Seafood City Supermarket — Local services in Maui

Seafood City was founded in 1989 in California.  Today, they're found in six US states and Canada.

EXPERIENCE: Located in the Maui Marketplace strip mall, they've taken over part of what once was Maui's first Lowes.

I was going to give them at least a month before ringing in my inaugural visit, but I found some time five days later.

Being so new, the parking lot was crowded at 7:30pm on a Tuesday night.  Inside, the line for hot foods was fairly long, though the grocery registers were empty as most were browsing, me included. The food options were a lot of deep fried items and many of them unrecognizable to me. A dine-in area is available.

The bakery sold a plethora of breads, pastries and cakes.

Produce offerings were of the everyday variety and included a lot of Asian/Filipino specialties.  Prices were average compared to Foodland & Safeway.

The deli was quite impressive with their selections of meat, poultry and seafood including pokē.  The only questionable area is the fish that are on ice.  They're oddly displayed out in the open for all to touch, unprotected from humans and insects.

I was pleased with the snack aisles as they not only sold Filipino goodies but Japanese ones as well.  Calbee-brand chips and Meijia-brand chocolate almonds to name a few.  Who knew there was such a thing as Filipino instant ramen?

No alcohol is sold here.  They did have a few zero-alcohol beers in the refrigerator, but what's the point of that?

I did purchase a few bags of yummy Boy Bawang-brand cornnick (a smaller, softer Corn Nut) and a box of Meijia-brand chocolate covered almonds that we discovered on a recent trip to Japan ($3.99 here compared to $10 on Amazon!)

Cashier service was fast & friendly. Paper shopping bags cost 15-cents if I'm not mistaken.

OVERALL: Great food and grocery addition...

Returning from Henderson NV each summer to visit ohana and friends, I opted to cater from Seafood City in lieu of the traditional local Maui choices. Further, my and my best friend's ohanas are half Pinoy. Selected rice, pancit bihon, lumpiang Shanghai, adobo baboy, menudo, beef kaldereta, chop suey and chicken afritada. For perspective, most Filipinos in Hawaii are from Ilocos Norte and both our families grew up with Ilocano dishes like pork gisantes, dinuguan, pancit, adobo, pinakbet, chicken malungay or papaya and pinapaitan. But for SC's adobo and pancit, the rest of the 6 entrees were unfamiliar and conflicted with the norm at parties with Filipino food. I'm sure the entrees were prepared per SC standards, however, it was obvious by the amount of leftover food, the majority of entrees were tasted but not completely enjoyed by majority of our party of 20. Regrettably, we now know at least for majority of Hawaii Pinoys, many of which were born and raised here, traditional foods from the Pilipinas are completely foreign to the local Hawaii Filipino community with the exception of those Pinoys from Pinas. Good intentions don't always produce good results and if I ever do cater Filipino food here on Maui in the future, our palettes are more favorable to the Ilocano style of cooking and preparation similar to Paradise SuperMart in Kahului. That was an expensive near $600 lesson learned and I apologized to my ohana and guests who frankly expected mom's or grandma's taste and were polite to taste everything but the amount of leftovers was all the (polite) feedback I needed. Still patronized a local business as an important consideration for my money and consider it a...

I’ve never shared my experiences good or bad, this time i feel like i must. First off, No problem with the products i bought they were okay. I was in line and noticed the cashier being so friendly with the customer at her register, i believe she asked them if they wanted a bag, great, or so i thought. When it was my turn, no friendly Hi or Smile like you couldn’t fake one at least??… She didn’t asked if i wanted a bag , just put ALL my stuff in the bag which was ripped right away when she handed to us. She didn’t even say the total for the bag, i just looked at her screen and noticed the total and try looking for money in my wallet while she just looked at us. It was obvious she didn’t wanted to wait cause she just close the register and when i gave the change for the bag, i was supposed to have couple changes back but she just rushly took it and immediately greet the customer behind me. Like i don’t care if i have a penny or two change ONLY , coin is money. She then proceeds to ask them if they wanted a bag which i heard cause i was still the register like are you racist or something? I’m very upset I could just say the cashier name but i’m not that kind of person, i can only share what i just experienced Today..8/30/2025 8:25:39pm Do better...