Cermak Fresh Market — Local services in Jefferson Township

The place is HUGE and it have a great selection of produce and fruits. The place is clean and they have staff on the floor.

I just wish the take out food and the meet were up to standards. I been a butcher for over 10 years and when I saw their meet department, I was disappointed. How can a place that look so clean and almost luxurious have a meet and food department that looks like the corner store's old meet. The meet was dark almost black and dry. The pics dont do justice but it might give you an idea of what I'm talking about. When you leave meat in the fridge for too long it dries and it turns dark and the longer you leave it in there uncovered, the darker and dryer it gets. Hell, the packaged meet looked better than the "fresh" one. The same goes for food out in the open. The take out section was no different. The food been sitting out for a while. The steak meat was actually black for sitting out like that for too long. The pizzas looked old, I'm talking about cold dry cheese on top. Have you left your leftover pizza on the table over night? Well, that how the "fresh" pizza looked like. I couldn't take a pic cause the lady put them on the counter top under the display when she realized I was taking pictures of the food there. But here is the kicker, they are NOT taking precautions or enforcing the mask policy. The take out section only has a glass on top and ANYONE can just reach in and grab food. I saw this guy with no mask or gloves serving himself. The same thing goes for the bakery. You want bread, grab it yourself. With this Corona thing going on, I think this is really irresponsible from the store part. How you gonna have 100s of people touching the same utencils to grab bread? That makes a hot spot and people's germs are spread around. Some one can have the virus, cough on their hand and go grab some bread or food, touch the serving spoon and spread the bug.

1 thing is for sure..., you won't catch me going there again. That place is a hot spot for the bug based on...

Pretty much anything that’s in a package (i.e. not meat or produce) is limited in variety and costs 10-50+% more than Jewel, Mariano’s, and often even WFM. Some prices are laughably/offensively high.

Good prices and decent selection on typical, everyday produce (though they don’t have a lot of the specialty stuff that recipes randomly ask for—fresh sage, Japanese eggplant—a couple of things I couldn’t find here recently). Also good selection for any Latin-American food item or ingredients.

The music is always awesome. They have some vegan stuff in a little area in the back but it’s quite expensive also and there’s isn’t a ton to choose from.

We have started doing two or three shopping trips—one to Cermak for produce and tortillas only, and one to Mariano’s or Trader Joe’s for everything else. I can only recommend Cermak for produce.

Removed 3 stars: 1 because they don’t have paper bags. Plastic is terrible for the environment. 1 because I was recently there and they were trying to sell a two-pack of something as individual items, each at the full price of two, even though the manufacturer’s label specifically forbade it and the package advertised it as a pair. 1 because they charge SO much for vegan-friendly stuff like alternative meats, plain flavored oat milk, etc. If we’re going to move to a more sustainable food system, grocery stores have to help make it affordable. The manufactures are doing their part by lowering prices, and Cermak is just benefitting by taking huge margins rather than passing on those reduced costs to the...

This place has gone backwards... It's the topic of some conversations at church, neighborhood meetings and around the neighborhood. They have self check out lanes now which is great for people with a few items but not if you have a half a cart full. You have one empl (who is a cashier before)mopping the 8 empty lanes(which are very clean, BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT SERVICING ANYONE IN THEM) and the other cashier franticly bouncing from one self check register to the other instead of having them be cashier's and servicing the customers...I bought 30$ of fruits and vegetables, about 10 to 12 separate bags and the clerk had to come to me 4 times in comparison to zero times if I was at at service check out lane. I asked why using there at least one check out lane open WITH SERVICE? no answer. There was at least 6 people waiting in line. They have a wide selection of fruits and vegetables....but alot of there groceries are over priced, some shockingly over priced when compared to Tony's and jewels which is 5 to 10 min away... The fruits and vegetables are the only reason to go here so I'll find another place to buy fruits and vegetables.... cermak went backwards hard, I'm sure the $numbers tell...