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November 2024 by Gopala108
On a recent trip to Philly I stopped in Mom’s Organic Market to stock up on groceries for my home stay where I could cook. I am currently living in San Francisco so San Franciscans in Philly can think of Mom’s Organic Market akin to Rainbow Grocery in SF. Mom’s has a great variety of local and organic produce. Hard to find items that you would find in a good well stocked natural food store or cooperative like Mom’s is. Staff is friendly. The layout of the store is a labyrinth that can be confusing like a rubik’s cube too far gone yet with a little patience and perhaps asking security, staff, or one of the regulars they can help you get your learning curve to navigate the store of organic natural food product heaven.
Within Mom’s is the Naked Lunch vegan restaurant which I will return to have a bite there as it looks interesting. I am a proud graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO where I received the William S. Burroughs scholarship. I did my thesis on William S. Burroughs and William S. Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch aka the cut up novel for which this restaurant is named.
Since I was in Philly two weeks I was mixing up dining out at the wonderful vegan foodie scene in Philly along with cooking at my homestay.
For cooking at my homestay at Mom’s I picked up the following:
Soymilk
Local and organic blueberries
Bananas
Garnet jewel sweet potatoes
Limes
Avocados
Organic granny smith apples
Red cabbage
Ginger root
Sweet yellow onion
I am pretty sure all the produce was organic. Mom’s has been family owned and operated since 1987. Great bulk bin items. Great produce. In a word, great. Mom’s sets the bar high for a natural food store. They are like the special forces of natural food stores which is quite alright in my book.Each day Mom’s states customers prevent 9,233 grocery bags from being used. Mom’s has banned over 250 ingredients from our products storewide. Mom’s has chosen to print their receipts on BPA and BPS free paper products for the safety of it’s community and the environment. In a word…Yes!
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May 2024 by JJones315
A great grocery store (plus toiletries, some alcohol) located in the heart of downtown Philly. All the produce is organic. There is some limited grab-and-go food items that can be eaten in a small area upstairs; however, today that space was not as clean as you would like for an eat-in spot (reason for only 4 Stars).
The employees where uniformly friendly and helpful.
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May 2024 by ashaprovocateur
I’ve patronized MOM’s since there was only a single location in Maryland. The variety and prices are competitive and Naked Lunch is always fresh and delicious. The black bean burger is my fav. I like to sub out the pretzels for roasted potatoes ??
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May 2024 by Ashley M
Love the raspberry lemonade. It's very refreshing and economically friendly. I also love the validation for parking. Extremely helpful.
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May 2024 by Deepu Dowarha
Great collection of organic stuff.
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April 2024 by Pat Rankin
I love my MOM'S store. The setup is impeccable, it's my new favorite go to to get my groceries.
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April 2024 by AJ C
Tasty and healthy vegetarian lunch options. The seating area needs a good cleaning.
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April 2024 by Maria Nolasco
Yes the place and food look nice easy to shop the issue is the prices are overly price the same organic stuff I see in other places for a lower price nice market but not for an average Americans salary 40,000-60,000 this wouldn't be something every day normal people can afford if you were to do a full grocery shop here your going to spend 800~1000 dollars here this place is more for rich people 75k and up
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April 2024 by Jenna McBride
This is my happy place. I love that it's always a tranquil experience and not over-crowded. I appreciate the wide selection of alternative foods.My only wish is that they would have a salad or hot bar!
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April 2024 by Nick Kienzle
Great, clean and bright! Really appreciate being able to get LaBelle Patrimoine chicken here, too!
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April 2024 by Leonard
Whole Foods main competitor. Prices are much better here and quality is matched. Just wish they'd upgrade their hot bar/ ready foods.I found alot of unique, local, and tasty foods that not even Whole Foods offers. And they support the local Philly economy too.
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April 2024 by Makayla Cree
The best mom’s around!
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April 2024 by Sheena Landers
The associates are nice and helpful.
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March 2024 by Emily Doutre Genua
This store is great, and on par with Sprouts, Whole Foods, etc. in terms of value and quality. They also accept a lot of unusual items for recycling, like batteries and shoes. But as another reviewer has stated, the parking attendant gives you a hard time for parking there if you say you’re going to Mom’s.The garage should end its relationship with the store if it doesn’t like giving shoppers the 2 hours of free parking. Or just stop giving Mom’s shoppers the free 2 hours. And frankly it isn’t any of the parking attendant’s business to know where I’m going when I park my car there. I can’t imagine the garage pays him commission for the number of cars that park there during his shift, so I fail to see the motivation behind his interrogations, when in fact, he’s really just creating a traffic backup on Chestnut Street by holding up cars who are lining up to park in the garage. But what do I know? I’m just a Mom‘s shopper who likes free parking. Unfortunately, I might not be coming here anymore if I can’t park in this garage, without having to explain myself to a stranger.
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March 2024 by DianeMM
Many vegan and gluten free products, some that are difficult to find elsewhere.
