Smart & Final

Conveniently located along a very busy street.
Bulk buying without membership fees.
Good enough for shopping if you have a party planned or a large family. Produce and fruit seems fresh each time. I do notice that cut flowers often wilting by the time I see them.
There only seemed to be two cash registers open the evening I was here, so it was a bit of a wait.

I like shopping at this store but I hate waiting in the long lines!!! It takes forever!
Prices are good lines suck.

This place never disappoints. They always have what I need whether its bulking buying for my work or just grabbing a few groceries on the way home. I have always been able to find what I need and the associates are always nice and helpful.

I come here quite frequently to buy sprouts and boxes of lettuce only to be told they are sold out. This is the tenth time that they give me a excuse that they are sold out of sprouts. They should have better system management and buy more sprouts.

Excellent selection of different types of foods. They have what other places don’t. The ice cream selection is incredible. The people who work there are also very polite. The produce is very fresh and the selection of frozen foods is great.

I can’t believe that I still shop at this store when I get such poor service from most of the cashiers when I’m checking out. They won’t dare crack a smile or even say, «Hello» or «Thank you.» They have the worst attitudes; they chit chat amongst themselves when they should be paying attention when they’re ringing up your groceries ~ they’re just so rude! I don’t think they realize that it’s the customers that put money into their pay checks.
They should all to take a course to teach them how to bag your groceries. i.e. This checker, Ashley combined a frozen item and a cardboard cereal box into the same plastic grocery bag. Can you imagine what condition the cereal box would be in when I got home? Yes, I called her out on it and requested her to bag the frozen item individually. Obviously, I don’t think she liked my request. She didn’t say anything. I could just tell by the way she bagged the item. She didn’t place the item in the bag, she dropped it into the bag. If it was made of glass, she would have broken it.
Aside from that, the store is clean and the prices are reasonable. I guess this is why I continue to shop here.

I come here from time to time because I don’t want to wait in line at the nearby supermarkets for one or two items. But now, I know why they don’t have a line here, they are just so unorganized.
Came here after the New Year when they had a sale on cereal. (A popular deal after the year for weightloss promotion). Special K was $ 6 for 4 boxes or $ 1.50 each basically. So of course we bought a few and they ran out and we had asked for a rain check. The lady said to come back less than 2 months to redeem it.
So I listened and I came back today. I grabbed a few varieties of Special K like the yogurt one and the chocolate one in addition to my original one. So when it was time to check out, I told the clerk I had a rain check. He had to call the manager over and at first, they weren’t going to take it because the rain check was «incomplete»
What? How would I, Joe consumer, know your rain check is incomplete? After slight talk, they ended up taking it. But then, they wouldn’t allow me to take other varieties because the rain check states, «original Special K».
OK, wait up. First you’re ok to not follow the rain check because your employee didn’t sign it, now you’re following the rain check because it had the word «original» in the description? You as a store should either train all of your employees correctly or you should just have your supervisors or managers have access to your rain checks.
So I had to run back and then switch all the cereal to original.
What made this trip even worse was when I presented manufacture coupons clipped from the Sunday paper, the clerk wouldn’t allow me to use more than one. In my years of retail as a manager, I have never heard of a such thing. I can understand nowadays with those print at home coupons, you’re only going to allow a few at a time. But on a store level, your corporate dept. should have someone to submit those coupons so you can get a credit back to you as they are the same value as money.
So I left semi frustrated but with enough cereal to last me for a couple months and had to spend more than what I anticipated. I will think twice about stepping in here from now on as this store is so NOT SMART and this time will the my FINAL time here.

Ok so other than Albertsons this is my go to store they’re well stocked the store is always clean n I can get in n out all the time n they’re always on top of opening new registers so the customers don’t wait in line so long. The prices here are always decent other than their meat that seems to stay a lil high priced fore but the quality of fruit vegetables and pretty much all their product is very good unlike Superior down the stree so keep up the good work Smart & Final!

Pretty good prices on lots of items
friendly staff

Ribs are so expensive here. I went to Stater Bros and got twice as much for cheaper AND they were fresh from the butcher. The produce here looked pretty good though so I did pick some things up that way.

Very clean and well organized, good selection and good customer service. Prices tend to be a little high on certain items compared to local competitors but overall most things were competitively priced.

This place is always clean and organized. Prices are fair sometimes cheaper than Costco or Sams. Coud’ve given this place a 4 or 5 stars but customer service is ehhh

It’s SMART and that’s FINAL!
This place has been around even BEFORE the BIG box stores like COSTCO and SAM’S but you don’t need to buy a membership to come here! It is basically a mini version of those two stores but only has the food and drinks for the most part!
If you have a large family but don’t want to deal with the parking and oodles of people and long lines this is your place! I can get everything I need here including party supplies like those sterno cans that I ALWAYS seem to be out of!
A few years ago or maybe more now they changed over from giving you a discount with your phone number to everything is on sale or everyone gets the deal, which didn’t make a huge difference for me! This place is much quicker and I can get in and out faster which is a plus! I truly get tired of feeling like I have to fight for a parking place and then can’t get down the double wide aisles because there is a heard of people! It really gets old quick and sucks!
Also this place is much closer to my home so NO having to take a 20 min drive, then another 15 minutes trying to find parking, 15 mins trying to get from the front to the back to get the 3 items you want and them back to the front and then another 10 minutes standing in line to check out for cereal, bread and OJ just to get the same thing I would get at Costco or Sam’s! It’s a workout in case you missed your regular run!
The EMPLOYEES are always SUPER HELPFUL and of they see the line getting long they will open up another checkout! Plus they have bags which is nice too! But I don’t know for how long as everyone seems to be going toward bag less, but they have them for now!
They are always putting season things on clearance and marking down bread, meat, etc because everything has a shelf life and they only want the FRESHEST things on the floor! They have a nice variety of fruits and veggies as well and you can get the GI-​NORMOUS sizes like in the other stores!
The thing I like the most is I can come in and get what I want I NOT be lured into buying a book, DVD, CD, pants, rocking chair, tennis shoes, swimming pool, television, watch and computer when I only went in for OJ, bread and cereal, because they DON’T carry those items!
IT’S GREAT! I guess the only drawback is no coming at lunch time on a Saturday and being able to feed your family of 4 to 6 for FREE on all the samples in the aisles! And there is NO cheap pizza slices, hot dogs and soda once you check out! But I’d say with all the money you save NOT buying THINGS you didn’t go in there for you can take the family out for a halfway decent meal anyway!

This location is the only one that does not sell hard liquor. If you want to get hard liquor go to either a supermarket, Bevmo or Costco. The reason is because of a city law that only allows the sale of hard liquor to be sold at only liquors and supermarkets. You might be able to buy some club size items if you are too lazy to go to either Costco or Sam’s Club might be a little expensive but you do not have to deal with finding a parking spot.

This Smart & Final always has what I need. It also carries a good amount of specialty party goods that you can’t find at most places. Overall I usually have a positive experience when I come here.

If I could this is negative stars-​is there an opposite to a star? Bad everything. Intolerance to crap service

This place usually has what you need when it comes to catering or setting up for a party. The employees are always nice and they usually have everything in stock. Cant really say much about a smart and final haha

smart & final is right next to fresh & easy.
WOAH. that was mind blowing– i never realized that in that little plaza the ‘&’ was so popular. pretty soon the in-​n– out next door will be ‘in & out’.
anyways– back to smart & final. if you dont have a costco membership, this is the place that you need to be. here you can find super large boxes of cereal, toilet paper and styrofoam take out containers in bulk for a reasonable price. the people here are friendly and will help you find items you cant find. the parking lot is pretty busy since there is various fast food restaurants, a donut shop and a convenience store that share the same parking lot.

A worker just passed us by when we were looking for caper berries next to him (they didn’t have it). It seemed like checking the shelves for items that didn’t belong were more important to him. Canned dog food and laundry detergent cost more here than Wal-​Mart. Half of the store seems like a regular supermarket because of the lack of bulk packaging. I bought eggs, ramen [sometimes I have cravings, especially when I’m starving], and water.
I could have saved more for some of the items at Costco. I normally don’t get sandwich spread but somehow I was sold. Next time I’ll go to the Fresh and Easy next door for coffee, fruit, lemonade, and muesli instead. The aisles can barely be shared by two carts. The bagger left while the cashier was still checking out my groceries!
There were only a couple of lanes open. The clerk at the register thought it was more important to send him away to get a Coke. The oranges were sweet but my original total was $ 144. With membership I saved $ 18 on oranges and pickles. The parking lot smells like El Pollo Loco.

I like smart and final. Its great when you need to buy things in bulk and a often times their prices are slightly cheaper than costco, depending on the item.
The reason I gave 1 star is simply based on their poor poor POOR customer service. I didn’t even get to go to the store, they were already rude to me over the phone! I called for a price check on one of their items. A woman answered and told me she could help me and asked to put me on hold so she could go look. So I’m waiting patiently until I realize I’ve been waiting for about 10 minutes. Then all of a sudden some man answers, «hello can I help you?» I politely tell him that I believe that I’ve already been helped, and that a woman answered, put me on hold and is currently looking for my item. He said «Um, can you just tell me what you need?» Then I explained again that I thought someone was helping me, GEEZ I was trying to do him a favor so he wouldn’t have to look, and find out someone already had.
So he insists, I tell him what I need to know the price for, and he tells me really rudely. I asked for the price of a different size and he told me the same price, and I was confused. Then he shouted– SHOUTED — that its the same price because its the same quantity… just portioned differently. And seriously… what happened to the first girl who answered the phone? Did she get lost on her way to the cheese isle? WTF.
Man. I haven’t even set foot in the actual store yet, and I’m already pissed. Can’t imagine what I’ll have to go through if I actually go there.