Colombo Fruit & Vegetables Market — Local services in New York

My family had shopped here for years and never had a bad experience until recently. We preferred them over c-town and the small corner grocery store because the produce was fresher even if the prices were a bit more expensive. Recently they started scamming people and will ring up produce with a different price than what’s posted. When you tell them they get nasty and deny it. Watch the prices of your items carefully. When it happened the first time we ignored it thinking it was an honest mistake but when it happened again on multiple items the next visit we were convinced that they’re just trying to take advantage of people. Prices of produce are already ridiculously more expensive because of Covid and imports but to take advantage of people just to make a few extra bucks wells that’s...

This is an update to my previous review as google didn't allow a second review. I don't know who the owner of the vegetable market is but he must be either blind or def, if not both. He is definitely ignorant! I bought raspberries there yesterday and today I noticed all of them are rotten in the fridge. They looked ok when I bought them. This store does not care if the food there is rotten. It sits on the shelves until it rots and stinks. Flies are everywhere. They still keep it there in hopes of someone buys it. I cannot understand how this is possible! This section of Metropolitan Avenue is probably the worst. This store among many other on this block are dirty, unkept and...

Stumbled upon this authentic Italian grocery market because I saw these huge Kinder eggs that I purchased for my sons 3rd birthday.

They have all sorts of fresh pasta, cheeses, olives. I would definitely return here and spend more time to purchase ingredients.

Parking can be a hassle in this area so it’s best to go in the morning or later at night as there’s too much commercial traffic in between. Parking is also metered so be sure to have coins in case these pesky machines keep declining your card!

Huge bonus, Dollar tree is right...