Harps Food Stores — Local services in Mena

When I first moved here from Houston in 2016, I near about vomited at the prices and it being called "super saver" in TX I could get 3 avocados for a buck, or 5 lemons/limes. Chorizo always under a buck etc. What l learned is there is zero competition here, and we get pretty much leftovers in this town as nobody wants to ship out this way, plus Arkansas is overall overpriced in food and overtaxed in sales tax. Yes we have cheaper property taxes but pay thousands more on goods. Theres little job growth here with it being a dry county tourism is stunted, so the youth resort to uncle Sam, causing more price hikes. For our area the prices can be better than it's only competitor, if you shop sales only. Get the ads, shop what is on sale, on clearance and sometimes they get good deals on random items not in ad so it's worth looking around, especially when they get a round of meat products that are Uber cheap. One example was a few weeks they randomly had grass fed beef cheaper than wally world , we grabbed a few extra every time we went in and...

For years I have shopped at James, sad to say I will never shop there again, if you ever shop there you know they flag sale item and on frozen cases you may have several of them, picked up an item went to check out it rang up regular price told the very nice checker it was on sale then a very rude blonde haired lady made me feel like I was trying to steal something embarrassed me in front of a lot of people and I will never ever walk in that door again, I went through this embarrassment because of a flag that was put in the...

A small store that crams a lot of merchandise in such a small space. This is actually James 2.0, thanks to a fire that gutted the old building which is horrible but the old store was honestly closer to an eyesore. New building and a new lease on life, the store is still small but the deli, bakery, meat department, and produce section are impressive. The frozen food section isn't bad either. Prices are a little higher than you might find in a larger chain but there are times when some items are cheaper than the larger...