Key Food Supermarkets

Hey, watch out for the prices here. So many things not priced especially in the meat department. This is a very small department without much selection. Even so no ones seems to care about pricing much of anything. I understand that it is difficult to price each item but if each item is the same brand and quantity they could at least use a shelf tag. Forget about getting a price on most of the eggs. More than a dozen brands, sizes and qualities and very few priced, usually two or three.
I guess it is fine if you don’t care about what things cost, but I like to know how much I’m paying before I check out.

Store is under a new store manager. Can be found often walking around but not helping much. They have a large selection of whatever you may need with higher prices.
Their fruits section isn’t the best since it’s limited and on sale like once a week.

Overcrowded, not very clean, and rude staff. The mainly Spanish speaking workers snub you if you don’t speak Spanish, and seem overly rude to me. I wouldn’t go here at all, but it is the only supermarket in the area.

Very tiny store and while prices are good, I’m pretty sure I got some stomach issues after cooking up some small steaks I bought there. Gross. I felt horrible in bed all night and can only attribute it to that. I was feeling fine all day. Tonight I opened up drumsticks that were packaged in their cold section and it wreaked of a sulphur smell. The color of the drumsticks were also beginning to turn quite yellow, so I said to hell with that! Not going to feel like crap again after last night. Chucked them out and kissed $ 3 goodbye, no problem! I need to find something better quality, it’s a shame because it is the closest grocery store to my place… I’d consider a higher quality option!

It’s a cheaper chain grocery store in the city. Where it loses stars is because of the poor produce quality. Most of the produce shows signs of aging-​not good quality. Just disappointing.

The fruit and vegetables are overpriced and often packaged. Seedless grapes not actually seedless. Many items (organic milk, eggs, etc) are more expensive than Natural/​CTown on Austin street. I avoid this store unless need only 1 – 2 items. Seriously though… much better deals and MUCH better quality at
or fresh direct.

I have major problems with this Key Food. Selection is decent but would not buy produce here. Strictly packaged and canned items due to the lack of freshness. Bought blackberries only to find mold on the bottom when I got it home.
The cashiers are beyond rude. More than once, I have been checking out and the cashiers didn’t speak a single word to me. None. Not Hello, not even to tell me the total. Just wordlessly scanned the items and stuck her hand out waiting for the payment and no thank you at the end. Last time I purposely didn’t hand over the cash until she spoke to me. There was an awkward silence for two minutes. Only place I have ever been where the cashiers give the customer no acknowledgement at all and carry on conversations with each other as if the customer isn’t there.
Don’t even bother complaining to the managers — they couldn’t care less.

VERY CROWDED & CRAMPED store. Brace yourself if you plan on buying a lot of groceries!

i have to say that up until 2 weeks ago, the staff had always been friendly and competent, the prices had been reasonable, and the produce/​products were fresh/​not expired. i come here 2 – 4 times each week.
but last tuesday, i had 2 unpleasant experiences:
1. the deli guy (to be fair, he was new) sliced my cold cuts with the plastic still wrapped around parts of the meat. still, if i hadn’t checked it when i got home, my 2 year old goddaughter could have choked.
2. i bought a small canister of dairy creamer for the weekend that i discovered that it had expired almost 3 weeks prior to my purchase date. unfortunately, i had lost my receipt so the manager refused to allow me to exchange it which i do understand and i told him i understood this. but when i asked him if he understood that by selling products that had expired weeks earlier he was jeopardizing his customers’ health, he simply shrugged and walked away.
the place isn’t bad, but PAY ATTENTION when you shop here because it seems the staff is starting to slip. before you got to the register, double check all of your expiration dates and make sure the deli guys are paying attention to their work.

This is my favorite supermarket by work. Sure, it’s the only one… but why nit pick?
The best thing about it is the cheap food you can get for lunch. For $ 4 you get a sandwich on a Portuguese roll, loaded up with your choice of meat and cheese, lettuce, tomato and (red!) onions. I haven’t explored the other options (Jamaican beef patties, various knishes and salads), yet but the sandwiches are quite satisfying.
The supermarket, itself, is actually kind of small but has a surprisingly wide variety of grocery items. You can find most things, but it’ll leave you wanting hear and there. I’m in the middle of a generic brand cereal bent (it comes in fancy zip-​loc bag! how cool is that?) and, unfortunately, this Key Food generally has very little, if any, variety in that department.