Cardenas Market, which is described as a Mexican-focused supermarket, is moving into the old Safeway building at 2250 Monument Blvd. in Concord.
The supermarket chain currently has about 11 stores around the Bay Area, including Pittsburg, Vallejo, Oakland, San Rafael and San Jose.
The building has been vacant since Safeway closed in 2012.
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WOW! How surprising is that?
They use to be Mi Pueblo. Pretty good meat selection.
Just looked on yelp…most stores 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 stars…
It’s about time something moved in there
Yelp reviews for other Cardenas Markets are NOT good.
Neither is Safeway. I’ve gone to Cardenas in Pittsburg and I found it perfectly fine with a really good meat selection. Most yelp reviews are completely useless.
That’s great, that area has been a ghost town
In Texas we had Fiesta, which had a lot of international foods. Was fun to go there just to see and hear all the people and the different foods.
They’re actually pretty good.
Great! When leaving Big Lots the other day I wondered why it was still vacant. Such an eyesore!
Hmmm…I’ve never heard of Cardenas, but I’m pretty much a basic Safeway shopper. I look forward to venturing in and seeing what it’s like, especially since there are very mixed reviews! I’m really glad something is going in there, though, because sometimes my brain goes into a time warp and I pull into that driveway expecting to see Safeway and see the empty lot and get jarred back into reality. It sucks getting old!
This will probably hurt all the mom and pop markets on Monument like Los Rancheros.
Maybe not. In Pittsburg La Superior is just up the street from them and they are still doing about the same as before Mi Pueblo came in and even after it became Cardenas. Both are good stores.
I don’t pay attention to Yelp reviews and don’t give any to Yelp.
Oh man! I would love for this to be true. Taqueria! Fresh fruit and veg.
But mostly, I love that parking lot. I really miss the Safeway that was there.
They’ve already hired a security guard for the parking lot
The Security Guard does not need no sticking badges.
I had visited the Mi Pueblo (now Cardenas) once a few years ago and remember finding things I couldn’t find anywhere else. During check out they spoke to me in Spanish, which I only have a basic understanding, but I was able to get by. I had never went back, so I don’t know what it’s like now.
I tried to teach myself spanish for a while. At the self checkout register in the grocery store. Lol
This is awesome news! I cant wait to go there!
I loved Mi Pueblo!! If Cardenas is comparable I’m gonna be a happy camper! Steaming (literally) hot off the press tortillas, great meat dept., delicious pastries in the bakery…..mmmmmmm…..
We loved Mi Pueblo too.. they really had a lot of good stuff in there. It’s harder to find good local meat markets. Las Montañas in Park n Shop is great, and the Asian store in Park n Shop Used to be super good, but they’ve done away with the in store butchers, and their prices more than doubled. I hope this place can hold a candle to Mi Pueblo. They sure have a great space if I rememb.er correctly.
Business owners in the Monument corridor went to the city council regarding this. They opposed it, feeling it will hurt their businesses. If you are going to shop this new store, please also continue to support the smaller established businesses in the area. I’d hate to see them lose money, layoff employees or go out of business. Personally, we don’t plan to give this store our business as we like the existing store and food choices.
I really agree with your concern but there is something you forgot to mention I leave in the monument area for 14 years and day by day I see the prices on those markets are going up so sometimes I even go to the Pittsburg store to try to save some money like las Montana’s market I like those stores a lot I always shop there for my grocery’s en evriting but there prices are so ridiculos specialty for people like me with the low income family but we don’t have other choice becouse it’s close to us and there us people they don’t drive so they said CARDENAS have really good a fair prices so I’m exited for this to come soon I will keep supporting my lil stores Arrownd me but I will look for my own good . Thank you and good luck for everyone .
Sounds like great news and a good fit for the area….however, the chronic
problem that never get’s fixed is that ridiculous driveway jutting out from the “Super Station” which causes the merging and un-merging from 3 lanes to 2 and back to 3. File a damn eminent domain, pay the owner a reasonable amount and fix that…20+ years is long enough to put up with this
i like the cafeteria a t cardenas, but look i went to oakland one i order a plate to eat there it took 20 minutes to get it ,and 20 min to pay i had to make 2 lines ,when i got the foood .it was so cold ,so i ask to warm up my plate they we dont do that,am not goin there again,,and a new one for what???? to play with people and take therir money
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