Cermak Produce

Bigger & cleaner but it’s always crowded! I’m lucky i have several produce places closer to home but i would go back if i was out there

I go here exclusively for the fresh produce. Largest selection in the area and cheapest prices, hands down. Produce market is always well stocked, is (almost) always very fresh, and clean. I will often walk out of here with a cart full of fresh fruits and veggies for under $ 20.
I have had consistent bad luck with the meat market — tough, poor quality meats, and the rest of the goods are priced similarly to or even higher than Jewel or Dominicks. But the produce makes it worth going to!

I don’t like that when I go to this store i always feel like there trying to scam me. I have been over charged on several occasions at the checkout and know i ask them to wait until i put all my items on the belt so I can watch them ring my stuff up to make sure they don’t over charge me. Just today i went to this store and they have installed those carts where you put a quarter in the hand rail and you get it back when you return the cart, well today i was grabbing a cart when the guy who works for Cermak produce and was organizing the new carts ask me for the quarter for a cart and used a special tool to give me a cart with no quarter just to steal my quarter. After 5 min. of shopping i realized what the worker had done and i went back outside to confront him about trying to scam one of his customers, of course he said nothing and gave me my quarter back. Who could be so petty to steal quarters from customers who spend tons of money inside? Anyways the produce is OK, i bought a watermelon the other day and it was bad, i think they need to take better care of there fruit, there strawberries always go bad after about a day and a half. I only shop here cuz its so close to where i live, they keep pulling petty senseless acts I’m going to have no choice but to take my money else where.

This is DEFINITELY the place to go for fresh meat, produce, and mexican products at a great price. If you are looking for Organic food, go to Jewel, this is not the place for it.
The supermarket is always clean. The fruits and veggies are always fully stocked–
I just wish that there would be an «express check out lane» for maybe 10 15 items or less. There are times in which I find myself standing there w/​just a couple of things in my hand and have to wait awhile.
You will always walk out knowing that you saved money.

Actually give this place no stars! Last nights experience is the last chance for this place. I am tiered of standing at the produce trying to find potatoes that aren’t about to go bad, avacados that feel like mush, apples that look like they are about to turn, employees that look at me like I am crazy cause I don’t speak Spanish (um hello you live in America! Not some place south of the border!), NO organics at all and a steak that when cooked tasted like liver. No joke! Bought a steak cooked it like I normally do and it tasted like liver. I am tempted to actually dig it out of the trash and demand my cash back. If a package says rib eye it should taste like rib eye, not liver. Don’t fuck with my beef! I wont be shopping here again EVER! I’ll just have to go a bit further and go to Jewel or Kroger.

This is hands down the best place for produce in the Chicagoland area. Better than Jewel’s or Dominick’s anytime. They have the freshest fruits at the cheapest prices. Believe me, I’ve compared. I always leave here with bags and bags of fruit.
They also have a great meats, deli, and dairy section. Everything else, i.e. pre-​packaged goods (cereal, chips, etc) I feel is overpriced. I mainly come here for the produce.
Love the fact that the store is kept clean and that they have tropical music playing to keep you dancing down the aisles.

I was in the area and couldn’t resist stopping in this store. it looks nothing like the one by my house. inside or outside.
Very modern and spacious. Clean and smelling good. Well stocked with all the goodies of every other Cermack Produce… Friendly people and GREAT specials and prices. Once you start going here you will stop going to the over priced markets in your area.
Its hard to go back to the small one by my house.

I went here the other day for the first time with my boyfriend and I loved it. Very modern and huge. We bought tons of stuff here for under 35.00 (including tax) Tons of veggies that would be probably 60.00 worth at Jewel. The staff is very friendly. And yes it is on 26^th but look past it. Their produce section is huge and worth going to and saving extra money. This is are new produce store.

Much more modern and larger than the store on 26^th Street… still ranchero blares out of the speakers and is a little irritating but luckily I can see past that as the prices are DAMN low!
The selection of produce is mind boggling and cheap. They also have a Bakery which stocks Pastiles and various other cakes and yumminess. The deli is twice the size of any Jewel or Dominicks and better staffed with what seem to be knowlegable butchers that don’t just know how to work the deli slicer but actually know cuts of meat. I had to wave them off instead of nearly begging for assistance…
I have always had good luck with meat at Cermak but this place nearly blew my mind. Not just standard chicken, pork and steak but spare ribs, short ribs, whole fryers (who has those anymore that are worth buying?), salmon, butterfly pork chops… the meat section is huge and also has a deli style counter that had fresh/​frozen fish.
A little further than my neighborhood Cermak but definitely worth the trip! They had about 15 checkout lanes and ALL of them were staffed. No line no waiting. That is the best gift of all at the grocery store!!!