The folks in the meat and seafood section are always great! Friendly and knowledgeable. They really…read moreseem to enjoy their work!

The store itself is good, but one employee (Rhonda) is consistently rude. It makes shopping…read morestressful and unpleasant.

All of the workers here are fantastic. I really love the variety of individual meal options Trader…read moreJoe's offers. The tikka masala from the refrigerated section especially blew me away, especially when paired with their garlic naan. It's been a great way to explore different cultural cuisines in a semi-affordable way. The store is always clean and well organized, and I'll definitely be returning often as a shopper.

So happy we have one in town now! Well worth the wait. Store is fully stocked and has all the…read moreassortments of foods you wouldn't find at other grocery stores. Store is generally always busy, so kind of hard to maneuver around other people but the store stays stocked.

This store has a lot of the brands I look for, but they often run out of items that I need,…read moreespecially in the produce section. There have been so many times that I had to ask where the bananas were, beets, etc. Overall I'm so glad this store exists, because it is the closest to Whole Foods so far here, although it's also nothing like WF. It would be nice if they opened a location in the Southwest of town because it's quite a drive, especially when there's no option to pick up. It is so expensive at Natural Grocers which I was absolutely shocked at, but I guess we have no choice other than to spend the money because Columbia doesn't have a lot of options for organic food. I at least appreciate that the store exists. A common misconception is that Natural Grocers is cheaper than Whole Foods. It's not. I used to shop at Whole Foods in my old town and it was significantly cheaper, more items to choose from, and they actually have a meat counter which is missing from Natural Grocers. I spend double the money when I'm here compared to WF. I miss the days where you can go get all your meats from one store. I cannot find good quality meats here, but they do have some chicken and ground beef options that's packaged. But even then, they run out of it. I miss having the options. Some other differences between NG and WF---- Whole Foods has an option where you can order from an app and pick up in the parking lot. NG doesn't have this option. WF has a smoothie and coffee bar, as well as a hot food bar. The amount of people dissing WF to me is just insane. This attachment to "the way things were" in the Midwest and limited thinking has got to be changed here in Columbia. One thing I appreciate about NG is that they do not use Apeel, which is a big problem in other stores. The one thing I REALLY do not like about this store is the amount of rude people who work the cashier register, especially to people who shop a large amount of groceries at once. I don't want to say all of them because some of them have been very nice. However, there was one African American lady who you could feel just hated her job and hated ringing me up and would make snarky comments to me. It was more than once and very clear she hated what she was doing there. I did not catch her name because it was hard to even be around her due to how uncomfortable she would make me. Another person named Sloan is always passive aggressive to me and other customers when ringing us up. Every time I get rung up by these people, they seem extra bothered and have a rude, standoffish demeanor about them. Their behavior was just strange, unacceptable and lame. Especially someone like me new to the Midwest, these types of people are the reason I don't find Midwesterners all that friendly. They are ruder than people from big cities. I get very anxious in the store because I don't want to deal with some of the rude cashiers. The rest have been decent and one of them was exceptionally kind to me, but I forget her name. Management should help these people understand that even if they're annoyed with their job, we are the ones spending an exorbitant amount of money to help the business and keep the lights on, and possibly even your job. I get it, work sucks. But it's not okay to be rude to customers or act like you're bothered when you're ringing someone up. It sucks to only have one store and one option in town to go to, to get organic food. Eating healthy shouldn't have to be this hard or complicated. But overall, I'm glad it exists because without it we would have nothing.

been looking for allergen friendly Halloween candy KCMO didnt order any and were not getting any…read moreaccording to the regional manager they messed up this location had their act together so bought several packages here thank you!

I am so happy that Columbia has an Asian market! The selection of goods is very good given the…read morelocation and I can normally find everything that I need here! The prices are a bit high most likely because everything is imported but overall they are relatively reasonable. There is a wide variety of ramen, Asian snacks, and ingredients to cook Asian food. They do not give out bags but there is a wall of boxes that you can use to carry your goods out of the store. Overall good market with good variety!

My sister loves Asian cuisine, so while she was in town she wanted to cook an authentic Asian meal…read morefor the family. We needed some pretty specific ingredients, and Hong King market was the perfect place for it! The staff was friendly and most items were also labeled in English. So many cool authentic items! I cant wait to keep coming back!! The place was a little funky smelling, which is the only reason I didn't give it a 5!

UPDATE: I called and spoke with Rochelle in management who…read morewas very kind and informed me that the deliveries are made via instacart and she took down all the driver info that I had in order to be aware of this in case it happened again in the future. I appreciate her concern in the matter and have updated the review rating to account for this. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I ordered a delivery of groceries which were delivered to the wrong location - the door in the photos provided by the driver is brown and there's not a single brown door in the entire building and those directly surrounding me where I live. I noticed immediately and replied to indicate the door photographed was not correct and the driver apologized and said that is where the map took them. I confirmed the address again and even provided a pin via maps to the correct location for a re-delivery. They claimed they cannot locate my address on Google or Maps and that they were being sent back to the location of delivery at each attempt (which was an incorrect location). I receive deliveries all the time and never have I had a misdelivery or this many complications. It got to the point that I even offered to meet them next door at the parking lot of a public hotel to pick the groceries up from the driver directly. They agreed to this, and provided the information of the car which they were driving. I requested they notify me when they arrive and provided the details of my vehicle. From that point forward, the driver never replied or returned any further messages to me. I did follow up again as well to ask if they had arrived (over 20 minutes after we had agreed to meet at the place that is literally next door to my address) and they never replied to this either. I am very disappointed in this experience.

Have shopped at Gerbes since they opened their first Columbia store. Never had too many complaints…read more However, yesterday I bought a ribeye steak for $21 (@$17.99 per pound). It was like eating a shoe. One of the toughest gristle-loaded pieces of meat I have ever eaten. Far below the tenderness of a sirloin steak. It is close to criminal that they are selling such horrible cuts of meat for that price. If the steak would have been ground into hamburger it still would have been tough. Never again.