Just as a grocery store I must give it beyond 5 stars for the pastries and the choice of cheeses and pickled items! Nomnomnom! 5 stars for the service and for the layout. I love the electronic pricing labels on the shelves. They tell you not only if an item is on sale but exactly how much you're saving and they won't get knocked off the shelf. Very avant-garde. Only 4 stars for the fruit and veg (very fresh but a little limited in variety), There are a number of rare items on the shelves that I have yet to see anywhere else and the prices are very good on most of these.
Where they fall short is in the fish department. The meats are generally good quality though but too much was the already sauced variety. As David E. mentioned the line ups for take-out are very very long and the quality is passable but I've had much better elsewhere.
Still, it's nice to have this type of store downtown, right by the Atwater metro so I don't have schlep all the way out to Akhavan in NDG.