Smart & Final

Yes, parking is a little crazy, but the cashiers are super quick, but the winner of customer service goes to SCOTT !!! I’ve seen him open up registers when he sees a line, and I don’t know how he does it, he’s always energized.

The Smart and Final at this location is terrible. They treat customers with the same enthusiasm as a slaughterhouse worker treats his daily cattle quota. The express lanes are rarely open and when they are, item number limits are not enforced. Perishable items can be found in non-​perishable aisles, which speaks tons about their attention to detail. If you don’t check expiration dates, you are screwed, since they do an excruciatingly poor job. But the biggest insult of all is the waiting time at the registers. This location is either severely understaffed or is simply indifferent to people’s wasted time. Given the frequent lines I’ve observed and the number of staff members walking around the store like ticket scalpers at Dodger’s stadium, I would say the second explanation is likelier. Be forewarned: this is an earthly purgatory in which a big chunk of your precious life will be WASTED. Avoid at all cost!

A small market nearby and easy to get some food and flavoring here but not that many choices for me.

A typical warehouse grocery store – maybe if you lived in the ghetto. This place looks, and is, so sketch!
I guess the prices are pretty reasonable, but I don’t know if I’ll trust the quality of their fresh produce, eggs, and other perishable items.
I came here to quickly grab plastic utensils and a lighter for my friend’s birthday party. So in terms of convenience, this location is pretty ideal because it’s right outside of Gate 6 at USC.

Considering they sell items in bulk, I wish they would do the same for mascarpone cheese instead of 1 pound containers. Great employees, though — very friendly, helpful, and joke around with you.

This store has a college student’s essential needs for tailgating — beer, snacks, meat, etc. It has a small section for produce, so don’t expect a great variety.
Regardless, this place is still convenient and has the basic foods and items you’ll need for a backyard BBQ.

I love this smart and final because it’s like a mini Costco. Obviously it’s a warehouse where you can get more cheaper. Customer service is good and everything is organized. They have a shared parking lot and you do not need a membership to shop here.

This is the most ghetto, ratchet Smart & Final you can ever walk into. I’ve seen it all here, from crack heads shoplifting to the security fighting with customers trying to shop. The security in this store has the habit of following people around and even if you aren’t doing anything they will treat you like you are. If this wasn’t the closest place to my office to pick up supplies for events I would NEVER step foot in this joint. It’s horrible and deserves zero stars… keep it moving and don’t waste your time.

Used to shop at Ralph’s but Smart & Final is clearly a better deal. Great savings everyday.

I love smart and final. It is smaller than costco but has everything you need. very organized and easy to find things. great value with no membership needed!

I always find great deals on quality food here its a small store but they’ve manage to fit everything and anything you can ask for the staff is great and frieldly very helpful its clean and never too packed i always come here get what i want and leave in mins thats what i call grocery shoping!

If you’re pulling your hair out trying to figure out where you can buy Mexican Coke in bulk, this is your spot.
I got lucky and got the last crate. 20 bottles for $ 17.99. Nice way to keep cool this summer.

I give this place 5 stars for one thing and one thing only.Gum. This is the best spot to buy gum in bulk!

Smart & Final is cheap … Realllllllly !!! Did you go to another place to find out by yourself witheir it is a cheap one or not ?!!
It is up to you, but for me I think it has higher price range than ralphs, and more expensive than Food For Less (when speaking about USC area), since I have bought from all of them. But in total, man. I think I bought double amount of my grocery from Super Kings with only around half of the price. Besides, I have gone to many places which are much cheaper than Smart & Final.
In general, even though it is small, they have a good variety of things. I hate only when I come to Cashirs, there always will be only one or two, and the rest of them will never move their asses to help during rush time!
Besides, I remember one night I tried to get bread for dinner, and it was around 8:40 exactly, they refused to let me in even though they close at 9:00. I told them I only want the bread and it is not going to take one minute and that 20 minutes is left for them to close, with that they saied to me: NO. Come tomorrow!!.
Based on my experience with them, I’ll give them only 2/​5, since really I have experienced much mooore better than them, in price and in services.

Cheap stuff comes with a price! The parking lot and other shoppers are a trip but I got a good deal on beer and that is what I wanted! While in line waiting to check out a super drunk woman meandered into the line and proceded to fall ass over head into a woman in line’s shopping cart. She didn’t drop her gallon sized bottle or red wine though. I was sort of surprised that the cashier rung her up and then set her off on her merry staggering way. It seems they should not have sold a woman that drunk a bottle of wine but I guess they know their East Hollywood customers.

Get things a tiny bit cheaper in bulk. Good to stock up your mini fridge at work (USC) with snacks!

Semi-​clean depending on who just passed through. Gallon jugs of artifical mixers. Discount meats going grey. Sketchtastic produce. Seriously, I just don’t get the enthusiasm unless you’re buying prepackaged stuff in bulk.

A smallish but very cheap supermarket. It is VERY clean, and the staff are usually very nice and helpful. Highly recommended for students who need the «essentials.» Some things only come in large-​ish packages, and I do NOT recommend it for fruit — superior has a way larger and fresher collection — but it’s a nice place for the standards, or bulk packages.

I have good news. I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance! No, not really. But I did save a crapload of money on my groceries!
Man, I only wish I had taken advantage of the Smart&Final during college. It’s like a very mini Costco. Buy-​in-​bulk, cheap, fast. I could’ve saved so much money.
Go to Ralph’s and Superior for fresh produce and meats and come to Smart&Final for everything else!

It’s game day and we needed something to contribute to the tailgate. Oh, we know! Bad head-​ache inducing sangria! We got two jugs. With tax, it came out to be under $ 17.
The check out ladies were so funny though. When they saw we had only the two jugs, they moved the man in front of us through in a right hurry.
They also made sure we knew how to properly handle the jugs and were worried we’d drop them. One said she had been drinking the stuff since 1992. And mentioned how she should have put one in the cooler before she started her shift so it’d be nice and cold for when she took it home. Wow.
It was just a party in the Smart & Final.
(But yes, if you need your daily grocery needs, I would not suggest shopping here as wild ‘SC alum and students ransack the place for ice– buy your dogfood and toilet paper elsewhere, it could be a dangerous thing to keep drunkards from their alcohol!)