Smart & Final

I think there is good value in some offerings, such as large packages of Starbucks or other brand coffee and I like their house brand swiss and pepper jack cheeses. Other offerings are poor quality such as their house brand roasted mixed nuts which I threw away after eating a few nuts.

Am I missing something? In CA, this chain had competitive prices.
This location? Even the sale prices strike me as high– 2/​$ 9 cases of water, $ 3 day old pastries, $ ⁴⁄₂ pack of toilet cleaner, $ ⁵⁄₂ dozen eggs? And the price tags listing a «regular» and «sale» price were both higher than average when compared to regular stores.
Didn’t see enough bulk-​size or multipack purchase options available to justify coming here over their regular grocery counterparts. At least in CA, pricing and product make the comparisons to Costco/​Sams Club reasonable. Not here.

Good selection at this location. It’s large enough to walk around & shop. Yet small enough to not be ginormous as Costco. I like the size of it. I found a large can of TANG there for $ 5.99. Great price! & paper towels.

Ok. I have a confession to make. I have no self control in Costco so I come to Smart & Final. I can get great things for any party, drinks, veggies, meats, dairy, cheeses, spices, cleaning supplies, etc.
On my last trip, I bought 6 Vitamin Waters because I noticed on the sign they were $ 1.00 each, saving about $.49 each. What I failed to also notice on the sign was that you had to purchase 10 or more to get that price. I didn’t notice my mistake until I got home. I went back to the store the next day to return something else and mentioned this. Angela was right on the customer service and she allowed me to go get four more bottles and basically made it right and I got all 10 for $ 1.00 each. That saved me $ 4.90! I walked away a satisfied customer. Thank you, Angela for taking care of this and I will be more careful in reading the signs on the products in the future.
I also love buying frozen fruit here at Smart & Final for my fruit smoothies. They even have a mango blend of fruit, very nice. I can’t recall seeing that anywhere else.
Angela rocks!

They don’t have the market feel Like the one i go but it is working for me. It is clean and not too busy during the week. I like the green onions, bread and milk here.

OK, they now get a 4 star review because they’re stocking more sugar free Peeps and I can get my annual fix. They deserve the star!

I hit this place about once a week mostly to cherry pick the sales. Most recently I walked out with a 5 lb bag of oranges for $ 1.99 and a sleeve of elephant garlic (5 bulbs) for 89 cents. Can’t really beat those prices. I wouldn’t make a special trip to come here or anything but I stop in and grab a few things on my way to Sprouts where I do the bulk of my grocery shopping.
Smart & Final carries lots of bulk items and doesn’t require any kind of membership or loyalty card like most warehouses and grocery stores. It’s a good place to go for party supplies like plates and cups or cleaning supplies. Anything you need to stock up on or use large quantities of. I use baking soda to clean everything so I go through those little boxes you find in the baking aisle really quickly. But I can pop in here and get a 4 lb box for a reasonable price, with no membership fee and no waiting in line. It’s quick, easy and really convenient. Can’t ask for much more than that.

They may not have the best prices on everything, but they do have a few selective things at good prices. The store is always clean and the few employees that they have working, are always really nice. Today I bought a bunch of pumpkins to make pumpkin seeds. They were only $ 3 each (butter better then paying per pound which I don’t need, cause I’m only using them for the seeds)
I definitely like coming here on occasion.

My husband likes to come here for the meat. When he’s in the mood for smoking, he’ll stop in and get a pork shoulder or butt, and the beef brisket. I haven’t been here in years, so when he said he was going, I tagged along.
I walked up and down each isle, checking on the prices and the goods. Some items were priced about the same as other stores, but it was the quantity that was different, buying bulk is good when you are feeding family or planning a tailgate, but for the two of us, it isn’t necessary.
The store is clean and well organized, I must admit the quality of the meats are always good, but then again, my husband puts his mojo on it and it’s never a disappointment!

I really dig Smart & Final for the most part. They carry a lot of different things & have a pretty good selection of things, as well of some cool revolving items that come in every now and again.
2 items I always come here for are, my 7 grain bread & Dole pineapple juice ;) Everything else is just a bonus.
However, just like anywhere else, some of their items are not as cheap as other stores. I feel that you really have to frequent this place in order to find the deals that aren’t always advertised.

Buying groceries ranks in my least fave things to do, and thus, I haven’t actually purchased food from Smart & Final. So, I can’t report on the quality of the sustenance available here. It’s bulk/​discount buying without a membership card, so you don’t have to make a commitment to hoarding more than you need.
I usually end up here when I am looking for something random. Once, I showed up looking for Swedish Fish, and despite their serious candy aisle with sweets served up in convenience store bulk, there were no fish! Boo. On my last visit, however, they came through! They have an entire aisle of to go cups with lids and a slew of packaging options from baggies to paper bags and a large selection of food boxes. I even saw cardboard drink carriers! It’s like a mini-​restaurant supply shop, which can be handy when you are planning events.

Nowhere else in Vegas could I find 24 ounce styrofoam cups so I could make my own smoothies at home rather than pay through the nose at some other places. I now make delicious, healthy smoothies daily that I can take with me to work. With S&F’s low prices, I even splurged on lids and straws, too!
This place makes me want to start my own restaurant, actually.

I quit shopping at S&F (one star penalty) all because of sourdough bread. They replaced the good sourdough with Wonderbread in a package labeled «restaurant» sourdough. This is real sourdough like Bud Light is real beer.
I complained to the store manager, who was very friendly and helpful. He promised to follow up with the bread guy and let me know. He never did of course.
It doesn’t make sense to make a special trip to another store just for sourdough, so we wound up getting our groceries at Smith’s next door.
I probably won’t return to S&F until Costco discontinues my Trident salmon burgers again. Of course, S&F, in their infinite grocers’ wisdom will probably discontinue the salmon burgers too. This is the cute game stores play with the public.
S&F has small avocados for 39 cents. You spend 80 cents on two small avocados and get a better deal than a grocery store that charges $ 1.80 for an average-​sized avocado. Avocado toast on sourdough, yum!