Stanton’s Shopping Center

This place has a great selection of hand cut meats, different sausages and marinated chicken. Most important is their in house BACON!!!

I like the layout of this place in the heart of downtown Alvin, Texas. It’s not only a grocery store but it’s also a hardware and building goods store on the other side. I was drawn here because they cure and smoke their own bacon and make their own sausage. The bacon remind me of good down home country style bacon. You can even get it with the rind still on it to add that crunchy bite! Didn’t take time to check out the hardware side, but next time in in there I will. It looks like they also had a little coffee shop area and served kind of breakfast. But again I had other places to go at the time and didn’t check it out. It will be added to the things to do list for the next time!

Went here to pick up some pork bellies to make my own bacon but they were out. Instead ended up picking up some Stanton bacon. The cure and smoke were good and the quality was terrific. The bacon didn’t cook down to nothing. The only issue that kept me from giving them five stars was that the bacon wasn’t cut the same thickness. Most slices wee thick and proper but there would be a random paper thin slice every so often. Just an example of poor QA/​QC. Otherwise it was a fun shopping experience. Also you can get kangaroo sausage here!

I haven’t ever been to this store, but rest assured, I’ll be going back! They had the nicest selection of meats, cheese, in house cut bacon, and in house made sausage and boudain.
I purchased an awesome roast that had perfect marbeling, 2 packages of sausage (venison/​pork and buffalo/​pork), 1 pkg of boudain that had 4 links in it, 2 pkgs of thick cut peppered bacon, a block of swiss cheese and a few extra things and didn’t break the bank!
The roast was so tender and had a fresh flavor that is hard to find at the regular grocery store chains. The boudain was incredible and had the best flavor! The bacon… Well, it just doesn’t compare! I have been so frustrated at the price of bacon and the fact that it’s so fatty. This bacon had more meat than fat and left very little grease in the skillet. Just enough to fry an egg without boiling the egg in grease.
The girl at the checkout was super friendly and wore a smile.
There is alot more that this store has available including a wide variety of different types of sausage and bacon. I highly recommend anyone to check out this hidden gem in Alvin!

Quality matters. Firm flavorful bacon. Large cured meat selection. Worth the drive.
The rind-​on bacon is an unusual option, decided I prefer it without. Not that a single piece did not get eaten, it’s still good.

Small business owners are the epitome of the American Dream. When dealing with Stanton’s, you know you’ll get honest treatment because their reputation pays their bills. Thank you Stanton’s for being there when I need your help.

Its good to see that old school family owned businesses do still exist. The selection and mainly the quality of the meats, sausages etc is impressive. Top notch.
Their meat department has done wild game processing for me a few times done a great job, well packaged and is reasonably priced.
The other things I really like about Stanton’s is they have a hardware store, Feed store, Appliances and all sorts of other stuff in one place.
Its just fun to walk around with the kids and check everything out.
Last year in the early spring they even have baby chickens for sale in the feed store which was cool. It makes me think of how things used to be back in the old days of «General Stores» that sold just about everything.
If you need some groceries, an oven, horse feed, baby chickens and a 2×4 this is the place for you!

There is no denying that Stanton’s is anything but centrally located, unless you already live in Alvin. But that being said, it is well worth the trip down 35÷288÷6 (take your pic) to get out there once in a while.
While they do offer a full grocers, this will likely be where you spend the least of your time while visiting –with the exception being their speciality meat dept. we picked up a few choice selections on our last visit. Cornbread stuffed chicken (roast breast side down @ 400 for 1 hour, then turn oven down to 225 and cook till reaching an internal temp of 200 — trust me it will not be overcooked) also got peach, pecan and jalapeño marinated chicken thighs (3 different kinds), peach bratwurst, smoked rabbit sausage (was mazing grilled with Stubb’s Honey Pecan BBQ sauce)
Picked up some assorted beef sticks (elk, buffalo, deer, and the flavor variety pack) But the hands down winner so far was the Jalapeño & cheese Elk Summer Sausage — man, this made quite a few delicious snacks in the afternoons over the weekend and jsut the right mix of spice, lean, fat, chew, etc… I would make trip back just for more of this. Very curious to try the alligator sausage. we have a few more items in the freezer that make Stantons worth it as a meat market alone elk burger, buffalo roast, whole froze rabbit, the list goes on and on.
The hardware store reminded me of southlands in the montrose/​near town district in Houston, everything you might ever need and somethings you never thought you did. Loved walking around the feedstore section –just a word to the wise, if you go see the ducks and chicks, WASH YOUR HANDS! cuz you are gonna have a hard time not eating beef sticks on the way home.

Alvin has a small town charm and Stanton’s helps maintain the home town feeling. This is more like a General Store where you can buy lawn and garden supplies, have keys made, buy a gift, or pick up groceries. We shop here every chance we get and skip the impersonal and unorganized big box stores.