What clients say about Associated Supermarket of Ridgewood in Ridgewood (NY)
Overpriced, poorly stocked, and consistently misprices items. Often has expired items still on the shelves, produce is overpriced and extremely mid quality. virtually never has deals on produce. i often get overcharged at the register either because an item was placed in the wrong spot with the wrong price label, or because the system is not up to date. It also is missing pretty common items- minuscule selection of hot sauces, no pillsbury products, no ground turkey, randomly missing a lot of spices.
I live around the corner and it’s really impressive how every single time I go in there I end up leaving unhappy and without all the items on my list.
Their buyer needs to get with the times.
I live a block and half away from this supermarket and after what happened today, always go and as of today, I have reconsidered my patronage. I was accused of stealing. Perhaps it was the color of my skin? I’m not sure. I walked in with my bag with purchases from another supermarket. I didn’t find what I needed so I walked out, which I’m well within my right to do. The manager chased me outside and demanded to see the contents of my bag. So I handed him the cottage cheese he accused me of stealing aloud with the avocados and grapefruits. I then proceeded to show him my receipts and then I grabbed my produce back and put it in my bag. He said I should have announced that I had purchases from another place. I asked him to go pull the camera footage to verify that I stole. I willingly offered to go look at the footage together. He declined and justified his behavior by saying that the contents of my bag look like his products. Had I been a different skin color he would’ve had a different reaction. Needless to say, I will not be shopping here again. Rest assured legal action will be taken.
This place has significantly deteriorated with non-existent sale items (empty stock), missing shelf prices & sale tags along with missmatched item sizes & volumes. Their produce section has also degraded to extremely short lived fast spoiling fruits & vegetables. Certainly remember to oversee all pricing at checkout with full prices charged for sale items more readily than not. The staff is friendly & eager to make adjustments but it's all on you. Seriously, be aware.
BEWARE OF CHRONIC PRICE DECEPTION!!!They advertise a sale price but the item displayed does not match the size of the sale item, they don’t even have the actual size that is on sale in the store, so you end up paying full price for the larger quantity item they do have. They also do this with the regular price signage, it’ll have a price for a particular size listened but only have larger quantities of the items on the shelves. I have noticed this every time I’ve been in on 10+ items each time. The Key Foods @ 72-80 Wyckoff also does the EXACT same thing.
Probably the most pricy supermarket around the area, although it’s still clean and has friendly staff and such, just wouldn’t recommend the place due to its hefty prices compared to the literal deli a block or so away.. $2.50 in the supermarket $1.50 in the deli… hey I’m not. Complaining the place has saved me when I needed ingredients asap just wish they had better pricing on certain items
Attention short people: the top shelves are too high for many customers to access. While I like the selection here, I inevitably have to stop somewhere else on the way home to finish my list, because my 5'2 self physically can't reach the baking soda/coffee filters/what have you.
Sure, you can staff for help, but there's often only a couple people on the floor and they're busy. It would be great if Associated could try to make basic pantry products accessible to everyone.
Honestly, I hate this place - it’s a huge rip-off. Occasionally it’s convenient, as I live 2 blocks away. I would rather (and frequently do) travel into Manhattan to grocery shop at Trader Joe’s instead of going here. If I felt like they weren’t always trying to pull one over on me, I might shop here more regularly, but they lack my trust.
This place is vile. They 100% exploit the fact that there are no other good grocery stores around to jack up their prices. 8 dollars for a small container of grape tomatoes? 6 bucks for tofu? Ridiculous.
I only live 3 mins away, however I no longer come here because the pricing is very high. Every item is at least $1 more than other nearby supermarkets even when it is on sale.
Forget about buying anything not on sale because the price will be extremely high. I now walk 10 mins to other supermarkets because every trip I save at least $20 compared to shopping here.
At least it is clean and well organized, so can be good in a pinch.
Been living in this neighborhood for the past 5 years and this supermarket was OK when I first moved here, but they've gone downhill. I understand economic factors cause prices to fluctuate. However every time I go here, this store has prices that are significantly higher than all the other stores in the area. You are better off going to Trader Joes, Whole Foods, the local Food Bazaar or just any other neighborhood market.
As for quality, the produce is often spoiled or moldy and it seems like they have issues with their refrigeration because a lot of the items in the "dairy section" are spoiled.
The prices are often mis-labeled on food and its as if they are price gouging at the register.
IF you were to spend $60 at a reasonably priced store in the neighborhood, it would likely come out to well over $100 for the same products at this particular Associated.
I’ve had it. Been living in the neighborhood a year and have consistently had issues with this store. There is moldy produce and meat that’s about to expire. Nothing is fresh. And to top it off, the prices are kinda high.
They incorrectly charge a lot of their items, make sure you save your receipt and check it.
My kombucha rang up $.30 more than listed, which is small for one purchase but adds up over time. This wasn't the only thing that was incorrectly priced, and my card was charged $20 more than what my receipt says!
The stuffed clam I bought here had gone bad it tasted super sour when it’s not supposed to taste like that. When I open the package and try to put the clams inside my oven, all 6 clams were taken out all together because there was water from the clam formed ice and grabbing all the clam together. It seems like once it melted and stored in a warm place and got frozen again. It’s as sour as kombucha. They made a kombucha with a clam.
They are out of their mind with the prices they’re charging. $22 for a bag of coffee. $8 for a quart of oat milk. $8 for a small thing of cherry tomatoes. At least the creepy produce guy doesn’t seem to work there anymore so one star for that.
This place used to be good but recently the prices are astronomical. $15 for 4c iced tea? That’s just the beginning. It’s a shame that they would raise the prices so much knowing a lot of people in the area can’t afford them.
Update: thank you Associated for the comment. I did return and gave it another chance.
New to the neighborhood. Stale bread was 99c but cashier charges $5.99 through scan. Never coming here again. High prices, hard to find actual sales. $7 cereals. The interior looks remodelled, which is nice.
It’s to the point where I merely come here out of convenience. “Sale” prices are almost always wrong. How is your sale price higher than your regular price? And if you’re not paying attention at the register it’ll charge you the regular price and not the discounted one. Smh
This place has been terrible for years and they spend tons of money trying to hide that reality. The outside has been wrapped in pretty pictures of 'market fresh vegetables' and they have modernized some of the inside, but seriously, all of the fruits and vegetables are of the lowest grade and if you don't eat them immediately they will be rotten the next day. Same goes for the meats. It is a complete insult to the neighborhood.
They are have a good variety everything there there produce is fresh,good quality and well maintained. There meat section very good and reasonable price.there deli is awesome for cold cuts and nice variety of salad to try.I must the entire supermarket is well maintained and clean the ladies ( cashiers)and managers are very attentive and pleasant and really help you on any sales or product you want . The only minus I have is if you ask a staff that you see they are fixing there aisle and you ask for assistance there answer is that's not my section and don't know it. Then that kind of discouraging to go looking for a product you need especially if you new customer coming in . They are very aware of there customers on who are there regulars are and new ones . Like I said overall regardless of the minus I still like coming to this place because of there products and decent pricing . Also now if I need something I will go straight to manager who is pleasant and will help us .
This store practices intentionally deceiving pricing; prices listed on items are not the same as they charge you at register. Additionally, this store increases prices on individual items weekly, $20 for a pack of raw chicken tenders!!! The same weight was $13 last week!
If that’s not bad enough, half the food in the store is either rotting or completely rotted already.
THERE HAVE BEEN NO POSITIVE REVIEWS OF THIS STORE IN OVER A YEAR. Check reviews, PRICE GOUGING AND ROTTEN FOOD ARE CONSISTENTLY LISTED.
Do not recommend this place for anyone. If you go, triple check your receipt and look for mold!!! Health department should shut this place down.
This is the supermarket closest to me, so it’s extremely convenient for the area.
I am so sick of rotten produce/food. Don’t get me wrong, the staff is amazing when needing an exchange and they never give push back, but I have had to return and throw out food way too much. I just threw away more than half a loaf of bread that we purchased 2 days ago due to mold (after already exchanging a moldy bread that same day).
I’ve cut into old veggies, skipped over fruit with fuzz on it, etc. it’s very disappointing because this place is so convenient.
As far as grocery stores in New York City go, this is by far the best. I walked an extra 10 minutes on a whim to go here. I was not disappointed.
The staff was incredibly friendly, space was nice, and it wasn't too crowded.
Most importantly, everything was fresh. None of it fruit showed any signs of mold and all of the Gary products were well away from their expiration date. Last time to a big grocery store, all the yogurt expired in two or three days. Associated Supermarkets exceeded my expectations for a New York City supermarket
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