Pricerite

Really like shopping here. Things like blue cheese and avocados for salad are half the price of other stores. Lots of variety.
Down side: you can’t get «everything» here. For example, no in-​house deli or bakery. Limited pet food choices. Limited choice of brands (although they do carry national brands and there has never been an issue with quality).
On the plus side: Great produce at amazing prices, good meat at a fair price, extensive and well-​priced frozen foods section, a large Imported Italian section, organic items, and new-​market-​test items you won’t find anywhere else. That to me is kinda fun.
Tip: 12 items at a time or you will be in line literally forever.
When they first opened there were no signs to identify what was in each aisle but that has since changed. My advice: Wegmans for the bakery, deli, pet food, pharmacy/​vitamins and health & beauty; here for everything else.

Quail Eggs.
That’s what got me here. First I saw someone on FB asking for quail egg ideas. Apparently bought near home, which I know to be in Allentown. Then someone brought us a very beautiful and healthy small azalea plant from here. I commented on the gift and out came a recommendation of this Price Rite. Then the magic words «They had quail eggs a while ago». Ahh. Now I knew where the FB question came from. Quail eggs.
I just had to come see this place for myself. Disastrous parking lot. Huge store. Huge and very busy aisles. Huge box sizes available. If I had a family of 5 that includes 3 teenage boys Id probably be thrilled by this store. But I don’t and I wasn’t.
However the produce selection was vast and pretty varied. Looked fresh as well. Huge selection of ethnic foods, no doubt influenced by the clientele in the area.
I’m in the area often and can see trying it again not at its busiest time. I might not be overwhelmed then. But these two recent trips left me overwhelmed. So many people. So many foods.

Prices get 5 stars
I found a dozen quail eggs for $ 2:49. That’s amazing
But they need more checkers or more efficient checkers, especially on the first of the month, when the store is packed and so are everyone’s grocery carts
Very good selection of Mexican/​Central American spices and produce

It’s not one of the cleanest or most efficient grocery stores but it’s definitely the most cost effective.
The produce selection here is super awesome. A few things I always buy here:
Limes! They are usually 6 for $ 1.00 which is half the price as the other stores nearby.
Grapefruit! They are the same quality as the other stores but way less money.
The meat selection is pretty extensive, too. I wouldn’t attempt to buy a good steak here and I think their boneless skinless chicken doesn’t really have the right consistency. However, I have had their ground beef, ground chicken, sausages and pork loin and I’ve had great luck with these items.
Most of the brands here aren’t a name brand. But, if you take the time to look around the store, you can usually find some name brand items at a deep discount. — it’s worth your time.
My least favorite thing about shopping here is that they never seem to have enough cashiers. There is no such thing as «running into Price Rite», you’ll be there a while.

Great place for international products. Very large selection of produce. You won’t find 4673 boxes of cereal. Mostly price rite brand

I formerly wrote a four-​star review of this Pricerite location, praising it for its excellent prices on staples ranging from rice and beans to cereal, produce, dairy, and non-​exotic meats like ground turkey, chicken breasts, and so forth. As the months wore on though, I found myself less and less inclined to visit the store and more willing to make a much longer trek to Guercio’s or to even that terribly overpriced TOPS location on Niagara Street? Why? When it comes to shopping for staples, anyone with one iota of sense will demand consistency. And that’s simply something that Pricerite cannot provide.
What do I mean by consistency? I mean that I should be able to expect a basic ingredient like those referenced above to be in stock, to be of acceptable quality, and to be reasonably fresh and not two days from its sell-​by date. This Pricerite now significant issues with all three qualifications. On any given day, I might visit at 3:00 p.m., at 5:00 p.m., or at some other reasonable hour when reasonably normal people shop for food to discover a total absence of ground turkey, to discover an empty stand where the asparagus normally sits, to see a sign advertising grape tomatoes on sale with none in evidence. More disconcerting, I might visit only to discover that each of the 20 different crates of blueberries features heavily bruised berries or berries marked by infection or mold. Else I might find my ground turkey, my chicken breast, my bag of arugula one or two days from the sell-​by date, else (on occasion) past the sell-​by date. Before frequenting this Pricerite, I always made a cursory check to ensure that something was in date, but I never found myself inspecting each and every product I purchased. Shopping here makes me more anxious than anywhere I have ever before shopped for food.
Anxiety only amplified by the shopping experience. Admittedly, winter is a tough time for pretty much every business in Buffalo, but the winter has taken a toll on this store especially. Floors, aisles, shelves do not appear to be often cleaned, and mud lies willy nilly. Beyond that and especially at peak times, the supermarket turns into a massive traffic jam thanks to the store’s determination not to provide shopping baskets to customers. The alternatives are to walk around with items in hand (possible up to only about three items) or else wheel around a massive shopping cart. Simple movement, navigation is incredibly frustrating.
All of this might be forgiven if the prices remained as low as they were when I penned my review last summer, but prices on staples have seen notable escalation. Produce like avocadoes, arugula, tomatoes, and apples are cheaper and of better quality at Guercio’s. Elsewhere, items like Goya brand beans and corn tortillas have each seen multiple price increases. Yes, you can still get nasty Pepperidge Farm cookies and more quantities of goldfish crackers than I can still even believe exist for rock bottom prices, but why would you want to?
2 stars for stock
3.5 stars for prices
1 star for layout, configuration, and cleanliness
2 stars overall

Unexpectedly awesome bargin grocery. The food is always fresh, and great selection of health food. Im very happy to say if you dont buy high fructose corn syrup foods, youll fill youre fridge well here. Staff is always friendly, things are always clean, parking is good and well everything is Cheap!!! I can buy twice as much food here then anyware else in this town.

I am continuously impressed by both the extensive produce section and the aisles of international foods (one entirely of Goya).
While there isn’t a large selection of brands/​types for most items (2 or 3 if you’re lucky), this store generally does have everything you need for the basics and maybe a little more.
The downside? It is disorganized. This store makes absolutely NO SENSE and changes frequently. I have been shopping here several times a month since April and I still have trouble finding things. Like sugar or refried beans or drink mix. Simple grocery basics that are nonsensically organized in several haphazard aisles.
There is also no bakery.
The upside? The produce, the Goya selection, and the PRICE. Items here are priced significantly below Tops and Wegmans.
Come here first, go to Family Dollar or Tops for the things you can’t find. The cashiers are actually very knowledgeable about what they carry and where the items might be hiding.

I recently moved one block away from this behemoth of a grocery savings giant and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
I’ve already bought 100 cartons of Friendly’s ice cream priced at $ 2.50/each (okay maybe not quite that many). That same higher-​end Talenti brand that you see for $ 5.99 at the Co Op? $ 2.50 here. Wow. Who even needs groceries when you can just buy ice cream all the time?
I’ve found the produce section to be mostly a hit. Oftentimes advertising 50 cent Jumbo Oranges, I stock up. I like those big oranges. A nice, big, fruity delicious meal… in one orange! Most of them were sweet, ripe and yummy. I had a few bad apples (oranges?) that weren’t as sweet, but I still ate them with gratitude (and glee that they were only 50 cents!).
Their bag of grapefruits (comes to about 7 – 8) for $ 2.99 haven’t failed me yet. My fiancé commented that they were the sweetest/​best grapefruits I’ve ever purchased and asked me where I got them.
Their produce section also features «stir fry» containers which are probably the funniest things I’ve seen sold at a grocery store. 2 mushrooms, 1 jalapeño pepper and maybe 1 or 2 small bell peppers are typically included. It’s priced at $ 0.49. I buy them just for the novelty of having such an inexpensive assortment of veggies (which I usually sautee‘ and use in various egg-​related dishes).
Avocados here were yummy and at only $ 1 each. Red peppers are considerably cheaper than Wegman’s. Eggs, milk, cheese; all well priced. Their selection of cheese isn’t the greatest, but you’ll probably find what you need (and if you’re a cheese lover, you should be shopping at Nickel City Cheese a block down, anyway!).
As others have said, I’d like to see some organic items here or at least one small little section devoted to specialty goods. Although Aldi’s doesn’t have organic items, they at least have some pretty amazing imported products from Germany (those chocolates!!!). Pricerite would benefit from doing something similar or at the very least just carrying some organic oatmeal so I can buy some ;).
Bring your own bags or pay $ 0.10 each.

I like Pricerite stores in general – HOWEVER, this one is nuts. Always packed, always long lines.
Additionally. the prices are SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER than at the Pricerite about two miles north on Kenmore Avenue. I thought maybe I was imagining this, until I happened to be at both locations on the same day. Chobani yogurt at Elmwood location: $ 1.29; at Kenmore location: $.99. Fresh pineapple at Elmwood location: $ 2.99; at Kenmore location: $ 1.99. There were similar price disparities on milk and eggs. Given that this market services a lot of immigrant and lower income populations, it seems like a ghetto tax in action.
I find that pretty obnoxious – as is the fact that there is clearly an effort to keep the Kenmore store and parking lot cleaner, and the store more fully staffed (there’s almost never a line).

i love this store for the hispanic foods. the only place in the area with such a selection. love the puerto rician cookies and crackers in tins. wish they would carry the vanilla treats crackers of puerto rico the p.r. honey and more p.r. coffees. but over all love love love this store !!

This is my family’s go to supermarket. We get the bulk of our groceries here because its just plain cheaper! My husband was initially peeved at this place because they don’t allow for unionizing of their workers – but honestly I don’t give a crap about that stuff. So, it is up to you to decide on that issue.
We get everything from here from various produce, meats, pasta, snack food, dairy etc. We’ve never had any issue with the products being expired, leaky, bad quality, etc.
Yes the lines are long – just try to avoid the really busy times. Another hint. Don’t use the lot that is right on Elmwood Ave, use the north street parking lot. Its always empty and less annoying then the main lot.
Most of the workers do work really hard – no its not a career supermarket so I don’t see the same people there all the time like I do at Wegman’s. I guess that’s how they keep the prices low. Do I think that if I ask an employee a question about picking meat or produce they’ll be able to answer me? Probably not – but you gotta give somewhere.
Definitely a place one should check out – there’s organic and a variety of ethnic groceries and staples!

Sure its not your wegmans, but most of the produce comes from the US. Which is a top priority in my book.

I go here for well priced basics, such as bread, milk and eggs. Eggland’s Best eggs for $ 1.99 a dozen! The produce is good as long as you don’t want to be organic’s bitch. Did I mention the cheap avocados? Need a Goya product? Any Goya product? Well, this is the place.
The lines at the register can be maddening especially at the usual times (after work, before holidays, erm, first of the month…) but isn’t anything to have a stroke over.
For everything else, Wegmans.

First order of business: if you have Xanax, pop one before you even think of going near this store. Now then, why would I?
1) Their produce section is amazing, especially for a discount store. It looks nice, there is plenty of variety and the prices are good.
2) They have the largest selection of Goya products I have ever seen in one place.
3) I can walk there.
But seriously, navigating the store with people stopping to chat in aisles that are already pressing the fire codes for maximum occupancy, is enough to send a normally calm person into a meltdown. AND THEN, you get to stand in long lines in which everyone in front of you has their cart filled like they are planning for some impending natural disaster.
Sigh. I had a little panic attack just thinking about it.
I’m sure there is some strategy to this; a certain time of a certain day when it would be best to go. But I haven’t figured it out yet.

Months ago, I could have written infuriating stories of staying in lines for excessive amounts of time, surly help (and management) and some of the worst customers I’ve ever walked the aisles with.
Bottom line, you have to know when to shop there, and check your own attitude at the door. With that said, it can actually be a pleasant shopping experience.
The produce section is rather expansive and takes up a good section when you walk in. It’s typical produce, but well priced, and PLENTIFUL if you don’t like the particular way a red bell pepper looks.
Other sections?
The meat section is usually well stocked with a good variety of staples, and for much less than Tops. Everything is prepared off-​site, but well wrapped and CLEAN of drippy juices that I’ve come across from packaging at other stores. If I buy meat or poultry, it’s nice knowing that if I put it in my bag with the rest of my purchases, it’s going to not get all over everything.
Dairy takes up the back wall of the store, and again, plentiful and low prices. A drawback as of recently… I miss the 99 cent dozen extra large eggs specials I used to see.
Frozen foods? A little regrettable, with mostly lower quality prepared food. The selection does, however, change rapidly, and you can find some decent deals and the occasional «oh my god! that’s a steal! I gotta have it now» impulse purchase.
Commercial bakery? Expansive area, usually bought out by customers. On occasion, I might be able to find a great loaf of fresh rye, made in Jersey. For the bread to come that distance, be in condition to sell, and taste excellent is a miracle, in my opinion.
The general canned/​boxed food is sometimes a little confusing, since you can find the same items at times, in three different sections of the aisles. I highly recommend walking all the aisles before giving up on them not having it. And if all else fails, ask for guidance. Most of the employees working in the aisles actually know where most of the items are… and on occasion, will take you to the item to be sure.
They take plastic, and cash. They actually smile at you if you manage to say «please» and «thank you» during your transaction, but you have to bag your own groceries.
Highly recommend? WATCH your groceries when you bag them, so someone doesn’t «mistakenly» grab your already purchased stuff. I have walked out a couple times with the occasional missing item (checked my receipt against my stuff when I started unbagging (and knowing that the cashier placed the item in the cart).
Also, if returning bottles, and the machine is out of service, there’s ANOTHER, on the opposite side of the store. One of the unique features is that there are two entrances to the store, one off of North Street, the other on Elmwood (the main entrance).
Other than that, it’s a decent experience, and I think once you become a regular, and know the store in and out, you truly appreciate the experience by how much money is still in your pocket.

Pricerite is an amazing place to shop. It’s collection of high and low, exotic and mundane. It’s a treasure trove.
You can’t go to Pricerite looking for anything specific except everything Goya ever put in a can.
You cannot think I need hamburger and buns for an impromptu cook-​out and go there to get the provisions. It does not have happily raised beef or pork, but it does have Halal chicken right there next to the chicken «paws.» It has pork jowl which is a stand-​in for guanciale. Though you can get the oak wood charcoal other places don’t have or charge a lot of money for.
It does not have HE laundry soap or recycled toilet paper and napkins, the kitty litter stinks, but it does have Santoria candles in that same aisle.
It has Barilla pasta for 99 cents and washed arugula for about a dollar cheaper a container than anywhere else. It has corn husks to make homemade tamales with and jicama and stalks of aloe vera. It does not have organic lemons. It does have organic milk.
It has dulce de leche Cheerios that I bring to Toronto as a present for my Peruvian brother-​in-​law. Sometimes it has Kashi Crunch, it always has Kashi «Best Friends» which is absolutely the worst breakfast cereal I’ve ever eaten. There’s pink grapefruit Ting. There are Friendly’s ice cream cakes. It has jasmine rice in a 15 pound burlap sack printed with a leaping deer and with a red zipper and handles. i got compliments from Lanai, Hawaii to Brooklyn to Elmwood Village when it was my summer bag.

Price Rite and I have a love hate relationship.
I honestly don’t really like shopping here, I feel like I enjoy shopping at a place like wegmans much more but here’s the thing, price rite is HALF the price of wegmans! I shop here all the time saving a LOT of money on my groceries.
Make sure you check out the parking lot before you go in, this place can get CRAZY busy at times and it seems like the people that shop here get very rude very fast when waiting in the check out lines.
Bottom line?
Clean store.
You’ll pay about half of what you do at other stores (they have HUGE carts here and I fill one up for about $ 150)
Cashiers are not so friendly.

Price-Rite’s got a decent quantity, variety, and shelves and shelves of bulk goods like canned beans — all the things you can’t get at smaller grocery stores in the area, like Guercio’s or the Lexington Co-​op. It has necessities you can’t buy at Guercio’s, like toilet paper. And it has a massive parking lot compared to the teensy ones at its competitors.
However, in all other ways, Price-​Rite can’t really stack up to the other adorable neighborhood groceries in this ‘hood. The produce is terrible, a lot of the stuff’s actually quite expensive (i.e. the nuts and trail mix), the lighting is harsh and the customer service is routinely bad, at least at the cash register.
Not so at Guercio’s or the Co-​op. In both of those places, the produce selection is limited but gorgeous, the vibe is laid-​back and neighborly, and they’re friendly to everyone.
Hmm. Now that I write this, I understand why we’re always low on toilet paper and overstocked on apples in my house.

Here’s the deal: If you’re looking to save a sizable amount of money on groceries shop at Price-​Rite. If you are someone who actually enjoys shopping (I am not) go somewhere like Wegmans.
I get most of my groceries from Price-​Rite because I live a few blocks away and it’s cheap. They have many name brands at lower prices and basics like milk are always good and cheap. Their Hommus is surprisingly delicious; I am also a fan of the ‘Goya aisle.’ HOWEVER, I have not had much luck buying produce here, the selection and quality is almost always sub-​par.
There isn’t much in the way of service, the workers aren’t necessarily unfriendly, but no one is going out of their way to see if the customer needs any assistance. This is all ok with me, I like to get in, get out, save a buck, and go home.
P. S. This is a bag your own groceries establishment, I recommend bringing your own bags, but they do sell very sturdy plastic ones for about a dime each.