Love the Solana Beach store. Well stocked and friendly staff. Can always find what in looking for. Their Just 4 You program gives you additional discounts and rewards. The gas rewards are a really good deal especially if you tank up at a Vons gas station. There is one in Pacific beach. That's my hot tip of the day! Update-with gas prices up consider using your reward at Vons gas stations. Be sure to use Just for You! UPDATE: STILL GOOD! I like the early morning to shop!Update: all good! Update: still great. UPDATE: LOVE the Just for u specials
Von's has about everything you need except their deli is not that great.. sprouts has better kabobs and skewers & pre-made dinners to eat that night. Vons does has some premade dinners but they're usually salmon with potatoes or sandwiches, nothing that really you can put on the grill or air fryer like healthy steak or chicken kabobs or marinated salmon or brushed shrimp skewers like sprouts has. And sprouts has a much better selection dairy department for different cottage cheeses, creamers, & sugar-free ice cream and yogurts.
This Vons is unfortunately my closest grocery store. It's worth driving elsewhere. They almost never have the advertised meat for sale in stock.Twice I have purchased expired dairy products. And today 10-17-2023 I've downgraded them to 2 stars. I've made my last meat purchase from this store ever! The chicken breast tray I just bought literally smells like like rear end and it's not the first time. The produce is lackluster and extremely marked up in price as with most every item in this store. For the amount this store overcharges they should be getting things right instead of cutting corners. If it's on sale it's because it's too iffy to eat and you will be disappointed. The self checkout is terrible all the bags are awkwardly placed on the ground, you have to dig them out of a basket tucked deep under a two foot high counter and the scanner often fails to give the correct price. I treat this store like a 7-11 only grabbing the fewest items until I can do my shopping elsewhere.
I wish I could say nice things about this location but I can’t. I’ve bought meat from the butcher that was pink on the outside and brown on the inside, I’ve bought meat from the butcher that went bad the next day. The produce at this location is also poorly circulated and often goes bad quickly. I bought a piece of sheet cake today and it was stale. Before I buy anything I check the packaged date or the expiration and often it’s expired and about to expire because they don’t rotate the prepared foods. The staff seems overworked and miserable and it’s shows in the quality of the items being presented for customers to purchase. Solana Beach is a nice area and the prices reflect that but unfortunately the quality doesn’t. Don’t waste your money and go someplace else food is too expensive right now.
Sad to say this but I’m amaze how amazingly rude and and racist this manager Cynthia ,
I asked the register lady to break my $100 because I needed change for my organization event, she told me to go to Cynthia the Manager to get a better change because she has no change at her register,
Went up to Cynthia the guest register and I kindly asked her to break my $100 specifically asked her for $1, $5, $10
Then Cynthia told me to meet her at register 3
She open the register then start counting, she tried to give me 4 $5 and the rest $20bills, so I kindly told her that I don’t want $20
Told her that I want $1, $5,$10,
Cynthia told me “ well dude I can’t help you”
Basically shuts me down and walked away.
I am really sad that I experienced this.
