C-Town Supermarket

No, no, no, no. Please, for the love of God, Buddha, and Allah, NO. I came in for ice cream. They had a small selection which was fine, but when I got to the check out line, there were 5 people standing around chit chatting away, the cashier herself was texting, and they all clearly saw me standing at the register. It wasn’t until I put my ice cream down and took out my wallet did they decide to check me out. No one said a word to me the entire time, but they did continue speaking to each other. Not only that, but when I walked in it looked like the place was going out of business. boxes everywhere and empty shelves. Maybe I can during a face lift for the store? I don’t know. To make matters worse, I got home and the ice cream looked like it had been completely melted, sat around for a while, and put back in a freezer. I threw the entire thing out. Please spare yourself.

One of few markets in the area — may I suggest shopping elsewhere. As soon as I walked in there was a foul strong smell of rotten meat. The veggies looked spoiled, the store was filthy, ceiling to floor, and selections were sparse. I wasn’t impressed by the employees either. Why should they be cheerful working under these conditions.
The reason I give C-​Town 1 star is because I lived in the area for 6 months and this was my local market that I shopped at weekly while 3 jobs. My time was limited.
C –Town was consistently horrible and reading the most recent reviews it appears they have made little effort to improve.
My advice: spend the occasional taxi fare and save money on healthy, fresh foods and stock up at Trader Joe’s & Fairway. Dump this dump and avoid the risk of contamination. I can’t believe they are still in business.

Reviewing the 125^th and Broadway location — unsure if that’s new or different from the one on address in this listing.
I don’t understand what peoples’ problems are with this place. It’s literally on the ground floor of public housing — do you expect Whole Foods? That said, for the savvy ethnic food shopper, this is the BOMB. I go on Mondays, when it’s been newly stocked and have never ever encountered bad food. It’s not as pretty as Fairway, but it’s also a place where I don’t have to pay $ 5.99 for a bottle of orange juice, the highway robbery every other place around here charges. Bigger than the MET and seriously, if you think the aisles here are narrow, get out of NYC, you’ll never be happy anywhere in the city.
It’s completely great for what it is.

When Jean-​Paul Sartre said «Hell is other people,» he was standing in line at this C-​Town supermarket trying to buy overpriced yogurt at 3:30pm on a weekday.
This supermarket illustrates the long-​running joke that everything is more expensive in New York City perfectly. $ 6 for Oreos. $ 4 for Wishbone salad dressing. REALLY?
The quality of the produce is below average, at best. The selection is incredibly limited and it’s so difficult to find anything that you have to go back through the aisles over and over again, standing there staring at the shelves…
Which returns me to my original point. I believe there is a curse on this C-​Town that causes everyone, upon entering it, to turn into rude, grunting Neanderthals. «Excuse me, can I get past?» will almost always merit you a rude glare, if you’re lucky enough to get any response at all from the Grocery Zombies who shuffle the aisles slowly casting judgmental looks your way.
If you can do your shopping somewhere else, I’d highly recommend it. Somewhere cheaper, somewhere friendlier, somewhere that’s green. And no, I’m not talking about the only upside of the C-​Town market — the neon green shopping bags. Nice try guys, but it’s not enough.

They’ve classed the place up a bit. Bout time. It was a sh*t hole before.

Rudest cashiers ever. I smile and say hello every time and get no reaction. Was called «fat white lady «in Spanish. Imagine her surprise when I called her out because I understood what she said. Only go there when I have to.

This is a sorry excuse for a grocery store. Gross meat, overripe vegetables, dirty floors, unhelpful staff and poor selection make me loathe shopping here.

Omg! They just added quail eggs! But the store is still crappy! Filthy, stinks like a pet store by the cold cuts section. Double check all canned good they sell expired food there. Grey or green meats (obviously old). Never again. I’ll stop at West Side Market or Morton Williams. C-​Town is the crap.

I can’t.
The tiny aisles, the strange selection (beef tongue/​stomach/​feet but no tenderloin?), the questionable produce, the not-​so-​clean feeling …
It’s a good place to shop if you’re in a pinch, or if you ran out of eggs/​milk/​pig ears halfway through your recipe. If you’re not in a rush, I’d suggest going to one of the larger, better-​stocked supermarkets in the area.

I am somewhat new to NYC (3 years) and I am from a part of the country that has some amazing grocery stores where customer service, convenience, and cleanliness are the norm. After moving to Harlem I realized this is much harder to find and C-​Town doesn’t offer any of those things
Although you see the same Sign at every C-​Town and they use the same distributer of products, each is individually owned and operated (sometimes poorly operated).
This location has a horrible owner resulting a nasty store with very poor customer service.
In short I purchased a store brand product that was very poor quality. Unusable for the intended purpose. I took it back a few minutes after purchase with the receipt in order to exchange it for the name brand and pay the difference. The owner, who hardly spoke English wouldn’t exchange the product for the name brand and allow me to pay the difference. He would not exchange them for the same thing, and he would not refund the purchase price (under $ 3.00). He reasoning was that he would have to through them away. They were defective, I imagine the distributor would have replaced them for the store, but either way it was a short sighted decision. Up until this point, even though the store has very little selection, is dirty, and has poor customer service; it is close to home and has been my grocery store of choice until today. If my long term business is not worth $ 2.19 then I wil simply spend the 7 bucks on a car service to the fairway a few blocks away, where the customer service, cleanliness and selection is exponentially better.
It is sad, because most of the customers at the average C-​Town grocery store really has no idea what customer service is. They are not accustomed to it and don’t miss what they have never had. However, as the neighborhood is gentrified, and people who expect better service come in, there will be fewer customer for C-​Town. When a new store opens in the area, one with better service and selection, not only will people like me move to the new store, but the customers who soon realize they are treated better and have better choices will move also. Because of this C-​Town will loose more and more market share. I suppose there will always be a small market for chicken feet and other generally undesirable products, and as long as there is, there will be a C-​Town.

One visit to C-Town’s produce section and you can sorta see why Harlem has a much higher prevalence of obesity, heart disease and diabetes. I love fruit and veggies, but when I’m staring at those half-​wilted heads of lettuce at C-​Town, even I start thinking that maybe fried chicken and mofongo are better options. Yuk. If you love processed food packaged by the big brands, though, then you’ll be perfectly happy shopping here. Their prices are pretty cheap (unless you’re buying tofu, in which case be prepared to pay twice as much as usual).

A no frills kinda grocery store. If you really want to go gourmet, there’s a Fairway and a Citarella near 125^th Street.
The place is kinda grungy, but clean in comparison to most of the grocery stores and delis in the area. My only peeve? The have a $ 5 minimum for credit card use — for some reason, I seem to run into that a lot there.
What I’ll never quite figure out is why there’s another C Town at Broadway and 150 street — 4 blocks away. can anyone shed some light on that?

I am very fond of this C-​Town. Sure, it is a little grungy, but it’s got all the basics and then some. They’ve even put in a little organic section. Everyone who works there seems very nice, even when some of the shoppers are not. Also, even at its busiest hour, I never had to stand in line too long.

This C-​Town is right beneath where I live, so the rating includes how easy it is for me to just pop in whenever I need to.
To me, it’s a bit… ah, run down, shall we say, but they have the basic essentials, as well as some not so basics. They’ve got fruits and veggies that are some days good, some days not, and a good assortment of chilies, fresh and dried. Some produce, like potatoes and onions are kept on the ground, under where other things are watered, so they get soggy and are worthless.
Beer — they’ve been upping the kinds of beer they have, though nothing too exotic yet, they have started carrying Magic Hat #9, which is good in a pinch.
Meats — here’s the real interesting section. The general meat quality, like ground beef, steaks and chicken breasts, is like the produce — some days it’s good, some days it’s gray. The best part about this C-Town’s meat section is the offal they carry. Pig’s ears, pig’s and cow’s feet, beef hearts, and Tripe! If you’re into some more adventurous cooking, then this is great find, without having to go to a specialty store.