Food Bazaar Supermarket
“I started shopping at the FD on Gates Ave off Wyckoff.”
“The meat there is always fresh, although sometimes they are sold out of basics like family packs of chicken legs.”
“They have a lot of produce and a decent fish market.”
Food Bazaar Supermarket
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Inexpensive
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Cheapest grocery I've found in this area. Lines are long and checkout is a total nightmare, though. They have a lot of produce and a decent fish market. Also a nice selection of beer.
This place has a great selection and decent prices, but the service here is HORRENDOUS. There are never enough cash registers open and the cashiers are the laziest, most annoyed employees on planet Earth. Not a pleasant experience, but this place gets the job done.
Unlike Kevin C., I could imagine a better place to shop. In fact, I can do more than that, I can name a few: the C-Town that's a 15 minute walk up my street in the other direction, Trader Joe's, all of the sprawling suburban supermarkets of my youth…
I'll get the cons out of the way first. The store smells horrible. It smells like everything you don't want to eat, which is obviously what the place where you buy food should smell like. The organizational system is also terrible. I'm not entirely sure why the frozen foods are broken up the way they are, or why the milk/whipped cream/deli meats are so far away from the cheeses. The refrigerated room where things like eggs, cheese and meats/bacon are just sitting out on regular un-refrigerated shelves frightens me. And it is always too crowded, so at the end, after you've battled the organizational illogic and held you breath/nose, you're left standing on the longest lines in the world. Because there are 35 people with entirely full shopping carts and only two registers open.
But despite all of this, Food Dimensions exists in a dimension where food is cheap. Insanely cheap. With insane sales thrown on top of the permanent cheap-ness. I bought 5 boxes of waffles once for $5. Sometime I wonder why my food cost me so little, why I walked out with a basket full for under 20 bucks. Really, what prompts a store to make sure food is literally flying off of their shelves? But then I stop myself from thinking about it and just collect frozen vegetables and the cheap Breaktime cookies (a house favorite) and go home happy that I spent so little.
(ps this is really a TWO POINT FIVE star review but that's not allowed)
Overall this is a decently sized store with a lot of variety. You can find most if not all your grocery shopping needs. However, the biggest downside is that despite it being the largest grocery store in the neighborhood, it has one of the worst customer service. Every time I come here, I'll spend more time waiting to check than actually shopping despite having just a few items with me. They rarely have all their lanes opened and so everyone is constantly waiting. There is so much potential for this to be more efficient if there were additional staff and having the express line open more often as every time I've come it's been closed.
Lapin and I walked past here on our way to dinner. On our way back, we decided to stop in and see what was available as our neighborhood grocery store is very dismal. The store was very spacious and relatively clean. They had a good selection of produce, frozen products, and organized shelves of products at semi-affordable prices. I usually just wait for sales and purchase those items and occasionally regular priced items. It was also only supermarket we were able to find Culantro for $1.49. The lines are long and the wait time can be aggravating but so is the lines at TJ/Whole Foods — you can kind of get used to it.
What kind of review do you give the only real grocery game in town? I love the FD for its reasonable prices (especially when compared to the well stocked but grumpy and overpriced Brooklyn's Naturals). I love it for the surprising appearance (and dissapearance) of healthier and organic options. I love it for its wide array of beers, and decent produce. The avacados are generally just ripe and totally perfect. Theres one major brand of ice cream on sale every week.
What do I not love? That "express" means 15 items. That strange meats dominate the meat section (I saw a little girl point and squeal EWWWW yesterday. I couldn't blame her.) They don't sell my favorite "Yum" brand peanut butter, and the PB options are sadly slim. The baggers are on auto pilot and forget to single-bag it.
However, I believe the Rolling Stones were inspired by the big FD when they said, "you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might just find, that you'll get what you need…"
This is the type of store where the put the canned goods on top of the strawberries. I frequently find myself asking… really? As I walk through the too small aisles looking to get a few simple items, I always ask myself why I come back here. You may ask yourself – why three stars then?
When i proceed to the checkout, i remember why I do come back and end up paying less than $30 for multiple bags of groceries. Still, I avoid produce here. I'll sometimes pick up one of the sale items if I need it immediately, but otherwise I'd hit up a trader joe's, or something. The food here is super cheap, and it isn't expired or damaged in any way that I can tell.
There isn't even much of a line to checkout. The place is a little tricky to find, but worth the effort.