Fresh & Easy

This place rules. I They have great prices on organic beans and rice, nuts, and dried fruit, plus fabulous, helpful staff and a great beer and wine selection.

Update: Markdowns can still be found. Produce seems fresher and packaged in a more useful way. While some items are more expensive than elsewhere, my energy bars are almost a third less than Trader Joe’s. The young woman who seems to be the day manager is wonderful and the employees aren’t as spaced out.

I honestly do like this location in Oak Park! I don’t just come here for the products they have to offer but the customer service they provide. if my day is going crappy these dudes are willing to listen and help me find dinner for myself and family thanks guys! appreciate it. If you guys ever happen to meet Mr. Nate great man! as for myself coming from a position of management for another company highly recommend you guys looking into this employee for management for your store! thanks guys!

My wife had an incredible customer service experience yesterday where an observant employee went far above and beyond the regular expectation of any business. Thank you Lynne for being so observant, thoughtful and helpful. When there’s a choice of grocery stores, the way you treat your customers makes all the difference.

Nice, well kept, and they stock It’s It Ice Creams.
Still struggling with their damn app in general so minus a star for that.

Fantastic store; very good and fresh products with a great manager [Nate]!
Will go as often as I can considering it’s not extremely close to where I live.
I like Fresh & Easy because they’re not too large: therefore easy and yep, the products are fresh. Fun to shop there!

I will only do business with companies that treat me with respect. I have found on every visit to this location no respect. I am not returning I walked out today with my empty bags because of poor staff.

Can’t go wrong with Fresh and Easy Market. Staff is always friendly and helpful. Best deals in town. Love the Friends Rewards they offer. I just moved from Simi to Thousand Oaks. So glad there’s one nearby. My wife and I don’t shop anywhere else when it comes to groceries. Love this place!

I commented on the store in Newbury Park. Love this store, the cleanliness, the employees, the coupons!
I have several stores near my house, but Fresh and Easy is worth the drive. I save TONS of money here.

Small with a lot of pre-​packaged foods, it’s like if Trader Joe and Costco had a child. You would have hoped for a lot, but somehow it ended up being a disappointment.
I don’t understand how it tries to be ecofriendly if every single thing, including the fruits, are individually plastic wrapped.
They have daily deals where they mark down foods that have a ‘best by’ date of that day. If you have open dinner plans, a quick trip to F&E for ingredients for dinner day of can be quite cheap!
Don’t understand why they have self check out if they have to hire just as many attendants to help fix the mistakes people make.

Finally made it to a Fresh & Easy and to my surprised nothing specially about this place. This is a horrible looking store, it’s like a huge corner liquor store and the prices are not that cheap, item selections are minimal & where’s the help? Won’t be coming back.

I don’t know that anyone would check a Unilocal review for a market — but if you do… I have to recommend that you go to this Fresh & Easy.
Yes, the larger chains may have a larger selection on SOME items and there are some items that you MAY get a better price on at those stores — but over all, your money is better spent at Fresh & Easy.
Every time I go into one of those other stores, I cringe as go through check out and look at the few items I’m buying and how much I’m paying — knowing that if I were at F&E, I would be getting so much more. An example, Fresh and Easy coffee — excellent coffee, whole bean or fresh ground for like $ 6 something. They also have the marked down section of items that are close to the expiration date. Great deals! And the people who work there are SO FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL! Yes, so I scan the items myself — big deal! Typically they bag everything for me. One year I shopped at Fresh and Easy and bought all the items to make a holiday meal for 15 people and spent less than $ 100. The next year, with the same menu, I shopped at one of the other markets and it cost me around $ 150.
I don’t work for Fresh and Easy, I’m just an ordinary shopper, and a happy one at that!

Nice layout open vibrant, no lines, but kinda pricey good for certain items or if your in a rush

Very nice and clean. Meats are packaged foe convenient use. Very fresh and reasonably priced. the staff were very friendly. I also liked the fresh produce and greens

I like this store! Like it says, it’s really easy; easy to get around and get what you want and get out. They have pretty good wine for $ 1.99, and their produce is pretty fresh. It’s a bit small for a grocery store, sometimes I find myself having to go somewhere else or settling to not get what I wanted, but overall the experience is good. You have to check yourself out, which isn’t a problem at all. If you buy alcohol, they have to check your ID so they come over and enter a code into your checkout screen. Sometimes they even help bag my groceries. The staff has always been very friendly and helpful.
I will return!

Staff is great (minus the creepy guy that drives a chester van and follows girls around the store) and the discount area is great when your broke.
Also it’s nice to get coupons al the time in the mail.
The thing that bugs me though… The food to me kinda sucks. They use a gas with the meat products when they package and sometimes when you open the package the meat will smell spoiled. The meat itself really, in my opinion, seems to be the lowest quality possible.
They have good prices and food that is prepped for the busy person who is on the go and does not really know how to cook. Thats is a good thing, but for those who do cook and do like quality… Nope.
Cheap, busy, can’t cook? This place works perfect.
Quality, options, cooks, organic? No
All in all I would just say go to Trader Joes.

I like Fresh and Easy and I don’t, I guess it is a bit of a toss up. I know my wife shops there more for their trail mix and things. They do have some great deals if you don’t mind cooking what you got that day. Since things are fresh, they have a shelf life, and once that day comes, you can find the items half off. Nice if you’ll cook it soon, or perhaps freeze the item, so if you are price conscious that is a total score! I find though that a bit of their preparations need a bit of some spicing up, which kind of defeats the purpose of a ready made dish, but some things are pretty good.
Another thing to watch is self check out. It can be real easy to double charge yourself and not know it, so pay attention, and watch the screen. Overall, it is a nice and clean place to shop.

The first time walking into this place was not too different from the first time I walked into Trader Joe’s, I felt like the selection was so small that I was restricted into buying just what they wanted me to buy and could only cook what they wanted me to cook. Not cool. And, unlike Trader Joe’s, Fresh & Easy had a florescent-​lit sterile atmosphere that completely turned me off.
But, I went back because my wife kept finding good deals there.
Then, I noticed— Fresh & Easy is not just cheap. It is remarkably cheap. And, if we go to the farmer’s market every week (which we do anyway) we can get 90% of what we usually buy there without all the extra garbage we usually buy at the big chains. Their meat is good, their bread is great (try their English muffins– incredible) and their packaged goods are fine (we really like their spicy spaghetti sauce, BBQ sauce, and other items).
Bottom line is I am happy this store is around and want everybody to support it so it doesn’t go away.

Fresh and Easy gives me the creeps.
It’s like a mainstream brands Trader Joes, with Costco running full force in to it. I mean it feels industrial walking around on the bare concrete, under those warehouse lights. But its smaller, and you don’t have to buy 600 bottles of ketchup at one time.
I haven’t shopped here enough to really know if I’m a true fan yet. But it’s right around the corner, closer then the closest Trader Joes, and provides me with fast stop for some products for cheaper.
The part that creeps me out the most, are the self checkouts, which is the weirdest concept ever in my opinion. Most people don’t even know how to use their cell phones, let alone use a register. I always get stuck behind the irate 65 year old banging on the scanner instead of reading the screen for instuctions. Then they have to call over an attendant anyway. Why not keep the cashiers, if you’re going to have attendants anyway??? Anyway, these self checkouts are popping up at stores everywhere, so I’m getting used to it. Just READ that’s all you need to do.

Yay for Fresh & Easy!
For those of you who are wondering, F&E is essentially Trader Joe’s, but with national brands instead of TJ-​branded items. And in my opinion, that rocks, because I am attached to some of those giganto-​corporate brands, and if I go to TJ’s, it means I’ve also got to go to another market to get my Pepsi, Yoplait, and Coors Light.
«So how is it like a TJ’s if it doesn’t even carry TJ-​stuff?» you ask?
Well, it’s got that smaller market feeling for one. Free samples in the back. And super-​duper low prices. If you regularly buy the same stuff week after week at your local supermarket, you know what most of it costs, and you’ll notice that it definitely costs quite a bit less at Fresh & Easy. And finally, F&E carries a lot of yummy pre-​packaged food like TJ’s does. Burritos, pasta dishes, curries, and pizzas – all yummy (yes, I have eaten ALL of them), and all available at a nice price. OOH – one last thing: Stay away from the candy section if you have self-​discipline issues. They sell a ONE POUND bar of Belgian chocolate there for $ 3.99. I’m not sure this is even legal, but they’re doing it pretty brazenly, so I’m not asking any questions. Just loading up until they cut me off…