Fitzgerald’s Great Value

Fitzgerald’s is a great little grocery store. Besides having all of the essentials, they have awesome options for a quick lunch/​meal when you aren’t in the mood for the normal take-​out options in the area. The employees are all pretty friendly and the whole place has a great small-​town feel. Dawn is the best and always willing to help!

Great place for lunch, and this is coming from someone who does not like grocery store lunches. Homemade soups, daily ‘hot lunch’ selections, sushi from nearby Ginza, a nice salad bar, deli subs on demand and a beautiful selection of desserts.
All this in the store that’s fast to get in and out of.
My only criticism is some of the items in the pastry case our bakery quality others are grocery store quality in taste.

Great market! Nice selections and decent sales. I was able to find all the items I was looking for. It is a great location for me since I live just down the street. Their flower selection is very nice as well. I will be returning here soon!

Great store. The steaks are always amazing and everything in the deli is fresh. My fave is the potato and egg salad. Plus, the staff is very friendly and always remembers my favorite items.

Great little store! We’ve stopped here many times during our daughter’s four years at school in Simsbury. I’ve relied on their fast deliveries to her school for everyday care packages to birthday flowers to celebratory cakes or chocolate dipped strawberries.
It’s always clean and is staffed with friendly people. The deli counter and salad /​soup bar are especially impressive. The fish and meat counter look inviting but I’ve never bought anything there because I stay in hotels when I’m here.
This store offers specialty items – olive oils, various sea salts – that I would experiment with if I lived here.

Fitzgerald’s is a perfect family run store. As a resident of Simsbury I rely on this store. The staff is friendly and unlike the big commercial grocery stores they are able to accommodate you in any way. I get my meats, breads and last minute no-​time-​to-​cook dinners here because its always super fresh. My kids and I also stop by on the weekends for a bakery treat which are delicious. I love the fact that they always donate to the community and never turns down a charity/​school event.

You can rent bikes here! But, better yet, they are FREE to rent! Of course, there are two caveats to that: 1) You need to bring cash for a $ 10 deposit which you get back at the end and 2) you sometimes get what you pay for. While these bikes were fairly decent, they were not what I would call top of the line bike rentals. Once you’ve gone in and put down your $ 10, you get your pick of the 10 – 15 bikes that they have lined up outside — some have baskets and others do not. We went fairly early in the day on a Sunday, so there was no shortage of bikes to choose from and the girl who helped us was very friendly and helpful. This was a great way to spend some time on a Sunday morning, and if I wasn’t headed out to do additional activities, I probably would have picked up my weekly groceries while at Fitzgerald’s as well. It looked like a very cute, clean, store. I will be back to try this again!

I like the store. Good variety and service, but the price is usually quite higher than other local grocery stores. Only go here for a few items when you don’t want to drive to the other. Out is only for convenience.

I’m impressed. I bought pot stickers and a side salad for lunch from the meals to go section. It was 7 bucks and change and worth it.
I took a loop around the store and really liked what I saw. A good selection of items in a clean well organized space that was well staffed.
But here’s were I need to address a few things relating to other reviews.
Fellow Unilocalers let me help you out here and explain how large chains offer the same product for less than an independent store. The Walmarts and Stop and Shops of the world get to negotiate better wholesale prices because they purchase more units if a given product and often have their own internal distribution centers which reduces shipping costs. Please, stop writing reviews complaining that you don’t get Wal-​Mart prices at an independent higher end retailer.
Fitzgeralds is an enhanced convenience store/​deli/​bakery that sells beer. Of course you aren’t going to get the selection you get at Price Chopper because this store is ¹⁄₅ the size. You should have known that before you walked in, based on the size of the strorefront. Seriously.

I like to shop local and Fitzies gives me lots of reasons. The new meat counter has some wonderful selections and the butchers now their stuff. From fresh on premises ground beef and pork to some great marinated tips and occasionally some dry aged beef to un enhanced pork… All good. The fish counter is much better than the prior owners. They vegetable aisle is smaller but boasts a decent selection and and small and getting more reliable organic section. Local produce in the summer. Local dairies (Trinity farm) in the dairy section. Not the cheapest, but then again I fined cheap beef, chicken and fish sort of lackluster. I am only shopping for two, sot the convienence are worth it. Time is money.

Limited selection, parts of the store are trying to be whole foods, but they are not whole foods. Also, prices seem high in many items. It’s convenient if you live in the area, but noting really makes them stand out. I’d say for the specialty stuff and prepared foods, go to whole foods. The middle aisles aren’t anything amazing. I would only return in a pinch if on hopmeadow street.

I respect «mom and pop» shops, or essentially family owned businesses, and do my best to support them, but in this case I just don’t think it’s deserved I understand they have to make their prices a bit higher because they are not a large chain, but seeing food coloring (for example) for 4 dollars and change at Fitzgerald’s and then seeing it at Stop n Shop (which itself is not very cheap) for $ 1.25 makes me wonder how a store can justify a markup of nearly 300%. The things about that is, the prices are like that with everything in the store!
The deli offers a lunch combo type deal where you get a sandwich and a side for some set price. The thing that neither they nor their menu states is that only some of their sides apply to this combo. So you’re probably thinking no big deal, I’ll just get the side I want instead and pay a little extra, NOPE! Store policy doesn’t allow you to do that, even if you are willing to hand over the extra cash?! Where is the logic in that?

You just have to appreciate the things about the smaller stores in our area. I hope the big chains don’t swallow them up. What we like about Fitzgeralds is their ready made dinners: they are really pretty good– especially the beef stroganoff and the quiches. I believe they sell the best quiche in town. They are deep and flavorful and if you heat them up in the oven instead of zapping them, you will appreciate the crust.
I also appreciate their bakery. No, they don’t use all butter so I don’t buy their cookies. But they have a really talented baker who makes all sorts of yummy tarts and cakes for special occasions. She is really helpful and will make whatever you want fresh and waiting for you to pick up. The ingredients in their regular line isn’t my fav because I like some better ingredients like at Whole Foods. But if I don’t want to drive there, Fitzgeralds fills the bill.
This store also carries some different gourmet things and some local pasta sauces and the products from Stonewall Kitchens… things you can’t get at Stop n Shop.
The produce section has a small organic section also. I have never tried their pizzas which they sell by the slice, but I’ve seen lots of people carry them away.