Tom Thumb

Today I visited Floral Department to have flowers for a good friends mother’s funeral. Tina Donnelly, the Floral Manager, was an absolute joy to work with. She made recommendations, helped select the flowers, and then created one of the most beautiful arrangements I have ever seen… all at a reasonable price!
The thing I like best about having the arrangement custom made and then picking it up is being able to see what is being delivered (BTW, have you ever had someone you sent flowers through a florist delivered call and inform you the arrangement was old or poorly made… I have).
An absolutely out of the park homerun by Tina and her team for freshness, creativity, value, and customer service. I STRONGLY recommend you give them a try the next time you have floral needs.
Thanks Tina!!!

Love the late hours, but apparently, so do the cockroaches. While placing bread in our shopping basket, we watched a common house roach saunter very unhurriedly across the bread shelf. Having grown up with them, I now freak out when I see them… especially where the bread or food is located. My husband just laughed. (Men) When I was a kid, I remember that they can get by those little twist ties on the bread and set up house. It just creeped me out. I guess that’s one way to get me off carbs. Maybe I’m naïve, but I’m sorry I just can’t deal with em in my grocery store man. Grossed out. My husband didn’t care and bought some bread anyway. Eww!

My go-​to place for nearby produce. They have TONS of stuff here. I kinda went nuts in the yogurt aisle because they had a bunch of stuff I don’t typically see, like Chia Pods or Greek mousse yogurt… flavored like cinnamon buns. They even have a decent section of lamb in the meat aisle. The only thing they didn’t have is bean sprouts! Not for «three years» they said. Damn. The next trip resulted in them not having radishes. Now I’m in a Target parking lot about to go look for them.

Having this store close to our house and the new selections of fruits and veggies this store had made some great improvements. The food is cut in the deli, the meat cutters will do special cuts if you catch then at the right time.

Have you checked out their produce section lately? They upgraded this area a couple weeks ago and it’s really nice. They’re stocking a much wider variety of produce than before. Granted they don’t have ‘everything’, but I saw things like broccolini, baby beets, baby bok choy, asst types of radishes, more organics, heirloom tomatoes, greens out the wazoo, etc, etc. And everything looked fresh and beautiful. Kudos!
I mentioned in my previous review that I was shopping here more lately than places closer to home. That’s still true. In fact, I’m primarily shopping here as they also have a decent meat department (Angus ribeyes, anyone!). I’m not ready to give them that fifth star, though. Their deli (sliced meats and cheeses) still needs more of a selection (more than ham and turkey) and I’d like to see the Asian section of the international aisle expanded a bit (please stock the Thai green curry paste in addition to the red).
This is a very clean store and you’ll find friendly and helpful staff. Too many other stores have people who act like they just do not want to be there.

Why do I give four stars? Because my heart will always be with HEB. Born and Raised in Austin, where there is an HEB on every major street corner and not toooo many Randalls, which is Tom Thumbs brother or something. All Offspring of Safeway. Anyhow. I never really cared much for Randalls, but this move to Fort Worth is an overall cleansing of my body, mind, and soul. So with the lack of HEB’s in my general area, I guess I can officially make the switch to Tom Thumb. Hell I actually enjoyed my trip, even though it was kind of against my will. Not really though since I was by myself, but I came for a piece of meat, Ribeye to be exact. I had originally went to Central Market, the offspring of HEB which is NOT in my area. I was not about to pay 16 bucks for a piece of meat. Not unless it’s cooked to perfection with a nice marsala sauce and sauteed mushrooms, which I have the know-​how to do that on my own and I don’t need a whole pound of meat for myself. Just half that. Which I am sure the guyy behind the counter could have sliced it thinner for me, but I’m a nice person and he looked like he was trying to close up for the night.
So I went to Tom Thumb and didn’t pick out the cheapest piece of meat, nor the most expensive, luckily there were only 3 so I picked the one in the middle =)
I also bought a bottle of wine and a couple of shallots for my sauce. They have a great wine selection, if you are in to that kinda thing, which I’m not. I don’t care much for wine, more of a beer drinker myself, or at least a good frozen cocktail. Of course if I’m cooking with wine I will go ahead and have a glass for myself, now this is of course a bottle of wine that I have never had so I might actually like it and go back for more, but maybe not. When I find the one I like. Well I will have my «go to» wine and be set for the rest of my life. Until then I’ll stick to my Shiner Bock. Guess I’ll have to live in Texas for the rest of my life just to keep it that way.
Tom Thumb… be there or be square…
Oh and my mother says to stay away from Kroger’s which is why I did, because there is a Kroger’s on the end of my street.
My grandma before she died was actually a cake decorator for Tom Thumb in Austin before it turned into Randalls, then into a Goodwill/​Half-​Price Bookstore.
I include a picture of meat. I know I’m a horrible person. But as I always say. If cows could eat you, they would.

After spilling mustard* on my pretty blue Trump International sweatshirt, I needed some stain remover, STAT. Enter Tom Thumb, conveniently located on our route down Grapevine Hwy. We popped in, grabbed some spray-​on stain remover, used the bathroom (which was very clean and located by the in-​store Starbucks) and left. We sprayed the sweatshirt in the car and the stain came out later in the wash, so all-​in-​all, A-​OK.
*The mustard came from a Chicago-​style hot-​dog, from Sonic, just up the road (
). Note to self: Next time get out of the car and eat at one of the picnic tables.

Closest grocery store to my folks house. The gas prices are very good with a plus card. My family gets their meds here so they get an even bigger discount on gas. The store itself is always clean and has a small Starbucks. Huge bakery, deli, and specialty items section toward the the front.
It is a great place to get a few things, but I think it is over priced!!! My mom doesn’t do the bulk of her shopping here either but for a quick run in can’t be beat.

Wished we had this store in Vegas, I guess I could compare it to Von’s same or similar set up. The prices are fairly good, the selections are vast and comprehensive, the bakery and fresh produce areas was well organized and had a large selection to choose from.
I actually came with my sister and niece to pick up some poinsettia’s for a holiday party my sister was planning. And she wanted to share with me her secret passion for chocolate covered cherry’s. She discovered these by accident one day while waiting in the floral area for some arrangements she had ordered. She bought them and gave them a try and has been «in love» every since. She did swear me to secrecy, however, I loved them so much, I knew others must know. Very nice grocery store with Starbucks tucked away in one corner.

I’ve been to this Tom Thumb location lots of times in the past, but my recent visits haven’t gone so great.
One recent visit I couldn’t find the type of cheese I was looking for (Edam). They have all kinds of different exotic cheeses, but the one I was looking for (they even had a manufacturer of Edam cheese, on the shelf). I can get over that though, since Market Street is so close by and the deli associate that helped me was very friendly and really seemed genuine in his search for the elusive cheese.
So with that visit, I would have given this Tom Thumb a 3 to 4 star rating.
Unfortunately, I had to come back a few days later and that last visit left a bad taste in my mouth.
So, my girlfriend and I needed to pick up some late night (around 11 — 12 PM) supplies on the way home from eating out.
We stopped by this Tom Thumb, and got what we needed. The entire visit was lovely (practically empty store, everything we needed stocked and at a decent price) till we had to check out.
When we got to the registers we found no one there.
Ok…
Looking around, we couldn’t find an associate in sight anywhere. So we wait… 2 minutes… 3 minutes… 5 minutes… nothing.
Well no problem, there’s a Kroger right down the street right? We start to decide to leave when a associate (I’m assuming was coming in on his shift) in regular clothing sees us and alerts the guy outside. Yep, the clerk was outside the whole time.
So you would think that the clerk would come inside asap, right?
Nope.
He saw us, ducked around the corner and continued doing what he was doing and we were going on the 6 – 7 minute mark at this time.
Finally somewhere around 9 – 10 minutes, he strolls in and checks out our groceries.
It’s sad that I have to give a nice store like this one such a low rating, but that is just horrible service. Maybe next time it will be a better visit.

It was Mother’s Day 2009 and we still had not done the grocery shopping. My sister and I wanted to go to Central Market or Market Street; but, since my Daddy who recently had a stroke (life revolves around what he wants these days) wanted a Fillet Mignon Mom told us to go this particular Tom Thumb because «they have the best Fillet Mignon».
This was my first time shopping in their new location and since it is brand spanking new it is very nice and well laid out and huge. My soon to be Bro-​inlaw got my Sis and I lattes from the Starbucks located inside to fuel our shopping and some hot chocolate and muffins for the kids.
I found that everything we purchased was very reasonably priced for the quality: zucchini .99 per LB, Salmon enough for 2 people 4.99, 4 portions of Tilapia less than 6.00, 8 ounces of Fillet Mignon 11.99 (my Daddy only eats the finest of meats and said it was excellent! even though he has no appetite these days) a nice T-​Bone for my soon to be nephews around 6.00.
I had fun with my «nephews» in the seafood department looking through a book that lists every fish and the calories and nutrients and recipes. I discovered that I like «fatty» fish over the slimmer cousins. The meat and fish guys were super helpful and assured us that they cut «the most prized meat» for our Daddy all while we were on cell phones to confirm what everyone wanted as there main protein choice.
They have numerous check outs and we had a speedy one.
I am docking a star because I really wanted to purchase some sesame oil for a marinade that only required 1 tsp and the only bottle they had was over 10.00:(and my family does not regularly use sesame oil…