Price Chopper

I did a full shopping expedition here recently, out of my usual pattern of grocery stores, after having a detour into the area on a marketing day. It’s a newish, big, and airy, well-​lit Price Chopper that I decided to review mostly to note it has a very large, two-​aisle kosher section with its own deli, relatively unique for the area.
The rest of the store disappoints me the way Price Choppers usually do these days. They *seem* to have lots and lots of things, but what they have is a very limited number of brands and product selections in very large stock quantities on the shelf. For instance, I couldn’t find whole wheat hot dog buns — there were only two brands of hot dog buns, period. They didn’t have Cholula. The produce (which was looking kind of wilted on a Monday morning) was pretty much the standard fare. Few organic options. I could go on, but it’s the standard Price Chopper story these days.
I give it a tepid three stars because, it is what it is. And at least this one doesn’t have a meat department full of leaky chicken packages, like the one in Niskayuna at Mohawk Commons (which I will never go to again, since on three separate occasions I complained about said chicken juice being all over the meat rack, and they obviously don’t care to fix this).

So clean, really nice and excellent customer service! They are 24 hours and in a huge plaza with an excessive number of stop signs! Came around 8:50 pm on a Saturday night! Aisles and everything are well lit and no trouble in line or waiting! Love the location’

I’ll regularly hit this Price Chopper at lunchtime. It’s close to work, and the salad bar is pretty fresh, especially if you get there between noon and 1:00. If you get there any later than that, you’re risking some soggy tomatoes.
Their produce section is nice. I love me some honeycrisp apples, and outside of a couple of local orchards, I rarely find better HCs than the ones I get here. They’re enormous. It’s like eating a delicious, apple-​shaped softball.
You can get fresh sushi daily, their bakery is good (bagels are always fresh), and if you’re there on your lunch break, like I usually am, they’ve got a decent selection of hot lunch items, too — pizza, mac & cheese, etc. I usually go for the aforementioned salad bar.
One thing this location offers that others don’t is a prominent kosher section. They’ve got a bounty of items — an entire aisle.
Outside of that, this is a pretty standard Price Chopper. You know what to expect.
I don’t do my grocery shopping here (I’m a Hannaford man), but if I had to choose the best Price Chopper in the area, it’d be the one in Niskayuna at Mohawk Commons or this one. Both are clean, and the staff/​cashiers are usually pretty friendly, at least compared to some other locations. *COUGHrotterdamCOUGH*

I favor this supermarket mainly of the convenience and pricing. Overall a good product selection and fresh produce. I keep coming back solely because of Joe in the produce department. He is outgoing, friendly and knowledgeable. He always greets me, even from a distance. I like shopping where I feel a personal connection and personalized experience.

Affectionately called the «Kosher Chopper» this location is home to a kosher meat counter, and a dedicated section of kosher goods.
Which include, mind you, kosher bagels. The bagels are dynamite. And I do not use that word lightly. I lived in a bagel free zone for 12 years, and when people visit me from the west coast, I bring them here.
I did have an awkward moment when I was at the seafood counter, and the fishmonger took out a 6 lb. lobster for my son to gawk over. For some reason or another the kosher butcher just happened to be walking by. It was a little bit uncomfortable for me, as a Jew, who has high regard for people who keep the laws, but has little regard for the laws themselves. But I digress.
It’s a great place to go during passover too. They have all the different kinds of gefilte and the good matzoh. Plus the special kosher for passover coke, that is corn-​syrup free.
Otherwise, it’s a big-​ish, pretty clean Price Chopper, that has what you would expect at a grocery store in the capital region.