D&C Market — Local services in New York

They impose an illegal card minimum on all card purchases, when it's only applicable to credit card purchases per the City of NY AND Visa regulations. I tried, very nicely at first if I may add, to inform the cashiers of this when they told me I had to meet a $5 minimum. Because for me, it's about principle. It was Thanksgiving day, I had already spent a bunch at other grocery stores and I only needed 2 things from them! Why would I spend extra money on things I dont need, just to satisfy a rule you're implementing- that just so happens to be illegal?! The cashiers pretended they didn't understand what I was saying in English. So I switched over to Spanish and showed them the law on my phone. All of a sudden, they went mute and told me to speak to the manager, in English. Funny how that works.

The manager was smug and arrogant and everything a manager should not be. Literally told me verbatim "You don't get to tell me what is legal and what isn't," after I showed him my phone and proved him wrong. He then refused my purchase because I wasn't willing to give in. And that's fine because I took my ass to Key Food next door, spent less AND I've reported their violation on every outlet I could find. I was trying to give a smaller business my money and look...

For context: I live upstairs so I’ve been shopping consistently here for months - it has great variety and prices. However, I recently had a horrible experience where my roommate and I accidentally forgot to checkout salt (we had other products we got from there as well as Key Foods). A male worker with a cap asked us if the other groceries were theirs, and we said no because we assumed he was talking about the Key Food products and mistakenly forgotten the salt.

I completely understand of having to pay - if it was clarified in the store, I would’ve gladly paid for the salt (which was 2 dollars by the way). Instead, the male worker stalked us, followed us back to our apartment and insistently knocked on our door. It felt like a huge invasion of privacy, and I would’ve gladly paid the next time I went (I go at least once every 2 weeks).

This was also the exact same worker who was the reason why our apartment didn’t have gas for 2 months because of his refusal to let the maintenance worker into the back. Literally the last straw for me, and I won’t be going here anymore - which makes me sad because I loved to go here...

They have FRESH groceries at good prices. I noticed the Key Food was expensive and stinks. D&C has fresh produce, very affordable seasonings and herbs. I don't see how you could give this place 1 star because you accidentally...