Ray’s Food Place

I agree with another poster on this site regarding Ray’s being a disgrace in the community of Mt. Shasta and Weed Ca. They consistently raise their prices at least once a month. How many of the residents or even their employees get a raise in wages or cost of living that often? It’s a shame for those that are retired or low-​income. You must constantly be aware of the expiration dates on perishables, i. e: milk, yogurt, bagged produce or just about anything that has a «sale» price on it. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen items that are «outdated» but still on the shelves. Is this legal or at best moral with all the e-​coli cases occurring lately?
A couple of years ago I rented a carpet cleaner and was charged a $ 25 rental fee plus the cost of the bottled cleaner. When I got home I was not only pissed but disgusted to find out how filthy the carpet attachment and the cleaner reservoir was. I had to completely clean the entire equipment before I could use it. When I returned it (Weed store) I mentioned this to the manager and told him he should be ashamed for allowing the equipment to be rented in such awful condition. He did not say a word but just stood there and looked at me with a stupid look on his face.
Needless to say, I later went to Walmart and purchased my own carpet cleaner for $ 99.
My advice, don’t shop there if at all possible, but if you do KEEP YOUR RECEIPTS. You will probably have to return something outdated or spoiled.
Thanks goodness for Weed’s new Dollar General. They are certainly giving Ray’s a lot of competition. Shop there first when you can and then go to Ray’s if absolutely necessary.

Sorry about grammar. Just want everyone to know. This is one employee. Other than the prices, which we live in a small town, everyone at rays mOUNtsHASTa are helpful and approachable.
I went into rats last night
04−11−13 and the cash wit was extremely rude. She asked me right when I came up with my good. Before she even began to check me out. And says how are you paying? Then she says our EBT (food stamps) isn’t working. I was so angry! I wasn’t rude back tho. I just said that’s very disrespectful thing to assume.

This store is Stupid expensive. I’ve gotten my groceries there every so often, when it’s more convenient to spend too much than to travel to Redding. The prices are obviously set to take advantage of the fact that there’s no competition and their the biggest store in at least a 25 mile radius. Never-​mind that the younger female clerks there are totally unprofessional and lack customer service skills. The only reason I give this store 1 star is because there are 2 female employees that are great I cant remember their names but give Em a raise and fire the rest!

Great selection for a smaller town– nice employees– good bakery!
Mt. Shasta is a great town!

Wow two days in a row shopping here and I already wish I hadn’t come in. Shawnie my checker was so rude. She glared at me and had no customer service skills at all. I smiled and tried to be cordial and she literally threw my money into my hand and it flew everywhere. Never apologized or anything. She was also my checker last night. She was the exact same way only she wouldn’t look at me or speak to me didn’t even say one word… instead talked crap about person who was in front of me with the bagger. I will try once more with different checker otherwise not shopping here because I didn’t like the way I was treated. She works nights it’s about 9pm on Tuesday. Smh… customer service would make me come back and she was so negative I’m just turned off. Only reason it got two stars is they had nice selection

Ill-​stocked (quality name brands have been supplanted by a wholly inferior house brand «Something Essentials“in every department); incredibly expensive (even compared with super-​service high-​end stores such as Whole Foods); and customer service is like something you might find in prison (today’s travesty: «Yes, I believe we can get your money back for that [completely inedible Dungeness crab around which you planned and purchased all the ingredients for an entire dinner and drove 27 miles to purchase.] Unfortunately there IS no alternative for what passes for a full-​service grocery in Mt. Shasta. This place is absolutely horrible.

I can’t score Ray’s any higher, despite the friendly service that is more indicative of the community’s attitude than any values Ray’s holds dear. The prices here take full advantage of the fact that there is hardly any competition within a 30 mile radius and are even higher than gourmet markets I used to shop in in the Bay Area.
Unlike those upper end, yuppie neighborhood options, however, Ray’s offers no quality on baked goods (pastries aren’t sold fresh daily but rather can only be purchased in clamshell packs that are dated days after baking), no high quality deli options or fresh made, ready-​to-​eat lunch and dinner selections, no salad bar, and so on and so on… amenities I would expect from such a pricy place. In fact, I browse there looking for lunch and dinner ideas and leave with nothing to eat that week; a problem I’ve never had in comparably priced stores, for their selection is very minimal.
Ray’s is a disgrace in a community with a disproportionate population of people on food stamps and social security retirement benefits who cannot afford the inflated prices, and the insult to injury is how little they give back for what we spend. Shame on you, Ray.

Avoid this store during the summer! The stench of some of the transient «customers» is overwhelming!!! Even the employees have had to put money in plastic bags so the smell would not escape every time they have to open their drawer. Another mentioned they have become physically ill from the smell. Why they are allowed these individuals to frequent the store is puzzling. More often then not they are just helping themselves to the produce and buying nothing. Meanwhile local, paying customers such as myself would rather drive to redding than shop at Rays. A manager should be available to ask these people to leave out of respect to the other 99% of their customers, not to mention their employees.

Customer service? Why yes, I would love some.
Not only did the checker glare at us on the way in, but she used our checkout time as an opportunity to converse with her coworkers about how she felt about other coworkers who were presumably not present. None of the many employees who we walked by asked us if we were finding what we were looking for or attempted to talk to us in any way.
For some reason, I had this idea that grocery store clerks at a tiny store in a tiny town would be friendly and charming. I would have settled for «mediocre,» but we didn’t even get that. No greetings. No farewells. No cab money for our shame-​ride home.
The selection and merchandising were just strange. I couldn’t find my favorite flavor of protein bar (it’s a really common one), but found this Pomegranate Peach Passion White POM that I haven’t seen anywhere else in like seven years. (It was not expired, by the way.)
The prices were kind of high. The floor was pretty dirty. BUT the sandwich my friend and I split from the deli was like really amazing, so they get two stars.

Do not shop here unless you have no other options & if you do make sure to check to make sure what you’re buying isn’t out dated. They don’t rotate their stock or evidently check the dates because I have found out dated food on every trip to this store. Everything is overpriced & not very good quality. Your best bet is to go to one of the other stores in town for small trips & drive to Redding for big ones.

Think of Rays like oh, a crappy 7 – 11. If you are in a hurry and need to grab something fast, then maybe you can justify a trip to Rays. Otherwise, seriously, keep driving. I dare you to find a decent loaf of bread here and the prices for nearly everything made San Francisco prices look reasonable.

What can you say about Rays Food Place in Mount Shasta, over priced compared to most chain grocers. Selection not that great. The whole store needs a upgrade, if your going to get price raped you would hope the place looked nice. Locals would rather travel to Yreka, Redding or Medford to do their shopping .
Summertime at Ray is the best, you have all the transients, bums, beggars and some really seedy people hanging around the outside and inside the store. At times you feel you need a guard to escort you to the front door of the store. It appears Ray’s could care less who loiters around outside and inside the store and the city cares even less.
Ray’s is no more then a convenience store and to be avoided if possible in the summertime.

Maybe Ray and his sandwich minions were having an off day, and maybe my expectations had been set a little high when I had my sandwich order all ready (Some delightful veggie thing) at Berryvale (den of long haired– tie-​dyed-​crystal-​worshiping Lemurians and the like) and was turned away, because they dont make sandwiches after 4pm. Seriously? Since when are Hippies punctual? Boooo!
So Ray’s was around the corner.
But honestly, I wish I had gone to the Subway Sandwich next door.
The woman taking my order was rude and looked like she was in to crystals too… the kind you smoke. She informed me that if I wanted a vegetarian sandwich it would be $ 2 more than the «regular ones» I asked her what was on it and she said «not meat». Yeah. I figured.
20 miles down the road at a rest stop my BF and I open our «we have to get from Seattle to San Francisco in one day so we are only stopping once» meal, to find that both sandwiches were wrong, one was someone else’s order, and one was the exact opposite of what I had asked for (which is hard to fuck up when you hand the person your order on a little form with boxes you check to indicate what you want on there).
And both were very very un-​good.
And yeah I do admit to being a food snob, but we were both ravenous, road trip ravenous and neither of us could choke down more than we thought was absolutely necessary for survival.
Nasty.
My recommendation, if you want a sandwich that does not make you sick: Get to shasta before 4pm and visit the coven of hippies with the tight schedule.

We needed some groceries while in Mt Shasta, and this seemed like the place to go. The selection was great, and the prices were reasonable. The staff was also friendly. What more could you want?

Dont believe these reviews… Read the filtered reviews to get an honest assessment of rays. Price gouging, monopoly.

Well stocked supermarket with a great meat selection (I spotted a while tri tip, gigantic). We camp up this way once or twice a year and we’ve stopped bringing most of our food provisions with us. We just grab what we need when we arrive and pack in anything that requires more complext prep. But produce, bread, meat, charcoal, etc is all readily available for a good price. Service was good, no real feedback on that.

Holy crap. There’s this tortellini salad that they sell in the deli.
TO DIE FOR.
My mom was freaking out over the white stuff in it, it’s freaking delicious smoked cheese. I just pick out the chunks of salami and go to town on it. YUM!
Oh yea, they have groceries too. Prices are a bit high but everyone has been pretty friendly to me thus far when I’m in town. Decent selection of stuff considering you’re pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Parking is usually something special too, if you know what I mean, even though the parking lot is pretty big. I’m assuming this is due to the fact that this is like, the most hoppin place for a 40 mile radius.

Ray’s…you may need to take out a small mortgage on your house to shop here… No seriously the prices are a little higher than most chain grocery stores, but what are you going to do when you need something last minute? A lot of locals drive either to Redding or Medford to do the huge shopping. They do have nice produce & I got some killer halibut steaks their last night! Costs a little more but still cheaper than eating out & I keep thinking of all the miles I’m racking up by using my card here. That’s what you would call girl math!

Ok, this place was great! Much larger and nicer than the Ray’s in Weed, where I was working.
Great selection of food, food stuffs, and beer, of the local, not-​so-​local, and not-​so-​good varieties.
Produce was fresh, and everyone knew each other, except for me. Normally, I’d expect to get nasty looks, but it just meant that some of the employeed gravitated towards me to make sure I found things alright. Ugh, I MISS THIS KIND OF SERVICE!!!
Ray’s in Shasta, I salute you!

I don’t live anywhere near Ray’s Food Place and that’s a good thing because they have Killer Brownies that are to die for. Whenever I’m in the area which is about twice a year I stop at Ray’s just to buy brownies.
The brownies are moist and dense. Definitely worth stopping for if you’re traveling through Mt. Shasta. The last time I was there, they had four varieties of topping. Crushed Oreos, peanut butter cups, coconut candy and butter brickle. Yummm!