Oaktown Cooperative
455 crescent st apt 219 | Oakland, California, 94610Client Reviews on Oaktown Cooperative
- 4.4 / 5.0
7 Reviews
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Quality foods at reasonable rates. We'll maintained and courteous staff. They sell variety of products at attractive rate. This is opposite to Megabus bus stop. You can have a quick bite or drinks while bus is boarding passengers. This is not an upscale place but they have made sure that store is well maintained and clean. Visit this store once and see how different this is from other stores.
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We were visiting SF and decided to Airbnb in Oakland (cheaper). We were pleasantly surprised by Mandela's food coop. The produces are fresh and the staff is nice. I also understand that the coop has been around for 10 years. Congratulations! I hope people will gradually understand that organic food is inexpensive on the long term given the health benefits!
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Neighborhood food cooperative in West Oakland, across from West Oakland BART station. Conveniently located, small parking lot in back of store, street parking out front. Friendly, knowledgeable personnel. Small deli inside offered limited menu of sandwiches, drinks, only one veggie sandwich made vegan on request. Organic locally sourced produce, locally sourced bakery and packaged goods, many vegan and natural food items. Also environmentally friendly cleaning products, personal care products. Moderate prices.
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I love this coop. The workers there are super cool and helpful. The store is small but they are expanding! They'll be taking over the old 99 cent store space a couple doors down. I can't wait because I'm sure they'll selection will grow and they'll offer more foods there. But in the meantime this is a great like grocery store to pick up health conscious products.
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If price is the most important thing to you than go to walmart!! This is a worker owned coop: workers earn a living wage and if the company is successful, they are successful. If you want more CRAPitalism just go to Whole Paycheck and ensure Jeff Bezos has some money to fly into space when you can't breathe this air no more. If you want a better environment, working class that is cared for, more community investment, go here. to the managers: thank you for the vegan selections, you seem to be doing an above average job. Hoping that you take into consideration in the new store: animal oppression is real - don't buy into the "humane" myth, murder ≠humane. Animals want to live and we definitely don't need to exploit their bodies to be healthy.
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The formula for why this store doesn't work is simple:The selection is inconsistent. They do not carry the basic items that most grocery stores carry. So simply put, if I go in here with a small shopping list and this location is lacking ONE OR MORE items;Then I'm forced to make a trip to a larger store and therefore have NO REASON to buy ANY of the items here, because the prices are so extraordinarily High( higher than any Whole Foods on a bad day) So I know in my head, if I'm left with ONE reason to go elsewhere, then I might as well wait and get ALL my items elsewhere.I like the idea of having a grocery store in my neighborhood. But the selection in here is just odd! It seems more of a showcase for the owners likes rather than a representation of the community.The bulk/bin items that have been sitting in the window and in direct sunlight are usually stale or outdated. They have no idea how to store their produce overnight. The produce in the store is pitiful, dried out, rotten and unappealing. I make six figures a year and plus a great deal of money off of rental income. I'm one of the lucky ones where the cost of things is insignificant to me.But even people with money don't like to be taken advantage of. There is a fine line between price gouging and that gouging being insulting. I feel insulted every time I'm asked to overpay on an item I know I can get elsewhere. The staff all walk around glazed over. The owners do not live in this neighborhood and therefore they are not a good representation of this community. The weekend hours leave a lot to be desired. Every Saturday and Sunday morning I see a consistent number of people show up an hour or so before opening only to look at the store window hours and their watch and drive away to another store.I really want to like this place. Seems like it's a no-brainer you could make more money off of volume rather than higher prices, carrying the basic items that most people go to the grocery store for, all the time. Carry items that more represents the community instead of your personal interest. Find a way to invest in Practical hours for the weekend! However there's a new grocery store opening up a few blocks away this fall! maybe that will cause these people to get their act together and realize that with competition; they're going to have to actually work a day's work in their lives instead of just coasting by standing at the cash register listening to music from the motherland.
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Mandela foods is the best grocery store ever. Their range of products go from basic things to very hard to find products, their range of beverages are out of this world.What i like the most about it is that they always take in consideration what the customer thinks and/or wants. A very community driven place with awesome folks 24/7
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