Juba Grocery

Great grocery and halal meat store. Great customer service with affordable prices. My favorite local grocery.

Juba Market is large, but doesn’t make the best use of its space. The selection of foreign foods is limited to staples like hummus and foul. A number of essentials like a meat counter, full cigarette rack, or spices sold by weight are nowhere to be found. There are plenty of Somali grocers throughout Minneapolis that far outpace Juba Market in this regard, even when left to utilizing a quarter of the space.
Meanwhile, they stock a number of common American items like cereal, but the prices are inflated. Shopping for American groceries here would be a waste, since they don’t have enough items for you to leave fully stocked. Carrying these American items at all, as opposed to using the shelf space for imports, seems wasteful to me. Juba Market should be focusing on a niche. They could pull it off even if they did want a mass appeal, though. There aren’t a lot of other grocers nearby, they have enough space to stock most essentials, and they’re located near many white neighborhoods. But at that point you might as well change the name to Seward Grocery.
My point is, pick a market and stick to it, and advertise to it, rather than trying and failing to target both. Fully stock your shelves with as much variety as you can get — currently many shelves are sitting partially or completely empty, with dust settling all over them and the long-​unbought groceries.