Fine Fare Supermarkets — Local services in Franklin Township

This typical Spanish grocery store, in this area (much like the Tropical supermarket chain), is a reasonably ok place, for me to get some things, at an affordable price, that I'd have real trouble finding, at that low a cost, in a nicer store like Stop&Shop or ShopRite. For example, they currently sell ground beef (which I use mostly to make hamburgers with), for only $2.79, a pound. Where else can you find hamburger-type beef, 80/20, that cheap, around here? (Nowhere!) And their pork chops are often outrageously inexpensive, too. And, if I want a bag of good oranges, or some romaine, I can get them here, at equal or less cost than Stop&Shop. Stop&Shop is 1.5 miles away, on foot, walking, or 2.0 miles by car, from where I live, now. And, although it is in a nicer area, than the more urbanized location of this Fine Fare, nevertheless, Fine Fare is only 0.8 miles away, walking on foot, from where I live now, AND--it is right next to the Family Dollar store, which I use for all of my paper goods and detergents and cleaning stuff like brooms and mops and buckets, etc. So, long story short: I have found myself WALKING to, and using, both Family Dollar AND Fine Fare, a lot, within the past year--especially since that regular weight-bearing exercise (walking), has enabled me to recover 95% of the mobility that I lost, in Sept. 2021, when I went down on my bicycle, and shattered my left hip. (Robert Wood Ortho put 3 titanium screws in my upper left femur, as a result, but it is now virtually healed, after only 9 months--thank you very much, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, in New Brunswick!!!) At the time, I was coming back from the George Street Co-op in New Brunswick (much further away), overloaded with stuff that I've now been able to get elsewhere--or have been able to do without, since. The Co-op still has some good stuff, but I have trouble dealing with their left-wing political leanings, as well as their greater distance, from where I live now (as well as their early closing hours, on weekends, when I'm most likely to be in New Brunswick), so I don't go there, anymore, as often as I used to (but then, they really don't have any idea how to run a business, only their own political ideas. This isn't always a bad idea, however, since they truly support healthy nutrition and organic farming and herbal medicine, etc, when many other places, have no clue, about it. So, I have mixed feelings about the...

I went there today with two toddlers. The cashier at the first stall was playing with the cash register machine , trying to find the price of paprika. She obviously saw me with the two kids and proceeded to converse with a coworker and ignored me. I go to a crowded register and the cashier said the lady at the end was open. I go back to the register and she proceeded to ignore me. So the busy cashier cleared out her line and I asked her to please take my items. I had to wheel my cart around with my kids and then give the cashier my stuff from the other register. If your going to discriminate because I was wearing a full blown Afro that’s fine. I will just make it known publicly you were rude and I won’t shop...

First and last time shopping here. Bought a pack of carrots on 8/5/24 and 10 mins later when I got home I noticed a white film on the carrots in the still unopened package. Then I noticed the USE BY date was 7/25. So for 12+ days no one noted that this was approaching expiration then actually expired?! I usually check expiration dates, but because I went in to quickly pick up 1-2 vegetables, I didn't even think to check. I now see other negative reviews about expired food. I can only imagine what other rotten food is sitting in...