Fresh & Easy

So happy to hear they are going out of business. The people that worked there were extremely rude. Food wasn’t good either, usually marked down for expiration dates being past due. Looking forward to a quality supermarket moving in. See ya!

Very sad to come back to San Diego after 6 weeks back in England to find Fresh & Easy virtually closed. It was so convenient and the staff were all very friendly. It was so nice to just drive 2 mins down the road to get groceries Best of luck to all the staff, especially Jose, who I enjoyed visiting with when I went to shop

OHHHH the sadness! They had 10−30% off closing store sale when we went in today and limited hours (7am-​9pm.) It was such a bummer. Some shelves had empty areas.
We will miss you Fresh & Easy.

Fresh & Easy will shutter its 97 remaining stores in California, Arizona and Nevada and
cease operations after nearly a decade of struggling to catch on with consumers.
The grocery chain, headquartered in Torrance, announced Wednesday that all 3,000 of its employees will be laid off.
The company closed about 50 stores in March.
Fresh & Easy made a big splash when it opened in 2007, backed by British supermarket giant Tesco, which saw an opportunity to enter the U.S. market.
California-​based The Yucaipa Cos. bought the chain out of bankruptcy in 2013.
The layoffs are expected to begin a week from Friday.

I love this plane! Especially when I didn’t plan anything for dinner for my boys! You can buy meals, singles, sides, and anything else you need to prepare dinner. They have great selections of everything there that you could possibly need. And I love their fresh flowers! They’re always so beautiful!

Always dependable and get what I expect from F & E. Can’t do a full shopping trip here as it’s a little more pricey than I can afford for a full grocery trip, but it’s a great spot to stop by for a different snack or piece of fruit. They always have cool choices and fast checkout! Thanks Fresh and Easy for being so easy! :)

I used to shop here all the time, it’s the closest store to my house. Over the past year or so, the prices have gone through the roof and now it’s equivalent to doing your grocery shopping at 7 – 11. It’s so much cheaper to drive down the hill and shop at Ralph’s or Trader Joes. Sad, because it’s so convenient. I just use it for emergency buys.

I love it here. We only shop here for groceries. Healthy eating without breaking the bank or getting overwhelmed with labels of foods we have never even heard of.
Walked in and was nicely greeted by someone at the door. How nice. «Welcome.» I am. Thank you. Picked up myself a mixed bouquet of flowers for 4.99 $ and they weren’t half dead flowers like at some grocery stores. These were big and beautiful.
It’s not a big store but it has the basics or what you are looking for! And it’s all healthy which is the best part. I was doing the Gluten Free thing for a while and quit because it was so hard to find gluten free foods in stores. Here, it’s all nicely labeled and organized. And they also sell a small selection of natural personal care items.
Everyone is very attentive as well. I had about 4 people come up and ask if I was doing alright. I guess my face said «Lost» but it was more of «Awe» I can actually afford this stuff. I’m eating fancy tonight!

I love fresh & easy and I really like this location. The store is very clean and has all of the organics that I really enjoy. Nothing extremely fancy, but the prices are very fair. Get your veggies and good food and come here. Service is also good which is a bonus.

Such a smart location! You don’t have to drive down the hill to get groceries. They have plenty of unique products and easy products hence the name fresh and easy easy easy!
Reasonable prices and friendly customer service.

We went to the Point Loma Fresh & Easy on Wednesday, September 10, 2014. The staff is friendly and helpful, but this does not cure the basic problems with the store.
The store gives the feeling of an extra large mini-​mart; with merchandising designed by robots; for those who do not wish to spend any time in selecting or cooking food; who do not know how to judge quality produce; nor care what ingredients or preservatives are in the food. Organic is not a meaningful concept to F&E. Maybe this is what is meant by «easy” – thinking not required. Or the other meaning of «easy» is that with the limited selection, you cannot spent time deciding what you want to buy.
In reality, the items are largely either premade or pre-​packed food, in set portions, that are only slightly better in quality than a mini-​market. If you want an apple, try again — the robots have decided you must have three apples, in pre-​packaged portions
«Easy» apparently does not mean fast — the so-​called do it yourself «fast» check out is not such. Try to buy a pre-​packaged bag of nuts. We bought two and had the identical experience. The bag has a bar code, and is in a pre-​measured quantity. The computer check-​out, however, considers the bag produce, and stops, so a checker has to come to tell the computer the bag does not need weighing since it is not sold by weight, and to re-​enter the bar code. Since many other customers are having checkout problems, this is not a speedy process.
The same problems above occurred with apples — the apple had to be removed from the package, manually entered, and a bar code entered.
As a store purportedly environmentally conscious, try to buy pet pickup bags. F&E no longer carries them. No explanation was given. Want a plastic bag without sliders — these apparently are viewed as not «easy.»
Those who consider F&E the same as Trader Joes (incidentally nearby) apparently do not shop at any Trader Joes I have been in — there is real produce, not packaged. Trader Joes generally does not sell food with preservatives or additives. You can select the produce you want, not what the robots want you to buy.

I love the fact they open early right after I finish my daily routines so I can grab breakfast before I head to work at 7. The employees and manager are always there greeting everyone cheerfully, and even helping with the bags.
Their checkout is much more convenient than Vons (the one by Liberty Station) so I appreciate stopping by here often.
Easy to grab pre-​made meals if you’re also in a hurry I stop by primarily to snag some yogurt parfaits and some fruits.

Wow. This is a pretty small store in Point Loma but they have everything you’re looking for including the big brands. The staff were friendly and the lines moved quick. They have four self check lines so that’s convenient.

I love dropping by here everytime i go to Fort Rosecrans Cemetery. Staff are great and helpful. I was scanning my flowers and the male staff asked me if i’m going to the cemetery and if i wanted the stem of the flowers cut so as not to be too long. Great customer service! Place is never crowded (or maybe i’m just lucky everytime i go there), neighborhood is great since it’s in Point Loma so many nice folks around.

Hmm.. .. Well nothing is really «fresh» and checking out your own groceries is not really «easy»
I used to go here quite a bit but have recently stopped. First of all, they no longer offer coupons which is very disappointing. They have also been slowly upping the prices on everything. Last time I went in there, everything was a bout a dollar more, coffee, bread etc.. The selection is not that great and they did away with all of their cheaper cereals a while ago. I really feel that everything is just very very overpriced and over packaged. I have started to go back to Vons because I can find way better deals there on milk and cheese now. On the plus side, they are open late though.

I like Fresh and Easy. I came in to pick up a few items such as vegetables and some avocados. When I came in I was greeted by a young lady working the produce department. I readily went to the bell peppers and picked up a pack of two for .98 (
), and the a pack of mushrooms for $ 1.99 (
)
I usually like to pick up avocados individually, so I can score some nice ones, but they only had package ones. They looked pretty good, so I picked a bag hoping that they ripen well (
). I browsed the store some to see if I could fine something that would interest me. I noticed the store was well organized for the most part, but the refrigerated meat aisle needed some stocking.
Given they are a self check out, I did not receive any help checking out, how sad, but I did get a have a good day shout out…

I love F&E for my basics! It has 99.9% of my basics but just as important, it’s a small enough store. Trips are quick and no fuss. Definitely sign up for the Friends reward card. It’s easy to earn points and 1000 pts = $ 10 coupon.
First time someone asked me what I liked about F&E, I said they have the best pre-​packaged food. It’s so fresh and it’s really good for being fast and easy! I sounded like a commercial but it was an honest answer. Their chicken tikka masala is good, and so are the tamales, salads and Beef stroganoff to name a few. Keep in mind they have a microwave so you can grab one of the pre-​packaged meals and heat it up there. Perfect for a work lunch hour.

Another great F&E location in the SD area!
Plenty of parking.
Open late.
Staff is helpful.
Fully stocked with your fave F&E needs.

One of my work locations is near this grocery store, but I have come to use this particular store as my own pantry during lunch.
Since the closest options for eating without driving very far are Fresh & Easy, Subway, or the froyo place… Fresh & Easy takes the cake.
The «lunch special» they offer is pretty fantastic. For $ 5 or $ 6 (depending on what main entrée you get), you can have a drink, a «snack», and a main meal. The drink selection includes soda, water, or even raspberry lemonade and green tea. The snack selections includes chips, strawberries, other diced fruit, veggie packs, and probably a few others I’m forgetting. The main entrée includes sandwiches, wraps, salads, and pastas. SUCH A GOOD DEAL!
If you don’t want anything from that selection, Fresh & Easy also has an assortment of single serving, ready-​to-​eat meals. Some require microwave action, but others are edible as is.
LOVE it here. This saves the day every time! And is wayyyyy healthier than fast food.

I have to be honest about this Fresh & Easy. They seem to have a hard time hiring decent people here. There are only a few employees with any kind of concept of customer service and that would be a gentleman who works in the morning.
Otherwise, I can tell you that previous people that USED to work here are very shady and have criminal backgrounds. THEY WOULD NEVER PASS A DRUG TEST, IF GIVEN! Another current employee that lives at my apartment complex found out some personal information about me from my shopping and then had her son do a Unilocal review on the apartment complex-​using PRIVATE, CONFIDENTIAL store information, smearing me and implying bad things about other people who are unemployed. This lady from New York that did this is already much despised in the neighborhood.
If I buy something and my son doesn’t like it, I will save the receipt and return it. Yesterday, I was told by Morgan-​the person on duty, that they do not accept returns if something is opened already. I asked her-«where is that specific policy posted in the store, per law?» She said «it wasn’t.»
BAD attitudes, BAD employees (except nice guy in the morning) BAD SEEDS that get hired (with BAD criminal records.) I am going to scale back shopping here, or only come in the mornings when it is quiet and customer service is decent. I hate to say this but I think Fresh & Easy Point Loma is becoming a victim of it’s own success. They are so busy now, that they feel they can foist off shoddy service on people and get away with it.
NOT WITH THIS CUSTOMER!