Crest Fresh Market

[SouthsideSooner]

This sign went up on the SW corner of 104th & S. May on Thursday. Are any of the other Crest's called Crest Fresh Market? Is this possibly a more upscale concept for Crest. This is in one of the more affluent areas of OKC, so it would be a good location to attempt something like that....

[grantgeneral78]

Man I am glad there putting one closer to us.....We will shop there for sure.

[Thunder]

That is genius of them to add retail space within the store! It will bring in more revenue to the company when a business rent the space. Definately will help keep prices low.

[FritterGirl]

Crest in Edmond (N. 150th / Santa Fe) has retail: a flower shop, a bank (Citizens' I think), and a "Bedlam Shop" where they sell OU/OSU and Thunder merch. I THINK there is also a cell phone service provider, but don't recall. I'm usually there in the evenings or on Sunday mornings, when the retail establishments are closed so don't pay attention to them.

[grantgeneral78]

Crest in Edmond (N. 150th / Santa Fe) has retail: a flower shop, a bank (Citizens' I think), and a "Bedlam Shop" where they sell OU/OSU and Thunder merch. I THINK there is also a cell phone service provider, but don't recall. I'm usually there in the evenings or on Sunday mornings, when the retail establishments are closed so don't pay attention to them.

That Bedlam shop is owned by jason white.

[SoonerQueen]

I wish we had a grocery store around 63rd and North May. I love Crest and wish they would build something close to us.

[soonerguru]

I ventured into a Wal-Mart Supercenter late last night. Can't believe I did it. It confirmed everything I hate about that company. It took me an hour and a half to get out of that diseased hellhole. Then, on the way home, I realized I had forgotten something. So I stopped at the nearest Crest. In and out in 4 minutes. Literally. And the store was spotlessly clean and the help was friendly -- at Midnight. No more Wal-Mart. Ever.

[metro]

So back to the original topic. No, I don't think any of the other Crest's are known as a "Fresh Market". I'm anxious to see if this is a new concept they are trying out that will be similar to an HEB.

[bombermwc]

Definitely interesting to see what's different there. They've been pushing to bring the look of the stores up from where they were with all the remodeling. Maybe they got tired of their look being compared to their prices....cheap. LOL.

#2 in MWC has some retail, but it's not like the wally world super center type stuff like Edmond or like this new one. But they did build "Cherry Center" at the #2 location, which is owned by Crest even though it's not attached...it's just next door. It's a small strip center that is mostly office space rather then retail. Inside #2 there is the normal pharmacy, flower shop, and cell place. But they're all pretty small.

So to me it looks like they just decided to combine all their ideas they've had into a single facility from the start instead of adding them as they go, like they have at previous places.

[SWOKC 4 me]

As I drove by today, I noticed that it looks like they have started moving dirt and clearing the property for this. I also noticed a billboard on I-44 that said opening Spring 2010!

[Watson410]

Yeah almost all their stores have some sort of retail in them, besides the one on Reno/Air Depot. They really need to do something with that store. All the other Crest stores are just "Crest Foods" not "Crest Fresh Market". We do most all their plumbing work on EVERYTHING they own..Stores, Strip malls, houses, etc... so I'm in pretty good with the Owners (Nick and Cherry), I'll talk to them within the next week and see whats going to be different about the "Crest Fresh Market".

[SouthsideSooner]

I've talked to the Crest people about this store and have been told that it will be more upscale than most of their stores with the Edmond store being the best comparison...

[bunchakids]

I ventured into a Wal-Mart Supercenter late last night. Can't believe I did it. It confirmed everything I hate about that company. It took me an hour and a half to get out of that diseased hellhole. Then, on the way home, I realized I had forgotten something. So I stopped at the nearest Crest. In and out in 4 minutes. Literally. And the store was spotlessly clean and the help was friendly -- at Midnight. No more Wal-Mart. Ever.

totally agree, We have sworn off wal mart for a couple of years now and ONLY shop for groceries at crest.

[andimthomas]

This is exciting. I hate traveling across the interstate to go to Crest.

[SoonerDave]

That Spring 2010 sign may be optimistic; my first understanding was that they planned to start construction back in March, but land-purchase red tape delayed matters until now. The last time I talked to a manager @ Crest about it, they said construction was going to take right at a year, so opening by next March or thereabouts might be pushing things.

No matter. Glad to have them; they should be good neighbors, and we desperately need a grocery store as an alternative to Neighborhood WalSlum (which, incidentally, is remodeling, and will apparently end up with even *less* selection then they have now, which I didn't think was mathematically possible).

[storybookmom]

I am so excited about the new Crest Grocery Store on SW 104th & May. It will be so convenient! It is about time they build a new grocery store over here. Homeland is too expensive and Walmart is a nightmare. I look forward to the new store and I hope that they will build more retail over in this area. A Barnes & Noble would be nice in this area as well.

[mark]

i can't wait till this crest opens. i live in mustang and we plan on going to crest for our weekly shopping trip. right now i walk around walmart muttering "i hate this f'n store"

[linze]

I went to the Crest store on North Rockwell today and actually saw an artist's drawing of what the new store will look like. I should've took a picture. But from what I could tell it really looked "upscale" and if anyone is familiar with the Central Market's in Plano, Dallas, or Southlake, Texas. It really reminds me of that. In my opinion it will really look great and perfect for that area.

[Thunder]

I don't think they should call it "Market". When I think of that word, the meaning to me comes as "small".

[oneforone]

I drove buy there today and the earth work is in progress.

[mireaux]

i heard that during the grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony there will be lots of balloons and a guy dressed up in a caricature stuffed costume resembling ole Nick Harroz himself.

[mireaux]

Definitely interesting to see what's different there. They've been pushing to bring the look of the stores up from where they were with all the remodeling. Maybe they got tired of their look being compared to their prices....cheap. LOL.

#2 in MWC has some retail, but it's not like the wally world super center type stuff like Edmond or like this new one. But they did build "Cherry Center" at the #2 location, which is owned by Crest even though it's not attached...it's just next door. It's a small strip center that is mostly office space rather then retail. Inside #2 there is the normal pharmacy, flower shop, and cell place. But they're all pretty small.

So to me it looks like they just decided to combine all their ideas they've had into a single facility from the start instead of adding them as they go, like they have at previous places.

i hate the way the mwc store on douglas looks after they remodeled it a few years ago...looks like Old Navy inside there with the steel light pole at each cash register. I dont go in there anymore cause of that.

[andimthomas]

At the Moore location, they had a row of black tinted windows running across the front of the building. About one or two years ago, they sealed up the windows. With white cement. It always bothers me because there isn't really a point to it. And it looks horrible.

[Watson410]

i hate the way the mwc store on douglas looks after they remodeled it a few years ago...looks like Old Navy inside there with the steel light pole at each cash register. I dont go in there anymore cause of that.

LMAO!! Wow!! Sounds like a lame reason to not go to the grocery store...

[kevinpate]

Just be glad there are grocers in town to go to and the choices are growing.
In one much bigger city elsewhere, you now:

- have to leave town to buy a Chrysler or a Jeep.
- Borders Inc. no longer exists in the city
- Starbucks Corp., famous for saturating U.S. cities has only four left in a city
of 900,000
- No national grocery chain operates a store in the city.

Any ills we may have in Oklahoma in general and OKC metro in particular pale in comparison to the 11th largest city - Detroit.

I doubt I'll be shopping as far north as 104th and may, but who knows, maybe grabbing something on the eve drive home will make sense. It's not that far off my path