Greeley is rather small compared to megapoleis like Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Yet King Soopers on 10 St. offers many items otherwise difficult or impossible to find in the county. The shelves of "ethnic" offerings include a few common items, a few uncommon items, and a few unusual items. The flip side of the shelves (the row behind them) have a wide selection of Italian pastas and sauces. They have a fair selection of bag-them-yourself nuts, grains and dried fruits. Their selection of nuts is different from Sprouts' selection. Lots of choices of yogurt: if you cannot find vanilla yogurt at other stores in Greeley, you can almost certainly always find some here, along with just about every other flavor made by a particular brand.
There is a decent selection of cheeses, a few being exceptionally good. There is also a good selection of sausages, humus, and other deli items. The deli counter offers the usual beefs, hams, and a pastrami, sliced to order. They offer head-cheese but I didn't see any blood sausage, olive loaf, or some of the other Oscar Mayer sandwich meats and farm-country stand-byes. King Soopers' fresh sea-foods all look good and smell fresh, unlike a certain other store that smells like the stagnant end of a wharf every time we visit. The meats displayed are better selected and certainly better sliced than those at many stores.
The breads which are, as everywhere, advertised as "white", are as likely as not to be brown. "Country White", however, is still white bread, not brown bread. I found one brand of kimchi, advertised as "Extra Hot Kim Chee." It was not extra hot, not even just hot; and it was bitter. The ingredients listed were not included in sufficient amount to notice. The produce department overall, though small in area, is filled with fresh, clean produce. The area is well managed.
King Soopers has gone a little into a department store mode, offering furniture and linens, plus what look like independent retailers, such as Starbucks.
Tenth Street Kings Soopers is one of the cleanest grocery stores in Greeley, very well organized, save perhaps for the traffic confusion where the produce and cold drinks meet customer service. The prices are a bit higher than older stores. The location is ideal in terms of Greeley's directions of residential growth. In case the excitement is too much, there is an emergency service center next door. A golf course lies northwest of 72nd and 10th. Northridge high school stands a few blocks to the north. There are a few smaller stores on 10th street immediately to the east. There is plenty of parking room. In other words, the store will be a stable pillar of the community for a long time to come. read more