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| - I used to think this place was extremely creepy. Now I've come to embrace Fast & Sleazy as my true Neighborhood Mark(down)et.
Some Fresh and Easy factoids (zee good, zee bad, and zee annoying):
Many of their prepared food and F&E label food contain evil ingredients like palm oil, high fructose corn syrup, and gelatin. le suck.
Many of the prepared foods are perfectly acceptable and tasty. Just read them labels derrrr.
They mark down the slightly more mature items (approaching their "display by:" date) which I LOVE. Once I scored a huge veggie tray for around $4 and you know they always charge an arm and a leg for those in all grocery stores.
Usually a lot of cute homos shop here and cute people in general
The nicest most useful employees are the sample women, There is an older one and a younger one and they are the BEST
also, SAMPLES! and free coffee, always. Usually a juice too, for that matter.
Random amazing deals like 1.99 big hummus or 1.99 pizza
You think you've scored with the $3 wine, but trust me, you want to go with the $5
They push their reusable canvas grocery bags and plastic bag recycling in every freaking nook and cranny of the check out area but there is usually someone who materializes out of no where at the end of the conveyor and begins to bag your groceries into evil plastic bags! Please let me do it myself. If I can remember the damn canvas bags from the back seat then I can handle bagging my own groceries.
No lines, though. Ever. Me likey.
The comment/compliment/whatever board that is near the samples where people fill out little slips to gush over their favorite products are usually hilarious. and useful. For example, the "(forgotten brand) Pinot Grigio pairs well with my wine habit." Love that.
Unless the produce is marked down and still looks edible, don't buy it because you'll only encourage their shrink wrap fetish. Why wrap up a single eggplant? So foolish and wasteful.
Clearly I'm not here so much for the "Fresh" as half my cart consists of markdowns.
And it is still much too "Easy" to spend way too much on delicious bad for me and planet foods.
Ah well.
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