Best of the Northland

Mount Royal Market

Locally owned and operated, Customer service and quality are the mainstays of Mount Royal. It boasts a first class deli and sushi, soup and salad bars. Gorgeous housewares, plates and place settings, candles, plants and cut flowers. Upscale. Clean. Large produce section, butchers stand on the ready to custom cut your meat, staff are share samples of produce, and like the co-op, Mt Royal does a good job showcasing and selling local products. Clean-cut baggers and drive-up service hearken back to the good ol’ days. Steven Shadewald, who’s been with Mt. Royal since 1962 (given his youthful appearance, it seems he must have been has if he must been two-or-three years old when he started working there! ) offered, “It all started with Bud Thorpe who opened the original Mt. Royal Grocery in 1962. The original location is where the Mt. Royal Public Library is currently located. The culture has never changed. I worked for Bud as a ‘Carry Out.’ He taught me to value our customers. Nowadays, as always, we build our crews within a culture of cooperation. Our customers have always been our top priority; we listen carefully to them. We’ve always been attentive to our customers and will even start carrying specific items and products they request. We would like to thank our customers again for acknowledging and appreciating our efforts. We’ll try to do even better next year!”

Runner Up: Whole Foods Co-op