Smith’s Food & Drug Centers

Supply run while in Las Vegas.
Those huge casinos don’t want you to go out of their property. They have everything you would want. Even a mini mart, if you’re willing to pay a price for it.
My son drinks milk, lots of it. Paying $ 2 for a 4 oz container (he drinks 2 of these at a time and they only sell 4 oz cartoons) gets expensive fast. We needed to go out of the casino for a supply run. Smith’s to the rescue.
They have everything you would need at a reasonable price. (1 pint of milk was $ 1.60, that’s 16 oz) no wonder the casinos make so much money lol.
After getting our supplies, checkout time.
Our cashier was super friendly and helpful. We didn’t have a Smith’s card, so he swiped one he had. We saved an additional $ 5, sweet! (More cash to spend at the casino, lol)
Great selection, lower prices (than the casino) and friendly & helpful staff, I’ll be shopping here for my supply runs while in Vegas =)

When you get in the express lane without realizing it was only 15 items. She should have said that she only take 15 items or less. She said she was closing and to move to the next one she should then continue helping customers. She was lying to me and that is unsatisfactory customer service you don’t lie to your customer you tell him the truth she should have said to move to the next line because she’s Express only. So I’m dissatisfied with this Smiths store.

I’m very upset that I bought cupcakes yesterday that said 12÷10÷15 on them & today I noticed mold on both cupcakes thy were left. I was even more upset because last night I ate one & so did my grandma. We were having a lil treat after trying to get my daughter to sleep in her own bed, so it was dark in the house. The only reason why I saw it today is because it was in the daylight. Last night it was dark & I had opened the box & ate it on the strength they were as fresh as all other things I get from there. I’m letting everyone I know to be careful what you buy here. I’m truly disappointed.

Really bad first time experience here. The prices are great, until you realize the cashier did not apply the sale price on nearly every item. Paid 10 for lasagna that was priced at 5, 4 for potatoes that was priced at 2, and 7 for guac that was priced at 3. Had to wait 20 mins at customer service just to get 7 dollars back. Pretty sure we overpaid for a bunch of other items too just didn’t have time to check everything in the car. Not sure if the cashier was sleeping on the job and just didn’t see the sale tag or its common practice for this grocery chain to overcharge customer’s. Bad bad bad.

Oh god! Worst store ever. I just moved to this area and thought it would be a good idea to go grocery shopping after 11 pm big mistake. Tweeters and homeless people abound! Not to mention sickly looking homeless people who may be in desperate need of medical attention. Looks like UMC on the fourth or something. Please stay away. Not to mention ONLY SELF CHECKOUT. NO REGULAR LANES!!! Screw that. I don’t need to be looking up the codes for parsley and such. I don’t work there, the convenience of self checkout, makes for a longer shopping visit with much anguish.

Awesome store. I have only been to the Flamingo/​Sandhill location, so can only speak for them, but great staff, clean, well stocked. Can’t say enough about how friendly and helpful everyone is there. Good job Smith’s!

Disgusting parking lot. Homeless people and tweakers walking around all over the place. Ghetto people with no manners. Even the freaking staff is blocking aisles just talking gossip. Yeah, do yourself a favor and avoid at all costs.

I dread going to this Smith’s. I live in the Huntridge Neighborhood so while I do have the coolest neighbors and a unique house on a big lot, I don’t have the luxury of being able to grocery shop without being panhandled. Some advice to Smith’s: 1. Get some security people out in that shitty parking lot. The thought of navigating my way from my car to the front doors is enough to make me drive the four miles to Trader Joe’s. 2. Get rid of those messy-​ass bargain bins in the front of the store. It looks terrible. 3. The shopping cart storage room in the front of the store is dirty and scary. Clean it up. Bring in some natural light. On the plus side, the natural foods and gluten free sections are pretty good and the employees are friendly. Those two things are the reason I gave this shit hole of a grocery store two stars.

Food has expired and it’s still on the shelf…
Don’t bother telling management they don’t care.
Bought some salami $ 9.99 it expired 1÷30÷15
I bought it 4÷27÷15 didn’t check the date and got sick!!!

One word: ghetto! I HATE this smiths. The parking lot is filled with homeless people and pan handlers. My friend and I refer to it as «the scary smiths». Avoid avoid avoid!

They surely know their products! This is the only grocery i know that knows where their WIC products are. Employees are also very helpful.

Way cheaper than wal-​mart and way cleaner. This is a great store. I went in late and didnt have the coupon, but the clerk gave me the deal on cereal anyway which made me really happy, thus I’m writting this review! Never waste money at Walmart again.

Store is always stocked& staff it’s very helpful. Recently Upgraded store with rows of organic food products, high quality vitamins & huge selection of health bars. I wish they would consider replacing farm raised salmon as farm raised is bad news.

Upon walking into the store today, I observed a musty and nondescript odor. I looked around to see if the store was dirty and it did not look so and continued to shop with that thought in the back of my head. Big mistake.
We had a real horrible experience in the meat counter. The seafood attendant with a British accent ridiculed me because I requested my meat an exact weight. He presumed that I did not know how to read the scale. Really? There was a male customer (young, tall and athletic) that chimed in and joined the ridicule parade. When I said that neither of these men knew how to act, the seafood attendant and customer went on the offensive. Things soon escalated, and staff and management only made the situation worse by siding with the male customer and seafood attendant.
The male customer was so offended that somebody stood up to his bully antics and demanded that we be kicked out of the store for putting him in his place. There were some female staff (which included the neck tattooed Store Manager) who came to find out what was going on and went along with this bully’s wishes on baseless accusations. I guess bearing a semblance to Jeremy Meeks makes the ladies melt these days, even if they are management.
We requested for them to treat us equally and if they didn’t want bickering customers in their stores, he should go too. Management and security was reluctant to behave impartially and just about allowed him to check out in peace. When we saw the disparity and brought this to management’s attention, female service level employees descended like hawks and took attributions that do not correspond to them. One of the staff that showed up told me to «zip it» when I addressed my concerns because she was talking (while shoving her fingers in my face) and I had to listen. Not even my mother treated me this way growing up and I was not going to allow such blatant disrespect.
The female crew level employees who engaged in this behavior took a situation that they did not even witness and turned it into their 15 minutes to shine and suck up to the men (the abusive male customer and security). The female Store Manager was too weak to assert her authority and allowed everyone from the Meeks look alike to her employees act like school yard bullies.
Smith’s staff (with the exception of a few kind people) carry their biases on their chest and that prevents them from conducting business appropriately. They don’t have the sense to know when they can win or lose. I say this because we had more valuable things in our cart than the male bully. Lately, we had avoided going to Smith’s because things overall deteriorated and their sometimes lower prices were not worth the hassle. As a result of this monkey business, we will never go back to any Kroger’s affiliate again! We’ve told our family and friends already.
I can see why Rainbow’s End prices (down the street) are much higher: to keep the detritus from washing ashore.

Was at this store today and I the store and staff just fantastic and the prices were great they can count on my business more often

The only reason I shop at this store is b/​c it’s the one in my area. First of all, Folks-​if you get bad meat or anything else that’s not right, TAKE IT BACK and get your money back. As long as you have your receipt and a good reason, they can’t turn you down without risking a visit from the County Health District once you report it. This store is awful in terms of customer service and the prices are very high; maybe not compared to Albertson’s but if you have transportation, Trader Joe’s will impress you mightily with their products and prices as well as their clientele. You can also find a lot of the same products at a much lower price at Walmart. I have seen pricing on a small item — at Smith’s — anywhere from a dollar to 3 dollars higher for the same product I can get at Walmart. I only shop items that are on sale at Smith’s, otherwise I am paying too much.
The good things I can say is that when I’ve been there the produce department looked very good and most of the stuff looked fresh. But unless it’s on sale the prices are comparably high. Also you can refill your own by-​the-​gallon water inside the store for only 25 cents each and it’s very good.
You can avoid a lot of the riffraff that shop at this Smith’s by going in the morning before 10 or 11.
Many of us are just waiting and hoping for a new store like the Kathy’s store which used to be on east Flamingo or Desert Inn back in the day, then became Wild Oats then moved to Henderson to a more sophisticated type of clientele than the folks who were moving into this general area, and became a Whole Foods with the most absurd prices I’ve seen yet, prices I refuse to support so I never shop there. Some consumers can be really stupid, and keep prices high for the rest of us.
Now that the downtown area is drawing more of the hip crowd, we can only hope that those of us who are smart consumers will get a new Kathy’s type store – small but with great products and excellent pricing. Take note, Trader Joe’s, you’re missing an opportunity!

I’m one of those annoying «urban pioneer» type white people who moves downtown all progressive-​like, and then bitches about there being no grocery stores. But what you have to understand about me and my people is, when we say «no grocery stores,» that’s really hipster-​speak for «no Whole Foods/​Trader Joe’s/Organic Artisanal-​Retentive Mart .» The fact is, there ARE a few grocery stores around… they’re just a bit «colorful.»
My options for groceries within a mile of my house are basically the GHETTO-​ASS Albertson’s on Charleston & Bruce (every time I’ve been there, someone is being arrested out front) (literally), or this Smiths. So I usually go with this place.
Actually, this Smiths really ain’t that bad — they cater to my ilk with a surprisingly well-​stocked natural foods aisle, that actually has most of the shit I buy at Trader Joe’s or places like that anyway — food as well as natural hygiene products. The prices are a bit higher sometimes, but if you get a shopper’s card (or just use Jenny’s number — 867‑5309) you can often score pretty good deals.
The produce selection is decent, but far from abundant — no organic produce or kale or anything like that, just the basics. I can’t really speak to the bakery, butcher shop or frozen meat selection, since like all good progressive white ladies I stay away from bread and meat.
I make up for that with my prodigious booze consumption, which brings me to the liquor dept: gated off waaaay in the back of the store (to discourage theft), with a fairly basic selection of hard liquor and wine. An annoying bell rings when you enter, alerting everyone in the store to your pathetic degenerate status.
Aside from that minor inconvenience, they also have a pretty big drugstore selection — everything but makeup. And the rest of the store appears to stock all the usual grocery-​store-​type essentials (soup, spices, frozen pizzas… Idk, I eat out most of the time) at typical prices.
On all of my visits, the staff has been friendly and cool, and the store itself is fairly clean. It’s just the parking lot that has issues! I know they can’t help being in a «transitional» neighborhood, but it seems like they might hire a security guard or two to stand guard out front and keep the pandhandlers away. Lord knows I can’t be giving my precious cash to bums, when there’s organic hempseed oil to be bought!!! Also, a thorough pressure-​washing of the parking lot might be in order, just to spruce the place up a bit and blast away the bloodstains and wino-​puke puddles. It’s the broken window theory, already! And how about a bike rack, for us tree-​hugger types?
I mean, come on. I’ve been to some real swanky Smiths stores out in Summerlin and such… I know it can be done! Don’t you want my coveted hipster buck? I’m telling you, if you would only pander to me and my uppity ilk a bit, you could RAKE in the ca$h!!! Right this very moment, downtown Vegas is in the throes of an urban-​core revitalization that is bringing tons of my peeps into your area! And guess what: we’re hungry!!! Guess what else: we’ve been driving crosstown to Trader Joe’s and Sprouts!
A word to the wise, Mr. Smith: up your game, or be left in the dust when Harry Armpit opens up his Crunchy Granola Supercenter/​Yoga Studio down the street in that empty storefront by the Huntridge Theater, as so many locals have been clamoring for him to do. Mark my words, we progressives are very vocal and activist-y…it’s gonna happen!
But in the meantime, if you were to show us a little love and respect… we would repay you in spades, by spending all our hard-​earned cash at your establishment (well, all our cash except the chunk we give to NPR and Save the Whales).
Come on, guys!!!

Rotten lobster more than once. Rock hard frozen chicken in the «fresh» section. One more ruined meal and I will never shop here again. Wish Albertsons was still open across the street.

I did my grocery shopping mostly here while I was on vacation. It got the job done but is nothing special. The produce section was smaller then I would have liked but they have a whole aisle for healthy more organic options. Staff is not very friendly. Meh, gets the job done but nothing to ride home about

This poor Smiths… just ugh. In comparison to my neighborhood Smiths, this one is just sad. Dirty, dated, poorly run. The fruits, veggies, and bakery items look old and stale, and honestly, I couldn’t even bring myself to buy anything.