Chicory Market — Local services in Oxford

This store is refreshing, since the selection of food in Oxford is really lacking and you are able to buy food from local farmers. I have gone here ever since they opened and have started to notice that a few things are off.

Some of my problems have been that no expiration date has been posted on some of their food, sometimes without ingredient information. Sometimes the bread has molded just a day after I bought it. Their spices and dried food have no information on where it is from, just a Chickory label and that’s it. Asked the employee where it was from and he said he didn’t know but I could search it on Amazon. (This was about a year ago)

Here is the worst part, which made me decide to write this review. Sometimes they sell salmon from Norway. This is the most toxic salmon you can eat, which it is also the most common salmon you can find. (These salmon are fed fish from the Baltic Sea, which is the most polluted part of the ocean) I encourage you to do your own research about this topic. I am just appalled that Chickory would treat salmon from Norway as a delicacy and not bar it from being sold there. On top of this, they definitely hike up the price (Salmon from Norway is known for being cheap) because they know people will buy it. This sucks. I thought Chickory was better than this. This blatant misleading people makes me feel really suspicious about their other products and I definitely trust them less after knowing this.

Other than that this is a great store but you kind of have to be selective about what...

I adore this place and do almost all of my food shopping here. The staff is solid, and my favorite workers are Kasey and Samaki. Bravo on the new chocolate cake that you started selling at the new location! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. A few suggestions/comments:

1. I love the orzo salad, but could you please put a more noticeable label on it to distinguish which one has goat cheese and which one does not? I'm lactose intolerant.
2. Could you please make the ancient grains salad more often? It's my favorite and you've not had it lately. I know other people miss it, too.
3. Thank you for having tofu steaks. It's nice to have another proten available that's not meat.
4. I'm Asian and the rice that comes with the poke bowl is not cooked correctly. It's under-done and needs to be cooked until it's soft without being mushy.
5. Not sure what the answer is, but it would be great to have more environmentally-friendly containers for the to-go food. I just hate seeing all of that go into a landfill. Thank you for feeding me! I don't really cook and you guys are a...

This is one of my favourite things in Oxford. This is a fantastic store. It's small so you can shop quickly, but there's a lot of great stuff, so I can do nearly all my grocery shopping here. Great local produce when in season, supplemented with products from farther away when not in season here. Local grits and rice. Some local meat and chicken. Brown's milk. Great collection of frozen foods and veggies. Some prepared foods too (hummus, gumbo...). Barbecue in the parking lot most weekends. There's a lot more I'm leaving out, but I think I just shared the list of stuff I buy regularly. The staff here are really friendly...