Sudbury Farms Needham

Great long-time courteous employees, upscale, always immaculate, with particularly good good deli, meat, prepared food & produce departments. Gripes: Altho hot chicken wings were really scrumptious, the store mystifyingly changed offerings -- & STILL miss the old, honey stung drummies that were the BEST - what is available now is not nearly as delightful. Ditto, been little disappointed in the generic-turned bakery products - While in-store baked bagels are still nice, years' past baked goods were far superior -- half-moons, eclairs, cakes all tasted home-made good, as opposed to the processed-food tasting. For more than a decade ordered birthday cakes from here, they were as good as a free-standing indep bakery. Baked goods are just not as qualitative, not sure why, but sure wish the store would address. Eclairs are the only offering that still tastes worth eating the calories ;) Dairy yogurt & ice cream selection are not tremendous, probably due to the relatively small store size. The store does seem to try & offer items that are less easily found elsewhere, which is nice. I loved the delicious frozen ravioli & was willing to travel just to buy them, but they're no longer available & it's a shame -- Prices are definitely on the higher side, but then sale prices can be super & offset the other spending. In many departments, store brand items are economical options i.e. plastic bags & good quality, so painless swap out. Produce is reliably excellent -wherever the store sources their veggies (with the exception of white mushrooms, which tend to disappoint, being pre-packaged & have short shelf-life) it's top notch. I prefer to buy green beans, green peppers & celery here, the stuff is that much better. A well-deserved shout out to the long-time produce manager & his crew for years of healthy eating options!

Seems to be the highest priced market in the area, making it hard to shop here. I suppose that they're inflating prices to reflect the higher median income in the area. This shuts out those in the local public that happen to earn less. Inventory availability last visit appeared as if the place was going out of business... Lots of empty shelves and missing items. These points are unfortunate, as there are very few full service markets in the area. Ordering Amazon Fresh tends to be cheaper, with better availability.