The Nature Stop - San Francisc

This convenient little shop has an excellent wine selection and lots of upscale consumable options. Their wine pricing is also often less than the average prices listed on Vivino. It 's a grocery store, but has a bit of a boutique and rich vibe. It 's one of the few places to get Mary 's Chicken in the area and I have to get chocolate every time I go in there. The ambiance seems very hygienic to me, so I feel drawn into the place when I walk by. The Nature Stop has nice stuff, but my review has to be in earnest... maybe 2 or 3 stars? It 's annoying that through several iterations of ridiculousness, you have to expect encountering some unnecessary and incompetent problem during each transaction. Two different cashiers didn 't seem to understand the concept of tare weight. They weighed the meat with the packaging and attempted to charge me for it, despite the fact that the weight of the meat was printed directly on the packaging. I 've worked in a meat department before and I have never seen that kind of inept behavior. It 's insulting to the customer. So at the present time, the 2021 Domaine Bousquet Malbec is $11.99 here. The cashier scanned it and it came up as zero. He joked that it was free, but then had the audacity to offer me the obviously more expensive reserve price of $16.99, like the reserve one right next to it, and laughed in my face. I passed as I knew that Trader Joe 's has the exact same thing for $9.99. Tonight, the Elysian 'tiger beer ', listed at $13.99, rang up at $17.99, the same as their space dust. I passed, but they should at least have offered to have honored the price they had printed out for customers to read. The Space Dust IPA at S&S Market, one block away, was $15.99, so I bought it there and got to pet their cat too. It 's a bit of a first world problem, but I didn 't notice until being at home that my $6.25 chocolate bar, which is more than I made hourly when younger, was comprised of the wrong variety. I grabbed the chocolate bar behind the front one, to avoid the most touched one. It is a berry chocolate bar instead of the ginger one, and it 's great, but still, the employees should be better at recovery. I was one of about two people in the store and it was not busy. I recommend going to this place to get ideas. Double check all the prices and shop around, but they have great merchandise. My suggestion to the owner is to install a self-checkout. The guy stocking merchandise was very helpful tonight with my bags.

It’s… fine, particularly if you buy pre-packaged stuff. The produce is often moldy or old, squishy, or on the verge of rotting. It’s a total hit or miss. They have great frozen vegetarian options, and cheese. But the fresh produce, you’re better off going to Union Street.

The times that I’ve gone here have been a handful. Every time I go in to look for fresh vegetables I only see sad, wrinkled, almost rotten ones. Some of the non-dairy items are within a days of expiration and everything is way overpriced for the low quality. I’d be happy to pay whatever for good quality, but here is just… not worth it.

Yet another nature-is-healing merchant. But we are no more connected to nature than before. Does all of SF drink organic Kool Aid to believe in stores such as this one.

It’s… fine, particularly if you buy pre-packaged stuff. The produce is often moldy or old, squishy, or on the verge of rotting. It’s a total hit or miss. They have great frozen vegetarian options, and cheese. But the fresh produce, you’re better off going to Union Street.