Deals & Steals

This is a wonderful little discount market. I’ve been coming here for years. They carry mostly natural and organic products. You can get great deals on groceries and health & beauty products. My mom stocked up on rice paper wonton wrappers, spices & organic soap. Definitely worth a browse, if you’re in the area.

Does anyone else sell individual teabags for five cents? No! Why is that? Because they’re all fools, and Deals & Steals is the best. If your budget is tight, but your conscience balks at becoming an accomplice/​accessory to Walmart and its evil practices, Deals and Steals is your kind of place. Its got: spices, teas, drinks of all ilks (including coffee), baking mixes+supplies, power/fruit+nut/other bars, candy (including high quality chocolate for cheeeeaap), natural body care and cleaning products, snacks of all descriptions, gluten free/​vegetarian/​vegan/​allergen-​free foods (…I actually bought a «Shaman blessed» granola bar, no joke), canned veggies and wild caught fish, condiments and sauces, breads (local and fresh), pastas, nut butters, occasionally some hats and gloves, and about the sweetest staff in NoHo. I’m here almost every weekend, often even when I don’t reeeeeally need anything (…their inventory is constantly changing, and if you’re an adventurous eater, you’ll find something weird but yummy to taste for sure.).

THIS. Is WHY. We EAT in this house on my budget!
We have a few crazy restricted diets in our house, and we find tons of gluten/​dairy free staples, and tons of organic, healthy snacks that are only gently post-​dated. (I can assure you the dates mean nothing on dry foods… I actually baked a cake using one of the cake mixes that was bought out of date and sat in my pantry for another year, and it was very yummy still).
There isn’t much in the way of refrigerated stuff and you get what you get and you don’t get upset here (don’t expect to find the same things each time), but it’s always a load of fun to see what they have in store, and also to ring stuff up and get excited about the very low totals. They usually give you boxes or sturdy bags as well to take everything out, which is very helpful.
One of my favorite things about this place (other than the 3 for the price of 1 chips) is the ridiculously low-​priced items like soup, gourmet spaghetti sauces (Rao’s was on sale for awhile for $ 3 each, which is a bargain for them), individual drinks for packing in lunches and on trips (all-​natural fruit smoothie boxes for 30 cents each anyone? tazo tea bottles, .50 each?) and you can often find post-​dated gluten free items for 99 cents each. I don’t want to share the things I’ve been stocking up on lately because I’m jealously guarding my secret stashes! But you won’t be disappointed. There are a lot of reasonably priced personal care and supplements as well that are not so deeply discounted, but definitely cheaper than normal.
Keep in mind some things are priced normally here. I don’t think they are jacked up like some say… just not discounted. I’m sure they make enough here selling post-​dated, probably discarded or closed-​out items at all, to not need to jack up their prices on other things.
Another reason I love this place is that I often buy donations for various things like school fundraisers, and this is a great place to buy very cheap stuff by the case that helps a lot. I used to buy seaweed snacks here for cases of 12 for about $ 5 each, and juice boxes etc for the afterschool program at school. A small thing for me, but much appreciated and when you’re on a budget, it’s not easy to afford to be generous unless you have connections like this!

Best deals you can get on organic, natural, vegetarian/​vegan, gluten-​free, and other healthy foods. Yes, some of the stuff is out of date, but as someone who has worked in retail, I can assure you that those dates on most shelf-​stable items are just for stock purposes. I’ve been stocking up once a month for well over 2 years and have yet to encounter a single bad product here.
The prices on most food items are fantastic; I can afford to eat organic and naturally for the same price as most people pay for eating unhealthy, if not less. I shop practically all the natural/​organic food stores in the area and there is next to nothing that you would find cheaper anywhere else. You can’t beat the buy 1, get 2 free deal on chips. The prices are so good that its worth the gas coming here from further away to stock up.
There is a small selection of other natural products as well, like body care, cleaning supplies, and supplements. How good of a deal you get here versus other stores when it comes of these items tends to vary however. Some non-​food items, albeit few of them, are still quite pricey, but I’ve never seen one of these items overpriced by comparison.
Really, the only downside of this place for me is the small size, and it can often be quite crowded. It can be tough sometimes for someone with anxiety. Going early in the week is usually best.
When I move away, this will be one of the few places I’ll miss.

Sometimes, there are serious Deals and serious Steals here. Sometimes, I go to River Valley Market afterwards and silently seethe for having spent more scratch for a nearly expired tea or coconut milk or can of beans or what have you at D&S than I might have at RVM! First world whining for sure.

Good for organic and natural items that are close to expiring or past expiration or slightly damaged. The place is small, and when crowded can be extremely aggravating. The prices are generally good, but are still high on some items. I find cereals and baking supplies are a good deal. I mean if you’re going to buy something close to or past expiring it should be a hell of a deal, but it’s really not here. See for yourself.

They’re a surplus organic and ethnic foods grocer. Some cans and boxes are dented, and other products are months past sell-​by. In extreme cases, like with their $ 1.99 Mayorga coffee special, items are as much as two years past sell by.
Don’t expect a steady set of food items, brands, or provenances. Prices seem to vary based upon how old the products are, and whether or not their warehouse is jammed with the product. Prices seem a bit random, and canned goods are rarely at deep discount. Their chips, however, are famously mix ‘n match, buy one and get two free. That’s truly a heck of a deal.
They now carry day old People’s Bakery breads at half-​off and have added the ability to process EBT.
For those who care, note that they do (or used to, at least) donate their excess/​low demand inventory the Northampton Food Not Bombs chapter.

Want to buy bags of multi-​grain low calorie chips made by a company you have never heard of for $ 1.33 a bag? How about dirt cheap crackers and granola bars and salsa, and breakfast cereal and flatbread snacks and salad dressing and everything under the sun for pennies on the dollar?
And for a bonus, how about plopping this dream store into the most out there place you can find, where people watching has been taken to the tenth power?
This awesome store is right in the center of Northampton –its a real eclectic melting pot of overstocks, short dates, nuts and granola and tree bark stuff.
It’s freaking awesome if you ask me. We bought two big bags of stuff for $ 30.

This place used to be my jam when I lived in Northampton! A tiny little store that has split into two locations carrying all the weird organic and foreign foods and dry goods that are damaged or overstocked from the hippie dippy stores in the area mean that deals n steals always has a rotating selection of awesome, interesting and sometimes straight up weird stuff to eat, wear, or wash with. I miss this place so hard.

Some great food finds, if you don’t mind the expiration date.

Great outlet store for health food items. It used to be only health food items but then they started carrying «gourmet» food items too, which makes it more interesting to shop there but not necessarily better. Great prices on all kinds of odd things. As someone said, not the place to go if you have a shopping list you need to fill. You never know what you will find.

If you’re the type of person who wanders around the co-​op (or Whole Foods, for that matter) and sees fair trade instant cocoa mix or old-​school poppy seed filling or envelopes full of pre-​mixed Indian spices to dump on your sauteed okra, and thinks to themselves, «Oh, that seems like a fun and convenient item. But it’s 5.99/11.99/totally overpriced!» then you should really come here.
It’s a grab bag of cheap (maybe expired — check if you care) high-​end, organic and specialty pantry items. But while you’re poking around, you might pick up a bargain on things you use regularly — cereal, soup stocks, pasta, soy milk, canned goods, Bob’s Red Mill grains. And if the strange and wonderful thing you took a risk on is too sweet or if you never seem to get around to making hamantaschen, no big deal — most items are priced at around 1.99.

I adore this store. Cheap organic/​natural/​ethnic pantry staples.
You can’t really go there with a specific shopping list in mind as the selection is very random, but if you go in with an open mind and like to stock up on things, it’s really wonderful.
The best deal there is the buy one get 2 free offer on chips– even Terra chips! I often can’t justify buying 3 bags of chips at once, though.

I have travelled from Boston to Northampton just to shop at Deals & Steals.
You never know what you’re going to get but there will be something there that you’ll be excited about. I’ve gotten boxes of protein bars, organic soy milk, organic and free-​trade chocolate and cereals, soups, gluten-​free baked goods and free-​trade coffee amongst other things. And it’s SO cheap!
I love it there!

Preposterous discounts on high-​end edible goods and household items… tons of selection and never the same array twice…
Deals & Steals is like hitting up every outlet between Tom’s of Maine to Berkshire Mountain Bakery in one fell swoop…
You’ll walk out with bags and bags of goodies for cheap… it’s always a wonderful experience to supplement your travel cooler or pantry with Deals & Steals’ offerings…