Green Dot Marketplace

Green Dot isn’t quite the find you’d come to expect for fruits and or vegetables even though they’re open 24 hours the turnover on your pick of fruits and veggies doesn’t reflect in the quality or the hours of operation at all and the prices are higher than comparable places in the neighborhood that operate 24 hours with lower prices and with much fresher fruit and vegetables selections for the pickings.
Where green dot excels at is the number of Organic grains, dairy and hard to find teas and juices that they have for sale.
Customer checkout is reasonable with credit and debit cards being accepted Without much of a minimum Charge per purchase but that’s about it.
Not great and not bad just O. K but definitely they will suffice in a pinch and compared to nearby grocer Mr. Key Food.
It is what it is!

Green Dot gets one star solely based on the one atrocious cashier there that previous reviewers have mentioned.
SHE. NEEDS. TO. BE. FIRED.
Today, she and another cashier were casually having a blatantly racist conversation as I was checking out. It was infuriating and in hindsight I wish I had poured my coffee out onto her cash register.
After what I witnessed today, I will not be coming here anymore.
Some time ago, she forgot to bag one of my items that I was charged for. When I called the store less than 30m later to politely inquire she threw a fit and blamed me.
It’s unfortunate that such a loathsome person works here, because it’s a decent, if not slightly overpriced ²⁴⁄₇ grocer.
If you absolutely must patronize this store, watch out for the ugly younger cashier w terrible attitude and a unibrow to match. I am really not exaggerating how miserable this person is. I usually don’t even GAF about customer service in this kind of brief transaction context, yet she has managed to really provoke my ire and that of many others it seems. Until they fire her, she truly deserves to be given a hard time as the previous reviewer suggested :)

The worst customer service ever. There is this one little snotty cashier, who has a disgusting attitude. My husband and I have shopped there many times. They used to have these two pretty girls working there who were nice and polite. The last time my husband and I shopped there, we accidentally bought an additional bag of grapes. I guess we didn’t realize we both got a bag of grapes. So, we just asked the cashier to delete the charge since we made a mistake. Her reaction was priceless. She said we don’t give money back to customers for food once they bought it. We didn’t even leave the store, all the items were still on the counter. I was confused as to why this would be a problem. Just do a return. So she started talking smack back to me. I told her to loose the attitude and that I am a customer here. She turned around and told me to loose the attitude.
After she went to get the manager, the boy who was working the other register just gave us the 4 dollars that the grapes cost. We left. But I regretted leaving. I wish I stayed and made fuss to the manager about this disgusting girl.
I also ran in there a few days ago and the same girl was there. She had a permanent BI$ch face on, with every customer that was in line before me. So I figured to mess with this girl. Depending on how she will treat me. I had my own bag inside the cart. I pulled it out and told her that she can use it. So she hands me the item after she scans it. I don’t take it and ignore her. She gives me three or 4 more until she realizes I’m not bagging them. Then she just starts dumping them in the cart. Ok, I will wait. After I paid she gives me the whole cart and asks if that’s what I wanted. I played dumb and said. Oh… You don’t bag here… So she started banging my things. That’s right. Make this little girl work for her money.
Who ever the owner is, you need to fire this girl. Have you read the other reviews about your store and what this girl has done?

Overpriced. Often the ice creams are freezerburnt. Often out of stock of many items.
But, they are 24 hours. So when I am staying with my friend who lives nearby, we often find ourselves venturing here at night for snacks. A star for having chocolate covered macaroons, Quest bars, and cheese & blueberry crepes.

Has organic product !!!
Open ²⁴⁄₇!!!

The cashier threw my friend’s change at him and it went flying everywhere. When he realized she shorted him a dollar she got all ratchet and belligerent, somehow making it our fault for not catching the flying bills and coins in mid-​air with one hand. After reading Joy G’s review, I think she did this on purpose so she could steal from us. This place has the worst stereotypical trashy NY attitude. I would never shop here again. It’s dirty too.

I used to shop at Green Line, now Green Dot. You get what you pay for as far as the inventory. You’re not going to get a better deal in the area for produce or even some of the non-​perishables. However, I’m writing about a particular cashier who overcharged me multiple times and had the nerve to get smart every time I checked her. COUNT YOUR ITEMS & CHARGES BEFORE YOU WALK AWAY FROM THAT COUNTER! Management told me that I didn’t have to shop there when I had an altercation with the young female on her lack of respect for patrons.

There is a wide selection of produce on the outside market but the fresher stuff is in the store with a limited selection. Don’t expect any help. The people working there barely notice you. But the selection is amazing. A great supply of organic packaged foods. I don’t think the produce is organic though. And some things are misspelled or just not labelled. Have fun. :)

Until 2 days ago, I was a regular customer for over a year purchasing more than one time a week on most weeks. Recently, the cashier overcharged me by $ 15. I was with my daughters and knew it was a lot over but didn’t check my receipt right away as we were in a rush. I go back a day later and explained to the manager who is by far the biggest jerk anyone could ever interact with. He was so rude and was treating me like no manager should treat any customer, especially not after he acknowledged he knows I am a regular. In the end, I never not any money back but I will NEVER go back there. Watch your receipts because according to him, 20 people go there everyday with the same issue.

I loved this place and did a majority of my shopping here because they’re a small, local business and close to home. One day, I accidentally dropped a bottle of balsamic vinegar and they charged me for it. It was an accident, I dropped it bc another customer was trying to pass (if you’ve been in there you know it’s small) and she bumped me (by accident).
When I apologized, the cashier said, «yea, well, someone has to pay for it!» I felt bad for the bottle breaking when it hit the floor until she said that. I replied, «Yea, well, that’s the cost of doing business!»
If I was acting irresponsibly or disrespectfully in the store, fine, charge me for being a jerk, but the place was crowded, I was trying to be polite, the other lady bumped me and it fell out of my hands. ACCIDENT. Also, I was trying to buy groceries there, which, if they hadn’t charged me for the broken bottle, they would’ve made a much bigger sale and kept me as a customer!
I once (accidentally) broke a bottle of wine at Trader Joe’s and they told me not to worry about it, even after I offered to pay. That was also an accident, but I felt like it was more my fault bc I just carelessly bumped into the shelf. They were very kind about and said, «Hey, don’t worry, it was an accident and you’re not the first person to break a bottle here.»
I’ll never go back to Green Dot after being a loyal customer for over three years. Loyalty gets you nowhere. Go to Trader Joe’s where those guys don’t know your name, but treat you with an ounce of respect.

Love this place. Now do most of my shopping here instead of going to trader Joe’s, StopNStop shop, whole foods, etc. The best part about this place is the HALAL BUTCHER and meat. Excellent quality vegetarian-​fed, antibiotic free meat. Plus the butcher will fresh grind any meat for you. There is a lot here, you just have to really look. If you need something they don’t have, just ask and they will order it. Seriously. I’ve seen them take out the order book.

This place was once called Green Line. Now it’s Green Dot. Nothing but the name has changed.

Unless things have changed since I first visited the new Green Dot (that replaced Green Line), they seemed to have FEWER organic, healthy, enviro-​friendly food/​household product options than Green Line did. And similar to Green Line, I assume this Green Dot ALSO has NO ORGANIC PRODUCE. At all. Seriously, they need to get rid of the mention of «Organic» on their awning. Heck, even Stop & Shop up the street seems to carry more organic cereals, milk, eggs, some Newman’s Cookies, Annie’s Salad dressings etc. than this place does.
It will be nice if and when this area ever gets a true organic food market.

Filling the space that was formerly Green Line, Green Dot is a similar type of small market with a wide selection of produce and many specialty items. Not the most affordable grocer in the neighborhood, but a very easy place to make a shopping run without fighting the crowds of Valentino’s or the vastness of a supermarket. Open 24 hours, which is a plus.
Re: the other reviewer, the organic produce is on the inside (west side) of the store… no, there isn’t that much, but I don’t know who ever claimed that is what this place specializes in. It’s a produce/​gourmet-​type market… if you are some sort of person who will only purchase Whole Foods-​type products, then yes, you should probably move to Manhattan instead of living in Queens. Wrong borough.