Chuck's Natural Fields Marketplace Temple Terrace — Restaurant in Temple Terrace

I go to both stores. Here is the same junk they pull.

I will describe my few months of going to the store. and some tips and things to watch out for.

1.) Make sure u check expiration date. They are not keen to move items off shelf.

2.) the Once-A-Month Thursday sale....is not a one day sale. Those prices are there all the time. Literally. NO change in prices. Any other day the same items are on sale with a red ticket. So avoid these days, unless you like crowds for no reason.

3.) As a future health professional, I am a little shocked how far some of the staff both pushes and encourages things that dont have any health claims. I admit I dont visit the other half of the store that has all the homeopathic items as often as other customers, but please dont buy into the persuasion. I have heard so much contradictory and WRONG information coming from the staff.

4.) Which brings me to another point. PLEASE dont forget to check what you were charged. Notoriously....somehow....they always key in the wrong prices.... especially when three are present on one single item. They will pick the highest they see. Kind of lost me there.

5.) Check with publix. because the prices can be out of the wazoo. and funny how I have SEEN THEIR STAFF AT PUBLIX SHOPPING. Hmmmmmm.....

The specialty items, the more expensive, the longer they have been there. For months. I dont think the unsulfered apricots have sold for a YEAR.

6.) Staff will lie and say new shipments just came in. Dont buy into that.

7.) Dont buy the deodorant you will be disappointed.

8.) They claim to take products off the shelf like Toms that are bought out by big companies, yet this practice seems to be finite and not a motto for the store overall. Plenty of items that dont meet this standard.

The good stuff:

have a lot of organic products you wont find elsewhere. Like shampoo. But at the cost of the worry-some 6 above, I am making the trip out to whole foods.

If you are in a hurry, then bite the wallet and come here. But plan on paying MORE than Whole Foods (seriously !?)

Publix across the street will sell the same organic watermelon for 3.99 each. They sell for...

I rarely give bad reviews, but after 2 visits, I will say that I understand why there were only a handful of customers on my 1st visit, and ZERO (besides me) on my 2nd visit. At 1st glance, the place had potential. But unfortunately everything else I'd expect at a health food store gets 1 star, or less.

Customer service gets 0 stars. 1st visit waited 10 minutes to have a super simple literal scoop of chicken salad (not even spread out) between 2 slices of bread made (and I was the only lunch counter customer) and 10 more minutes to pay for a very plain, yet convenient, $11 sandwich, with just 1 person in line ahead of me.

On my 2nd visit, I literally couldn't pay for the items I went in for (vitamins). And couldn't even get lunch because there was no one working the lunch counter for the 15 minutes I wasted in that store.

1 employee I initially thought was a customer who forgot their mask because that person got to the store door just before me & no social distance was holding the door for me to pass 1 ft away, joined a 2nd employee in the produce dept to have a loud discussion for a few minutes, then the 2nd employee left to take a break and sit out front at a table.

Both visits were at lunch time. Again, no one at the registers or the lunch counter on 2nd visit I left without actually being able to pay for anything.

Add 0 stars for following CDC or City guidance. Neither of the 2 employees encountered had masks on during what most such stores would call "Lunch Rush". I should've read all of the mask reviews for this place prior to visiting. Simply irresponsible behavior.

Sorry to have to say that this store will not be getting a 3rd visit from me and I cannot...

The staff is extremely knowledgeable!!!! They are like walking dictionaries!!!! Lol!. It has expanded so this is nice and they do carry a lot of the brands us health nuts love. I give it three stars because it is extremely over priced. And most people that over charge you trybto give you an experience like Publix or Whole Foods; samples, help to your car, making the place smell like things that make you want to stay, playing relaxing music. Nope. They just put an $8.99 sticker on Applegate Sausage that you can buy at Publix for $5.99.....just because. Or $9 for Mighty Leaf tea. Publix has it for around $6 and you can find it online for around $5 and some change. Thier cafe is also pretty lame. They don't have menus sitting out where you can see them usually and they don't have any kind of steamer or machine that they can just make you a tea latte. They will tell you they can't (probably because they don't want to) or that you will have to wait an excessive amount of time for them to boil the milk/water. Thier display of drinks is not visually appealing and does not lay out everything they offer as opposed to a bar that lays out every kind of liquor. They finally started giving out bags instead of awkward to carry boxes, but Nutrition Smart us way better. And has less of an awkward set up and visible shelves short people like me can see over in case you passed the...