FoodMaxx

Very dangerous parking lot. Had to quit going to this store. They really need parking lot security to protect customers.

Pros:
low prices
fresh produce/​meat
gluten free section
water refill stations
hotdogs for sale during the summer time
parking lot always has spots open
pharmacists are good
Cons:
employees there are divas
gets crowded on weekends
Pro Tip: Don’t buy meat on the weekends. The butchers put a bunch of it out on Friday to cover Saturday and Sunday. They put invalid «best by» dates on the meat. During the week it’s good though.

Great store. Great prices. I took off one star since they tend to have sketchy expiration dates & a poor selection for those with certain food allergies. However, I can buy those items elsewhere & do the majority of my grocery shopping here. Just check exp. dates and you’ll be fine. :)

Store is clean and bright inside. Staff is hit and miss. Sometimes they are relatively friendly, other times they look at you like you’re the enemy. Prices are average, but nothing too get excited about. If you happen to be driving by and you need a grocery store this place can be ok. Selection is a bit subpar — — very little variety by California grocery store standards.
The worst thing about this grocery store is the sometimes drunk stoned clientele. I stood behind someone in line who was too drunk to even stand up straight. I stood in line with someone who wrecked so strongly of marijuana smoke that I feel sure my THC level went up a bit.

Usually in and out using the self checkout and sometimes long lines at the registers. It is the only large grocery store in the area. But occasionally, I experience some racism, in particular there is an east Asian woman named Anna who consistently treats black customers like criminals. Its enough to make one never come back!!!

Foodmaxx is the community college of grocery stores. Its basic options are affordable and you may run into some of the C students from your high school there.
Get your GED in the produce, meat, and dairy sections. Load up on a few units in fruit and veggie frugalnomics — featuring a cute little lesson in organics — and make sure all your meats pass the expiration final exam.
La Raza studies is actually pretty strong on this campus, with several courses in Pan Dulce, Contemporary Mezo-​American Condiments and Spiceology, and Tortilla Studies. Viva la sección refridgeración! Quesos and chorizo galore!
Get plenty wasted at the Foodmaxx fraternity: Hennessy Corona Hennessy. Plenty o’ beer, plenty o’ harder stuff behind locked cages, and get real turnt up off that Sluricane, the new drink by E-​40.
Finally, I heard you can get through the pharmacy program pretty fast because most people don’t take advantage of it.

1. Most of their employees are extremely ghetto and not helpful at all.
2. I bought some burgers here once and then found out they were expired when I looked at the expiration date a few days later.
3. I bought some tortillas here and they were moldy.

I came here with my hubby and my 6 year old son and our clerk numbers/​invoice numbers were 2501 and 2503 tonight. I shop here a lot and I normally love coming here because I feel comfortable to know that their staff are usually very friendly. However, my experience there tonight made me as a customer really feel like not wanting to come back here as often. This was all because of the experience I had in the fast lane check out tonight.
Since our groceries were over 20 items and the 2 cashier lanes were so long, the lady with the pink gem under her eye whom was working at the fast check out decided to open up the self checkout row next to our lane. Therefore my hubby and I both decided to use the self checkout lane and split up our groceries and paid separately.
She then stopped us and asked if we had under 20 items. I replied and told her he was going to the other lane and I was using this lane and we are both paying separate. She rolled her eyes and walked away. Then I asked her to help me with purchasing 5 plastic bags. She came over and for some odd reason rolled her eyes and threw the last bag down when she was done. (Hopefully food maxx can replay the recording from this night and can see what a horrible service she had given me). I really don’t understand why she even works there if she was giving that kind of service to us as paying customers. Why do u work in customer service and provide that kind of non tolerable service? I didn’t want to make a big deal at the time and spoke up about this because I felt like it was uncalled for during their rush hour and knowing how ridiculous her behavior was, she’d prolly disappoint me by handling the situation even more unprofessional than she already was if I had approached her. I definitely do not want to even have her servicing us in any way in the near future in coming back here as it is our family’s nearest grocery store!

People: Food Maxx is owned by the same company that owns Lucky. Surprise!
When this was a Lucky, it was a ghost town. Now, it’s always packed. There’s a reason for that — it’s less expensive! Granted, you give up variety (don’t expect to choose among brands of feta cheese, for example) but hey! A 2-​lb. block of Velveeta is $ 6.99.
FoodMaxx offers great value on fewer items (they save money that way). As long as you understand that you’ll be fine (and can stop whining!).

You’d think with all the extra revenue this store makes by refusing to provide free bags and then charging for bags they could drop prices. Instead this store charges 1.75x what a regular Foodmaxx does. Charging for grocery bags is pushed by the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association (GMA), the same group that has been teaming with Monsanto to keep it illegal to label genetically modified foods (GMO). GMA and GMO.

FoodMaxx good place for gold value in a good book prices are kinda average grade go up and down but goldies go to the store is closed to through a whole house like I do…

I shop here regularly, but only for certain items. They are reasonably priced in their produce section, but don’t seem to have a very large variety to choose from. The meat department on the other hand is pretty decent, the variety is very diverse, many hard to find items like organ meats and cheeks, as well as «standard» cuts (Chops/​Steaks/​Ground), all at a fair price per lb. Also, they have an excellent assortment of dry goods and spices (habanero flake), many of which I can’t even find at Mi Pueblo.

I was here for the first time on 12^th April 2015 at around 12:30 pm. I did a pretty big grocery shopping. Back to the check out in register number 10, a cashier named nick treated me as though I was at their doorstep begging. He was so arrogant and haughty that It seemed as if he was the BIG BOSS of food maxx. I felt pissed off by this little Asian chap. I immediately approached to another cashier: a lady so kind and helpful. Upon listening to my story she even gave me the mgrs number. I called him but he never responded me.
Since then I don’t feel good to shop here due to that incident.

I like this place because it is has good deals on meat and bacon and it seems to have cheaper prices than most grocery stores. What I don’t like is the parking lot and it feels a little ghetto. But overall, I like coming here.

Great great great
Awesome awesome awesome
Convenience convenience convenience
Best location
Close to restaurants coffeeshop
Great bargain store
Shop here if you are low income people

Foodmaxx is where I go food shopping at people say it’s ghetto but it’s not even all that ghetto the store is organize and you get your shopping done and yes sometimes the line is long but what do you expect when the store have good deals.

Used to be a Lucky’s Sav-​On… then Albertson’s… and then Lucky’s again, and now, a Food Maxx.
It’s a really nice and big store, located right off the free way. Only downside is that it’s hard to head southbound-​880 from this location. It’s possible, but you gotta go over the overpass, and go around some side-​streets. Getting off the freeway here is a breeze, north and southbound.
The actual store itself is pretty large and has pretty wide isles. It can be a bit disorganized at times, but they usually have very competitive prices on everything. The meats and produce are pretty inexpensive as well.
I like that they have some of the more «ethnic» meats available to purchase here.
Don’t linger too long here… like most of the other reviews have mentioned, it IS in the ghetto.

I timidly pull into the ghostly FoodMaxx parking lot. It starts to drizzle. In my gym clothes I hurry into the foreboding entry way with my obese shopping cart. Then I hear the gentle spray of produce misters and wiz past the giant pallets of Doritos to the masses of fresh goods.
I was impressed by how good some of the produce looked. I was also impressed that there was a nice display of organic offerings. I was most impressed with how CHEAP it was. The trick is to be willing to buy what looks good rather than a specific produce list. Also know that it is probably already at it’s peak. Chop and freeze anything you wont use in the next 2 days. Sure you have to hunt around in the onions for the best looking ones, but nothing that my Asian market trained eye can’t deal with. 3 bunches of green onions for $ 0.98?! Yes please *chops and sticks in freezer*.
Also, great deals on canned goods (stocked up on my beloved Spam Lite – also tomatoes and black beans… much less sexy than Spam Lite)! I also thought the turkey thighs looked great so $ 4 later, I had 2 of those.
Chobani yogurts, and lite shredded cheese? Got those too.
Why only 2 stars? The bread section seemed just shy of repulsive. Overall experience is overwhelming, intimidating, and down right time consuming. I did check all the dates very carefully, since I know it is a discount store. There was quite a bit of produce that looked pretty unappealing. If I were to come back I would stick to things that don’t really go bad (canned/​dried foods/​toilet paper), and select produce. I probably will not be buying meat or dairy there again, just because I have to eat it so fast before it goes bad.
Overall, if you are not a Costco member and you are looking for 20 lbs of meat for today’s bbq or you are restocking your bomb shelter, then I suggest this place. Also if you are on a very tight budget, this might be a good option. But it isn’t the most comfortable shopping experience. I probably will not be returning anytime soon. I normally will return to 3 star places, so I don’t think I feel right giving FoodMaxx 3 stars.

It sure didn’t take me too long to head back to this store… like three days later… LOL. My husband wanted to check out this place and he was content they had a Bank of America branch (ATM machines and tellers). As far as the other reviews are concerned, there is the saying…“to each his/​her own”.
Because I did not check out all the bargain savings they had in the store, I’m back to do more comparison shopping. Also, I ate that 2 pound container of strawberries (all by myself), all the Taylor Farms chopped salads have been eaten and I drank that 59-​oz. bottle of lemon flavored ice tea (Sunnyside Farms) in a matter of two days, I needed more of those items.
Finds:
Palmolive Oxy Power Detergent (25 fl. oz), $ 1.98
Simply Lemonade with Mango (59 fl. oz), $ 2.49
Tropicana Premium Orange Juice with lots of pulp (59 fl. oz), $ 2.48
*Bananas (1.75 lbs), $.59 lb; total: $ 1.04 less $.59 = $.45
Sunnyside Farms Coconut Ice Cream, $ 2.99
*One of the specials for this week at Food Maxx.
Tina Jo was my cashier for today, and she was very friendly and helpful. The young lady who bagged my groceries was efficient and quick. I didn’t even have to tell her how I wanted the groceries placed in my bag. She did it perfectly. What else can I say except the two of them did a fine job in the customer service department, and coming back the «second time around was much better than the first time».
Kudos to Tina Jo, you put a smile on my face and I was thoroughly pleased.

It makes me so angry that Lucky’s pulled out of this location (God forbid you stay open in East Oakland, right Lucky’s?) and left this neighborhood with a lackluster Food Maxx. I’ve been to the Food Maxx on Durant many times, right over the San Leandro/​Oakland border and have never had a problem with it. That particular store is a-​ok.
THIS store just… stinks. I agree with the previous two reviewers, that the staff here is unfriendly, and the store has this utilitarian feel, almost like I’m shopping for groceries in Soviet Russia. It now has a cold, sterile feeling — I hate people who are constantly crying about «big box» locations, but I have to admit that this store has that feeling.
I was shopping with my aunt, who lives in the neighborhood, when they were in the middle of reconstruction, and it felt like the place was being downgraded, oddly enough, due to the overall feel of the remodel. And gee Food Maxx, if you knew you were moving in could you at least be bothered to put up a REAL sign outside the building, instead of a banner?
Thanks for nothing Lucky’s, and Food Maxx? Step it up. Just because you’re in East Oakland doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make this place look nice and welcoming for the people living and shopping here.