Leamington Foods

I’ve shopped here several times, and I absolutely hate this grocery store. I can’t find fresh meet or produce to save my life. I use to work at the Domimick’s and Lemington has destroyed this place. Terrible produce, and the shopping carts are nasty. I remember stocking the aisles, and retrieving the shopping carts. I’m having a nostalgic moment.

This place is the worst. I don’t know if I’d rather have an empty space causing a food desert in the neighborhood or this place.
All along the isles you’re going to find mostly junk food. Chips, flavored water called juice, snack cakes etc. When I go to get groceries I’m looking for meat and produce. Why I come here thinking things would be different? I felt like I was taking back an old boyfriend who was a jerk face but claims he’s changed.
True story: yesterday I was overcome with the urge to make the perfect homemade burger. I wanted everything. The fancy buns, the lean meat and all the fixins. So, I walk my happy and very hungry ass to this store and carefully select just enough beef for around four burgers. I say carefully because this store is too expensive to be so crappy so you need to shop wisely.
Then I go to the bread isle. Bro! There were like 5 – 6 packs of buns left and all of them. ALL of them had the expiration date of Dec. 1^st. I kept looking at them like I had magical powers to scroll back time (I really love cheese burgers). Unbelievable.
Produce isle had packs of green beans and other veggies with mold growing on them. Why in the hell do they sell produce all wrapped up in plastic and expect it to stay fresh? And why are you selling overpriced moldy food? I wanted veggies for a chicken soup. Nope! Nope!
Anyway, yeah. This is what its like in the poorer black neighborhoods in this city. If you’re using WIC, you won’t get far with what you’re given here unless all you want to eat is garbage. And this store takes advantage of the fact that its the only grocer in the immediate neighborhood and that you might be coming in with food stamps.
Dominick’s used to be in this spot but we all know what happened with that chain. RIP.
FCK this piece of crap store and it’s owner.

This place is overpriced. Nothing really special. Not enthused to return. If they replaced Dominicks with this place, shame on them.
This place is in the middle of a shopping center, its huge, but when you go inside you are a bit thrown off. No real staff to greet or speak to you. The fruit and vegetable section was not appealing at all.
The reviews mostly state that its an overpriced 99 cent store, and I have to agree.

I go to church down the street. They are a good grocery store for getting a few things but the produce is not fresh and there’s typically not fresh fish. But if you need some chips or something in the can it can be a cool place to shop.

My family lives nearby and they sent me for chicken wings. When I got back, we found that they were spoiled so I had to take them back and ask the meat counter for «fresh» wings. Why the HELL do i I have to ask for fresh meat and why was no one visibly upset by this at the store!!!
The other annoying is, they have steel barriers that prevent u from being able to get your cart to your car. You either have to have security watch your cart while u go pull you car up to the door or take someone to the store with u — lame as hell. Even aldi has a better solution then this.

Thank you Leamington foods for opening a store in a food desert. Thank you for doing what other grocery stores are afraid to. Thank you for stocking your shelves with goods that we want and not the ones that will sit and rot in the thown in a dumpster. I hope that you can open up more stores in food deserts even though no other stores have the guts to do that.

Oh my ghetto!!!
I’m sorry but replacing the old Dominick’s, which may have been a bit ahead of its time, with this horrible attempt at a grocery store is pathetic! From the second you walk into the front door you’re bombarded with processed juice drink, chips, and icing glazed honey buns. A few steps further and you’re greeted by the first cooler which is fully stocked with bologna, hot dogs and other various processed lunch meats. Vegetables are available but aren’t too plentiful or seemingly desirable. Moving to the back you find yourself looking at an entire cooler of pork chitterlings and other nutrient free animal byproducts. This is still the first aisle mind you! Round the corner and you encounter entire aisles of artificially colored juice drinks in plastic containers with foil tops and specials on soda.
Needless to say I have used this place for tin foil and hot dog buns which were both plentiful. My question to society is this. Do places like this promote the booming heart disease and diabetes within this community or are they the product of this societies demand. Either way, I think if we dig deep we’ll find that Leamington is likely funded by diabetes drug companies and heart doctors.
Just saying.

When Leamington’s moved in to replace Dominick’s, I was excited! I assumed that they would have amazing, fresh food. Why? Well, because I thought they owned another store in Oak Park, and I naively assumed that this store would be like shopping in the fancy end of Oak Park. That all ended when I walked in the store.
Candy, juice, instant foods, and alcohol are all well– represented here. Real food ingredients, or nutritious options weren’t. What a disappointment! With all the gentrification that’s beginning over there, it seemed a good grocery was the next step. But instead more poverty profiteering. sigh.

‘What an Insulting JOKE to this Already «under» served community. This owner takes over the old Dominicks Store attempting to «Save the Day» but instead he does it with insults… Why are their HUGE rows full of Sylvia’s GREENS? and one HUGE ROW of SUNNY D Light ?? IS THAT ALL The African American Community Eat and Drink? Lets not stop there. Their Meat is 1 day from being discontinued but these owners don’t care, they know that the majority of their funds come from the LINK CARDS that our tax dollars are paying for and many of their customers aren’t knowledgable about healthy eating. The foods are Overly Priced. You will find a better selection in price and quality at your local jewels or dominicks. Maybe even the guy standing on the corner who grew things in his dining room. This is a must not ever go to!

Old Dominicks site… interestingly enough they kept the aisle signage but installed their own shelving and racks. It looks like a half-​assed grocery store and that is really what it is.
First, the meat and meat by products (i.e bologna and hot links and breakfast sausage) are all in the first cooler to the left when you walk in. On the right, logically, is the fruit and vegetables which are interestingly mixed up with the generic twinkies and ‘fruit’ pies. Just so you know, a fruit pie does not count as fruit. If you already didn’t know that…
This store is typical of a neighborhood that is a food desert. It is the only real grocery store within a couple of miles and it does cater to the neighborhood as there were about 40 different versions of those stupid kids sugar drinks that look like plastic barrels. They come in all flavors… diabetes, heart disease, obesity… I get the impression that if this store carried what a normal grocery store did then people would be forced to buy fresh fruit and chicken breast.(THE HORROR). Instead they have fallen into the Moo and Oink stereotype.
What disturbs me about this store is the fact that it is less of a grocery store than a dollar store with food. All kinds of tupperware and candy, with the personal care products behind the service desk??? Maybe they are just opening and in transition but this is sooo strange.
I was also pretty horrified with the fact that I could not find any ‘lady’ products in the store at all… weird way to end this review but this is a weird place.