Waldbaum’s

This store has hit the bottom. The organic produce is disgusting. The selection is next to nothing and no matter what day you shop, it will be half spoiled, even if it arrived that very morning. Big problems in shipping and at the warehouse, obviously. Then the produce employees will inform you that the «items just don’t move». However, many shoppers DO want to buy fresh organic produce, but we are not willing to pay overinflated prices for spoiled items.
The juice isle looks worse than B.J.‘s, full of trash drinks, but no selection of organic juice. The deli is just disgusting, I wouldn’t touch those «salads» and they don’t even carry Boar’s Head brand.
I now do most of my shopping at Key Food and a private butcher. I only visit Waldbaums for non-​perishable items when I can receive a discount. I am not surprised many of the branches have closed down. Too bad people lost their jobs due to incompetence at the upper levels.

This Waldbaums has a great seafood department and that’s why I’m giving this particular location 3 stars.
Other than that, as much as I want to like it– I don’t. There’s an old lady with short hair who is very friendly but super slow– her small talk is tolerable but she is just so slow when ringing items. Most of the time, she’s the only one on the registers in the morning. I’ve been late to work just because it took her forever to ring 1 item.
Another reason why I don’t really like this location has something to do with a snafu I had with one of the employees there.
Story goes like this:
I had a flower plant in my hand when I walked in the store– it was my last day at work and I was given a plant as a gift. I knew that it was from this store because it had «Waldbaums» written on it. I walked in the store thinking nothing of it.
When I was trying to pay for an item that I wanted, the person who was attending to me had mistaken MY flower plant as an item that I was buying. I explained to her that it was mine– a logical, reasonable employee would’ve called for a manager and they would’ve looked their cameras and would see me walking in with MY flower plant.
But no, she raised her voice and accused me of stealing. She was so obnoxious and loud that the manager actually came to see what she was freaking out about. I told the manager about the situation and he was totally cool and he apologized for his employee’s rotten behavior.

There’s a great selection here of a variety of fruits and vegetables. I love the prices… they’re not too high but its not cheap stuff either. Its much more spread out than the local Stop & Shop I use to go to. Not much more I can say about a supermarket.

This is probably the worse Waldbaum’s in the world. The fruits and veg is typically rotten, the meat is questionable. I bought turkey there once and when I opened the package, I nearly threw up from the smell. Majority of their salad dressing has expired.
I would say 60% of the employees are great, but then there’s the 40% who are a bunch of misfits or punks. They are suppose to close at 10:00pm but usually have the front doors locked at 9:00pm.
If you’re absolutely desperate to pick up something, this is the place to go! Otherwise, head somewhere else.

I have to tell everyone out there that cannot find a good neighborhood bakery to go to Waldbaums in Whitestone. The bakery manager’s name is Nina. She is truly AMAZING. She has been making my cakes for about a year now. I had a 16^th birthday party for my so this past weekend… WOW did she nail it… again. I told her what I wanted over the phone. The cake was FRESH and BEAUTIFUL. My family though I got it from some expensive bakery… I will NEVER go anywhere else…

Ok Ok, I know it’s a supermarket but listen to this…
There are a few points to look at here… it’s quite pricey!!! There is no variety what so ever. There is of course a few sales but hey it’s not worth that much.
I ordered and tuna veggie salad there on a roll, they charged me $ 4 something cents and it was soooo small I was so shocked on how expensive it was.
The staff is their best asset! Go somewhere else unless you don’t have much of a choice

Waldbaum’s has a lot of potential to be good, but I find myself constantly disappointed. Sure, it holds plenty of products that are essential, especially to baking, such as butter, sugar, eggs, as well as plenty of meats, fruits, vegetables, canned products, you name. However, I like to think of Waldbaum’s as an ol’ Western Town, or a quaint village even, where there’s one of every store, but no variety!
The top foods that I purchase are Middle Eastern spreads like hummus; cheese, fruit, and peanut butter. In each one of these departments, every Waldbaum’s I’ve been to carries the product, but has only one kind. Peanut butter is a particular victim of this; I’m often surrounded only by Skippy and Jif, and maybe the occasional natural pb.
However, I give this place three stars because, as stated earlier, it has the basics, and very often, that is all that is essential.