Fresh & Easy

This is my go-​to Fresh & Easy when I need to grab a quick lunch or snack or to stock up on meal essentials during my lunch break as it’s five minutes from work. Love shopping here. They have just about everything I need: a great assortment of prepared salads and sandwiches, fresh produce (their red and green seedless grapes, grape tomatoes, and sliced watermelon are favorites), delicious deli meats and cheeses, snacks galore (trail mix, cookies, crackers, etc.), Brown Cow Yogurt (my fave!), and all the great Sabra hummus flavors. They also have a pretty decent beer and wine selection.
For dinner they have a variety of prepared dishes (just grab and go) as well as steak, chicken, brats, etc., for grilling up a quick meal. They also have great salad fixings: fresh tomatoes, an assortment of bagged salad greens washed and ready to eat, cucumbers, onions, etc., and pre-​made dressings if you don’t feel like making your own.
My only quip would be the produce pricing, apples in particular (Galas are my favorite!). Produce is definitely cheaper at the bigger chain grocery stores where you can buy things by the pound. If you just want an apple, buy an apple, but if you want 5 apples, go to Ralphs.
This is a «scan and bag your own» kinda store so you can get in and out pretty quickly. The clerks have to scan and bag if you buy booze though so keep that in mind. This store is in Signal Hill so they still give bags, but feel free to bring your own (I mostly do but sometimes don’t).
So go! Shop! Enjoy! And don’t forget your Friends Card. Those points add up quickly which means you can score FREE GROCERIES! And who doesn’t like free?

Mixed bag after a few years shopping here. Products a solid 3, sometimes a 4 and occasionally a 5 as in ‘best ever’.
Service and staff a full 0. At best.
Please take a cue from the hiring and training of staff at TJs or Sprouts. The staff at this store is consistently horrible. Whomever hires and trains needs to go back to Retail Service School and have their MBA revoked. Im not talking about the whole ‘bag yourself’ or such… Ive never, EVER seen a single employee happy or smiling. Never. Ever. After 3 years. Downright rude, or completely absent service to odd looks of ‘you are bothering me’ attitude. This has been a consistent theme for all local stores in this area.
Point made.
Grab-​n-​go is a mixed bag. some things are amazingly great: best cheesy garlic bread ever; best pre-​made pizza dough ever. Gelato to die for. Sauces are generally awesome. Great selection for a neighborhood market, and the acquisition by Yucaipa has been a good thing. Employees across the board however the huge HUGE weak point.

I used to work around that area., good prices, fresh product, and very nice employees and very helpful.

Fresh & Easy is my go-​to place when I don’t feel like fighting the crowds at the big box grocery store. Fresh & Easy is just like its namesake… FRESH food and EASY to prepare. Now, when it comes to high quality food there is always a catch and with this franchise its PRICE. Be advised that you can find good deals, everything is mostly local, and of course healthy.
The set up of the market is small and simple, which reminds me of a convenience store. The items they sell consist of small portions for one or two people (no bulk or wastefulness) for a quick lunch or dinner. There are only self-​check out lanes and this can be a good thing (no long lines) or bad (you may have to bag your own groceries) depending on your preference. Also, this location is open ²⁴⁄₇.
Overall, great place to shop if you are looking for a healthy option. Don’t forget to sign up for the Friends Rewards (some items give you bonus points).

Horrible workers. Just stand there and when you go pay they don’t even help you bag your food! The store itself is great, but they need to clean house with the staff and hire friendly people who will acknowledge you and help you.

Good place to pick up a few things to tide you over until «major shopping» day. Very friendly and helpful staff… If you need it quick or want a quick meal other than some fast food place, stop by here and you’ll be pleasantly pleased at the selection.

I love shopping here… friendly staff, clean inside and outside of store (including the bathroom), plenty of parking, nice location and opened 24 hours.
However, since the change in the company prices as increased and selections are the same.

I really like this fresh and easy… It’s clean but then again they all are. They even had items here that I don’t find at other stores which is nice and a plus. CLEAN AND NO LINES!!!

This store is so close to my home, I was debating whether to go in today, or not. Fresh and Easy has great food selections if only they had better staff. I had gone in a previous day, and this is NOT the first time, I was so turned off by my cashier experience. There was an older woman upfront busy texting on her phone. She didn’t help bag my stuff. Not once did she look up or greet me or anything. I managed to catch her name the second time around. Diana or Diane.
Some people work and all we want is a little help bagging our items.
She didn’t greet me or bother to look up from her phone. A little service goes a long way. So today I took my business elsewhere.

Yay! New fan here. So extremely convenient when you’re on the go. Fast, easy pickup of healthy food without a whole lot of additives. There aren’t many healthy options in Long Beach. Here you can grab and go in under 2 minutes if you have to and reading labels is made much easier because there aren’t a long list of chemicals like you normaily see in commercial food. Fresh & Easy you’ve saved me a couple of times now when I’d have gone without a meal otherwise. Thank you!

I will never shop at this fresh and easy ever. Racist experience while me and fiancé were shopping for groceries. Employee by the name of Larry (Slim Tall older guy with tattoos on his forearm) for some reason felt the need to walk up to his co-​worker (female) and whisper «are you watching them»…the coworker appeared shocked saying «huh huh» like she couldn’t make out what he was whispering to her. I can see if we were suspect looking people or were doing something suspicious then ok… but we weren’t. We were simply shopping like EVERYONE else in the store. But thanks to him I will gladly never shop at any fresh and easy again. Smh the nerve of this store having this type of person working for their company should be ashamed. This store deserves ZERO stars

This is great Fresh & Easy location. They have a wonderful parking lot with lots of car spots readily available. The venue seems to be well maintained. Upon entrance an employee greeted and welcomed me in. The location seems to be smaller than others I’ve seen, although everything is clean, items are correctly placed, and an employee seems to be always available if you need help. During this visit I knew where to go because the layout is very similar to other locations, which makes it easy to get in and get out. The checkout process is always fast because of self checkout. They are also 24 hours at this location! Everything is great about this location, will be here in the future.

LOVE this one! Staff is awesome. Everyone is super friendly. I’m here just about every day. It would be nice if the prices were a little lower but that hasn’t stopped me yet.

I’ve been to this location several times and it’s like the others. I like the layout of the store and some of the organic products, even though some of them have added sugar (like their bread, cookies, pretzels, yogurt, pasta sauce, and hot salsa).
Last night, one of the employees picked up a giant broom while I was checking out and dusted the filthy floor at me. I thought that was inappropriate. If he would have waited 30 seconds, I would have been gone. There was only one or two other people in the store too. He might have been jealous because a beautiful girl was trying to get my attention and I was pretty much in and out and I don’t think she gave him the time of day.
Anyway, I like how Fresh and Easy responds on Twitter. Most of their employees are cool.
I don’t like the Manuka honey they sell because it’s not organic and it’s only 5 on the UMF (Unique Manuka Factor) scale. It needs to be 10 or more to be considered medicinal and USDA certified organic is always better than nonorganic.
A week or two ago, I needed organic garlic and Fresh and Easy didn’t carry it. I had to go elsewhere to find it. I suggested they get some on Twitter and they positively replied.

I used to like the store, but since Tesco sold out Wild Oats I’m no longer impressed. Many of their brand items I specifically shopped there they are phasing out. They might be there one day, I go back a couple of days later a they are no more. In addition their prices have increased and their Friends Card policies have changed.
So it’s back to Ralph’s and occasional trips to Trader Joe’s and Lazy Acres for specialty items.

Since my local Fresh & Easy opened I’ve enjoyed having them «right up the street». I have generally been using it for «convenience item» type shopping, rather than my «regular» grocery shopping. I find they don’t have enough of the items I regularly buy, or I am not willing to try their brand. However they do have very nice produce and very good quality meats!
When they first opened I found their «ready to heat & eat» meals pretty tasty and priced reasonably. However I noticed the «quality» was inconsistent. More than a couple times I’d by a «ready meal» with chicken in it, only to discover the chicken tasted like it had freezer burn. Yuck! Also their ready made «Gels» (jello), were great most of the time, but a few times the Gels (jello) tasted like plastic. Again, yuck! I went back to the store and spoke to an employee about these issues. They happily exchanged the jello cups for new ones, but on other visits about the «freezer burned chicken» there was little they could/​would do. I also went as far as calling the corporate office about this «chicken» issue and the person I spoke with basically said «sorry» and offered no resolution.
Otherwise, when I’ve needed assistance in the store the staff has always been pleasant and very helpful. Of course there is the whole «self service checkout» thing, which may bother some, but I’m fine with it.
It will be interesting to see what direction Fresh & Easy goes from here, now that they’ve been sold to the privately held Yucaipa Company.

Great alternative to grab lunch at rather then a sandwich and or fast food, reasonably priced. Though I would not do my regular grocery shopping here, it is over priced on produce and the selection is minimal.

absolutely love shopping here. I can be in and out within minutes. The registers are never full. I usually come here to pick up something quickly or decide what to make with the sale items. It is a bit pricey compared to food 4 less but I would pay the difference to avoid waiting in line for all the people with their ebt food stamps what not.

Have always been uneasy about stepping in here because it just seems like it would be a pricey place. Surprisingly its very decently priced! The quality of the food is very good and you can even get premade, tasty meals.
They even have a clearance section, which is great if you’re looking for something to cook up the same evening! Also, they have a point tracking system so you can earn points every time you shop and apply them to future purchases.
Only thing I would suggest is to really check your produce/​meat before you purchase, there have been a couple times that I’ve taken it home (not from the clearance section) and found that they were a little past their freshness.

Fresh & Easy is wonderful. The prices are low. The fruit and veggies are fresh. They have ready made healthy meals so it’s perfect for stopping on the way home from work. It’s also located on Cherry Ave. just south of Willow so it’s very close to the 405. I love their selection of red wines too. A lot of them are local to California which makes me happy b/​c I love supporting the Californian vineyards.
Make sure to clip their coupons! For every $ 25 you spend you can get $ 5 off if you have the coupon. My total came to $ 110.50 the other day and with the coupon which I rang in 4 times I got $ 20 off making my total $ 90.50… that’s $ 20 in free groceries! Score. I’m proud to be a coupon cutter.