Market Basket

Wow, I never was interested in Unilocal until my experience here! I actually set up this account just to share my experience at this market place! Just moved to he area and wanted to stick up my fridge with some food. After spending hours up and down the aisles I got to the register and was ready to check out! At this point I have a screaming kid in the basket and the cashier is taking her sweet time ringing up my items while chi chatting with the anger in Spanish! Giggling laughing and talking about my spoiled kid that is screaming her head off! I do not speak fluent Spanish but since I do Italian there is similarities in the language enough where I could pick up on what was being said. Needless to continue but I won’t be back…3 stars was for the appearance and cleanliness!

I live very close to the new Revere Market Basket. It has actually made me look forward to enjoying to make a grocery shopping outing again, for something like the first time in over 20 years. It’s the lively, family, hustle-​and-​bustle, busy feeling of the place. I’ve always found it well-​lit, stocked, and welcoming – important traits in a shopping experience to me in midlife and this era, when so many stores, employees and customers can be downright obnoxious and unpleasant. What a difference from trekking to the nearby, older Stop n Shop on Squire Road, whose store, layout and customers can increasingly be a downer and disorganized cluster mess. At the Revere MB, selections and variety are great, and what gorgeous prepared foods and bakery sections. But I will add to previous posters, that you gotta high-​tail it in there and watch where you go and stop – because it is quite busy, especially with folks zooming around and through aisles! Also as others noted, the parking is insane and needs a better plan; additionally, the store layout on the inside-​right, when you come in, as way too crowded and confusing with the bakery, prepared foods, and dessert displays all way too bunched together and making it difficult for folks, often older, with big families, or pushing their large carriages to be able to navigate around safely and smoothly. But overall, you really feel like you’re in a family shopping place surrounded by other similarly enthusiastic shoppers giving the place a healthy pulse – so any costs on some things possibly passed on to me are, IMHO, definitely worth it. (PS: Love their cooked hot chicken entrees, but just wish they’d tone down a bit on the paprika spicy coating a little bit more, including some non-​seasoned versions, for older customers with moody stomachs like me and mine!). Now on one last side note: Stop n Shop does at least have what I think is a better selection of baked muffins! :D

Low prices and the most attractive women you’ll ever see shopping. Seriously! Also outstanding options of hot food.

Now when you go to Market Basket, you need to be prepared to go to Market Basket. This isn’t your typical Stop & Shop where you can shop at peace, be prepared to hustle.
That being said, I prefer the Revere location over the Chelsea store any day. The shelves are well stocked, the staff is fairly pleasant, and the cashiers are quick!
Overall, not a bad supermarket. Just keep in mind that Friday nights, and weekends are the times in which this shop is the most packed. If you can’t do crowds, then pick another day to shop.

1 star for the awful customer service and the scarce parking spaces.
My cashier today, Lorena, was obviously not having a good day… or I must’ve rubbed her the wrong way, (although I don’t see how I could’ve done that, since no words were ever exchanged between us).
Young lady with an extremely bad attitude.
Every single item she scanned, she’d throw on the belt. She even ended up damaging some of my items, including cracking a few eggs shells. She had the nerve to comment something about me to the bagger next to her too!
Management needs to re-​consider hiring these little 16 y.o. kids, who can barely wipe their @##, but have the courage to be so rude to customers, and mishandle pricey groceries.
What a bad employee they have representing them. Shame.

This review is for you Arthur T. You lied to your employees and to your customers. Taking out a BILLION loan was your choice. I did everything I could to support you and your dedicated employees. What do I get in return? An entire section of moldy blueberries, empty shelves as an in attempt to buy more expensive items. I still can’t buy a Greek salad that isn’t moldy. As a Greek yourself you should be ashamed of yourself. Managers that don’t seem to care if they lose your business. I don’t trust you Arthur T. anymore. I will no longer go to the Revere store. I will shop in Reading or Woburn. If I see the same dishonesty there I will stop shopping at your store entirety. Then a Facebook page, remember that Arthur T. This time the Facebook page will have a different name. Instead of ‘Save Market Basket’ it will be ‘Bring back my Market Basket’. A’psogi_emfa’nisi_

I am one of those people who goes bananas for a good grocery store, so I was happy when this location opened. While it is more expensive than PriceRite (my regular store), I still cannot resist going in there. Where else can I get huge bunches of cilantro, light vidalia onion salad dressing, the tastiest store brand coffee, Morningstar products and sushi in this area? I wish I wasn’t a step away from the poorhouse because I would do all of my shopping here. The only thing I absolutely hate about the store is the fact that they make you check your bags here if you come from PriceRite. That is a huge pain, but a small price to pay for having a large selection of goods available to me.

Revere location. Terrible customer service. The employees seem very unhappy. More than one occasion iv bought rotten pre-​sliced cold cuts. The cross contamination on the deli and seafood scales is awful as they hardly ever use plastic sheets on the metal plate. The worst part about this store is that they open at 7am and NOTHING IS READY. The meat and fish section is empty until at-​least 8am. They have people standing, coughing and sneezing over the half stocked open sea-​food display windows, THESE WINDOWS SHOULD BE CLOSED before the store opens. I can just keep going on… Im sure other people agree here, anyone els that get’s up early to get there shopping done see’s all this. Goto Chelsea or Salem. Don’t bother with this place. See my photo, notice the customer standing over the open display, paper towels snd chemical bottle. This is a daily thing, this place more surprise inspections. Iv been a loyal Market Basket customer for as long as I can remember. This store needs better managers. Food safety and customer service should be top priority. It all starts with happy employee’s, without that you’ve got nothing.

Too Expensive to shop here now, and the parking lot situation totally sucks!!! Scumbag people pulling in and out of this lot cannot f’in drive. Parking is tight/​very few spaces and claustrophobic, carriages left in open parking spots. People that work here are not that helpful either. I did a normal food shopping and walked out of there paying close to $ 400 bucks! and i got the meats out of the cheap bin from the middle of the aisle. Be careful shopping here.

The Revere Market Basket sucks, its small, the employees are not helpful and very slow at the deli and cash registers. Also, don’t be fooled by the so called «Butchery», the people behind the counter have no idea about the different cuts of meat, how to cook them and the meat is horrible. I tried two different items and they both were horrible! My bad for buying meat from Market Basket I the first place. I am sticking to the Chelsea store for all of my other grocery needs. Not to mention, the parking there is also very bad… Drive a few miles more to Chelsea, you will be glad that you did!

I had recently just shopped at this Market Basket. It was the second time that I have came here since it opened. This is a very good store. I always go to the Market Basket in Chelsea but I might come here more often. Its nice and clean inside because everything’s new. They have the same services like Markets Kitchen and Markets Café like at the Chelsea location The prices are much cheaper compared to the the Stop & Shop on the same road. Only thing that I don’t like is the parking situation. Its not that bad, but the parking at the Chelsea location is much better.

Chelsea store is better. Lacks an as large produce selection!

I save money on food here. I waste time in line here… this place is always packed because it is so much cheaper. I only wonder, how does a store built in 2014 look like it fell out of the late 80’s?

Carts are constantly left in the middle of the road or parking spots.

This is a fantastic alternative to the Market Basket in Somerville. If you have a car and live in the city, you can come here and avoid all of the headache of Somerville. You can move your cart up and down each aisle, and you don’t have to come equipped with a battle plan because the aisles are big enough to actually accommodate more than one cart at a time! I didn’t even have to wait a half hour for a register to open like I usually do in Somerville! It was a Market Basket dream come true. Also, I don’t know what other people are saying about the parking because I found a spot quickly, but maybe I was lucky that day.
If you have never attempted shopping at Somerville, you probably don’t know what I’m talking about. It’s a hot mess in every sense of the word, but the low prices keep me going back. This location has the low prices without the hot mess. I’m a fan.

So I’m going to compare this one to the one in Chelsea since that’s the standard that all Market Baskets should be held to in my eyes.
Though I live in Revere, I find it quicker to get to the Chelsea location because of the particular location of the Revere store. Squire Road has horrible traffic at certain times of the day and having a Market Basket on the strip only adds to the jam. The parking situation is horrible. I went there on a Wednesday at 11am and there was no parking whatsoever. Though there seems to be lots of parking beforehand, the fact that they share the lot with numerous others stores shrinks the availability down to nothing. The location at Chelsea doesn’t have this issue and it’s the biggest thing for me.
It’s a nice location and the staff is super friendly and helpful which is a testament as to why they love their boss so much. The interior is beautiful and the layout is great. The biggest issue is the parking lot. It’s just a hot mess and I’d rather go to the Chelsea location than this one. That’s not to say this isn’t a good place to go either, just the hassle isn’t worth it unless i’m in the area already anyways.

New Market Basket. Very clean. Very big. Friendly workers. Big assortment and extremely busy. They had employees with umbrellas walk you to your car (it was raining outside)! As Winnie said, there is a raw meats section now, something the other locations don’t have, so if you’re into that there is reason to come to this one over the others. No doubt I’ll be back sometime soon.

New Market Basket location opened last weekend.
The layout is just like any of the other locations and its size is very comparable to their Chelsea store.
The staff is friendly as always and of course the shelves are on the continuous rotating stocking that MB is known for.
A new addition to the store layout is they now have a tasting station where they’ll make something for you to try, like what they do at Costco.
Also new is a prepared raw meat station, so you can have your option of the Parmesan chicken or steak tips to cook for dinner.
Will have to give them a few months to see where their routine falls to.