C-Town Supermarket

We went here to buy some basic baking goods. I decided to get coffee as there were beans and a grinder. The grinder made a lot of noise and the coffee came out extremely course with some whole beans in the mix. Clearly the grinder was broken. I shrugged and moved on.
I was a couple of aisles away when a manager approached me with the coffee bag in his hand and an expression on his face like he was smelling rotten onions. He was clearly irritated and wanted to know what my problem was that I ground and left the coffee. Feeling no guilt, I calmly informed him that the grinder was broken and showed him the coarseness of the grind as evidence. He asked me to join him at the coffee grinder as he was intent on giving me a lesson on how to operate the thing. Why I went along with him? Not sure. Usually I am not so patient and yielding. The setting was clearly on the line between auto-​drip and fine. Undeterred, he thought to run the coffee through again. The noise was even louder than when I tried it. This time the grinder produced not only more partially ground coffee but also a shard of broken blade. Some more dramatic than myself might refer to this as, um, shrapnel.
He sort of apologized. Not enough.

Living in Bayside without a car makes grocery shopping difficult. If I don’t want to pay $ 2 for the bus that runs up Bell I can either walk 30 minutes each way to Waldbaum’s at Bay Terrace (good for everything but far away), walk almost as far and across two highways to get to the Waldbaum’s on Francis Lewis (again, has everything, but isn’t as good as the Bay Terrace one), walk 15 minutes to Grande Mela market (more of a bodega), walk 5 minutes to Bell Farm (good for produce, pricey, no meat selections, basic grocery), or walk 10 minutes to C-​Town. I usually just try to borrow my roommate’s car to go to Waldbaum’s and order FreshDirect otherwise, but if I’m in desperate need of groceries other than produce I head down to C-​Town.
C-​Town is good for basics and has a good meat selection (unlike anywhere else within 15 minutes of my apartment), but their produce is often a little sketchy. I usually have a hard time finding un-​bruised, fresh-​looking fruits and veggies. Prices are decent, and there’s an extensive frozen foods and dairy section, but for anything fresh I’d either go to Bell Farm or Waldbaum’s (though neither of those can touch Whole Foods or the Greenmarket).