Smart & Final

It was 3 minutes before 6 am a white customer was allowed to go in so i figured store was open I go to the door and The assistant manager, Tricia decided I had to wait 2 minutes, the store wasn’t open yet… By the way I’m Mexican… I’ll just call her RUDE… Or is it prejudice?

This is a very clean and organized grocery store. They carry a lot of restaurant/​industrial products that you can’t get elsewhere. Produce is fresh and well maintained. They don’t have a lot of organic or gluten free (the reason for only 4 stars) but good selection of other items. The store is small (so easy in and out) and set up well making it so much easier to navigate thru than the larger or super stores.

Very rude cashier! Dionne was incredibly rude, she didn’t smile or anything, and she gave attitude when I handed her my coupons that I had. She threw the grocery bags in my cart.
It’s sad because I like that store, but she was just completely awful.
She must have been having a bad day or something!

Smart & Final always disappoints me, yet I return. There are some things that are just easier to buy here. One roll of plastic wrap lasts me two years. I prefer to buy some things in large quantities (like baking soda), so I head here. But I can never find everything on my list, so I end up shopping elsewhere when I leave. That’s a bummer.
In a nutshell: go when you need large quantities of basic items. If you’re like me and have an aversion to Costco membership, this is a good way to save on bulk items.

Great Deals! Friendly, Helpful Staff! Donna went out of her way to assist me. I believe the man was the manager on duty on 3÷20÷13 at 8:30pm he also was accommodating & even though they were closing told me to take my time. I did not feel rushed, they were a great crew!

I love this store but they don’t carry Corona light.

Having eaten a delightful fish sandwich and strawberry sundae at McDonalds, we continued to Costco to get gas. Fortunately we didn’t get gas from McDonalds.
Smart & Final is directly across the highway from Costco and I needed a half gallon of milk. Thinking it would be more convenient to get it there, we traversed the highway and found a most convenient parking place.
The store was deserted today and terribly cold. I looked for avocados and they were not in the location that they had been last week, so I asked an employee who indifferently pointed in a direction that was so vague it didn’t help me. I eventually found them by walking in circles and the price was twice what it was last week.
I longed for a frozen food item that I buy at Lucky when I am in San Francisco and because Smart has such an unending freezer section, thought I might find it, but no luck.
I headed for the milk which was what I came for anyway and the first contaIner I pulled out of the refrigerator had a «Sell By» date of 1÷9÷11. Being that today is 1÷7÷11, that is unacceptable for me, especially considering that AltaDena is a big seller. I foraged some more and found a 1÷23÷11, which is more like it.
Picked up a couple of mundane items and headed for a check stand. Only two stands were manned and they both had signs, «This check stand closed.» My husband entered one anyway and sure enough we got checked out.
I don’t find anything Smart about Smart & Final, so I’m not going there anymore and that’s Final.