Union Market

Ok I give it 3 stars for the varied selection of food and the staff that work there very kind and helpful. Minus 2 stars for the cashiers. I would like to know if these women are simply doing requisite community service, or something. They are so mean spirited and nasty. After purchasing $ 40 worth of groceries (for 7 items mind you) I did not receive a thank you l. Instead she barked «You’re done here». Excuse me –do like your correction officers speak to you that way? I am paying customer and how dare anyone speak to me that way!
Until they hire decent cashiers I will never return. It’s just too scary.

Yes, the checkout experience is dreadful. Yes, they are rude. But beyond that, I’ve twice caught cashiers overcharging me for items by inserting a multiple on a single item for purchase. Most recently I walked out and checked my receipt – they charged me 8 times for a single $ 7 dish soap. When I pointed out the mistake to the cashier a minute later, without apology, she blamed it on the «computer system.» The manager offered no further explanation and was satisfied with a simple refund. Check your receipt!

I decided that I hate this place.
And there’s just no effort to make it better. Look at the reviews. It’s a 2 star market. I don’t know why I continue to do this to myself.
I get home and I’m missing items in my bag. I don’t get it. Is it THAT hard to put my items in a bag?
The reviews on here are unanimous in the horrid check out experience. It’s just. Not. That. Hard. Apparently. It. Is. Oh. Sorry. Wait. No. It’s. Not.
If you’re going to charge absurd prices for food the service has to be there. I shouldn’t get home and be missing items.
Also, the shopping baskets are filthy. I’d love to see what kind of bacteria are crawling all over the baskets we put our raw produce in. I’m encouraging a news reporter to visit and check that out. Place is gross, service is lacking, prices are silly expensive. DO NOT GO HERE — I don’t care how convenient it is.

I absolutely love this Union Market location I live in the area its very convenient i love the selections of products sold here even though the prices are unbearable the staff here at Union Market make it very accommodating there friendly and very nice and for the final touch a great way to end my visit the Cashiers are friendly and polite … Items nicely packed followed by a smile.

Insanely overpriced for what you actually get. If you are nearby The tiny fresh Italian Market down the block, Russo’s is so much better. Union Market wants to be that nice boutique-​y, jazz playing little market but it comes short in almost every way. I live pretty close so I still occasionally go here for a last minute item but it’s at the bottom of my list. Limited selection of not so fresh fish, which again, are WAY overpriced. Same with the veggies and fruit. Multiple times we’ve gotten the rotisserie chicken and it’s still pink inside. The bread is half stale. They have «local eggs» but it doesn’t say where from, just repacked eggs. I’m not sure if the other locations are like this, but I hope not. The only reason they get stars instead of one is a decent cheese selection that I actually enjoy.

We opened our Union Market-​purchased cod, and the whole kitchen flooded with stink. Not even cooking could save it. Dinner reeked of vajayjay. Was shopping here 1−2x a week (it’s very close by), and bleeding money, but (writing as someone who’s worked in a fish market before) this last bit of health-​and-​safety neglect drove me over the edge.
Union Market is waaaaaay too expensive not to have proper freshness checks (or offer a customer loyalty card, ahem). Moreover, it’s not a place for people who actually cook, or plan! It’s best for PMS novelty items (like the $ 11 box of marshmallows I immediately put back), cheap/​oily coffee beans, and rotisserie chicken. Beware competing in a Hunger Games through their narrow, precariously-​arranged aisles. It’s also weirdly spotty in terms of real-​life-​kitchen stocking (ex: bulk and frozen staples run out; pricey stocks and no pre-​made mirepoix; no clean/​raw food staples; nasty prepared veggies). Nearby bodegas like The Bad Wife have a wider selection of oils, spices, and soups.

Horrible! I will never return here. First off the items here are so over priced. The prosciutto pesto mozzarella sandwich I purchased horrible. The prosciutto was so gummy and fatty, I felt like I was chewing on gum. So gross! Just one bite and I was done with my sandwich. The mozzarella ball I purchased had a very weird after taste. For a market that suppose to sell high quality items they serve you very bad meat. I will not be returning ever!

I’m in love with this place. It’s like San Francisco, but ½ the price. The selection of vegetables is fantastic and seasonal. I saw fiddleheads, fava beans (which came home with me) and 4 summer squashes. The meat section is small, but looks fresh. My only complaint is the limp coffee. Humph.

It’s expensive
Organic items are few
It’s small
In general the sfaff is almost never smiling
BUT
A couple or Three of their deli guys are super nice to me
Their adobo roasted chicken is very good
They have a good dry pasta selection
They have some nice breads
They have very good marinated olives and sundried tomatoes
And also a good serrano ham at the deli
So, I like it. It’s walking distance from home, and for some specific items I like to go there

I have often shopped at Union Market for various items even if they were a bit pricey. Organic eggs and milk are competitively priced. Union Market brand tortilla chips are priced great and they taste amazing. Union Market brand coffee is also pricey but good. I don’t buy a lot from them
but what I have purchased I have enjoyed until last night.
I purchased a bag full of items including 2 muffins that were hard as rocks this morning and a container of fresh pineapple and coconut in a prepackaged container. When I got home I ate a few pieces until my son picked up a large piece of coconut and there was a dead baby roach on it! At first we thought it was part of the shell of the coconut but under a magnifying glass it clearly was not and there was another smaller one in the bottom of the container. When I returned it to the manager this morning he argued with me that it was part of the coconut. He then showed it to the person behind the hot food counter and a person at the register AGAIN saying she thinks it’s a roach but it’s part of the coconut. What?! Three people in my house looked at it with the magnifying glass and all of us said it’s a roach! He did give me my $ 6.00 back but really Mr. Manager?! I will not be visiting Union Market any time soon.

Union Market is the store folks love to hate. Sure, it’s expensive, but if I need a specialty cheese item, great bread, some quality dairy products or seafood or meat, I often head here in lieu of other options in the area. My real issue with Union Market is that they VERY often sell stuff that is either out of date or nearly out of date (cheese packaged weeks ago still on the shelf, coffee roasted more than a month ago, meat or fish that look iffy). Still, having spent a considerable part of my New York life in areas where you couldn’t even buy a roll or a gallon of milk without wondering, I’m very glad that Union Market exists and is nearby. There have been dozens of times when I’ve headed here for just an ingredient or two and they’ve nearly always come through at or about the expected price. I will be a frequent shopper for years to come, BUT I will continue to keep my eagle eye out to avoid the old stuff.

Strange beer policy fixed
Some of the staff really quite friendly. Not all but it’s a start.
Some of the organic veggies and cheese pretty good
Bump it up a star and hope for more improvement

What needs to be said? It’s a pretty expensive supermarket, but usually worth it for the quality. The cheeses, breads and olive bar are great. The meats — superb. Rush hour is a little crazy with the strollers, but all-​in-​all a great little shop.

I love a Union Market, it is well organized and top notch products. The price tag also reflects this. I like all the variety they have an often they have great seasonal produce too!

Everyone else here has already covered many relevant points: the meat/​fish is dodgy, their dairy products really ride the edge of expiration dates (often careering off into expired territory), it’s expensive, etc.
But I have one more point to make.
I sometimes buy the rotisserie chickens here. Sometimes they’re great, sometimes they’re not great. When they’re cooked correctly (i.e., for long enough) they’re good. When they’re undercooked, they’re gross.
I always ask for the most cooked chicken, and the staff always insists that they are «all cooked the same». No, they are not.
–Maybe they’re all in for the same amount of time, and the smaller ones are cooked more.
–Maybe some areas of the oven are hotter than others.
Nevertheless, some are cooked well, and some are pinkish/​raw/​gross.
Union market, figure it out. Cook your chickens correctly. When I point to a chicken and say I want that one, don’t give me a DIFFERENT one and say «they are all the same» and then I take it home and it’s RAW.

I only buy certain things here. This is not because they don’t have everything, but I simply do not make enough money to go grocery shopping here. The olive bar and cheese selection are fabulous. The produce is beautiful and organic– which a price tag to match. It’s a very nice store for buying specialty items, but that’s about all I can afford. God bless you if you can, but should food really be this expensive?

One of the most awful and over priced markets I have ever frequented. Today was the last straw when I bought clams and only half of them opened and the rest were bad. I even saw them refilling the «fresh» shrimp from a plastic bag of frozen shrimp.
I have consistently received sub par food on the verge of spoiling from this market. Several of the fresh fish including the tuna wasn’t even iced at the seafood counter. The meats had gray spots. I’d be curious to know how often people have to throw away their food when they get home or worse yet get sick from consuming it. The local bodega has better quality vegetables and fruits.
The staff at the meat and seafood counter are too busy to help anyone, unprofessional, no knowledge of the products they are selling and barely trained to be doing the job they are doing. Even when the store is devoid of customers the people are too busy doing other things behind the counter, can’t answer questions about the products and help begrudgingly.
This is the last time I will go to this store as I refuse to pay top dollar for completely unacceptable and potentially dangerous food.

I was a bit skeptical about Union Market when I first learned about it because it had a stigma for being the «over priced» grocery in the area and I figured it was just a fancy looking grocery stocked with the same products as everywhere else, but with outrageous prices.
However, it’s not really that at all. Union Market has great products for pretty good prices considering the quality one is getting. The produce is being freshly stocked daily by the staff and the store is so petite that you don’t have a crazy time trying to find what it is you need.
They have an excellent cheese section that’s almost all prepared by what appears to be their full time cheese expert /​chef guy. I like to try the cheese samples when I come in and his recommendations /​samples are usually excellent.
Note: If your pregnant be aware that some of the aged cheeses are not pasteurized, something I learned while checking with him at the sample station. Maybe I should have known that already but I didn’t.
The staff is pretty helpful and seem to always be working hard. The cashiers are friendly and seem to really like working there, which I really like. I think it’s so bogus when employees look miserable because it makes me doubt the whole establishment.
The Union Market bags are the bomb and I use them for everything cus’ their sturdy and pretty lol.
Oh and they have a station dedicated to rotisserie chicken and food cooked by what appears to be a pretty snazzy chef staff. I have tried their food once and it was pretty good. I probably can’t afford to do it again, but that one time was great.
Their coffee cups are biodegradable so three cheers for that.
I figure their food must be pretty fresh because they are one of those locations where people come after hours to dig through their garbage bags for fresh food.
My only gripe? They take up a lot of space in front of the store to unpack their merchandise and people passing by have a difficult time getting through, it’s not fun tip toeing over dogs, puppies, children on scooters, Union Market workers and boxes of cherry tomatoes.
So… yeah, Union Market is pretty cool. Check it out :)

So of course we know it’s über expensive… which is just a hott mess all together. Its sad that if tou want to buy healthy organic food you have to sell a kidney to pay for it. So I limit my purchases here to once every two years for healthy food.
However i will go for dessert. The pie from the blue duck bakery café that they sell is delicious. I mean sinfully delicious. My friend has gotten me addicted to it and I curse her every time I go in and purchase a small pie.

I’m a frequent Union Market shopper. I realize it’s quite expensive compared to its competition in the neighborhood, but I like their butcher counter (the only reason it receives the two stars in my review) and I also always liked the atmosphere.
Today, I experienced a very rude staff member that has nearly convinced me to shop elsewhere from now on.
As I was shopping, I put a container of blueberries in my basket, noting that it seemed a bit pricey at $ 3.99 per container as it was a tiny package of Dole blueberries… but whatever.
I get to check-​out and for some reason, the berries were not ringing up, so I let my cashier know that they were listed at $ 3.99 on the shelf. The next cashier jumps in and says firmly, «No, the blueberries are $ 4.99.» I shared that I was nearly positive the price was $ 3.99, but she didn’t even offer to look — she stated again that I was wrong, and that they were $ 4.99. So, I declined to purchase them.
As I was leaving, I figured I’d poke my head back into the front of the store to confirm, and sure enough, they were listed at $ 3.99. I snapped a quick photo (see
) and walked back to the checkout. In a very friendly tone, I let them know that I had just checked, and blueberries are listed at $ 3.99 per package, just in case anyone else has a question on the price today. The cashier blatantly rolled her eyes at me – no friendly «sorry about that» or «thanks for letting us know» — just an eye roll.
I proceeded to walk a couple stores down to the Bad Wife, where the same size package of blueberries are $ 2.99 — $ 1 less than Union Market’s advertised price, and $ 2 less than they tried to charge me.
I understand it’s just a matter of $ 1, but the principle of it really frustrated me – especially the rude attitude. I don’t believe I’ll be patronizing Union Market again anytime soon.