Morton Williams

Rude service! Bought a cake here sometime ago and when i got home realized it was spoiled. Gross! Never again

This store is open 24 hours which give a good chance to shop at night while all others are closed. I bought some produce few times. They were Ok but expensive. I wish they carry more organic produce. I also bought some organic cookies and crackers. They were Ok. They have a variety of selection of most groceries. I bought tissues and cleaning materials. Most of items are Ok in the quality but slightly expensive. The staffs are mostly kind. When I asked them to find what I need, they were cooperating.

Do not buy meat from morton williams. I tried a few times. Everything has that pink/​red liquid all over it. Even chicken. The chopped meat tasted like saw dust. Don’t know what it was. But it wasn’t meat. I was so embarrassed to serve it
Awful what the food industry is doing to us. Even veggies sprayed.
I just read that these stores are family owned. I am sure they don’t eat the food they sell

I went to shop for a few basics on Sunday evening. I got baby yogurt and cut squash among other things. When I came home to feed my baby, I noticed the yogurt had a strange texture. I looked at the package for the expiration date and it was set to expire the same day. I sent my husband to return the yogurt immediately. The manager laughed at him and told him that dairy products were still good ¾ days after the expiration date! Another cashier participated in the mockery and was reluctant in giving us our money back. Regardless of products being good or not passed the expiration date (BABY PRODUCTS!!), their attitude was despicable. Not a word of apology. The next day I opened my the pack of squash and it was completely rotten below the first layer on top of the package. I threw everything inn the trash. I will NEVER go back there.

I almost never write reviews but people need to be careful when they shop here. Although this place is couple of block from me I try to avoid it at any cost unless I need something quick. I had multiple experiences when they overcharged me at the register (price they ring up doesn’t corespond to the lable). I mean you know everything they sell is already overpriced to begin with but not charging what the label says is too much. I literally have to look at everything they are ringing up. And who has time for that. I have never experienced anything like that elsewhere and at this location it has happened many times. Bottom line… this place sucks.

Sassy cashiers, the only cash I had was a bank roll if quarters, cashier asked me «what am I going to do with this»…I had to tell her the last time I checked it was American Currency!!!
What happened to courteous service… being warm and gracious, working to deliver a pleasant experience?

No joke. Came here 4 separate times looking for these mini ice cream cones they ran out of few weeks back. I guess you can say I was obsessed (still am!) Finally had to order them online. What did we all do before Amazon? 3 stars cause it’s around the corner from me and they carry wild, organic fish for half the price of Whole Foods. Other than that, bleh meh heh.

Really unimpressive Morton Williams, and that’s by Morton Williams standards.

I have lived in this neighborhood for decades. This is the most well managed store around. The prices are reasonable, the personnel are nice and helpful. There are always enough cashiers, so you don’t have to wait more than a minute or two occasionally. The atmosphere is calm unlike Fairway which is often a madhouse. D’Agastino on York and 79 is way more expensive, has rude personnel and long waits. Whole Foods is confusing and more expensive.

Next time I will wait to get back to Queens to get just a few things. The store had a lot jammed into a small space. Prices were high $ 5.99 for a small 3 pack of lettuce, $ 1.99 for one avocado. The deli bologna was about the same as any store.
Not the cleanest counters in the deli.
The cashier was very personable.
There’s a guy that stands up front watching you as if you are stealing the store.
I can see that this is really convenient for those living in the area.

I don’t usually review much of anything besides restaurants but my most recent visit to morton williams really peeved me. I stop by here when I need something quick only. Otherwise I’d usually go to Fairway on 86^th because of the wider and fresher selection. But what really got me this time today was the staff. I don’t know if the girl manning my register was new, incompetent, or just not trained well (if so she needs a 101 refresher ASAP) but I was triple charged for peppers because she had no idea how to input the items into the system correctly and when I tried to bring it up to her she had a very dumbfounded and annoyed attitude. If it wasn’t for the fact that there was a line behind me, I would have made more effort of having it corrected since it was ultimately like a $ 5 overcharge but still…
Get your shit together please.
EDIT: I feel less inclined to see a positive in regards to this location after being overcharged due incompetency, having the staff not be understanding of the situation, and having management telling me I don’t have justification in giving the location a one star review when I’ve had a very negative experience. Would dock this down to 0 stars if this was an option. End of story.

Prices are high, not much selection, prices ring up for more than advertised about 20% of the time and alot of expired food hidden in with the non expired food. Be careful.

I walked around this store for about 20 minutes looking for brownie mix, and couldn’t find any. When I went to tell my brother’s wife about the failed brownie mix situation, she showed me the box in her cart. This place is like narnia in that way. It’s also the only place I know where you can get that PB Max chocolate peanut butter in the United States, or Earth. I haven’t had a craving for that in about six years, but it’s good to know that if I did my brother could pick me up some. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad.

The quality control of this place is awful I keep on finding expired products on their shelves and other extremely dirty They should make a bigger effort and customers should be careful when buying there

Morton Williams is a solid, well run store with some of the best specials around.
Every week they post a lengthy online flyer which always includes staples that every household needs. It’s easy to save money year round here if you just do 5 minutes of homework before going shopping…
The store is always very clean and well stocked and the staff here works very hard. Employees are extremely knowledgeable and make it a point to dart out of your way during busy times — I wish they worked at Fairway…
The managers are smart, experienced people who know how to take care of their customers. On the few occasions that I’ve had an issue with something one of the managers rectified the problem on the spot and all was well.
My only suggestion is to keep expanding the organic selections. Space in this store is very limited, but they have definitely been working on it and I am confident they will keep improving.
This is a professionally run operation with some of the best customer service you will find on the UES.

What’s the deal?!? It’s not that $$$ compared to other markets in the hood ’ ESP d’augustino! Good specials when they have them and convenient! I probably wouldn’t make this my one-​stop grocery store, but great when I need to pick up a thing or two. Seems pretty clean, and you can pretty much find whatever you need here. It’s NYC for Christ’s sake… you’re never going to find an amazing grocery store here!

This place is so convenient, so it’s hard not to pop in here for non-​perishables every now and then. I avoid buying meat here and skip most of the produce. It just doesn’t seem fresh to me.
Prices are higher on most things than Agata & Valentina (for instance FAGE yogurt is 40 cents more per one serving container).
What really strikes me about this place is that the workers are all MISERABLE. They never smile, talk openly about just wanting to get the hell out of there, they don’t speak to customers, etc.

I became a regular there after I realized that I could keep the weight off after my new one-​day-​per-​week fasting regimen. By eating a couple of their salads, either the pre-​packaged one under the counter, or their «crunchy vegetable,» a unique mix of chopped broccoli, raisins and sunflower seeds in a sort of thin Russian dressing, plus a sandwich and fruit salad, I was able to stabilize my post-​fasting hunger fits.
The fruit salads happen to be the right size to stuff your face enough to ward off some of those nasty ice cream fits we are all prone to. The bread is usually fairly fresh, except on vacation days when the traffic goes down and the freshness with it. The roast beef is good, although the «kickin» style with mushy onions and horseradish is a little gross. There aren’t enough of the «classic deli» style Italian bread choices with the roast beef — mostly dried-​out multi-​grain bread.
After my first or second visit there, a couple of «senior security» types in suits started following me around — rather intrusively. Perhaps it was my backpack — or, perhaps some overzealous employees looking to «stir things up» for their own benefit.
After it was settled that I wasn’t a threat, the old «familiarity-​breeds-​contempt» syndrome seemed to start setting in gradually, first with the younger guy behind the salad counter acting a little «stressed» verbally, then behaviorally by rubbing his greasy, slimy rubber gloves on the inside of the plastic container. The older guy there, who looks like a scheming Slovakian peasant when exercised, joined in after a few weeks and feelings of fear and loathing began to set in whenever considering whether I should go there.
Their roasted-​garlic brussels sprouts were great — sharp and crisp — until they caused «D» word and stomach cramps, which could have been psychosomatically induced bodily reactions to empirical threat — such as the counter-creep’s visible display of hostilty while puttng it in the container. One or two D-​words per month actually isn’t bad for some of these joints — ditto a few oddly-​acting employees, such as the checkout counter girl who hid my salad and ice cream container under the counter and I didn’t notice it missing; and canceled the order when I returned, prompting her to ask in a loud, dramatic, exaggerated, «WHY?» The idea is that she is a minority and I insult her by not trusting that she doesn’t slip a bug or poison in my container while it is in her sole possession.
Otherwise, the freezer occasionally malfunctions, or else the truck delivery is so slow that all the ice cream melts on the way in, raising bacteria levels; and, so, goes on «sale.»
Oh, and they don’t rinse the lettuce, and the honeydew melon is under-​ripe. And the berries and cantaloupe are mushy, too.

Honestly, I hate this place. How I wish it was not the closest supermarket to my apartment. Despite my disgust for this particular Morton Williams, I continue to go there time after time.
This is the most narrow, compact, and poorly designed grocery store I’ve been too. Its nearly impossible to get down the aisles, and the cashier lines literally would be too narrow for someone largely sized. Everything seems cluttered and products are often running low or missing.
The worst part is the produce. It is so overpriced (significantly more expensive than D’Agostino, Food Emporium, and obviously, the cart on the corner). Yet, the quality is extremely low. Three times I have bought something and found it moldy and rotten. I always check before buying, but now I check much more thoroughly. An additional 2 – 3 times I have bought other packaged items (hummus, yogurt) and found them partially opened or punctured.
The saving grace are the cashiers and deli guys. They are so nice and work quickly and efficiently.

Must have walked by this supermarket around 100 times and never ventued inside. Finally made my way into it the other night to pick up some milk and eggs on the way home from a friend’s place.
It’s not a bad market. Deceiving from the outside as it’s narrow, compact, and winds around the way the aisles are situated. The shelves were really neat and organized. I was surprised how much merchandise they had here the days after the hurricane. I also noticed a nice mix of off-​brand specialty products around store like organic and natural items.
Don’t know about the overall prices here but I also scored two boxes of «Honey Bunches of Oats» that were on sale at 2 for $ 5! Love that cereal and it was a good sale price.
Heck, have you seen how expensive cereal is nowadays? Whoah!!!