Smart & Final

Wonderful produce and selection, however the line at night is unbearable. There was only one cashier and 9 people with full carts waiting in line. I would have appreciated coming to the grocery store, after a long day at work, where I can come and get what I need without having to wait over 40 minutes in line. Such an inconvenience.

This store has great products but seriously one cashier open for 20 people? I cannot with this store. I get we are on a budget but cmon. It shouldn’t take an hour to check out when I have 5 things in my cart. I won’t be coming to this store anymore id rather drive a little extra than waste my time here. I’m tired and to have to wait is not the business. Have they heard of self checkout thoooo?

This place is decent enough. It’s a small store. They redid it sometime last year. For some reason they stopped carrying Webber’s bread after the remodel. It looks like they changed their staff, too. The front entrance and surrounding planters used to reek of cat piss but they don’t anymore. So that’s a plus.
Anyway, the prices are reasonable for the area but there isn’t a big selection. You’ll only get some of your shopping done here. Fruit juices are hit or miss. A lot of it is seasonal.
I come here for my random items – apples here and there, cream cheese, milk. There is no real specialty here so I try to save this place for last when I’m out.
3 stars because it’s meh. Not a horrible place to shop but not great, either. Same for the location. It’s great that it’s netween 2 freeways but it’s still in Anaheim. So just meh.

Convenience. Parking situation is complex. Newly redesigned and has more produce options. Decent drinks selection.
Good place for quick shopping

When one goes to buy food to feed the homeless with, there is a certain level of excellence that is expected from a store and which I unfortunately did not receive. On December 3, 2014, a fellow Servite brother and I made our way to the Smart and Final on Euclid to buy enough food to feed eighty people with. We were left with service and products that were far too diminutive for satisfaction. The store appeared clean and there were some store employees that seemed to care about their jobs. However, as my Servite brother and I made it to the back of the store, we were greeted by dented cans, produce that I think would be better thrown-​out than cooked and poor service
The first item that we found on our list was tubs of tomato sauce (for Her Servants’ Kitchen this week, the meal was penne pasta in a bolognese sauce with a small Italian salad with garlic bread). These tubs were almost all dented and the crate they came in seemed to be handled with little care. Optimistically we thought that it was only the first item that we found, it couldn’t get worse, right?
As we continued shopping we searched for produce. Produce is a tricky thing because of how fast it can spoil, but that is still no excuse to have bad produce on the shelves. Those shelves are where I found brown onions, and after around ten minutes of examining every one, found six that were quasi-​suitable for cooking. I just hoped that in caramelizing their blemishes would get cooked out.
Having bagged up the onions and having drudged the dented cans, we finally went to the cash register. After about five minutes of distractedly ringing up our exiguous findings, I handed our cashier the money. I had previously counted the money to one-​hundred-​thirty-​six dollars, the stack having been composed of one twenty dollar bill, six ten dollar bills, six five dollar bills, seventeen one dollar bills, six stacks of four quarters each and two dollar coins. Despite this accounting, I was told there was only one-​hundred-​thirty-​three dollars and that I had miscounted. I knew I hadn’t, but I was too peeved to care about three dollars, so I paid an extra three bucks.
Having to survive the dented tubs, the rotten produce, and the service destroyed my mood and the reputation of Smart and Final to me. Keeping a store with good products was not a priority for this location. Moving forward, I think that I will be taking to Costco and leaving Smart and Final, as they ruined their final chance of my business.

This grocery store is super convenient as it’s right around the corner from my new apartment so I come here regularly to get groceries. While you can’t always find everything you absolutely need (particularly in the produce department, you have to be a bit flexible with what you’re looking for although they always have the standards like lettuce, spinach, bananas, etc), you can find almost everything and often for a bit less than in other grocery store chains like Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons.

Very clean place. Products are good, but prices are a bit above average, I think. Staff has been helpful.

Pretty Nice~recently remodeled this place (I think less than 2 months ago). Employees seem to be caring. But, I am here to buy food. Not look at them. Bulky Items… seem to be same price as Costco. Maybe. Not sure. Continuing on…

Nothing really special about this spot.
Good prices, sure, but something was missing, not sure what…
It just feels like you walk in and all the workers are unhappy.
While I was paying, someone mentioned to another cashier that someone hadn’t come in and wasn’t answering their phone… so I’m guessing I’m right.
No other dilemmas.
Fake ass pimps rolling around this parking lot, FYI.

I kind of love this place!
Best candy deals
best random equipment deals
Great preparty store

St. Patrick’s Day is upon us, so that means one thing… Pickles!
Every year we have a pickle sale at school. Along with a «Wear Green» Spirit Day, a Homeroom Competition, and a Musical Chairs lunchtime activity, ASB sells these outlandishly large dill pickles for 50 cents. If you’re wearing green, you get one for a quarter. I only bought four containers (
), but – as with every year – we sold out anyway.
Smart & Final (
) – no matter the location – has always been my go-​to when I have an ASB shopping list:
* Evening Dances. Instead of pizza, I roll out the BBQ and cook up some dogs. Paired with your standard condiments, the kids may eat all they want. And at Smart & Final’s price (
), I can feed many while still keeping under budget.
* Evening and After School Dances. I pick up a few of those big, plastic Red Vines jugs. Always a crowd pleaser:
. S&F also has powdered juice mix and large, orange dispenser coolers. Easy self-​serve for punch!
* Homeroom Competitions. When we decide to have a Spirit Day, we either have homerooms compete against each other for rewards, or we group up homerooms – calling them «College Quads» with names such as UCLA, USC, UCI, Stanford, etc. – and have them compete that way. Using quads kind of pushes teachers who don’t ordinarly participate to get involved. The prize?: Ice creams and/​or popsicles:
,
.
* Donut Fishing. This is a fun lunchtime activity. We tie some string to the end of a meter stick (the fishing pole and line), and then we tie a large powdered donut to the end (the bait). A separate student is blindfolded and sits in a chair (the fish) while his or her partner (fisher) swings the powdered donut toward the other’s open mouth. Whoever eats the donut entirely first – or at least gets it loose enough to drop to the ground – wins. Journalism and Yearbook staff, get ready!
On a side note, this Smart & Final location just underwent some construction. They now have a brand new produce section:
. It actually looks pretty nice. To me, it seems that S&F is trying to re-​produce the feeling of shopping in a regular grocery store, rather than a buy-​in-​bulk-​only store. You no longer need a membership card to shop here. And it’s also very simple to pay for items using a school check.
List complete!

If you don’t mind shopping in a store that’s a little grimy, cashiers that take move pretty slowly, and a-​hole customers– this place rules. It’s a huge store, with an awesome selection of everything you could think of at great prices. If you can handle a few inconveniences for rad prices and quality groceries– this is your place.

Expensive! Somethings are dirt cheap others are highway robbery

***The address listed here is wrong, it’s actually 630 N Euclid, not 620.***
I wrote in to S&F to complain about this store. If customer relations is anything like the management is, I doubt I’ll even get a response:
«For 3 years I’ve been living here. There’s an S&F around the corner and I never stopped in until the other day.
My issue is with a female employee who accosted me as I was walking around. She was carrying a box, filling shelves I suppose, stared daggers and asked if there was anything I needed.
I related to her that I had been living here for a while and was just looking around after finally stopping in for the first time.
Her comment in reply to that was „Great, well I hope to see you back so you can spend lots of money here!“. Which was just incredibly rude and self-​assured me to not bother making another appearance again if the first employee I spoke to can not treat me as a person, rather as a cash-​register instead. This was just disappointing and depressing for me to be treated like that.»
tl;dr — Avoid. The employees are rude as all hell. Prices are Astronomical too, compared to the local competition — Walmart, 99 Ranch, El Super, etc.

Right after I walked in the door, this location of Smart & Final had onions on sale at 5 lbs for $ 1. That’s a better price than even Ralph’s has right now at 2 lbs for $ 1.
I especially came here to pick up a jumbo Jet Dry, but found they only had the extra large 150 loads size. I was looking for the 300 loads size, but what I found on sale here will do.
After being on the road for an hour coming home from work, I was also looking to use the restroom here. It was being hidden by the racks of discount items near the back of the store. Cleanliness here in the Women’s restroom is an absolute joke. I’ve visited restrooms in gas stations in the middle of no where cleaner than this place. How dare they have a restroom check sign off sheet upon the door. They’re just signing it and not cleaning anything.
Other than that, this store has lots of square footage so you’re not bumping into people all the time while shopping. They also seem to have a larger drinks section than most. Beer, sports drinks, juice, soda, bottled water, etc.
They were good about calling another checker up when the lines became 4 – 5 customers deep. Otherwise, it’s a cookie cutter version of every other Smart & Final I’ve been to.

Very hit or miss. This place has some stuff that are at steal prices. They have other stuff that are at rob you prices.
They have tons of bulk items. Almost like Sam’s club but not nearly as big of a selection. The prices on wine and candy were outrageous. The price on frozen seafood was really expensive on some items and fantastic on others. I have to assume that they have a weekly paper and I found the specials.
Detergent prices were outlandish. Frozen entrees were at good prices though.
Overall — i was not impressed. Not as cheap as Several of the other places I have reviewed and no where near the quality of the nice places i have mentioned. Cheap being 99 Ranch and nice being places like Whole Foods.
I might stop here in the future if I am already driving through their parking lot for something else — but I have a hard time seeing myself traveling here just to visit this store.