Fairplay

Great place to food shop. Even though they are not in a super big building, they have plenty to offer at good prices. Their deli section is pretty good, they usually are priced competitively (low to normal), but not they don’t offer the biggest selection. Their produce and bakery is ok. Their bananas are usually almost yellow when brought out, not solid green, which is annoying. They always have milk at a low price. They have a pretty big parking lot and always have plenty of shopping carts inside. The cashiers are nice too, but most are under 21, so if you are getting alcohol, most times they cannot ring you up but need someone over 21 to do so. I saw it happened twice when I went today. The link to their website:

Just moved to Worth, nice town, cops that only care about getting their paychecks’ and some parks, nice neighborhoods like mine, a preserve and dozens of businesses, including Fairplay.
This fine store has been around for decades, it was even around in 1998 when I lived in a beautiful house in the corrupt town of Chicago Ridge.
This store is a medium sized grocery store, prices and sales are average to good, name brand, generic and many Polish items (in a few aisles are the Polish items) and everything in between.
Great selections of pizzas, French fries, breakfast foods, etc are located in the Frozen sections.
I love their homemade meals, Chickens, bakery and lunch meat counter.
⁴⁄₅ stars.

Bought 15 pounds of chicken wings here Friday for our block party. We open them up on Saturday only to have the entire house stink of rotten chicken. We called them and asked if anybody else had a similar experience, of course the answer is no. He asked that we bring the chicken back to him and we can exchange it. I understand that fact, however, we have thrown those chicken wings away very quickly. Never again.

Close and convenient! It’s a little too small for the amount of items in the store and I wish they would do their stocking overnight instead of peak hours but the staff is very nice and I like the neighborhood vibe.

I am not a fan, the parking lot needs to be paved and it goes downhill from there, I feel like I’m in the bowel’s of Arkansas when I visit this store. It doesn’t smell right, like the cold temps in the store are helping to mask foul odors. The employee’s don’t even look like the best available from the labor pool in cook county, sale items are often sold out, the prices are mediocre at best, it’s very «dated» and not in a charming way. I only go to this store if I have to.

I had to stop at this feed store for the masses the other day, nothing has changed. But I had to write an update on something that I wrote about before and seen a similar act. In front of me was some little old lady who was trying to use a credit card to pay for her items. She had to be taught on how to swipe it, what keys to hit, and where to sign. But the kicker was she went over to the lottery machine to purchase some tickets, she worked that machine like a pro. Knew how to insert the money and what buttons to push, amazing.

I was hoping to never set foot in this store again, but they had a great sale ad so I decided to give it another shot.
Again, the aisles were full of boxes blocking the products, and they were out of most things in the sale ad. I won’t be back, no matter how enticing the sale ads may be. Not to mention the screaming children that seemed to be in every other shopping cart.
I uploaded a pic to show you what the aisles have looked like 100% of the times I’ve shopped here.

This is your no frills small, neighborhood grocery store. You can get some fantastic deals on produce and bakery and also at the deli. Just shop their weekly ads to get the best deals.
This place does get very crowded. I found the best times to shop is a late Sunday afternoon or Monday evening from 6−8pm. Forget Saturday and Sunday mornings or early afternoons. You won’t find parking.
The one negative is the parking lot is small and is in terrible need of repair and repaving. Definitely bring your flotation device if you park after a heavy rain. The pot holes are about the size of a kiddie pool.
This grocery store is also in Worth, IL, not Palos Park.