Gristedes

The Store Management is EXTREMELY RUDE… $ 7.00 for a box of Cereal. 6.50 for a Gallon of Milk
and $ 8.99 for a half Gallon of Icecream,
Sour Deli Meats and not to Mention the Deal of the Day,. a Few Floweretes of Brocoli in a Bargin Bin for $ 5.99
… Who are these people. The Store is Very Dirty, Isles Crowded
He Doesnt Wear a Name Badge, but there is ONE ASIAN Manager in this Store that wrote the Book on «R U D E»
Yes they are open 24 Hours… and the Poor Cashiers look devastated… This is Not GOOD BUSINESS PRACTICE… We only learned of the Store Yesterday when we were in the UWS of NY for a Party n Decided to stop in to grab something to take to the Party,… Believe me we did Buy ANYTHING from this GOUGING Merchant

Overpriced sty — the whole chain needs to be shut down. Go to whole foods or west side market. Even bodegas are cheaper than this b**tards.

John Catsimatidis should be ashamed of himself!
This store is price gauging beyond belief! The majority of items are MUCH more expensive than Whole Foods or West Side Market. I feel bad for the folks who use SNAP/​WIC/​food stamps to purchase their items there. They can’t possibly be bringing home enough nutritious food for their families with these prices.
Not only is the pricing ridiculous, the selection for most items is completely random. Brands do not appear consistently. I get the impression the keepers of inventory for this store go to some dark rest stop off the NJ turnpike and haggle with the truckers carrying merchandise headed for the shelves of real supermarkets.
Produce is a joke — the selection and the quality. WHY would you shop here when West Side Market — 7 blocks north — has better prices, better quality, and a larger variety?

It’s taken me getting sick multiple times over the past few months to put together the dots and figure out what was causing it. Every time came from drinking milk bought at this store. I think they frequently leave merchandise unrefrigerated for extended periods while moving stock around and let it go bad. So even milk that hasn’t reached its expiration date yet is often spoiled here. I will never again buy anything edible from this store.

Avoid all the food items, and beverage items, and anything that’s edible, or is available for purchase at all. Save yourself the trouble and just don’t eat. This is the worst grocery store chain, and possibly one of the worst branch in the city.

It is offensive how expensive crap is here.
The only reason I ever go here is because it is impossible to find brand name items anywhere in the city. The only supermarkets around these days are all organic crap or wholefoods and I just cant deal with accidentally buying fake chicken made out of soy when I intended to buy actual chicken.
Seriously though this is the most ex[pensive supermarket in the city and yes it is more expensive than Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, you name it. Costs of items here are literally 33−50% higher than they are at supermarkets in the suburbs of the city.
I need my frozen chicken tenders from perdue and you cant get frozen chicken at whole foods or any organic market. Only go here if you like brand name supermarket shopping as I do.

The selection is decent for the size. The customer service is sub par (but I guess that’s New York for you). The main problem with this supermarket is that it’s perhaps the most overpriced supermarket you could shop at. The price of nearly everything is through the roof and they almost never have sales on anything worth buying.

This is hands-​down the WORST grocery store I have ever been to. $ 2.50 for a single red bell pepper?! $ 7 for 4 regular, plain AAA batteries?! You have got to be fucking kidding me. This is a fucking CRIME. How are we accepting this Manhattan Valley? Get these assholes out so (another) Westside can move in.

Depressing. Only go there because it’s on top of the subway. Westside and Garden of Eden are much, much better.

Worst grocery ever. They frequently overcharge you at the register!

The store is pretty clean but most of their products are WAY too expensive. Once in awhile I pick up produce here, which seems okay but I do the rest of my shopping at Trader Joes.

Gristedes is quite honestly offensive it sucks so hard. Don’t waste your time or money even if it’s 4 am (walk to Westside). Steer away from everything about the sad excuse for a chain.

Got two sandwiches made (at a snails pace) that were made with *processed* corned beef. Horrifying.
Seriously?!! In New York? PROCESSED corned beef!!!
This place needs to be picketed for that reason alone. Plus, it’s wayyyy overpriced even for the Upper West Side.

So grossly overpriced it hurts. Seriously, why is it that everything here costs like $ 3 more than in any other supermarket (aside from Dags and Food Emporium because they are also overpriced assholes). I prefer to shop at Gourmet Garage because at least then when I overpay for my food, I am in a nicer place and the packaging is fancier and I can delude myself into thinking it’s worth it. Screw you Gristedes. You suck.

Hideous. This is the place you pick up just the basics. I buy toilet paper, and tonic water here. The smell when you walk in is overpowering – like rotten meat (probably because the fish/​poultry area are 20 feet from the door and they don’t smell too clean)
Only recently have they begun to carry organic produce, organic cereals, and such. I think when I first got here, I bought one of every organic item they had and they’ve seen a big dent in those items, so they re-​order and have expanded.
They’re overpriced, also. I check freshdirect (dot com) for prices and even with their $ 5 delivery charge, it ends up being cheaper than Gristedes… AND they deliver.
So, yeah, save this place for the dry goods, and things like that. It’s worth the subway ride to Whole foods or Fairway or something like that.

Stick with the dry goods and standard grocery items. Do not waste time nor money on the produce. The produce is of far lesser quality and the price is all too high for what you get! There is better produce in the neighborhood and it’s worth making an extra stop for it.