Sweet Life Foods is a dumpy little grocery warehouse on Avocado Street, a gritty little dead-end industrial street tucked out by the river in Springfield's North End. It's nothing fancy, inside or out a low-slung steel warehouse that shows it's age. The aisles are rough warehouse shelves and there are no fancy displays, just cut cases of goods with the prices indicated by a label on the edge of the shelf.
Inside, you'll find aisle upon aisle of canned goods, packaged snacks, wholesale boxes of candy, Goya products - virtually everything you would need to stock a small neighborhood convenience store or bodega. Items are sold, for the most part, by the wholesale unit, case, or half-case only. If you're buying for a store, a lunch wagon, an event, or maybe a large family you'll find Sweet Life Foods handy. If not, you might still want to stop for things like lunchbox snacks, food storage wraps and things, or the office candy bowl.
Prices are generally on the low side, but as is true no matter where you shop, know your prices before you go in. Many times local supermarket sale prices are lower per item than the wholesale case prices here.
Cash, debit and credit cards accepted (I don't know about checks, sorry.) The employees are friendly and helpful.
Interesting bit of trivia: The actual name of the business is Cash & Carry #0830 and they are owned by SuperValu, the same company that owns Save-A-Lot discount supermarkets. They took on the "Sweet Life" name because they're in the old Sweet Life Quality Foods distribution warehouse, and when Sweet Life went out of business years ago they never took down the old, 1960's-era sign over the front door. read more