C Town Supermarkets

Grocery shopping in New York is always going to be a pain in the butt so no surprises there. Aisles will be cramped and prices will be on the high side. I have had no issues with produce that do not occur in every other supermarket. It’s clean and they usually have everything I need for whatever i am cooking.

this place lol key food on Wyckoff Ave by suydam I’ve been Goin here for years never had a problem I usually find what I need but today I had a bad experience a Mexican guy with short hair in produce got super disrespectful I guess he was training a young blond Mexican girl and he wanted to impress her by making me feel bad by what he said, I walked away he stared commented and laughed at me when I left the store I told the manager walked away unsatisfied feeling bad isn’t the customer always right I’m paying my money to shop peacefully. …

This place changed names and it is now a Key Food. I buy all sorts of things here, from lettuce to sirloin to even deli sandwiches. I’ve never had a problem with the service here, while the workers aren’t going out of their way to be super friendly I dont find that the people are rude either. The deli workers are always nice and their sandwiches are delicious.

As for my experience, this place has a decent variety of stuff. I don’t normally have issues with the produce, though I don’t buy meat from here often, (I go to Western beef, i think the prices are cheaper) i could always find what i need in s convenient amount of time. Believe or not the people in this neighborhood do care about their food. What we don’t care for is people moving into our neighborhood and bashing things that we’ve come to like, such as a close by supermarket. It’s immature that you would even have to go to such a level of disgust that you would add commentary about the people that inhabit this neighborhood just to review a supermarket. Please, go back to whole foods, where you can judge amongst yourselves while drinking your herbal coffee that you probably can’t smell because your noses are too far up somewhere.

This guy below is a total snob! Produce isn’t fresh? What the heck are you talking about? Perhaps you should get out of Bushwick and go back to Manhattan because us locals find this place awesome! The staff here are really cool, I always find what I need and never had a problem with produce not being fresh or cereal being expired. This supermarket even catered to all these ungrateful hipsters and made an organic section for produce, a counter with sushi and wraps, and a huge section with different selections of beers which we never had a few years back. Trust me I know what I’m talking about I grew up here unlike many of the ones who are complaining. If you’re hungry and want a quick sandwich stop by the deli and ask for «the works» it’s ham with tropical cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, salt, pepper, vinegar, and mayo, it even comes with a free drink for $ 5, can’t beat that!

It’s now Key Food. The carts don’t fit through the register lanes any more. I don’t see the point in offering carts if you can’t use them. (I shop with a toddler & a baby – unloading them plus groceries as I’m paying is a PITA.) The selection has gone down since changing to Key Food. It’s good to have some selection other than the local bodegas, but it still feels like it lacks variety. Food Bazaar or Western Beef is much better.

C Town no longer exists here, it is now Key Food Supermarket and the change is very noticeable.
When it still was C Town, the selection wasn’t too bad and the prices were really quite good. When the signs were changed to Key Food last winter, the prices went up immediately and then the selection got worse and worse.
But above all, the nasty attitude of the staff is the worst part. Apparently if you were born in the US, you are scum to the checkout chicas. I watch them be very friendly and talkative to some people who are speaking the same language, but when I’m next, no words and they point to the screen for the amount of money I am to give them. My friend who speaks the same two languages they know gets the same attitude and he says it’s because they think «he has sold out» apparently because he was born here. And a gay friend says the old male bag «boy» is openly discriminatory — go back to the hills you came from, Chico! Seriously, this place is ridiculous!
I now go out of my way to the excellent Food Bazaar on Gates Ave. Same type of staff but they are friendly!

Awwwwww… listen to all of you little cry babies. The fact that you even have a grocery store within walking distance should be enough to jump into the air and kick the heels of your Sebago’s together.
So yeah, C-​Town pretty much sucks compared to any grocery store I have been to outside of Bushwick. Given that, they have fruits and vegetables, Soy milk, rice and beans… pretty much everything I would need to buy in a pinch when I get sick of spending $ 75 on three items at the Kim’s, Brooklyn Natural, or Hannah Foods.
One thing I like to do when I shop anywhere is check expiration dates. I have lived in some pretty fancy places like East Williamsburg, and Williamsburg and shopped at their upscale, super tidy, catering to my every needs… grocery stores; and mistakenly purchased items that have left me pissing out of my ass, because I haven’t checked expiration dates.
C-​Town is a grocery store. It has groceries inside of it. It’s in Bushwick. I have seen better, but in places like Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon… etc… Places where Grocery stores are like small amusement parks and they have their own fan pages on Facebook. It’s possible that with C-​Town, the grocery store god may have taken a day off when he was handing out good looks… obviously. But this little C-​Town is my ugly duckling, and it didn’t give me Diarrhea or make me vomit!

Convenient hours, nice location, clean store. Most of their products are garbage I wouldnt pollute myself with, but thats every grocery store in the USA. Their organics section is a joke, so I usually end up going to the Associated store a few blocks away. Fruits and veggies are always pretty fresh tho, and staff seems nice. Def wouldnt ever buy meat there.

one star for being close to our house. another star for having canned foods that i could eat. other than that, i agree with everyone else, stay away from anything fresh or that is meat, unless it’s canned or is in a sausage form.

Holy crap this place is awful. Usually in super markets you like to shop around the edges of the store so that you can get the freshest produce and fresh meats without having to venture into the canned food section.
Think of this place as the exact opposite. ONLY get canned food here and the occasional egg. Anything with an expiration date goes bad within a week.
2 stars for having perrier and piña colada kerns that expires in 1 ½ weeks.

Yeah, Marcus is right: the produce section is a bit shady, though I’ve been able to scrounge some good veggies from em. This C Town closes at 10pm which is pretty sweet, about an hour later than the nearby Associated. This C Town carries Rice Dream «milk» in a refrigerated carton and Boca «Chic» Patties at about average price. The Associated has cheapest Boca «Chic» Patties and breakfast ‘Sausages’ I can find at $ 4.69 per box.
All in all, this is your average Bushwick grocery.

If you happen to live in this part of Bushwick Brooklyn (Wyckoff Ave at Hart St), you may want to be selective when buying groceries here. You’ll often be okay with dry goods of any kind, but check those expiration dates on dry foods. I’ve purchased cereal, for example, that was well beyond it’s expiration date.
Stay away from the produce section (deli looks okay). The fruits and vegetables never look very fresh at all. And also stay away from the meat section. I’m guessing the meat and produce coolers are not at the temperatures they’re supposed to be at legally.
You won’t find very much diversity here in terms of specialty items. This neighborhood is made up of largely one type of demographic, hence the lack of the types of goods you can find in more gentrified neighborhoods. Another unimpressive characteristic of this supermarket is that it doesn’t feel particularly clean and fresh.
Unfortunately there really isn’t a decent supermarket very close by. Often times I’ll pick items up at Whole Foods or in Williamsburg, for example, before coming home from work. I purchase very select items at this C-Town…that’s for sure.