Mollie Stone’s

Great quality food and a large selection of specialty items. Only downside is the price. But friendly staff make shopping there enjoyable.

Extremely expensive. Could not believe the prices when you can get most of the produce and products at Safeway and Trader Joes. Whent for kosher meat and had to leave empty handed.

Mollie Stone’s is awesome. I’ve been coming here for my entire life. Yes it is small, cramped, and it’s definitely expensive. But this is a specialty grocer, you don’t come here to buy toilet paper. You come here to get all the gourmet, hard-​to-​find, foodie goods you can’t get anywhere else. The Deli is amazing and the employees are always super kind and engaging. Plus it just has that nice neighborhood feel (they’ve always got the giants, warriors, 9ers game on) that you don’t get at big supermarkerts.

Best salad bar in town! Only downside is the high prices. They sell macro bars here for about a buck more than whole foods

I really only come here for their deli sandwiches which are excellent. But I had a terrible experience with one of the employees who was incredibly rude. I didn’t get her name but I can’t believe her customer service. Every other time I’ve been here the other employees have been great so I’m still giving 3 stars.
It only takes one person to ruin your experience. Smh

I can’t afford to shop at Mollie Stone’s, but for so many reasons I do.
For as long as I can remember there has never been a staff at a grocery store that I have come to value and get to know like I do the kind people at this particular Mollies Stones. It has really kind of become the hub of Fillmore for me.
Between the delicious deli sandwiches (totally worth the $ 9), the butcher shop (meats that you know are fresh and a staff that goes above and beyond), to produce that more often then not is actually cheaper than Safeway.
From the Lorraine and the guys in the butcher shop who answer all my dumb questions about different cuts of meat, the lovely checkers that keep the line moving, and the assistant store manager, Chris who always helps me find the random ingredients I can’t find and honestly is just and all around great guy, Mollie Stones is worth paying a few extra dollars.
This is what a neighborhood grocery store should be, and after five years they have earned my business and loyalty and I am a very happy customer.

Thank you for carrying Stumptown’s French Roast coffee!!!
I supplement my Trader Joe’s runs here when I want scallops or specialty cuts of meat. Every staff member in the meat dept. has been super helpful.

Expensive grocery store, but has items you won’t find in Safeway. Lots of organic choices or groceries, hot foods & salad bar section for to-​go meals, and a Starbucks right outside! A parking structure to also make it easier to stop by for groceries.

I think they have come a long way since I wrote my last review. The management has done a great job imo. I actually come here more often now than I do Wholefoods, which is saying a lot because Wholefoods is my number 1 boo.

Holy cow. Upon walking in they had caramel popcorn and Rice Krispy treats aka some of my most coveted and favorite snacks. I damn near did a happy dance.
Anywho, we came here for salad and nothing else — the selection was super meh, the deli looked good — the store is just cramped. Better junk food than real food selection fa sho.

Speciality items, get your specialty items here!
Anyone who has visited a Mollie Stone’s before knows they carry high quality, speciality items at somewhat high prices.
This location:
–Pretty small compared to other locations (Palo Alto)
–Prices are pretty high for most items — rivaling or exceeding Whole Foods
–Good mix of eclectic specialty items
–If you’ve ever been to Andronico’s, this location slightly reminds me of one
–Random half inside and half outside Starbucks connected in front… ran-​dooom
–Lots of cheese, baked goods, and housemade items
–Salad bar
Overall, they certainly don’t have everything, nor the best prices, but you can certainly find your interesting specialty items here.

Mollie Stone’s is a triumph of location over value… though some departments in the store are equal in quality to Whole Foods, others leave much to be desired. Excellent cheese shop, generally good produce, good soup and prepared food bar, good meat and seafood selection, strong wine aisle. Always a good ice cream selection!
Although the addition of more fresh break options is nice, the bakery leaves much to be desired. Big puffy bagels and ordinary donuts… the packaged items are drab and tasteless with the unmistakable look of mass production.
Household goods are high priced compared to Walgreens just a few blocks north… pet food is a total afterthought and nothing but big CPG brands.
Safeway’s produce is always local… not sure about Mollie Stone’s — doesn’t seem in general that they care much about locally made or small batch providers.
Though Bryan’s and Cal Mart and Whole Foods feature more locally made goods, the staff at Mollie Stone’s is better than all three of these — helpful, friendly and always plenty of check out people working.

Very high quality ingredients. Very expensive.
Meat selection is vast and one of the highest quality in the city for a grocery store. Seafood selection is very good as well — they seem to always have extremely fresh options.
Tons of organic produce — the staff is meticulous about how they handle produce here. You’ll never have to sift through fruits and vegetables to find what you need.
Although the lunch selection is smaller, the deli selection has a wide variety of prepared foods behind the counter that are on par with Whole Foods, and their sandwiches are better than WF.

I’m really not sure why anyone would do their grocery shopping at Mollie Stone’s instead of nearby Whole Foods save for extreme proximity.
The prices are sky high (even when compared to Whole Foods!), the store layout is perplexing, the décor is dated, selection is somewhat limited, and the packaging of the housemade food items is off-​putting. Time for a branding re-​fresh, stat!
Basically, you’re paying high-​rent prices without any of the perks! For me, grocery shopping has always been a much-​enjoyed activity but spending time at Mollie Stone’s feels like a chore… and doubles as an unnecessary blow to the bank account.

Ooops. Pricey. Super pricey!
$ 10 for a Chicken Noodle Soup? You gotta be … I’m happy to pay more for quality and/​or organic food but seeing my hard earned bucks going down the drain just for a few breakfast items hurts me inside.
I like their selection, especially the cheese counter and the fresh bread corner. But guys, you are ridiculously overcharging. If you think Wholefoods is expensive, go to Mollie Stone’s — that’s a complete new level. And not in a good way.
Nice thing about it — generous parking lot, Starbucks and flower stand attached.

This review comes after dozens of visits to Mollie Stone’s. I moved to the neighborhood a couple months ago and was so excited about this grocery store being just two blocks away. My new neighbors raved about it. My first response was «Wow, it is expensive but I am guessing the quality is on point, right? WRONG. Couldn’t be more wrong.
Things that are good:
–The staff at the meat/​seafood counter is very nice and quick to help
–This stores is a 2 minute walk from my home
Things that are unacceptable:
–Multiple experiences of smelly, off-​color, goober chicken purchased from meat counter
–Poor seafood quality and the inability to properly remove the bones from the fish. I have never had fish from Mollie Stones that did NOT have bones– Salmon, cod, halibut.
*If you do not plan to cook the meat/​fish the day of– put it in the trash and sometimes even day of isn’t good enough
–Poor produce. It never lasts more than a couple days in the refrigerator. The broccoli always has black «stuff» in the flower portion. The prices are often double the price of other stores. For example, I paid $ 3.99 per pound at the Japanese market for sugar snap peas this week and just paid for $ 8.99 per pound at Mollie Stones (both non-​organic). Quality at the Japanese market was better.
–Expired products! You should be able to trust the shelf stable goods in a grocery store to not be expired. I have bought graham cracker crumbs that expired 4 months prior! I have also bought tortillas that had expired by 1 week. I have learned my lesson and if I go to Mollie Stones I have to check all of these products now for their expiration date.
–Overall laughably ridiculous prices for common products you can find at almost any store
I hade my last straw tonight when I bought cod loaded with bones. I feel bad for writing such a strongly opinionated review but come on… High prices are acceptable only when the quality meets the price. Cooking is extremely important to me and I refuse to go broke cooking subpar foods.

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It’s nice to have a grocery store in the neighborhood just walking distance. Compared to the bigger grocery stores I usually shop at, this store is a bit smaller but it gets the job done. Lots of selections to choose from in the produce, dairy, seafood, and other items. Shopping for Thanksgiving dinner can be a hassle but we managed to find all the items we needed. The store manager was quick to show us where the gravy was and the clerk who helped us check out was very friendly.
They also have a small Starbucks store right close to the entrance. Walking around the store was pretty hard with aisles being so close together. I guess it’s different out in the suburbs when you’re grocery shopping.

0 stars, if I could. After seeing mold in the milk display, I decided it was finally time to write a review of Mollie Stone’s.
Whether it is flies in the bagel case, the aforementioned mold or the short man who works in produce chasing you around and making snide remarks, I have yet to come in here and leave without feeling poorer, cheated or insulted.
It’s terrible how it is so conveniently located, but I’d rather make the trek to Trader Joe’s or Safeway…

Good lord I’ve never seen so much cheese in my life!
I just popped in for the bare essentials: peanut butter, fresh fruit, and gum. The store was beautiful and I wanted to stay longer but once I realized that the cherries would cost me an entire paycheck I just got my peanut butter and my gum and left.
Someday when I’m an eccentric billionaire I’ll shop here and buy all the fancy cheese, nut butters, and pitted fruit I want.
Seriously, the place is gorg and I felt like I’d made it just rubbing shoulders with the other patrons.

My first impression when I walked into the store to buy produce was,
«Wow! It’s so much cleaner and well-​stocked than it used to be!»
The produce section was a little limited, mostly the basics with some «coloring outside the lines» varieties of exotic mushrooms and root vegetables.
I must say all the produce was gorgeous and very fresh and prices were much better than Whole Foods (example: Jacob’s organic basil was on manager’s special for $ 2.99 (reg $ 3.99) vs. WF’s at $ 4.99, price I paid last month.)
The seafood and meat counter, always heard to be reliable at Mollie Stone’s, looked impeccably fresh but a few signs I spied had pretty high prices. I guess you pay for quality.
I didn’t go too deep into the store since I was just looking for bean sprouts and cilantro. I ended up with 3 or 4 more items (basil, chives and 2# of gorgeous strawberries on manager’s special for $ 3.99).
Overall, good pricing and quality led me to spend just a bit more and more importantly, put it on my radar for another trip.