Ok, I admit this store really grows on ya. The first time I came to visit this place, I think I was…read moremore interested in the Mennonites filling thier carts instead of actually paying attention to the food items I needed to buy. Either way...I think they've added more organic items or they constantly change and the organics come and go like they do in Grocery Outlets. I still haven't figured Aldi's out yet, but I'm really liking them. I was told they are connected to Trader Joe's? Kinda like a German version of Trader Joe's? I dunno, but it's kinda cool with all the unique brands they offer from Germany. Aldi's carries their own organic brands called "Simply Nature." Super great prices for Simply Nature organic milk, almond milk, soy milk, peanut butter, salad dressing, grass fed meats, ice creams, chips, spinach, mixed salads, frozen veggies ect. I'm still not able to go full on grocery shopping here, but I'm getting close.

Alid grocery store is from Germany. The seasonal products from Germany are excellent. The clerks…read moreare kind and friendly and check out is super fast. The clerks check out and do not visit or talk like other grocery stores. The products are all excellent and the variety of items are endless.

It's nice to see a small town grocery store still in business. It's clean and brite. I needed…read moresome packing tape quickly. The walmart is 15 miles away so I came here when I realized the hardware store in town had closed. They really didn't have it, but somhow Keith remembered some he'd gotten in by accident. He went to find it and sure enough still had it. I was so greatful to not have to make the nearly 30 mile round trip to get packing tape. It was wonderful to have someone who wanted to help when he could even if he had to put a little looking in.

Great small town grocery. Looks like they teamed up with true value. Great selection of hardware…read moresupplies. I was able to get popcorn and bungee cords all in the same place. Friendly, helpful staff. Well stocked grocery selection.

This was the first time at this store. It's a 70 mile drive from where I live and it is worth the…read moredrive. Staff here are very helpful and very courteous. It is also one of the largest stores I have been in. I like the fact that there is a Chinese place inside and a restaurant with a buffet line which I will have to try next time. Went there mainly because I wanted some good quality meats and Hy- Vee has always had that along with everything else that I need. I have been looking for the zero sugar vodka seen advertised on TV and have been unable to find it until now, this store has it so I would guess that all Hy-Vee stores will have it also. Let's not forget the gas discount also. .58 per gallon. With prices going up that will be nice. Three thumbs up

When you don't know maybe you should ask a manager asshole, don't try to scre me out of the 30 cent…read morefuel saver that you are edging over you sexu deviant predator ..........:.::::::::

First time at this store & we were very pleased. Found their signs for each row to be very helpful…read more Liked how they label the frozen food & good Fish selection. Very easy to find what your looking for. Employees were very nice. Got a little busy at check out, it seemed that everyone was done shopping at the same time! They opened up more registers right away & especially loved the that they take the groceries to the car. We said we could handle that but was told that was their policy. Even if we did it ourselves, they would walk out with us anyway. Wow, that was a first! Great policy. Liked that VERY much! Thank you for your wonderful service!

They are friendly; however, they never (and I mean NEVER) take the next person in line. Very…read moreannoying.

This store is such a nice, clean and bright store. They have a wide selection of groceries and a…read moreseparate liquor section which is something that can be lacking in the small town grocery stores. One nice thing about the store is they carry items from nearby bakery and a nearby tea room so there are some unique offerings. The prices are about average, maybe a tad higher than other stores, but it will worth the convenience of not having to drive back to Cedar Falls. My only criticism is whenever I have used the Chester Chicken deli portion of the store, it always seems like the employees think it is a chore to wait on me. Case in point, I was there with my dad to pick up some lunch for us, my brother and nephew today. We get there and make up our minds for what we want and ring the bell for service. There are two employees in the back that see us, but make us wait another 5 to 10 minutes before coming up to wait on us. Why couldn't one of the employees come up and take our order? It was nowhere near busy. Please Brothers, make sure your employees know that when the deli counter is not busy and there are more than 1 person in the deli that no customer should ever be kept waiting. Otherwise, keep of the good work.

Nice clean store with friendly staff. Decent selection of goods are available for a smaller grocer…read more I personally love the fresh locally made potato salad best! Good beer & wine selection as well. I love to shop local and support small businesses in my area!

This is a pretty standard Fareway. It's not nearly as big as the one in Independence, but I…read morecertainly don't always feel like driving 20 minutes to go to Indee. It's very clean, and it's a very well-taken-care-of store. They even do a great job of getting in some of the newer types of food products. The shelves are usually stocked, and while they don't have the variety a big-box store does, this is one of the few places in town to get a good selection of groceries. Okay, it's pretty much the only place in town, and it puts the grocery selection of K-mart or Shopko to shame. I haven't had any particular issue with things being regularly out-of-stock, and they seem to do a decent job of keeping the shelves stocked. Cashiers have always been nice, and they do a good job of customer management here. They'll call up more cashiers when the lines get long, and I've never waited more than a couple minutes to check-out. Very satisfactory in terms of most stores in Oelwein (and most stores, period. Very good line management) I still don't understand the aisle organization in the store, though. There's water on the far side with some groceries then there are some aisles of cleaning supplies, then we have aisles of cookies, and then refrigerated and then frozen. The aisle organization makes no sense, and despite shopping here regularly for over a year, I still have to look through nearly every aisle when I want to find something. Parking lot is nice. I've never had any issues parking or getting out of the parking lot. Unlike some of the other lots in town, this one isn't in disrepair or going to pop a tire from their potholes. This Fareway does NOT have a fresh bakery, but they do have some bakery items. They do have a full-service meat counter as well as some types of health foods (though not a lot) like almond milk or soy milk. There is no bicycle parking, but in hilarious Oelwein fashion, there is horse parking. Prices are pretty good. Not great, but not insanely high either. If you buy the items that are on the weekly sale (especially the front page of their ad), you can get stuff for cheaper than you could find in Waterloo or Cedar Falls. The fact that Fareway employees go out with the carts to load up your car drives me absolutely insane, though. I mean, insane. I'm sure some people really like it, though, but I'd rather just deal with it all myself. Final thoughts: I'm glad this is in Oelwein or I'd have nowhere decent to get groceries. It's a surprisingly great store for this area, and they've done a good job of taking care of the property and the stock. It's obvious that whoever runs this Fareway cares about presenting a decent appearance and isn't just relying on the "this is the only place people can go" factor. I enjoy shopping here (aside from the aisle organization).

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A lot of the more "cultured" folks around here (okay, okay, my family - all of whom went away for…read morequite awhile and then came back, and so have had more than just a taste of "big city living") swear by Fareway. I didn't get a chance to shop at Fareway, but I went to Hy-Vee a few times over my last week's stay in Bassett, and I have to admit I was impressed. The Hy-Vee in Charles City is a pleasant mixture of old timey things and new fangled options. Walk in and glance to your right on any weekend morning, and you'll see covered dished filled with traditional breakfast items and tables filled with local "blue hairs" (my mother's term, I swear!) and various sprogs and offspring, all socializing to beat the band. Two steps further, and behind the deli case you may see an Asian guy (I don't know his name, my family didn't either, they just knew he was Asian) who can whip you up a fresh, delectable stir-fry while you wait. You could also get prepared deli foods at this counter, and while I didn't, I suspect the fare might be good. Further on, there is an enormous meat case where we picked up some very good house-made brats. They're sold by the pound, wrapped in greased brown paper, and could be behind the fresh meat case at any Whole Paycheck. Fresh? OMG. Fresh. And while we didn't buy beef, I watched as the butcher unloaded a styrofoam box laden with giant, perfect, sweetly bloody steaks from the Amana Colonies, which I've never seen at any yupscale Grocerie and Expensive Food Emporium anywhere. We're talkin' grass-fed, baby. I was also surprised at the cheese selection. While there were wedges that looked slightly past their prime (the market for Asiago and Parmeggiano Reggiano is still under-developed here), nothing wasn't saleable, and.... whoo. Fresh Maytag Blue! And a random Welsh sharp cheddar that knocked my socks off. A quite big selection. I was impressed. The rest of the store also yielded surprises. I found not just lemon curd but lime curd, soy milk, tahini, and other things I hadn't expected to see in a small town Iowa grocery store. And.... there was SORGHUM! Sorghum syrup is as old-timey Iowa as it gets, and I was afraid that all the gourmet modern options would have crowded its earthy, deep-flavored goodness off the shelves. But no, there it was, right by the pancake syrups. Hooray! Final note: in Iowa, you can get wine and liquor in a special section of the grocery store. We found lots of good beers and plenty of quite decent wines, including a New Zealand Riesling that was superb - and affordable. Whoever manages this Hy-Vee deserves kudos for keeping up-to-date AND keeping what's best of traditional things. That can't be easy. Very highly recommended.

I have not been to very many Hy-Vee stores in my past but this one was very nice for sure! A very…read morenice variety of groceries to pick from, many of the brands though I was not familiar with since a considerable amount of what they have are items based on the region but there is still plenty of the old standards that you do know like Doritos corn chips and the like. They had a great bakery set up at this store location too so definitely worth going to for sure. we had to go here from New Hampton because there is no grocery store in that town that is open on a Sunday so this is by far the next best option.

All Fareways are at least pretty good, and Decorah's is better than the average Fareway. It's kept…read moreckean, well stocked and the service is good, too. The meat counter, of course, is outstanding; it sells what they call Pork Steak, an inexpensive but delicious and fairly tender cut of meat for the outdoor grill or the oven ir even airfryer! The produce section isn't as large as some markets but has everything you'll need, fresh and good quality. We had family stuck at home in the pandemic; Fareway loaded up my trunk for$100 so I could bring supplies to keep our kin from going hungry a couple weeks! I recommend this well-run Fareway.

You folks in Iowa have no freakin' idea how good you have it with Fareway. I live in Fairfax…read moreCounty, Virginia and we have nothing that is even close to this place. In particular, the meat counter is spectacular! When I was in Vinton a couple weeks back I counted 8 butchers behind the counter. Eight! You would have to visit 8 stores to find that many here. Folks are friendly, prices reasonable and did I mention the meat counter? Super duper recommended.

This store has my fav drink. Celsius. I was buying it online from Amazon until they actually ripped…read moreme off. Took my money and I never got the product. That's the 4th time they ripped me off so I cancelled my subscription. From now on will by my power drink from Hy=Vee. They are a couple of dollars higer than online but at least I can go home with a 12 pack.

Ok, Decorah finally has a HyVee. This is not as big as the one we shop at in Oskaloosa. But it's…read morenot as small as, say, the HyVee Drug in Ottumwa. This one has HyVee's wonderful rotisserie chicken! And yes, I bought one and yes it was delicious They seem to do a fair amount of curbside pickup. We were talking about it during our lunch break, Which we took at HyVee, and we watched "Mary" pass by over and over shopping for the elderly who get pickup. From the things we heard her say to other employees, she shops for strangers the way she would shop for her own family, which is so wonderful to see. Keep up the good work, Decorah HyVee!