Fruitful Yield

like a mini whole foods! Loving this neighborhood spot. Friendly staff and great selection including produce and a frozen section. Will definitely be back. Go before 6 and you won’t wait too long in the checkout line.

So glad there is one so close to home. I can get everything from cold medicine to protein shakes here. Far cheaper then GNC, the mall, or any other health food store. The staff is always friendly & willing to help you find what you need or something close to it. They do have a rewards/​frequent buyer program, but it is weak and takes a long time to accumulate. I wish they would work on that!

This place has NOTHING going for it. It is the premise of a health food store. The people that work there are completely ignorant to most anything regarding health food or nutrition. I have been in there 4 different times to check it out and each time I was disappointed in the knowledge and the service. And forget it if you call them they are slow and hesitant to give any information about anything, esp if you ask for a price.
They have a weak variety of products too. The have the now brand and not much of any thing else. Nothing unique.
I’ll shop elsewhere! not a big chain like them.

The store has a wonderful selection of health food items that I can never find in most grocery stores in Joliet (Dominicks, Jewel Osco, etc.). For that reason alone, I keep coming back.
My primary complaint is with the level of knowledge the staff seems to have about their own products. I once went there looking for seitan and asked a staff person if they had any. The woman then took me to a refrigerated case where they had tempeh. She told me «it’s pretty much the same thing» which is NOT true at all. They don’t taste the same and they are completely different products. If she had told this to someone who has a gluten allergy (seitan contains gluten, tempeh does not) this could have been problematic. I ended up driving to Whole Foods in Naperville for my seitan, as I don’t know of any stores in Joliet that sell any.
A second time I went there, I asked a different staff person if they had any nutritional yeast. She then took me to the nutrition section, which did not have nutritional yeast. She seemed to not know what it was. I ended up finding the nutritional yeast on my own after much searching.
I recommend this place only if you have a solid knowledge of what they already carry, or are willing to spend time to search the shelves. Just don’t rely on the staff to know anything.

Great store, great product, I buy my coconut creamer, rice mild, all of my vitamins and treats for my dogs. I like this store much better then Trader Joe’s. Very knowledgeable staff.

I am in love with this store. When they first opened they didn’t have some options like organic produce or organic/​grass fed beef/​meat. But, I went into the store last week and now they have both! I can do most of my grocery shopping here now! I am so happy to have a neighborhood health food store that has all of my essentials. Thanks Fruitful Yield, you’re doing it right!

I love this store. I love that there are vegan options so close to my home. No longer need to drive to Whole Foods to get the staples like Earth Balance. The staff are so friendly and I know a couple by name just from being in there so often. Yolanda you are my favorite!
Loses one star because the selection is lacking compared to the Fruitful Yield in Darien /​other locations. When it first opened I feel like there was more of a selection. The shelves sort of feel empty a lot of the time. The Darien location has produce — please get produce then you will be my favorite and I won’t have to go anywhere else!

Kinda of a ballsy location being right next to a Dominick’s. Inside felt like more like a GNC place than an organic grocer. Pretty much, the store specializes in anything organic and they try to carry as much as they can with little store space. Besides dry organic foods (with about 3 regular sized grocery aisles worth of selection), they had an area dedicated to vitamins and medicines and a freezer/​dairy section in the back.
While it seemed like they had everything, they didn’t exactly. We were looking for organic meats and a meat counter or frozen meats was something that this store didn’t have. They had various soda bottles like Hanson’s, Reed’s, and Virgil’s root beer just to name a few.
Obviously the prices aren’t going to be cheap but, they were cheaper than the organic section at most stores. We picked up some cottage cheese and the girl at the register pointed out that its expiration date was listed as today and as a result of store policy, we scored a 20% discount, which is a great idea since organic foods (especially perishables) have a short shelf life and wish grocery stores in general would adopt this policy.