Marketplace Foods — Local services in Minot

This place has everything you need in food. The prices aren't bad if you aren't TOTALLY broke. They're not really expensive, but not like really cheap either. They have their own pharmacy. You can find all kinds of fresh produce, breads, meats, deli salads or premade type foods, some kinda naturally more specialty things (I think) and then the regular stuff like cereal, coffee, sugar, cake mixes, soda, milk (best price on milk I've seen in Minot), other dairies, frozen foods, soups, water, drinks, sandwich meat, ziplock stuff, some cooking stuff like pans, spatulas ect. I could go on and on. They also have Lottery & cigarettes. The employees are very friendly and helpful. The store has a grocery/gas stamp program where you get a stamp for every certain amount of $$ you spend on whatever there. Then when you collect, I think 25 stamps, you paste them on a card & can use it for either $10 gas at the Shell station in their parking lot (the bigger store) or $10 worth of in store groceries at either store. When you shop there, you find yourself collecting stamps & filling up the $10 cards fast. I have collected them pretty quick and got $10 gas a few times when I was low on funds, but needed gas bad. I met a man who collects the stamps to give to the parents of children in the hospital in Minot so the parents will have gas to go back & forth to the hospital if needing to work too. I thought that was a great idea if you are not in dire need of the gas or food yourself. I highly recommend either of the this grocery store. There's actually two of them. The big one on the corner of S. Broadway & (near highway 2) has like pretty much everything. That one I LOVE! The other one on the same side of Broadway, but just a couple or few blocks North is considerably smaller, but still good to go to. They just carry less stuff. I've only been to that one once. It's great if you just need to run in & get something quick & want to avoid the parking lot crowd which is bad at the bigger one. I regularly shop at the bigger one by the highway. Again, it practically has like everything for decent...

I have been waiting weeks for my emergency food stamps, and I was told that I had finally gotten them today even though I qualified back in December, and my wait was only supposed to be 7days... I got into line and bought some clearance mark downs and had no balance on my receipt. I asked the cashier to please let try to get my SNAP (Food Stamp) balance because I wanted to check it in the card machine. But the cashier insisted that I go to the service counter in front. I went in front and the woman staffing the service desk insisted on ringing up a penny on my card. I told her that I didn't want to get in trouble for fraud because our government had so many banks to bail out, and other corporate welfare... We poor on the other hand are supposed to be hounded like crazy and constantly accused of fraud. I found out that my SNAP balance was less than $20.00 after buying less than $20.in groceries. (Please keep in mind that I have been unemployed for more than 4 months, but I finally got unemployment on 12/26/23. And knew about it on 01/03/24) So I tried to return some of the groceries. My SNAP balance was still under $30.00 So the store manager on duty(Michelle)complained that I had been in the store for 10 minutes... The comment and attitude was extremely inappropriate! We truly are in an age of discrimination! This isn't the first that someone has treated me like a lessor person here either.

The irony is that my dead father served in the Vietnam era US Navy when it wasn't fashionable...

The irony wasn't lost on me.

I just went back in to return the rest of my groceries and the very young clerk was courteous to me. But I won't lie I miss the much more free USA 🇺🇲🦅 of...

Don't waste your time or money at this place. There's so many good grocery stores in town you shouldn't need to waste your time with the worse store in town. This morning I took a small apricot out to sample before paying a god awful amount of money for the last couple they had. I was approached by literally the entire staff and questioned like I was in an interrogation under oath. These people can take it up the rear as far as I'm concerned and they'll never get another penny of my money. Cash Wise has never had problems with trying fresh produce before buying because Cash Wise is a real store ran by real locals that grow real produce and know the buyer is spending real money. Never step foot here unless you're walking and can't get to...