The Village Market — Local services in Carmine

I've been stopping here for years. The Weikel's bakery sells kolaches and the store has beef jerky for sale as well. They also carry breakfast tacos with your choice of fixings and a generous serving but you need to get there early or they're gone. It's a nice little convenience store with a pretty good variety of homemade goods. Even if I am not in the mood for a kolache I must stop for their coffee. I love the pecan flavored brew they carry from the Independence brand. Only somewhat negative things I can comment on is the bakery clerks could use a little more personality and perhaps try to smile once in awhile. Their gas is a little overpriced at times but for a one stop shop they are definitely worth stopping at.

Update March 2022. I am late posting this update but life has been a bit busy. I stopped here to get my usual kolache and coffee whenever I happen to be passing through omw to Houston. The clerk was not at the cash register but behind me stocking coffee cups or something so I waited at what appeared to be an open register. Another person came up and stood at the other register about 2 minutes after me. The clerk approached and waited on the other person. No big thing but then other customers lined up and the clerk continued to wait on others and ignore me. I looked around thinking perhaps I missed a sign saying register closed but there was none. Fortunately a gentleman in the other line invited me to go before him so I was able to make my purchase without having to wait behind the 3 other people that were then lined up behind him. After leaving I was getting annoyed and a little mad at being ignored by the clerk so I called the Brenham location to inquire about the manager for the Carmine location. I was told the business had been sold and apparently it was the new owner who had been rude to me. The lady in Brenham was very nice and explained she believed there might be some cultural difference and that might possibly be why the man was waited upon first. She apologized but as I told her, I appreciated the apology but it wasn’t her fault. I will say I find it unbelievable that someone would serve a customer first based on gender. I do not know if this was the actual reason but I am at a loss as to explain why the owner would ignore someone patiently waiting to make a purchase. My family and I have been shopping here for years but we will never shop at the Carmine...

JUST KEEP DRIVING to Burton OR to the brenham turnoff and you’ll be glad you did! The WEIKELS deli AND bakery at the EXXON at the turnoff in Brenham is SO MUCH BETTER! DO NOT stop at this place ! It’s SO EXPENSIVE ! AND , it STINKS! Im so HAPPY the other gas station has opened on the other side of Burton! NOT to mention a WEIKELS bakery further down towards 290 at the Brenham turn off at a MUCH BETTER gas station ! I’ve been coming to this market for YEARS on a regular basis OUT of convenience . They are SO EXPENSIVE compared to ANY OTHER STORE ! However , the SEWAGE smell that is OFTEN there when I walk in is something I can no longer deal with! With the PRICES OF things in this PLACE ……I’ll wait 2 - 5 min to get to a MUCH BETTER place with many more options just a few miles down the road. …… I will NOT STOP at this VERY expensive STINKY place any longer! NOW, I am able to go to the better / NEWER and FOR SURE CHEAPER gas station in Burton! OR, the EXXON a few miles down in Brenham that has a much better Weikels with MANY MORE OPTIONS ! And not NEAR as expensive ! Thank YOU...

BEWARE. Cashier doesn't wear a mask. I like to stop here for the clean bathrooms and nice bakery, but when I visited today, the cashier wasn't wearing a mask. I mentioned it to her and she said she didn't need to because there was plexiglass between us. I informed her that masks were mandated for everyone, but she disagreed and said employees didn't require masks. OH REALLY? I visited at 10am on Sept 14, 2020. I...