r/berkeleybowl

I never get cereal or paper goods there. Anything else that’s a particularly bad deal at the Bowls?

The single most important thing for making shopping at the Oregon Street store tolerable is never parking in the parking lot. It does mean I’m limited to what I can carry for a block, or what fits in my bike bags, but it’s such a better experience! I don’t have grocery store road rage anymore. What’s your one simple trick for making the bowl work for you?

Hi -

Just wondering if anyone has actually done the math on bulk vs. prepackaged items in terms of cost per ounce or some other metric? Are there items I should always be buying in bulk? Anything I should compare because it’s sometimes cheaper on sale packaged out in the aisles? I bought some muesli yesterday that was a bulk item prepackaged by BB, and it seem to be a better deal than any box of muesli I could have gotten in the cereal aisle, but I didn’t go and check.

They got rid of these delicious little creatures from the bulk section a few years ago at least. I assumed because they didn’t meet a particular standard of The Bowl (god only knows what’s in them).

However I bought some Pub Snack Mix from bulk (related - they did away with the hard plastic containers in bulk and only have plastic bags now) and to my surprise saw the mix had the whales in it again. I looked and they have a bulk dispenser of them too.

I’m not tripping, right? The whales WERE in fact gone and now they’re back??

Hi everyone,

The last few times I went to Berkeley bowl, there was no chili crisp on the shelves. There was certainly no Lao Gan Ma (my favorite).

Has anyone else had this experience? Does anyone know what’s wrong?

I know I can run to 99 ranch and stock up, but it’s kind of a drive.

why are they always out of it!!!!!!!!