Canseco’s Market

My first purchase from this store. My purchase was the whole ribeye steaks. We tenderized them and still could not eat and the Elysian Fields store manager basically said too bad. This will be my first and last purchase here. Will return to a professional supermarket. Shop at Canseco at your own risk.

Decent enough small grocery store. Has a little bit of everything you might find yourself needing if you’re in a bind and don’t want to travel to far. It’s kind of cramped inside, but the staff is friendly enough.

This is your old school neighborhood grocery store. Nothing fancy, small, local, kind of in need of a good deep scrubbing, but employees helping old ladies put the groceries in the car for them. This is not your store if you are looking for specialty gluten free, preservative free item. The cashiers have always been friendly to me. Employees appear to be eager to help if necessary. I like the feeling I get when I come here to shop, it is a home-​like feeling of a much smaller town grocery store.

I am so glad there is this little grocery 6 minutes away from me. I have never had too bad a wait here. It is small and a bit funky but it has all the essentials and for good prices. Also, the fruit and vegetable selection is surprisingly good. I am glad it is there when I am out of milk, bananas, bread, etc. Also, the cashiers have always been quite nice.

It is a small market, but I found all I needed. I spent about $ 56 dollars and carried three full brown bags of food back home. I would have gotten only ²⁄₃ of that from Rouses at that price. Their fresh produces are definitely cheaper than at the Rouses and as fresh. I just had the red delicious apples they had on sale and it was crisp and great. I don’t get why they have such low ratings. I will be coming back since this is the second closest market from where I am staying while I am New Orleans. Rouses is the closest but I am not very happy with their prices.

Not a bad a place if your in a pinch… if your looking for a good deals make sure to check out the chalk board that sits outside.

A star for convenience… but that’s about it

Horrible slow deli service, they don’t have half the things advertised. The whole place is ghetto gross. The single cashier with a long line was the last straw and I walked out. Going to Rouse’s next time.

Let me preface this by saying it’s awesome that this place is there, and I’m sure it’s super convenient and loved by people who live nearby. However, I happened to be in need of a few specific items, and usually I can find said items at the Canseco’s on Esplanade, so since this was the first grocery store I saw after deciding to acquire abovementioned items, I stopped in to buy them.
However, after spending several minutes failing to find: whole wheat lasagne noodles, ricotta cheese, a disposable lasagne pan, the kind of litter I usually buy, cat food, a massive bag of mozzarella cheese, fresh green beans, and other stuff, I finally got frustrated, gave up, and bought the one thing I did manage to find (cans of fancy feast).
Lesson learned. This place carries none of the things I usually buy, so there’s no reason to ever go here again, unless I for some reason decide to move to… Gentilly? What neighborhood is this in?
So, there you have it. It’s not a bad place in itself, it’s a grocery store in a place where a grocery store is, I imagine, sorely needed. However, it’s inconvenient to my house, I like the Canseco’s on Esplanade better, and the one time I tried to buy stuff they pretty much failed me on all counts.
And thus ends part one of Jessica’s Epic Grocery Store Adventure. Keep an eye out for future chapters in this overly detailed story of my attempt to buy cat food and the ingredients to make lasagne. (It involves another six grocery stores, approximately.)
Stay tuned!