Donelan’s Supermarket

While the prices here are a little on the higher side, the kind staff and friendly, neighborhood grocery store feel gets you every time. On top of that, they have an awesome deli counter with possibly the most amazing sandwiches I’ve ever had. Their take on the Italian sub, aptly named «The Roman» is terrific but my all time favorite is «The Mess» corn beef, pastrami, lettuce, Swiss cheese and spicy brown mustard. Just awesome.
I highly recommend this place!

I like how much organic food this place carries, especially for such a small store! The staff are quite friendly and helpful, the prices are reasonable, and if I request an item, they will start carrying it. They even sell organic wine, which is delicious! I am giving four stars because I really wish they had even more organic options (they have organic produce, mostly). But overall, a very good neighborhood store.

Stopped here on my way through town and I was impressed.
Aisles a little cramped but most fellow shoppers I ran into were polite unlike most larger chain stores.
Prices a little higher but not by much 50 cents here or a dollar something there.
Nice produce selection and organic section as well as a large wine section for yall winos.
I would probably return but just to get a few specific items between shopping trips at my usual places.

Super convenient. If they had better meat section would be perfect but overall not bad.
5÷22÷14 update: I really like their wine selection. Its small but convenient and their selections are actually good for the price. In fact, their selections are better qpr than most of the liquor stores around me.

Donelan’s supermarket is a good alternative to Whole Food Market. However, it will never par with While Food as far as respecting human dignity. I’ve had experiences of the manager casting unwarranted suspicious look on me, and I saw the manager guy casting
a prolonged glance over the shoulder of a worker working on computer looking suspicious. If I knew that my boss is mistreating me like that I would not continue work for the job. Anyway, in this store, if you are not a white person, you might be getting a manager following you, and getting ushered in to a register for a photo session. I go this store because it is close to my house, but it has mom and pop characteristics being overly suspicious of customer. The food here can be pricey, but the store offers sales sometimes. I bought Ben and Jerry ice cream $ 2.00 less that what I would pay at other store, which has been a great incentive make me to visit there for other items I can buy. Services is not so good; the cashiers tend not to greet and courteous to customers. I’ll try hard to use the Whole food when my legs aren’t so tired instead of this paranoid shop.

This is a small local store with some good buys.
The flyer comes in the mail so if it is on my way I will stop by to pick up the sale items.
I’ve had questions about the meat but haven’t always been able to find help.
This is a nice alternative to the others. I’ll need to go more often to feel more comfortable and get a better pulse on the prices.

Great store! We shop there almost daily!

I shop her out of convenience when I need something that Whole Food’s doesn’t carry. They have nice looking produce, but their bread selection is lacking and their meat section isn’t good either.

Its small in a good way – unlike the Mega stores – (shaws, s and s, etc.) friendly, knowledgeable and helpful staff. way better shopping experience that the big boxes.

Clean, small, with friendly staff, ready and willing to help. Just what you would expect from a small town market. The only reason I didn’t give 5 stars is because it is pricier than shopping at the bigger market. But the selection is still very good. It is fast becoming my favorite market.

I went here over the weekend to pick up a couple of party wheels along with some other grocery items. I think it would be nice to live around here. The selection was smaller than at, like, Shaw’s but it had everything on my list and shopping here was like how I imagine it must’ve been like in the good old days. In the soda aisle, the bottles were lined up on their shelves and turned so their labels were facing out. The man working the deli counter was prepared to help and did not seem put out at all when I walked up with a question. At checkout the cashier and the bagger said have a nice day.
I will come here when my nerves are raw from shopping at, like, Hannaford, where a cashier got very peeved with me because the credit card terminal froze up while I was using it (Lady: «You have to press OK.» Me: «I did, but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything.» Lady: *big sigh*).

This place is a wonderful alternative to the massive foreign owned chain supermarkets. They may not have as many items as the big stores but, the manager, Nate will do his best to get something in for you. I try not to shop at chain restaurants, grocery stores, hardware stores etc… I am glad that Donelans is in Cochituate. Everybody is friendly there and like the previous post said, they don’t use loyalty cards. Which I think is a scam just to get more information about you. I want to thnk all the employees for a job well done. Especially Nate, Jen and Ray!!!

Clean, friendly, bright, well-​stocked, and overflowing with New England wholesomeness, Donelan’s is a nice local alternative to Shaw’s and Stop & Shop. I can’t say that I’ve ever done more than pick up a few items on my way back to Boston after dinner at J. J. McKay’s but for a small, independent chain that sticks to the foofier ‘burbs, the prices were surprisingly on par with the bigger chains – and Donelan’s didn’t waste my time with a stupid loyalty card, either.