Vons

It’s okay. The employees are hit or miss. Some are rude and just hate living or working in Big Bear. They complain about there lives as if it’s the worst thing ever. Others are as happy as can be. I like Vons, because I know what I’m getting and already know what they have.

It’s OK, a good alternative to Stater Bros. Service isn’t as good, and you get what you pay for. Produce isn’t as fresh. Since they are in a larger strip mall, parking may be a inconvenience at times.
Again, place is fine. However I would rather go across the street to the other grocery store.

So, who would have thought we’d come upon an entire organic section of produce in Big Bear?! Had a craving for an organic watermelon and lo and behold, there it was! And it was absolutely delicious! Sweet, right?
Store was clean and crowded, lots of items on sale! Can’t comment on store clerks, didn’t have any encounters, however terrific to know Von’s has a great selection of organics and I’ll be back!

So we came here because we need a lot of ingredients to cook for a big family in the cabin. We’re so glad there’s a Vons here to get everything we need to make pasta and bake cookies! Because of the long shopping ordeal and I was already starving, I stopped at the deli section to get some fried and baked chicken (8 pcs of mix and match for $ 6.99 only)!!! They’re crispy, delicious and hot, also partially due to the fact that I was already hangry.
It’s a standard Vons with a decent selection of stuff inside and a rustic façade outside, including the other buildings in the plaza, which is pretty cute to me. This Vons has a small ethnic section which didn’t carry the Thai tea that I was looking for but at least they had something like hoisin sauce for cooking if you need it. The tea section was mainly about the mainstream brands, nothing exotic.
Overall I was just happy there’s a regular grocery store in the mountains.

There I was… Stamping my bare foot onto the cold linoleum floor while my other foot awaited lonely in its thong. I walk here often, discreetly hiding within a fort in the toilet paper isle watching people as I eat fried chicken from a greasy deli bag. The real reward awaits at the bakery. Fresh baguettes that need a good squeezing. Before approaching these elongated loafs of gluten, I look left… Then I discreetly glance right… No human presence in the vicinity and I have my window of opportunity. The brown bag and cellophane wrapped bags of pleasure await me. My brain explodes with seratonin as I Vulcan death grip each baguette. SQUEEZ and relax, SQUEEZ and relax, SQUEZZ and relax, as I execute each freshly baked prize of my daily target of godly pleasure. Soon enough I have been depleted of all energy. I must retreat now to the freezer section to ice my baguette torn hands on frozen beef. I give this establishment a ¹⁰⁄₁₀ for the convenience of good public pleasure. I WILL be back.

I come here every year for vacation with my family and have a great time in Big Bear. Although today I went to Vons and The employee MERADITH was so rude and gave off the persona as a discriminatory individual. Never will I go there again because of the aura given off by their employees.

Vons shmons. Amiright? Lol I am. This place is same old shame old. You get the deal. Vons are just big corporations trying to commericialize the workd and take our money. #supportthelocz

Pretty standard Vons. Weekends and holidays in summers and winters are crazy and super crowded. We usually bring up half our groceries, and get the rest of what we need here. Some discounts with your Vons card from home. We generally find whatever we need.

Bought Starbucks inside Von’s and the attitude of Crystal as a cashier is too poor. So serious so speak less, service should be better. Very disappointed

A cleaner Vons then what I’m used to, so that was a nice surprise. I imagine they get extra busy whenever all the tourists (me included…) come into town. Too bad they still use plastic bags. The bagger for our line literally used twice as many bags as he should have… with many of the bags having small single items in them.

Nobody picks up the phone when you call and the deli section is soooooo slow. Not enough help.

When you’re a couple hours away from home, and know that you’ve more than likely forgotten something essential… say like a toothbrush… It helps to have a familiar grocery chain nearby.
Vons wasn’t far from our cabin, and even better, shared a parking lot with a starbucks. You’ll find what you need here from groceries to said toothbrush.
Checkstands can get long during peak time, but it wasn’t a bother for us at all.

At night this Vons is managed as poorly as grocery stores in big cities. At 10:30pm tonight, 10÷18÷15 there was only one check out lane open, and 5 of us in line. The 1^st 2 had a lot in their carts. I was number 3. After about 12 minutes, someone opened another line for the 2 guys behind me. I was the last one to pay from the 5. There were other employees working in the store at this time. The night manager should have opened another lane much sooner.
Vons, why bother staying open late if you’re not going to staff the registers?

I found the store to have greater breadth than Stater Brothers, I was able to find items that I could not source across the street including Sugar in the Raw in packets, and illy coffee. I really liked the ambience with the fire place at the front store; and having my Kroger card work to participate in store discounts didn’t hurt!

I’ve been to both Stater and Von’s this AM and Von’s was much nicer. Maybe the butcher at Stater is better (not sure) but the rest is definitely not. Both places are a ZOO for sure but I was really impressed with the remodel, cleanliness and just super-​nice attitude that the people at Von’s had today.

The best place to get groceries in Big Bear. Everyone always tries to plan ahead and bring groceries from down the hill but why do it when you can just stop by the grocery store and not have to worry about your items getting soggy or ruining in coolers. I haven’t noticed any crazy price differences for being a mountain grocery store.
I’ll never go to Stater haters across the street.

This place is old, dingy, bad in stock conditions, and just feels dirty. Vons needs to invest in this property and make it something other than an eye sore…
Also, it’s nasty when your checker takes medication and touches his tongue in the process and doesn’t sanitize his hands. Gross!

Main chain Grocery store in Big Bear.
Parking lot is always full. Inside is always busy. I wish they had self check out because the registers move really slow. Despite that, I rather shop here then carry a extra 50 pounds of groceries up the mountain.
Deli has pretty good potato wedges ($ 3.99 a pound) and fried chicken (special $ 4.99 for 8 pieces).

First a little backstory: I’m a Full time local of 13 years, business and home owner. Married. Like to eat healthy and fresh. VONS is excellent, they are our store. The checkout clerks are nice and friendly, very small town feel without the «market» feel. I like a big store like this, they are well stocked, great selection, progressively changing to the needs of locals/​visitors, lots of organic options too! The Starbucks is a bonus! The deli is awesome, I love the cheap but great breakfast burritos. The deli rocks some great sandwiches too. Really, I have NO BAD THINGS to say about VONS. It seems that anyone who is very negative about their experience here didn’t take into account it’s a small community, they can’t be everything you’d expect «down the hill» or that yes, the store WILL be packed and parking/​checkouts will be limited on Fridays-​Saturdays, holidays or before a big snow storm. That is reality, luckily I’ve noticed thru awareness when to go and I only blame myself if I go when it’s busy.
VONS, you are our store, Thank you for being part of the Big Bear Lake community! We are loyal customers and will continue to send our clients your way!

Big Bear is a small community. I think Vons is one of the two grocery chains here. The other being Stater Brothers.
This Vons shares real estate with Union Bank and Starbucks. It has a sprawling parking lot.
I felt the heat being pumped through the vents as I walked through this store. There’s also a fireplace with Starbucks inside. Not a vast selection of meats, but it had everything that you expect from a large grocery chain.