This is an excellent little grocery, mostly fresh fruit and vegetables, all beautiful, but many…read morespecialty items, olives, nuts, cheese, and a few other necessities like coffee, laundry soap and the like. The people who run this are very nice, and they remembered what we bought the time before and asked if everything was good. Sure, some things at the COOP are a little cheaper (not much), and they don't have meat and ice cream, but go there for the finest produce and attentive service. I am a big fan.

We found this grocery store while looking to restock on diapers for our little one while traveling…read morein Oslo. I was impressed by the size and selection available at this inner city grocery store. There is a good selection of fresh produce, some flowers, and plenty of grocery items. We even had choices when it came to brands of diapers and wipes. Nice! Luckily they also have good hours which is good since our hotel was just a few steps away.

Hands down, my absolute favorite grocery store in Oslo…read more I shouldn't even get started about my disgusting grocery store history in Norway. I really should write a book about it (because I have photo evidence obviously). But let's just say I had lost ALL hope prior to finding this gem. I usually do my shopping in Grønland, but let's not kid ourselves, it is difficult to get there sometimes and while you may buy all of your produce there, you still need the essentials that can only be found at the grocery store. This is where Centra came in for me. Except I realized that I could get good quality of produce here too. Granted, you pay a premium, but it's worth it after seeing one too many moldy clementines at Rema 1000 or Kiwi (yes, the place with the produce guarantee). Out of all places in Oslo, I firmly believe that Centra has the most American products of all of the places. Granted, most of what I eat can't be classified as one country or another, but I do know that if I need something American-ish...if it's not at Centra, it's probably not anywhere else either. And this includes their sister store, Jacob's. But while I can sit here and rave and rave about the selection options and quality, it would be remiss of me to not share what my favorite thing about the store is. THE SERVICE. This is the place I can always count on getting looked after and the help I need. If I am roaming around the dairy section and can't find what I need...someone is generally within close proximity and can assist. (special note: their dairy section stinks....someone needs to take care of that if you're reading this!) And the people at the checkout counters always have a smile on their face and seem genuinely happy to be there. I even commended one of them the other day and thanked him for sounding so happy and excited to help us out. He was really thrilled to hear that he was able to change the experience of someone shopping there. I wish the workers and staff at this place would give a coaching session to the other stores in the area. Good customer service is something I definitely took for granted in the USA...and something I NEVER do here because it's a rare find. But when I do find it, I'm a customer for life. Keep up the good work Centra! You will continue to be the only place I routinely shop!

The best high-end supermarket in town, entering this store feels like entering Disneyland. Wait, I…read moreactually like this supermarket better than Disneyland. It is Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, but in addition to chocolates, you have a beautiful array of fine cheese, gorgeous racks of exotic fruits, a shopful of smoked meats and a fishmonger with mussels, scallops and rare shellfish. As pièce de résistance, they have a drying rack for exquisitely aged beef of which I am unworthy. Besides the gourmet stuff, the selections here are like standard supermarkets multiplied by three, making you wonder what you have been missing in your Oslo supermarket life. There are some standard brands like Tine, but with products you don't see elsewhere. However! The price is very steep! I cannot afford going there too often. Every time I walk near Ultra, it calls to me like a siren - with a heavy sigh and great will, I turn away and buy uninspiring veggies and rock-hard avocados at a nearby Rema instead. Be warned shall ye enter, ye shall not resist buying, and paying dearly!

Just want to do a shout-out for this 7-Eleven because the staff there is so nice. We went in on a…read morerainy day to buy a bus ticket (yes in Oslo you get your tickets at 7-Eleven. If you wait till you get on the bus you'll be charged extra) and after the transaction asked the employee where the bus stop is. He walked out of the store to better show us the stop's location. Mind you, it was a rainy day! Norwegians are such nice people!!

We are American Tourists and visited this store to purchase some snacks and two cans of beer. There…read moreare plenty of items available in this store! There are sandwiches, pastries and fresh fruits. We were grateful that this store was near our hotel. We purchased our dinner items here and brought back to our hotel to enjoy!

Finally some serious place to buy all I need! Higher prices compared with Rema1000 or Kiwi but it…read moreworth for quality. What I love most is the fresh made grilled chicken, it's just for 60KR !! Moreover, I discovered when they have special offers in the flyers lots of stuff are even cheaper than rival competitors!

Let me first say that this has been my go to store for the last 16 years. I've wathced it go…read morethrough 3 renovations. The last one was only a few months ago, and in my opinion not a very successful one. Even though the store now has become both bright and appealing to the eye, the layout is really really bad. It is literally a maze where nothing longer is where it's supposed to be. People are walking around in circles trying to find everyday items. Ending up spending a lot longer in the store than before (and not necessarily buying more, which I guess must have been the reasoning behind this epic store design f*** up). To make matters worse the sortiment has gone down conciderably. It wasn't great to begin with, but now it's just sad. Meny claims to be a premium store (the prices certainly reflects that) in an affluent part of Oslo, and so you would expect it to be flush with stuff you wouldn't necessarily find in your everyday Kiwi or Rema, right? Wrong, not only is the sortiment scraped down to the bare minimum (a compromise I assume, in order to create the minimalist feel and look), but the replenishing of said sortiment is slow, and this has been a problem for years. Yes, it's a nice store and you'll find the basic necessities here, but for the price level I expect more. I for one have started shopping at Coop Extra Bislett instead. Half the retail space but with a larger sortiment (ok so it's a little more cluttered, so what?) and the prices are, although not cheap, more in sync with the actual shopping experience.