Smart & Final Extra! — Local services in Carlsbad

No more whole chickens! Just as I was about to ask for a rain check, an employee called out for emergency assistance at the dairy cooler. The look on the manager's face showed instant conflict. He is so wonderful all the time and so happy but fatherly strict with his employees I could not be selfish. I just smiled and he leapt for the phone, then smiled back. This store has tidy displays, many home cooking things not found at big stores, beautiful flowers at reasonable prices and specials both ordinary as well as unusual. The cashiers always seem satisfied with their job, even when tired. This place is just one step above the country grocery you imagine. Great attitude seals it. I love to come here for a quick stop as it never stresses me to shop and I usually find what I need that other stores do not. E.G. I found the brand of hot sauce my partner has been demanding! This is the fifth store I...

Originally the S&F stores focused on restaurant business supplies and bulk food quantities but became popular for home shoppers. Always shop their ads as they have some good prices and lost leaders and you can find some things that other traditional grocery stores don't carry. And check the meat case; there'll often be unadvertised manager specials which are some good deals. This store is small but usually well-supplied with ad items unlike the nearby Oceanside and Vista stores which run out of the more popular meat ad items even though they are larger stores. Also use the app and make sure you clip the deals you want or you won't get the ad price. Good little store in downtown Carlsbad. Recently found out that this small shipping center will be razed and reconfigured for shops and low income housing. They're not sure they'll be back! Bummer. Hope...

My friend and I went to this store to find a specific thing, and when we couldn’t find it, we left.(just like most people do when they can’t find something.)A worker starts following us out of the store down a to whole other store and he starts speaking to us in Spanish (my friend is hispanic and i’m south asian.) When she replied in english, he still kept speaking spanish, insinuating she didn’t know english because she was hispanic. He was asking us if we stole something because we came in the store and didn’t buy anything. It felt like the only reason he was asking was because of our ethnicity, and the whole interaction was really weird. We felt offended that they thought we stole in the first place, and also that he kept assuming my friend didn’t...