Red Apple Market

Best kept secret in Anchorage. Local Mountain View neighborhood market, caters to their diverse clientele (including me) and has for decades. God bless them, they could really take advantage of their position, but instead they take care of their neighborhood. Broad selection of locally relevant ethnic foods, Pacific Islands, Mexican, Asian, Caribbean. I love their meats — they cut and grind their own, fresh because it moves fast. A single person can actually buy a single package of meat without having to get the «Super Family Value Pack» and pay a price premium. I appreciate that. Just a great neighborhood market and a real asset in Mountain View and Russian Jack.

I live walking distance from this Red Apple Grocery Store. I also living walking distance from ‘the Carrs at Northway Mall’. I’ve always shopped at the Carrs, but on occasion I’ll venture into the Red Apple. Carrs is great for organic options, fruits and vegetables, fresh meat, and basic groceries. On the other hand, as the other reviewers have mentioned, if you’re looking for specific ethnic ingredients that are hard to find in Anchorage, Red Apple is the place you want to stop by and check out.
If we’re being brutally honest, the store isn’t located in the best part of town. It’s in the same strip mall area as a Bingo place, Salvation Army, and Pawn Shop. If that doesn’t adequately portray the part of town it’s in, I don’t know what does.
The store is a little unorganized. There are random stacks of products and the aisles can be a bit hard to figure out (as they don’t really seem to have a rhyme or reason behind how everything is organized and where everything is at). The first few times I went in I had to explore a bit to figure out where everything was at. It’s a fairly large grocery store, but the employees aren’t exactly ready to help you find anything. You’ll have to search someone out to ask for directions– and even then, you’ll probably get a haphazard point to where you need to go. On the other hand, if you enjoy being left alone and independently finding your way around– this grocery store would be great for you.
The prices are cheap– significantly cheaper than other grocery stores in Anchorage. Many of the items are often on sale for half the cost of what I’d pay for them at Carrs. They don’t have a huge selection of traditional food items (really just your basics when it comes to things like canned veggies, cereal, soup mixes, etc). But they have a great array of foods needed for different ethic dishes. They also have very affordable frozen meats, dairy products (like butter), and their sale items are worth checking out at least once a week– because you can get some pretty good deals on comfort food items.
I’d still rather shop at Carrs, because I prefer a lot of organic fresh food options– but Red Apple is my second choice for groceries. I stop in occasionally to grab ingredients that the Carrs doesn’t carry and just to see what good deals they have (I once got four boxes of butter for $ 4.00– that would have cost me double that at Carrs). Overall, it’s a great place to check out once or twice a month. Their customer service isn’t the best, they’re a bit unorganized, and they’re not in the best part of town. But they have great prices, a unique selection of food items, and you can get some great deals if you keep your eye out.

Wow. I should have gone here years ago. I can find ingredients for Thai cooking I can’t locate elsewhere in Anchorage. I will shop here again.

Shady and creepy people all over the place, but the store has Goya brand products so I’m happy. They have empanadas discs and frozen sofrito and all of the seasonings so if you’re Hispanic living in the area, this is your spot!

This little gem! I adore this little gem of a market located in the hood. I go here to buy odd foreign foods when I want to try something new. For example, I’ve tried grasshopper and durian fruit thanks to Red Apple, among many varies uncommon snacks that you won’t find in the majority of super markets. It has a large candy selection that is fun to choose from. That is basically why I love it! It’s not in an ideal location, but so many great shops and restaurants aren’t, I always figure this just makes the goods more affordable, which is such a perk in my opinion.

Red apple market has alot nice variety of produce and foreign items. The main reason I come here is when I’m looking for a specific ingredient since regular grocery stores in Alaska do not carry certain items.
I can usually find any Latin ingredient I’m looking for at a reasonable price. If you’re looking to grocery shop in general I wouldn’t exactly think it’s the cheapest in town. I’ve seen better prices.
Although I’m glad I can find what I need, the store layout drives me nuts. It’s so hard to begin shopping since there’s no main way into the aisles. You either have to go through the checkout lanes or through the crowds by all the little displays. In my opinion it is not very efficient and that goes for the parking lot too.

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The Apple has a great latino foods section. You can find some different chili peppers in the produce section. the meat section was a little strange the last tim (Unless they changed it). You open the freezer, and grab a pretend steak, when you check out, the checker will have another worker retrieve a steak for you from the freezer in the back. They said because of shoplifting…

This store is great for your ethnic food needs. I am able to find most Asian items that I need. A lot of people seem to shop here so it can feel crowded at times. It’s pretty well organized so it’s easy to find things. Prices are decent as well. Produce and meat seem to be fresh. The parking lot can feel hectic at times but I’ve always been able to find parking.

It’s on the ghetto edge of town, and a little hard to get in and out of the lot, so I don’t venture this way unless I am in the area or I need 16 bean soup mix. It’s the only place to get it; every other store I’ve been to has 15 bean soup mix (I want that extra bean, man). The meat section is in the back and a lot of it is under lock and key, so you need to find a customer service person to unlock it for you. Nice personnel, who are friendly and courteous, in spite of some customers’ attitudes. This store is unique in that it is a cheaper version of New Sagayas and caters to many ethnicities without the pomp and priss of yuppie town.

I’ve lived in Anchorage for over a year and was clueless about Big Apple Market until an article by Julia O’Malley in in the paper about grocery stores brought it to my attention. Big Apple Market is located in a neighborhood that normally I wouldn’t dare venture into. It is seriously sketchy. But it is OH so worth the trip. They have the cheapest prices on ethnic groceries in Anchorage.
I’m originally from the East Coast where cuisine-​specific ethnic grocers are abundant and inexpensive. What’s extra-​cool about Big Apple is they’ve got ALL kinds of cuisines represented. I was so excited to discover Mexican and Puerto Rican foods along side of a host of Asian items.
I was super happy to find some Goya items at totally decent prices. For 12 bucks I nabbed a family pack of red plastic chopsticks, a can of lychees, a sleeve of Goya Maria cookies, a jar of pickled ginger, a box of majarete pudding, Goya Sazon with achiote, and Goya Adobo. 5 stars for being awesome, Red Apple.

Is there such a thing as a «Divey» grocery store? Haha well if they were to exist this would be it. Like in the previous review this place has lots of specialty items, especially Asian items as well as items for Latin/​Hispanic foods. Prices are comparable to any other grocery store.
Avoid the store on the 1^st of the month though. It’s super busy! Although they do open up an express checkout lane and have more people on staff during this time. They offer Western Union services as well. And they’re usually open on holidays which is always a bonus considering its convenient location for me.

On my earlier reviews, I told you about New Sugay Markets, and how I liked them so much for the odd things they carry. Red Apple is also a really nifty little store that carries an abundance of «outside the box» items, and at a very good and decent price. They also have the Normal Grocery items, alot of which you can get at a really good price as compared to Carr’s and Fred Meyer’s. I am not much on their meat department, but they do carry items like Beef Links, that I can not find elsewhere. People do not like to go here, because it is located on a very, how can I say…“Busy Location”, in a very «Busy Neighborhood». I don’t mind it at all… reminds me of Home… scares the crap out of Jenn though!!! :)