Fresh & Easy visit

I visited the new Fresh & Easy in Alhambra on Sunday.  It was hopping!  I think Fresh & Easy has hit pay dirt with this location, which is across the way from Target, and in an area that needed a grocery store.  The store is large and has more product variety than I thought it would, especially in bath products.  I guess I was expecting a much smaller, more boutique-y store.  This is more like a nice-looking 99-cent store.  Some items seemed really cheap (cookies); others did not (frozen Indian food).  I bought a bag of salad which quickly wilted.  The pink Princess cupcakes were disappointing.  I was impressed by the tea selection and got a tasty chocolate-flavored black tea box for $2.15.  The store is from England, so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised by the tea selection.  I am not sure if I will be a Fresh & Easy regular though as I was not too impressed with the ready-made food selection.  It was not that cheap!  I also had some difficulty at the self-checkout, paying for my bananas twice.  A clerk had to delete one purchase.  It was kinda annoying.  I think the reason I was so not thrilled by Fresh & Easy is I have been to grocery stores in London and was thinking this would be modern and cool like those.  I will give Fresh & Easy another chance though.  Be forewarned – at Fresh & Easy you check yourself out and bag your own groceries.  I could see this being a problem with people who are not familiar with computers, such as my mother.