.
It's been a couple of years since I lived close enough for this to be my regular grocery store -- I forgot all about the firefighters! They're in there a lot. -
Still rather mystified as to the "rudeness" and "annoying stuff" other people have to deal with or "block out". If a stocker is in my way I say "excuse me" and he moves.
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i live on union and 7th and i've always shopped at key food on 7th. I've noticed it's getting to be pricier by the day. Anyone recommend switching to a better store?
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Associated on 5th and Union is great albeit limited selection
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I was just at C-Town, and the debit card of the fellow in front of me wouldn't read. The cashier put the card in a plastic bag and swiped it that way, and it processed. Has anyone ever seen that before? I don't get why it would work.
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laura wrote: I was just at C-Town, and the debit card of the fellow in front of me wouldn't read. The cashier put the card in a plastic bag and swiped it that way, and it processed. Has anyone ever seen that before? I don't get why it would work.
Yup, and I've done it myself in my cashiering days. I have no idea why it works in some cases, but it does. -
Newland's gone - new, normal managers - seems like it happened some time in the past couple of months - glad I can shop there again - great fish dept.
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Before I joined the Co-op, I shopped there constantly. Now that I'm a Co-op member, I shop there when I just can't make it to the Co-op - which is often enough. My BF shops at big restaurant supply stores (he's got students in the restaurant biz), but he still relies on C-Town as his fallback, and it's a good one.
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laura wrote: I was just at C-Town, and the debit card of the fellow in front of me wouldn't read. The cashier put the card in a plastic bag and swiped it that way, and it processed. Has anyone ever seen that before? I don't get why it would work.
They always have to do that to my card. I have no idea why it works. -
This thread seems to have been revived. I need to add my 2cents.
I shop at Fairway, Fresh direct, local butcher, fish mongers, fruit stores and even the coop (I confess I have friends who are members and every now and again they shop for me.. I figured I was a member for a long time and now not so ....I can cheat a little !.. mea culpa) BUT
i live within a block of Steve's C Town and shop there a lot. The store appears to be clean.. never hit the back though.. and I know where everything is so can get in and out quickly and I know many of those cashiers by first name because I make effort to be sincerely friendly and they respond to that. I am glad this store is in the neighborhood. -
Subject: Does anyone remember A & P ?
The food deal is this (I think). C-town is the best large supermarket in the slope, notwithstanding THE CO-OP, which is in a different league all together, or the many specialty stores. For those that recall the good old 1980's, the A & P, which is now the CVS on 9th, was an old school supermarket: they use to use saw dust on the floors to keep the place 'clean.'
C-Town is a step up from those days ..
The problem, if there is one, is that C-town is an old school supermarket too. Their supply lines obviously take a toll on freshness, quality, etc ... The food they sell is not half bad, with a good deli and a wide selection of different ethnic foods, but most of us have experienced ... modern supermarkets, such as FairWay and WholeFoods, which are able to capitalize on bulk purchases and in-house preparation. These business models increase quality and freshness, and their wide golbal trading networks allows for authentic foods from around the world.
FairWay is the best example of a super market which maintains or lowers prices, and raises quality.
Key Food is the exact opposite. It's unforgivingly awful, except for the time-warp effect that takes you back to about 1982.
As for the kids working in the supermarkets, who tend to be the group that display the most rude and unprofessional behavior, this is different topic thread all together. It concerns current American youth values and work ethic. As an adult, there is an easy ways to command respect with youthful workers: if you talk to them with respect, I have found most time, they will treat you in kind. I do believe, however, this is easier when you have grown up in Brooklyn.
A note: the 27% who gave C-town an A are clinically insane, and god bless every one of them! (The proceeding sentence was a joke).
C-Town: B
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