The Fresh Market

When I worked across the street from the Fresh Market I was a frequent customer as it is a really lovely store. To me it feels like a nicer Whole Foods, almost like a larger version of a high end local market. Its pretty expensive so I never bought any packaged food here you can buy elsewhere but the prepared foods are definitely worth the money. Oh and Fresh Market has the BEST CHICKEN SALAD EVER. I got a chicken salad wrap here minimum once a week and since I no longer live in the area I constantly crave it, I have never had chicken salad that comes close! On my most recent business trip to Illinois I saw a Fresh Market and actually stopped in to get some, it’s just the best! Definitely a great store for quality prepared foods, produce, and artisanal products but not the type of place where you want to do all your grocery shopping since that could add up pretty quickly.

This market is unlike anything else in the area. From the friendly and helpful employees (unlike Fruit Center and Whole Foods) to the lovely background music it’s a joy to shop here. I very much like their cheese counter — there’s a woman there full-​time (wish I could remember her name and share it with you) who likes to cook and entertain and she’s full of great suggestions. I’ve shown her a recipe or two and she helped with the selection which proved to be spot-​on. They carry wine and beer inside the store. Decent selection of craft beer and an okay wine selection. If you see something out of stock in produce they’re happy to run into the back and see if a new shipment has come in (happened to me twice). Some of the in-​store bakery products I don’t like (because unlike WF they use high-​fructose corn syrup so if you’re avoiding it you have to check the labels). Flowers are often fresher and always less $$ than WF or FC. My very favorite thing about this store is the cashiers. Just like the cheese and produce staff, they are genuinely FRIENDLY! I shop here several times a week and it’s always a pleasant experience to check out! The only reason I haven’t given Fresh Market five stars is because they don’t carry everything on my standard grocery list (organic poultry, much if any grass-​fed beef, and a few other items). If they did, I wouldn’t shop anywhere else in the area.

Usually get fish and crab cakes. However I got the pistachio flounder yesterday from the fish counter. I was having friends over for dinner tonight. I was beyond embarrassed when the fish came out smelling like ammonia! Bad fish
Thank God I had some egg rolls in the freezer to substitute. Never again don’t think I’ll buy fish from there again. What a let down.

Another awesome Fresh Market. I actually googled the closest to where I live now and drove 45 minutes to get to it. I absolutely love shopping here, everything is laid out so nicely and fresh. They had a special on their cake loaf, buy one get one free. Got their chocolate chip and coconut pineapple cakes. Absolutely delicious. Also Came back home with lots of tiny spaghetti squash and butternut squash. They are very fresh as if I just picked them from the garden myself.

Love coming to this place everything is always fresh from produce to deli to the snack bins. A huge assortment of different things can even pick up beer and wine and cleaning products. Prices can run a little high compared to say stop and shop but you also get what you pay for here. Deli and prepared foods are also great and make a quick grab. Store is also clean and tidy.

This is a really cool place. They have almost anything you need that you can’t get in stop and shop etc. They have a while bunch of spices and lentils. Meat and seafood both are fresh and the best part now they carry Crescent Ridge milk, the best milk ever.

I used to love going here for what I assumed was fresh and close to natural foods. Recently (the past 2 months) I’ve purchased produce and it is going bad quickly (the next day or less). Another thing I’m seeing now is the sizes of apples, pears, and some other fruit becoming alarmingly HUGE?!
I still enjoy the deli, and the beer/​wine selections but I feel as though they need to take more pride in their produce.

When I lived in Boston and Norton my only real option was to shop at Whole Foods if I wanted a more healthy choices. I live in Hull now which is 10 minutes drive to this location. I absolutely love it. Great selection, always well stocked, immaculate!!! They also have special sales and promotions that are really unique and fun.

Love living near this place. Great selection of fresh prepared foods for the nights I don’t feel like cooking after a long day at work. One-​stop shopping for a good quality meal, a bottle of wine, a delicious baked good. Good produce selection and great for one-​of-​a-​kind treats such as my FAVORITE chocolate bars made back in San Diego which I was really missing! Yes they cost more than the usual grocery store. But always a great shopping experience for when you’re looking for something fun and different.

As much as I try to like this place unfortunately I have observed rotten produce on two occasions now.
On the plus side they have wonderful snacks. But after seeing the rotten produce you have to wonder where else they have cut back and/​or have very lax oversight. I’m going to stick with whole foods, fruit center or even Roche bros.

Fantastic store with diverse and different products from TJ or SnS. Love the Thursday night family meal packages. Getting the groceries bagged is always a challenge due to the physical setup of the registers. Great wine selection. Awesome deals on fresh meat.

I love it here. I can’t afford to shop at whole foods so I feel especially broke here. They have amazing stuff though and free samples all the time. I once bought an $ 11 dollar pint of goat cheese and cherry ice cream. It was worth every penny. Thier bakery makes amazing things as well. The kitchen sink cookies are great.

Amazing! I live in Quincy and would drive all the way over here to shop! Produce is amazing! And it’s the same if not cheaper than stupid Stop & shop! Meat market, deli, bakery, wine & beer, bulk nuts, bulk candy, large yogurt section, etc! Amazing, I can’t rave about it enough! Please go so we can keep this store running :)

This market is not someplace to do a weekly shop, however, my husband and I try our hardest to go here at least twice a month.
It is clean, everything is fresh and nice people work here. Most weekends they have tastings so you know what you are buying.
Good cheese, good bread, nice selections on the deli side (not just talking about meats, they have awesome pasta and other type salad selections).
Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.
I am writing this because I went to trader joe’s, and all their food is frozen and full of sodium. (And I have no affiliation to fresh market). Fresh market is better for you.

The best market around. High quality meat and produce. Not a place to go for your everyday cereal or anything, but if you like fresh great tasting meat and produce, this is the place to go. I will never buy anywhere else. It’s in a great location too.

This market is amazing! Fresh and beautiful produce, a self-​serve candy and nuts and trail mix bar, lots of a la carte choices, beer and wine, an interesting selection of waters, and tons more. So fun to stroll through these aisles!

Great bakery, produce, etc.
They have a great bulk food section.
They sell some See’s candy bars here.

This store has been here now for about 18 months or so. It’s been a convenient addition to the local food shopping scene particularly for those of us who regularly find ourselves at the Hingham Shipyard.
This is a super easy stop after getting off the commuter boat before heading home.
Although this store really doesn’t as favorably compare to our local market, The Fruit Center, I do find myself coming here more than I originally thought I would when it first opened.
While the layout is odd in a circular, non-​linear kind of way, causing me to repeat aisles incessantly, I appreciate how relatively uncrowded it is most of the time with virtually no wait at the cashier.
Easy in and easy out of stores is often worth higher prices to me and it’s one of the reasons I almost always avoid huge supermarkets like Stop and Shop.
You have to be a careful shopper since lots of things are pricier than average. However you can also find an array of products that are less than what I’m used to paying at the Fruit Center.
One example would be the Mrs. Meyers cleaning products that I love. The dishwashing liquid (I’m a geranium scent fan) is a full dollar less here.
When they have sales on produce and fruit, they are often good ones with a nice selection of organic options.
You do have to check labels carefully here because despite how lovely everything looks and how often you’ll find signs with the word «organic» in them, you could be lulled into a false sense of security about what’s actually in some of the other food products.
I’ve been disappointed not to find some things that are standard now in almost any grocery store like at least one brand of peanut butter that is pure peanuts with no sugar. Here, there was nary a jar without it.
There is a wine and beer section here with loads of choices. Good sale prices can be found in this area too and change from week to week.
I do like the one stop shopping aspect of being able to pick up a few groceries for dinner along with a bottle of wine all in one fell swoop. On weekends, they usually have samples of a couple of featured wines.
When this store first opened, you had a tough time taking your own groceries out to your car. They pretty much insisted (in a nice way) that someone had to push the grocery bag filled cart out for you.
I really hated this because to me it felt ridiculous to have someone do something that I’m perfectly capable of doing for myself.
On top of that most of the time the staff pushing out the carts were quite elderly gentlemen. While I’m sure they were able bodied enough, it just never felt right to me personally to have them to do this for me.
I know this is absolutely a great option for some customers however and can appreciate the availability of this service for those who need or want it, but it became a ridiculous point of contention for me to have to so adament that I prefered to do this on my own.

Now, they do offer this service as an option and not as a «must do». You will otherwise be left in peace. The cashiers do unload your groceries from the cart for you as they ring things up in the same way they do at Trader Joe’s.
At the end of the day, Fresh Market is still a chain with stores dotting the east coast, the south, and the mid-​west.
This place doesn’t have the heart nor the local community spirit that the Hingham Fruit Center has, but having said that, I’m glad FM has come to town.
Giving our other local markets a little competition is a good thing too.

Although my recent visit to The South Shore was brief, it was jam packed full of making opportunities to Unilocal.The Fresh Market at The Launch at the Hingham Shipyard is a great location and TFM’s first store in MA. I had been to the one in Asheville NC and was not too impressed but from the outside looks of it, this FM should have easily surpassed my previous experiences with their brand.
It is a beautiful set up, bright, spacious and cheery. But the odd arrangements of aisles in their 23,500 square foot space left me wandering around a bit repeating some areas while missing out on others, I assume. There were plenty of familiar favorites on the shelves, including Fresh Market’s own branded items (I loaded up on canned beans) but when I read through a lot of the ingredients on other items both theirs and national brands, there was still HFCS, artificial colors and flavors and other chemicals I make it a point to avoid. I guess those preservatives help to keep the «fresh» in Fresh Market?
People there were nice and professional but at the end of the day to me TFM was nothing more than a glorified Stop & Shop (which I happen to like) at premium prices. And like the Asheville Fresh Market, with other shopping options available nearby, like Whole Foods and the Hingham Fruit Center, I would think The Fresh Market needs to provide a reason for people to keep coming back rather than getting curious butts in the door, getting a few things for having gone there and then not returning regularly.
Nice looking but so what. A la prochaine.
3.25 stars.
;)

It’s more of a 3.5 star review, but the recent customer service experience raises this up a bit…
As I was checking out one time, I found out that the oranges I was buying rang up nearly double of what the sign at the produce section indicated. After a bit of waiting and sliding my card a couple more times, I was given the oranges for free, which was pretty nice. Yeah, I know this policy is the same (complimentary stuff for overcharging) in some of the other supermarkets, but it was a bit of an unexpected surprise. Overall, the customer service is very nice and I haven’t had a problem at all.
Other than that, the market itself is new, bright, and clean. In terms of size, it’s slightly larger than the Hingham Fruit Center but significantly smaller than Whole Foods. The prices are about the same as the both. While there are some good deals regarding produce (some produce is expensive though), a lot of the regular goods are overpriced (like dried pasta, canned soup, etc.). I like the diverse selection of dairy products.
I bought a fruit tart here once and it was just average. It’s more German-​style: using whipped cream instead of pastry cream, and there’s chocolate between the whipped cream and the pastry shell. That’s not really my style. At least the fruit was fresh and proper for a fruit tart (berries instead of something like grapes or pineapples).
Honestly, once the «new-​ness» wears off, I’m not sure if this place can find its spot in town. With a Stop & Shop practically across the street, Hingham Fruit Center down the road, Whole Foods on the other side of town, and Trader Joe’s in Hanover, there’s a lot of competition around for The Fresh Market to battle.
May the free market look upon The Fresh Market with favorable eyes.