Sevananda Natural Foods Market

Category:	Natural Foods Store
Address:	467 Moreland Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA
Phone:	+1 404-681-2831
Site:	sevananda.coop
Rating:	4.5
Working:	8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM

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A Private User

Sevananda has expanded recently and added to their hot bar, soup bar, cheeses, and a salad bar. They have a huge selection of health and beauty products, vitamins, supplements, herbs and a reference section for periodicals and books on wellness, lifestyle and healing. Sevananda is an outstanding resource for vegans/vegetarians and the health conscious alike, and frequently has a lot of the same grocery product offerings as Whole Foods -- minus the animal products -- with a substantial difference in price. Sevanandas produce is extra fresh, wonderfully flavorful and locally grown. Since the store is a co-operative focused on vegetarian and vegan foods that are locally grown, there are some differences between Whole Foods and Sevananda. Vegetarians and vegans will be happy to know that they wont have to "walk through the meat and seafood department" just to get to the tofu pups, nor will they have to endlessly scour labels for hidden sources of animal products in the food items sold at Sevananda...during a shopping excursion about a year ago, I confronted a sign while buying ice cream that stated something like "Tofutti Cuties have white sugar in them. They are the ONLY product in the store that contains white (refined) sugar, and may not adhere to strict vegetarian standards." Since many vegans and vegetarians have the additional inconvenience of investigating the ingredients of all food products, Sevananda makes shopping considerably easier . It is also easier on the pocket. For example, Sweetgrass Dairys products are sold in both Whole Foods and Sevananda, but Whole Foods prices are roughly 65% higher for the same items than Sevananda (this is just one example, another could be bread or various other products offered by each store). In these hard times, it is difficult to ignore the outstanding value and quality offered by Sevananda. I strongly recommend giving them a try...

A Private User

I agree with other posts that this place has terrible customer service. Employees there have a really "self-righteous" attitude that is tolerable for all of about 3 minutes. They could be giving away pure gold in there and I would not go, just because the employees are so miserable to be around. They should dedicate more time to training their staff, or hire staff who expend at least half their brain power to do their job. It is as if everyone there is high, all the time... To make matters worse, they hire someone FULL TIME to stand outside and run people off who park outside the store. That would be ok if that person could judge between a person abusing the parking lot and a person who is actually shopping in their store. No, no, no...do not try to drop a letter in the postal box next door - some spaced-out employee will return to Earth just long enough to order you to leave. When you explain that you are going to their store, but just want to drop a letter in the box, he will say -- Go-on now...u doin the rait thang...yiuh...u know it...u doin the rait thang -- and he will just keep repeating this over and over as if he cannot understand English until finally you give up, LEAVE your parking space, DRIVE onto the road, mail your letter, then BACK UP and return to the parking lot. Im not kidding. The post office is literally RIGHT NEXT DOOR, yet they will not let you walk to it. I can understand them not wanting people to park there and then just wander around Little 5 (must have become a problem when the famous skull restaurant got greedy and decided to charge for parking). But to mail a letter? I think thats a little extreme. I am never going back again. The employees are just way too rude. Good food at better prices and with at least some semblance of customer service can be had elsewhere.

A Private User

This store operates under such a positive concept - yet its good vibes are ruined by employees who treat honest customers as shoplifting suspects. As someone who has never even considered shoplifting, I am insulted by overly-suspicious employees who give me odd, excessive gazes as Im going about the innocent business of being a FULLY-paying customer at their store. And are we not supposed to know whats going on when employees seem to "mysteriously" show up in our aisle (or some other nearby area) - supposedly because they feel the sudden urge to "straighten up" already-straight shelves, or force an overly-loud conversation with a co-worker? Contrary to what they may want to think - you do not have to be a shoplifter to realize when you are being treated like a shoplifter. I find it hard to believe that the supposedly compassionate, socially-conscious people of the Sevananda community can unabashedly treat people like this. You would think these people would be capable of having insight into what it does to people to be wrongly assumed to be dishonest, and treated accordingly. I mean - do they not care about the strong possibility that the customer whom they are confronting with their gazes, or rushing to "straighten shelves" next to, is completely innocent? The degrading atmosphere of treating fully-paying customers as thieves takes this store from 4 stars to 2 stars - and its possible that Im being generous. The other star I knocked off is due to their prices not exactly being friendly to ones budget.

Johnny Dewitt

I have been driving by this place off and on for years. I finally decided to just stop by one day. Im so happy that I did. I stopped by there to find some Irish Moss that a coworker was looking for, and that was just my excuse to go. When I went in the store, I was pleasantly surprised. The store is not a large store, but it obviously serves a variety of people, which I love. Most of all I was able to find a sizeable selection of the Pure Castile Soap that I love. Needless to say, I am definitely hooked now. I will not look for the Pure Castile Soap anywhere else. Surprisingly that prices, were a little less than I found online, which I was happy about. I bought a few other items which were very interesting, which I have never seen at any other store. Also, each time I have been, the cashiers are extremely pleasant and move rather rapidly. If you or someone you know is looking for a good natural food store. This is the place. Just beware, at times, the parking lot can get a little crowded and getting our of there can be a little tricky at times, depending upon the traffic. Otherwise, I have enjoyed each and every visit to this store thus far and I intend to continue going as long as they are open.

Tiffy Sinclair

My family has been shopping here for years! The place was wonderful up to the beginning of this year 2013. The deli food went down drastically and they have stopped carrying a lot of items! Ive been checking constantly in the vitamin section and the shelves are bare. And its been several months. Ive been looking for some chewable multivitamins and they just dont have them anymore. Im wondering if the store is in financial difficulty. They still have some good items and I will still continue to shop here. I just will have to go to Return to Eden, Whole Foods or another local health food store. Because we have to travel all the way from Henry County to shop here. And its disappointing to walk in a store and they not have the essential items that you need. Sometimes customer service can be bad and the employees can be very rude. Did I mention the restrooms are terrible? They need to be remodeled. "BE WARNED" if you need to use the restroom they require to hold your drivers license or any form of identification just to use restroom. So make sure youve gone to a restroom before you get there.