Florida Citrus World — Local services in Ormond Beach

I stopped there on my way back from a winter-break FL vacation, tried the samples they have in store and they were the sweetest oranges I have ever tasted. So, I purchased in total a bushel of various varieties of citrus. After returning home, I opened the bags that I purchased and they were full of greenish, tasteless oranges! I called the store and complained about the quality of the oranges that were prepacked into the bags and the gentleman who answered the phone (his name was Billy) was very courteous and offered to send me a box of top quality oranges in mail and a check of a partial refund. A week later I received the oranges, which were high quality this time, and the check with partial refund. I recommend this store for their top quality oranges and for the excellent customer service, but to save yourself the hassle, make sure you pack your citrus bags yourself with ripe oranges to avoid the green ones I...

Gave 3 stars because the people who worked there were nice. Otherwise I’d give one star. Every year, we go down to Florida in December and then we usually stop at the one in St Augustine on our way home north. We like to buy 2-3 bags of oranges - one bag for us and then the other bags to give our family. However but we needed gas so this year, we stopped at the Citrus World in Ormond Beach. We bought 3 bags of oranges. I took one to share with people at work and most of them tasted like they were going bad. I had to throw them out. Here are the bad ones from the two bags we had left that we were going to divvy up to give to family. What a waste of money.

To their credit, we also bought a bag of grapefruit and those were fine. That’s what the other...

The special 'bargain' bag of navel oranges we bought a few days ago is filled with inedible, dried-up pieces of trash! Out of the 1/2 bushel that we paid $19.95 for, there are about 8 oranges that feel heavy enough to have juice inside! I called the 'gentleman' who sold them to us and he said he would return our payment. We'll see...

I called the Florida Dept of Ag to complain and was told that there are no inspections for individual private stands like this one. I know farming can be a tough living, but honest people don't let this kind of product go at any price and the Florida is facilitating unethical business practices by not having any inspection routine except when fruit is shipped...