Fareway Stores

Great help, they sack and insist on taking to the car! Great choices at the meat counter, and attentive service. Plenty of food choices, produce is fresh, beer is cold, and they have good prices all around!

I can’t tell you how many times I have been told «Fareway — they have great meat!!!» So in need of a nice prime rib that is where I went. I honestly passed up the rest of the store and headed straight back to the meat dept. (Actually — I think that is where most of the shoppers were lined up.) They were helpful and very friendly. Although the prime rib was not on sale, there were several cuts of beef that were, and I couldn’t pass some of them up. The prime rib was excellent and fingers crossed it will be warm enough soon to head out to the grill to try some of the yummy looking cuts that are in the freezer.

Fareway isn’t trying to be everything to everyone. And thank goodness!
The store has the feel and hours of a small town grocery. Anyone who grew up outside the city will feel right at home in Fareway. You can find everything you need, maybe not everything you want.
But where Fareway wins, hands down, is in the meat department. You want it, you got it, the way you like it. Want your chops cut 1.25 inches thick and wrapped singly? No problem. The butchers are well trained and provide excellent customer service.
Every now and then, Fareway has a meat sale and that’s when we pounce, stocking up the freezer with items like bacon-​wrapped filets for $ 4.99. Grilled, these wonders taste just like the goods you get from a higher-​end steakhouse, and at a fraction of the cost.
Fareway, you’ve got a fan in me.

Big town setting, small town feel. No really… remember walking into that small town grocery store and it having that quaint, we are here to serve you, yes our prices are a tad higher, but our meat department is amazing feel? Don’t remember that? Well…
When you hear of or mention Fareway I would bet that the first thing you hear is «Wow, amazing meat department.» That statement is true. You know that if you go on the weekend because customers are stacked five deep for every helper (and they have a lot of help.) You want a certain type of cut? If it isn’t in the display, they will go to their walk in cooler, pull out what you want, cut it how you want it, wrap it, and send you on your merry way. How do prices compare? It isn’t your big box store (in most cases.) This is a meet the meat man/​women place and the selection and quality of product shows. Check it out.
The rest of the store:
Fareway has your basics. You can go with a full list and come away with everything you need. The thing that makes Fareway a cut above is their ability to stock local, or hard to find, or off the wall, etc… products. I find myself going to Fareway for a particular brand of pickle and BBQ sauce.
Service:
Service isn’t something mentioned often when it comes to a grocery store but Fareway has something special here. I recently visited on a Thursday night at 8p.m. The meat department had at least 5 people behind the counter. I saw at least 3 other people stocking and cleaning. That brings me to check out. If there is more than one person in line, they call more checkers. No 3 or 4 deep (unless it is the weekend.) Their staff all wear white collared shirts that add to that small town, we care feel.
Fareway has a few locations around town so be sure and seek them out. If it isn’t close to you, it is definitely worth the drive just for the meat.
Cheers!