Produce Junction — Local services in Philadelphia

It’s been a while since I’ve been to a produce junction I would say about two years. I’ve never been to this location but now I am so glad to know that it’s here. I think this may be the original location from what I understand. The parking is very convenient and this place was extremely busy so we did find on street parking just a couple steps away. You cannot beat the deals they have at produce Junction on vegetables and fruits. I typically shop at Aldi Lidl and Walmart to get the best prices. This beats them all you can find a wide variety of your regular items here That are always well below regular grocery store prices and then there’s also some unique items here that you won’t be able to find at the other stores that being said, I made a major score when it came to red peppers a 3 pound bag was just $2.99 that’s half the price of grocery stores so I got two big bags and I’ll be roasting my butt off and eating roasted peppers for two weeks. They also had long hot peppers that were an amazing deal. I got a gigantic bag for $2.50 in a huge bag of zucchini which had about eight zucchinis in it for four dollars I felt like a kid in a candy store and I will be back in. This will be my go to place as much as possible. It is about 15 minutes from my home but it’ll be worth the drive because this is in a nice area...

I realize that there are crowd restrictions and social distancing that may have sensitive people stressed but the I did my part, shopped plants outside. Made a pile of 3for $10 annuals etc..stood on line, got permission to go in. Got fruit and realized I was out of time for veggies. Tried to tell the girl at flower check with plant tags what I had. All she could say was brin_in.....I held the door open for the girl that let me in, she was bringing in 2 carts for others waiting for them. I didn’t think to ask for one so I just picked up a palm tree out of my pile. Walked back to the front door that I just held open for the girl and she’s shouting at me “YOU HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE! I said the girl told me bring my plants in. She said “You see the line? Go to the end of it! I asked her do you not remember I just held the door? She didn’t care nothin about no door except she shut it. That’s ignorant! I had exact change out and a bag. There should be consistency with routine or maybe someone who is working the register...

I typically love this Produce Junction and visit here one to two times bi-weekly.

However, it truly bothers me when I go through countless trays of berries and find mold and when I think I have a fresh batch I unfortunately end up wasting one-two cartons of Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries or Blackberries.Evet moldy batch of fruit I find while shopping I inform the staff of country trays where mold is evident.

I purchased specific fruit trays for me to refrigerate the fruit and veggies to extend the freshness and I still have to throw away cartons of strawberries before I wash them when I just purchased them two days ago.

I just opened two containers and 85 percent of the Strawberries and moldy and were hidden beneath the fresh Strawberries.

It's expensive to purchase fruit and this is a waste!

Please do better...