Smart & Final

Walked to day to buy 16 cases of bottled water. Carl was my assistant of loading the cart and my Van. He was quick, friendly and very helpful!
I shop with S&F for work and home and today I was so happy to receive such great service!
Kudos to Carl. I appreciate his help! He’s a keeper!

Their sales people are really rude and they don’t know what they’re doing! I hate a bad experience with them and had to write a review, I don’t think I will be going there anymore even if it is close to my house,

Disgusting! They sell rotten fruit. The produce section is small && it just feels unkept. Drive a mile out to the Edinger location for better produce. It’s worth it!

This review is for SARAH who helped me today. I went in to buy some moving supplies and I asked if they sold moving boxes. I have been to numerous stores stocking up on supplies and I’ve asked managers if they can spare any boxes. They’ve all said no which is fine, I just thought I’d ask. But here at smart and finals I asked the cashier Sarah if they sold boxes and she said no, but that she’d ask if they had any extras laying around! She was so helpful and they gave me a few boxes that they had. That was a great help! Thanks also to the other gentleman who rounded up the boxes for me. I did not get his name but he was very helpful also!

The rating for a Smart & Final usually coincides to how large that location is. In this case, this location is a smaller one, so they don’t have the same product offerings as other locations like a Smart & Final Plus which are awesome. It is a convenient location, but I like the store on 19^th street better. The service depends on the staffing, which is hit or miss, just in terms of how many employees are available. Even so, I haven’t had any problems and usually get what I need from this location whenever I shop here.

Sign at door says the store closes at 10pm came in today at 9:46pm and was told that they are closed. Can you say bad I service will never come give business to this chain again

I had never shopped at Smart & Final until my recent move to Santa Ana. Since it’s the closest grocery store to my house, I decided to give it a try. Admittedly, I was a little sketched out about buying produce at a place called «Smart & Final»…how good could it be, especially at these low prices? Well, friends, the good news is I’ve been enjoying the low prices on produce for 2+ months and I’m still alive and kickin’ so it definitely won’t kill you. In fact, the produce is just as good as any other super market I’ve shopped at, but the prices, particularly on organic produce, were lower. While this won’t become my sole stop for grocery shopping, it’s definitely become a regular stop for everything from produce to fire logs to hard liquor (Admit it: you just read that shopping list and wish you knew me in real life). Wohoo!

Not only is this place way smaller than any location I’ve ever been to, the management is lazy and rude. I’ve seen the little bald manager be rude to customers and store workers, so much so that I will never shop at this location again. The employees are nice and seem to do what they can to help the customers.

The lay out of this store with all the aisles going diagonally is hard to navigate. It adds a ton of time o to your shopping because you actually have to get into the maze to see what’s on all the aisles. Stores can do some things on purpose to create more viewable space in a store, but this was just annoying. I will never come back to this store unless I absolutely have to.

I enjoy shopping at this location… no crowds! Bulk items minus the bulk price.

I have been here a couple times. It is convenient and around the corner. This smart and final could use a face lift though. Otherwise they carry some things I like to buy like the store brand cereal and soda pop and the few vegetables I may need to cook.

I don’t come here often, but at times, the 2 pound mild cheddar cheese bags are cheap…$ 3 cheaper than anywhere else… but not always.
They also have large packages of Twix Ice Cream Bars… they are one of my favorite ice cream bar & great when you go through them as fast as I do.
Some stuff isn’t all that great priced though… but a lot of their stuff is… especially if you’ve got a party or fundraiser going on… lots of cool stuff like red plastic diner baskets, large packages of napkins, plates, large jars of mayo, pickles & you know… like Costco but way smaller & with less options… they even have toilet seat covers for sale.

Started to really hit up Smart and Final when my wife took up baking classes. Now I have to buy tons of flour, butter, etc… Their prices are great for the amount of stuff I have to buy.

Don’t get me wrong. I loves me some Smart & Final.
I do.
But ONE frikkin’ checker at 2pm on Saturday???
Bite me. I walked.

Not much of a selection but good for buying bulk like for parties and stuff

This place smells like meat. Always. At 7am on a Friday it smells like meat. Meaty-​meat.
But you can get 3 pounds of butter for $ 7.99 so I manage. I know I’m a trooper. Yup.

This location of Smart & Final, located near the northwest corner of Bristol and MacArthur, has not yet received the «Extra» touch so many of the other stores have received over the past year so it feels like it’s trying to be less of a warehouse and more like a grocery store, but it’s not quite there yet. It’s been reorganized to look like it’s ready for the change, but it just hasn’t been implemented.
But no matter, because I still found what I was looking for pretty quickly and was in and out in about 20 minutes. Mushrooms, cooking spray, Mission tortilla strips, plain bagels and beef bouillon cubes.
Easy parking, but getting out of the lot can be somewhat challenging as you can only turn right and there is usually moderate to heavy traffic on Bristol.

This store is quite run down. I thought it was closed because all the windows are covered up, and I could not see through. There were some «interesting» people lingering around outside the store, I actually hesitated getting out of the car. But I was on my way to my pregnant friend’s house, and she wanted a few big items and I don’t want to drive to Costco. The store was small, old, but clean. What I want to comment on was every employee I ran into was very friendly. Greeting me, smiling, and making small talks at the cash register. I was impressed with the management for doing such a good job, and I just felt that I have to write about it. :)

Before PriceClub merged with CostCo, and you could actually find all sorts of interesting bulk food at the Southern California PriceClub warehouse stores. These days, CostCo still sells a few items in bulk, but it no longer has that entertaining feel anymore.
Smart & Final although much smaller does have that entertaining «do I want to buy a 50lb bag of popcorn» sort of feel… except their selection is far better than CostCo ever was.
Virtually any kind of commercial candy sold here in bulk packs (a HUGE selection, even Mexican candies, and other obscure varieties).
Large variety of sodas, all sold in 12packs or cases.
Alta Dena Dairy products, even half gallons of heavy manufacturing cream.
Stouffers catering size frozen food.
Jumbo packs of frozen french fries.
Giant jars of pickles, peppers, condiments.
Bulk sales of all sizes of styofoam cups.
Catering size cooking accessories like a huge french fry cutter.
Huge Stock pots large enough to make any cannibal happy!
Prices are generally good.
So why only 4 stars?
Meat and other perishables is often old and sometimes nasty. There is not enough turnover.
and, their Ice smells very bad, the whole case (same problem at the Huntington Beach branch).