MCAS New River Commissary — Local services in Jacksonville

Produce is typically hit or miss, regretfully this being the smaller commissary I expected the departments to be a bit more organized and definitely more oversight to avoid a lot of bad/or close to expired produce. Then to top it off, my husband and I went in during the "early bird" hour - which allows for full shopping but a person cannot check out with more than 20 items until after the store opens for regular time. Considering it typically takes 1.5-2+ hours to complete our grocery shopping every month, there wasn't any chance of being done before the store opened. But our arrival at the registers approximately 7 minutes after regular store hours started was enough to make 2 employees shake their heads in disgust and discuss (within my earshot no less!) that it was ridiculous how people took advantage of the "early bird" hour of shopping and what trash we were for having done that and showed up at the registers right after they opened with two overflowing carts. Well, I beg your pardon but neither of you we the person to assist us in checking out. And not that it should matter a hill of beans, but that 67 minutes was the only time during an entire week that my husband and I were able to spend any time together due to work schedules and we had to get our shopping done - HOW DARE YOU LADIES!?! You are rude and don't deserve a job in that business - completely...

It is definitely one of the places you should go to buy groceries. You can find deals on several items that you cant find cheaper anywhere else. I try to time my shopping days around their resupply days to ensure i have the best chance to get high demand items. Also, there are items that are priced higher than what you can find out of town. Some items that are priced high, partially ties in to demad and availability.

I appreciate the Commonsary because they have to supply to a small community and compete with the prices out in town. Store management had also intertained some of my requests to stock a few items that i requested in the past. It helped me out to minimise the trip to the other grocery stores. Thank you to the staff who helped...

While some items had lower prices others were more expensive than Food Lion and/or Walmart. I haven't shopped at the commissary for years and was disappointed at the selection. I realize its on the small size for commissaries but the lack of brand choice on some items forced me to head to Walmart. Ex: only two top brands AKA most expensive dishwasher detergents were available. I used to stock at commissaries as well as shop. The frontage space was ridiculous. There was space for at least one and probably two less expensive brand. Found the same situation on several products. I'm sure this is why so many Marines and their families shop out in town. If I had had to shop there now as I did when my sons were teens I couldn't have...