Dan C.
Yelp
I should probably give this place five stars for being open 24/7, and if I could give it a 4.5, I would. It's NEARLY perfect for what it is: a huge grocery store with often discounted prices.
I'm a fussy vegan eater with a huge love of energy drinks, and while they didn't have all the weird seitan-squid offerings you might find at Whole Foods or Sprouts, or every single variety of Naked juice drinks with all the soy protein, I didn't exactly go hungry or thirsty shopping here. They had plenty of non-meat Field Roast sausages, plenty of Monster energy drinks, and plenty of those frozen vegan pastrami sandwiches and pizza type deals that are really just non-spicy burritos that go heavy on the cashew cheese, but whatever, they're good. I ended up spending about $200 and I got good value out of every dollar.
The only reason I'm not giving this place a 5/5 is that some of the snack mixes and nuts and other dry goods for offer in their vast dry goods section, with the scales and plastic bags and the twist ties and the little pen, etc, were merely fair, not good. I'm eating some supposedly "everything bagel" flavored cashews this morning, and they taste just like barely salted cashews. Ain't no onion or poppy seed to be seen. But hey, I'm still eatin' em!
I'm also still eating the almond butter I made fresh in their grinder, but it also tastes a little bland, as does their non-peanut mixed nut assortment. But their Chex Mix and other sundries were pretty decent. And the dried fruit was not bad, some if it really fine (the dried coconut chunks and chile-covered dried pineapple were in fact DELICIOUS). So maybe it really is just their nut selection that could use some work. I just didn't like how they nutted.
But overall it was a VERY good experience. If I must complain further, I guess I was a little surprised that they didn't have some standard grocery-store fare, such as the soy and nut milks with the jacked-up amounts of protein that say "PROTEIN!" on them. They also didn't have the microwave Indian food meals I like to heat up for lunch when I'm working, and I couldn't find any of those Beyond Burger-type sausages that are so expensive and so damn good. But then again, I also didn't find a young Nicole Kidman riding a unicorn down a waterslide dressed in her BMX Bandits outfit--it's a 24 hour market in Oklahoma, you know? This place is FAR better than you have a right to expect.
One thing's for sure--this place blows Wal-Mart's crappy grocery shopping experience out of the water. I'm kind of scared to read up on it, but I'll bet they spend a lot more time stocking up their store with well-priced goods than they do union-busting! That probably helps.