Mc Nally's Foods — Local services in Grinnell

While I originally gave them a 5-star review, several bad experiences have entirely soured my opinion. On two separate occasions I bought fresh items from their deli, only to return home and realize there were over a month past their sell by date. Most recently, I purchased a cake portion that upon opening an hour after buying it had small molds spots on it.

While I should have checked more carefully, there is absolutely no excuse for leaving "fresh" items on sale for weeks after they legally should be....

Grinnell only has a couple places you can eat at for lunch quickly. With only a 30 min lunch break McNally's can get you in and out before your boss starts tapping his foot. Wednesdays are ham balls and Fridays the salmon is top choice. The "upper class" atmosphere makes even my low class factory workers and I give two pinkies out for approval at lunchtime. I'm sure if you are a doctor at the hospital or a spoiled collage brat, it's the only place you would get...

Decades of working in Natural Foods has my retail eye pretty sharp. This little market has pretty much everything you wish for. Good selection of natural and conventional products, a surprisingly large vitamin, herb, essential oil collection too. The topper was the great deli food and sandwiches. The latter were loaded with tasty veggies, meat and cheese. I left Grinnell in 1984, but might have stayed if McNalley's was there back then.

Way to go...