Fresh & Easy

Always something on the shelf for quick bite or refreshment. Clean and we’ll stock beer.

The bad thing about this location is it’s impossible to find a parking space thanks to the Fitness 19 next door. But if you patiently circle for about 10 – 15 minutes, no problem!!!
Fresh and Easy is great for stocking up on ready-​made meals for the week. My husband and I found that if we have a fully stocked fridge, we’re less likely to pick up fast food on the way home from work. It’s not cheap for sure, but definitely healthier!
Some of our favorites: spaghetti and meatballs, salmon stuffed with feta/​spinach, chicken broccoli fettuccini. Add a bagged salad and some easy bake breadsticks… perfect!

My trip to Fresh & Easy in Buena Park, CA this evening was a wonderful experience! So much so that I had to write this immediately! I want to thank this fine team:
Zack, Kevin, and Angela for being so professional and helpful. They are «pro» Fresh & Easy folks! They greeted me with smiles and seemed to appreciate that I was shopping in «their» store. Zack helped me find the watermelon slices that I had seen in another store and made my visit though short, very pleasant. Smiles and helpfulness is how I characterize this store. It really was fresh and easy shopping there! Pleasant experience.

I also left a review on Fitness 19s Unilocal as well. Parking here is a joke since they put that gym in.
It takes forever to find a spot, you think its going to be busy inside… when you walk in its completely dead. All that parking is for the gym next door. That alone is going to make me not come to this location anymore. I don’t care if I am in the area.
Not to mention, though the cashier assistant was very sweet, she rang up all 18 of my waters individually. I could have done that. Why don’t they do quantity anymore?

I shop here because I like the ready to eat options and its a quick in and out place. Pros: never crowded, ready to eat food, clean store. Cons: no service, higher prices on certain things and a smaller selection of products.
This place works great for on the go urban living singles or even the parents that dont have time to fully prep food from start to finish.

Great smaller version of a grocery store.
I’m not sure someone would want to do all of their grocery shopping here. The produce section isn’t great and I only go there if I really need to. But everything else is awesome.
I love that the fresh and easy products don’t have artificial colors or flavors. It’s great to be able to rely on it and know that you can at least pick out those products and sort of know what you are getting.
As I said, it’s not a full grocery store. So they have a limited selection of meats, beers, bread, etc. But it’s a great enough selection to get what you need. I love their wraps that they have in the front. I take those to work all the time. I also love their ready to cook products too especially the herb potatoes. So delicious! Also, try the jalepeño pistachios. They’re really not that spicy and they are SO good!
Bottom line: good place to get health food and quick eats, but not your full grocery store.

Love this place.
They got great unhealthy foods such as coockies pastries chips cereals ice creams and so on. They I used to have belgian chocolate waffles. They were great.
The health food options are phenomenal… vegan stufg veg stuff… they got it all…

This place had really gone downhill… prices are too high, salad and sandwiches look wilted and sad… Just like the store. I won’t be surprised if it close down. too bad so sad.

I use to go to fresh and easy 5 times a werk. But after the owner change i would go there twice a month. Fresh and easy became different. They dont have the fresh produce that I use to get. And there prices when up. I always loved fresh and easy because there products were fresh and affordable! I recently when in and bought some steaks and onions. The steams looked great om the outside. But once I got home and opened the package they were brown. I also went to look at the onions and they were rotton. 5 came in the package and 2 were spoiled. They were brown and disgusting. Fresh and easy is not what it use to be. I feel that I will have to stop going there.

Okay, so I know this isn’t a flower shop, but this is my go-​to place for bouquets and such. I mean, yeah. I’ll buy a couple of grocery items here and there, but the flowers! After running around trying to find last minute valentines flowers to give to a few loved ones, Fresh & Easy was my last resort (well… it’s always a first when it comes to flowers, but I thought I would find them in areas closer to home on this day). Forget going to places like Conroy’s, you can find inexpensive, luscious, and lovely bouquets hiding here! A dozen roses (from red, pink, white, etc.)/variety bouquet was approx $ 17 or $ 10 for the smaller dozen roses.

love fresh and easy and will always come here. Great food, friendly staff, and healthy food.

Always here and not ashamed

went to the fresh & easy nearer my house only to discover, its closed. So i ended up to the nearest one which is this location. Very nice store and very easy to use. Like this store very much and love its prices on alot of items. Must return. Good place to grab something healthy for lunch.

So sad the Fresh & Easy on Lincoln Ave. closed down. This is the closest Fresh & Easy to me now. It’s also the closest organic/​hippie/​Whole Foods/​Trader Joe’s-esque supermarket.
Def sign up and use your Friends Rewards card. You can earn $ slowly but surely, convert it online at their site, and use your card to pay. Minimum you need is 500 pts for $ 5. And self-​checkout — awesome.

It’s in a really obscure spot sharing a plaza with a Smart and Final store.
Granted, this one is a bit further away from me than the Lakewood location, but it has one thing that makes it all the more superior:
NO PROTESTORS!
There’s even a huge sign in front that says «No Solicitors Allowed». The funny thing with those protestors at the Lakewood one is that even the F&E employees in that location hate them. It really affects their business quite badly, and many of the picketing UFCW «workers» are ignorant of the fact that the workers at F&E get pretty sweet benefits and get paid quite well, considering it’s an entry-​level position. (The manager at the Lakewood F&E told me about this.)
With that being said, I freakin’ LOVE this location. It’s rarely crowded (even on weekends) and they just got doors for all their fridges. Even the clearance food looks more appetizing, compared to Lakewood.
Also, I’m really glad they have the Friends of F&E rewards card. It gives me even more incentive to shop there and support local growers. You automatically get 250 points when you join, and you can get cash back! Extra bonus for me, since I do love their F&E brand products! I’m a sucker for their healthy frozen entrees for $ 1.99 (beef stroganoff is my fave).
Sorry Lakewood F&E, but I’m leaving you for the Buena Park location ^_^

You cannot go wrong with Fresh and Easy. One thing, check you mail for coupons cause they come weekly. Usually offering $ 5 off $ 25 or $ 10 off $ 50. Today I went these to purchase ingredients to make a home made pizza. They had it all, the dough, the cheese, the sauce, pepperoni and what ever else u could think of putting in your pizza. I’ve never had any issues at these stores and usually find exactly what I’m looking for whether it’s edible or fresh flower that say «I Love You» or in some cases say «I’m Sorry!» Never been to this market? Well you’re missing out buddy!

Pretty good place to get your bare minimum shopping done and get in and out pretty quickly… as long as those little self serve machines don’t glitch up, then it’s a pain.
It’s a great place to stop on your way home from work and not have to worry about big crowds. The selection of product is pretty good, just sometimes wish that if I only need one item then I could just get that instead of buying a whole pack. The prices on meat’s (beef, pork, fish, poultry, lamb) are nothing special, and even sometimes a little expensive because again most items are packaged in 2 – 3’s. They do have a pretty good price on goat cheese (as well as gruyère, and parmesan blocks) which is great cuz I love using it when I make bruschetta. They carry most of the traditional name brands as well as their own but there are some things that they just don’t carry, but not a huge deal.
It serves it’s purpose and I’ll definitely continue to shop here.

Found new favorite market!!!
I love the fact the food here is organic without putting a hole in your wallet. They offer a wide variety of foods a lot of stores don’t carry. They have great section for pre-​made meals (Non-​Frozen) and also a nut section that carry raw unsalted nuts the healthy stuff. :0]
Every time I go here its not too crowd and its fast and easy.

Fresh and Easy is a neighborhood market, just the way they advertise it, and if you’re a single person, or a person with a small family, this is a great place to pick up dinner and staple items. They also have a great «easy» meals areas with food such as pad thai, chicken masala, bangers & mash, meatloaf, and other comfort foods which are fresh items, not frozen.
The food is stocked daily, and there’s even an expiration date on the produce and packaged goods. When its approaching the expiry time, F+E will mark the items down, saving the consumer up to 50%.
If you need bigger items like toiletries, paper goods, etc you can stop at Target, but the prices are fairly competive on those as well.
If you are not a fan of «self check out» don’t shop here. You will need to do it yourself, which keeps the prices low

This used to be my old neighborhood Thrifty/​Riteaid store until they closed it down. It has been resurrected into this Fresh and Easy store.
To sum up, prices are a hit and miss in this store.
Some good deals that I bought last night
Few day old Ciabatta bread, $ 1.82
Their PL (private label) juices, $ 1.99
Lactaid Milk-​$ 3.49 (but they don’t have the calcium fortified ones)
I also bought a bag of their blue corn chips with sea salt. It doesn’t taste quite as hearty and earthy as TJ’s. But if you like light and crispy, this might work for you. Overall, it feels a little bit like an upscale Food4Less. You get to bag your own groceries. Being a resident in the area, I would keep coming back if they keep mailing me those $ 5 off $ 20 coupons.
I keep thinking at the end of my shopping trip here, I could get some ice cream… boy, do I miss my old thrifty that was once here.