Best grocery store in town. Convenient and easy to get in-and-out. Best meat department, with highest quality and excellent service. Best prices day in and day out. Fairway brand items are high quality. Overall service is unmatched by anyone. Considering price, quality and service this is the best grocery store around, hands down!

One of the best stores to get fresh meats and produce, they also have the best customer services in the industry. Everyone Ive met at every location is helpful with a genuine sense of professionalism. If you dont know about fareway then you should definitely make it the place to get all your groceries for the family. They have so many sales that change frequently so its a great idea to join in their online sales/rewards program as well. 10/10

I went to this store early one morning and the manager was picking up trash in the parking lot and pulling weeds. When I checked out the young lady asked the manager if she should call someone to bag. He said no that he had bagged a few groceries in his day. Wish I knew his name...what great guy

Clean well organized store, helpful friendly staff. good prices great produce

Excellent friendly staff! Really appreciate employees who are happy to help you.

Customer service and prices are good, selection can be lacking at time. The meat counter is the thing they do best.

It was five stars with great, super helpful staff before building the new store. Now that its new, I dont grocery shop anywhere else! It doesnt matter what department of the store Im in, if I have a question, it gets answered quickly and helpfully. This hold doubly true for the meat counter (but what else do you expect from Fareway).

I want to thank this nice young lady for paying the difference on my groceries. Yall have the best staff ever. Greatly appreciated.

The Fareway in downtown Ames is a good place for groceries and deals. But dont count on it for your special recipie. While they have a good variety for staples the selection for bread spices and seafood is limited. For example, I often want pretzel buns for burgers but these are rarely available here. Fresh basil, too, is often hard to find in their aisles. Despite this, Fareway is great for most weekly grocery needs and their prices are good. Lastly, while it considerate of them to bag your groceries, they do not make it easy to bag your own if thats what you prefer. The short checkout lanes and tight quarters make it awkward to go between the baggage area and the till, especially if you have a cart. The workers are friendly but usually not personable.

I wanted to share about a very positive experience I had at the meat department on Saturday. The man cutting my meat went above and beyond cutting the steaks exactly how I wanted them, matching a competitor ad, and educating me on their meat and the quality of their meat. I always look for value and this exceeded my expectations. I have been shopping at Fareway for years but this was one of the best experiences I had ever had. Hats off to the downtown Ames meat department.SincerelyOne very happy customer

The store was awesome and very clean

Very nicely organized store and very clean. The staff are super caring and friendly. Perfect size for a grocery store too. Love trying all the new meat recipes from the meat counter.

Always the best grocery prices in town, and a meat counter that is second to none.

A good experience. A young eagerly assisted me with locating a product that I wasnt able to. Good choice in employees.

I live two blocks from Fareway circa 1987-1993 when a student at ISU, during the Jim Walden/Johnny Orr era when the football team was a laugh riot. Sad to see the old store demolished, but at least the store remains. A mainstay of a bygone era.

Its been very nice always!

Nice new and large store with a wide variety of food.

Helpful staff and good selections

Ames is lucky to have two amazing Fareway stores. Love that they are rarely out of stock on anything and the meat department is stellar!

I found this store to very clean, organized and full of good deals. The staff has been nice and friendly. Its a good store .

Lots of great bargains. Very clean store. Great customer service.

Person taking my groceries to car didnt even tell me to have a good day like i did to him after thanking him. I know to day is July 10th, macaroni and pea salad was dated today but it tasted awful

Very nice store clean and big aisles to move down and up. Large meat counter. Friendly staff.

Maybe you shouldnt move everything around. You see, when you do, people like us tend to go to Hy Vee. Customers like to go to the spot where the items have been in the past. Normally this happens when a new manager starts.

Store is nicely laid out. Staff is friendly. Everything was nice and clean

It is a awesome new store. The staff is always so friendly and helpful.

Jonathan is a peach! Very helpful! Nice, clean, well-stocked store!

The Fareway on Stange is a lot more friendlier. Not one employee smiled or said hi to me. I dont care for the parking lot. Out of several items. Overall not a great experience. Will continue to drive over to Stange Fareway.

Fareway is my go-to grocery for meat, and they have pretty much everything you need. I love their courtesy service where someone helps you to your car with the groceries. It makes life so much easier, especially for someone wrangling young children, or otherwise might need a hand. This location is an older one, and the carts are low and deep. I prefer the newer carts at other store.

Its a wonderful store. Not so large that you cant find things. Prices are reasonable. They still hire high school kids to carry your groceries to the car. Its a real Iowa treasure.

I have shopped here for years, and the meat counter had been great overall.Over the summer, I got several packages of beer brats when I ordered regular brats, but I worked trough that.Today, I bought a couple of steaks, including. Sirloin strip, to grill for dinner. 2.5 hours of being in frig after purchase and I unwrapped it to add spices before grilling. Steak was a dark gray throughout.Needless to say, I took it back to the store. I expected an apology and a new steak.Instead I got an attitude at the meat counter from a young kid who insisted dark gray is the perfect color for a steak. He then decided to mock me when I wanted it returned.Long story short, I left the steak and my money at the store. And, I am leaving you this message to say this place isnt as great as it used to be...

This is a smaller Fareway but a new store in the same location is coming. It has all the basics and an excellent meat counter but the produce section is somewhat limited. Friendly service without feeling forced round out the experience.

Excellent grocery store with friendly service.

Friday, 6/5, I called for the availability of an item. The young lady who took my call let me know the item was in and the location in the aisle. Thank you

I really like Fareway stores. Their prices are as good or better than other places, their meat counter is absolutely the best and they still carry out your groceries. You cant do better than that.

Good place to shop

Very good shop at fareway for years

Meat counter is awesome 👌. The service and checkout is lame at best👎.

Love the new store and is very easy to shop.

A great discount grocer. Smaller selection than Hy vee but much better prices. Great meat counter. Staff is outstanding.

Had it all and with great prices. I got help twice, and love that they load my car old school. Its great.

This is the grocery stop local shop at for prices and service. This is a grocery store without all the added fluff that wastes most peoples time. Be sure to check out the meet department for the freshest cuts in town. Fareway is open till 9:00 pm Monday - Saturday. Closed Sundays!!

Helpful mask not mandatory yea

This is where the locals shop. Much better prices than other grocery stores. Carry out service is always nice too!

I walked into fairway with the intent to buy coffee ice cream, to my horror the only option I could find was sweet cream espresso mocha which I was not about! I looked for someone to help me. Though I did have to compromise my needs and desires or java chip I went home happy because I discovered how impressive the cheese selection was! It aint easy being cheesy buy yall are doing a gouda job of it!

As far as Im concerned number one grocery store in the Ames area. People are friendly. Theres definitely a smile on every Isle in fairway. The prices are the best in town.

This store is clean and managed well.

Awesome workers and great help!!!

Classic supermarket. Great produce and prices. Meat counter is quite popular.

Amazingly clean and organized

Nice store

Its great. The cars machines werent working. The service and reaponse time was fast and effective. 4 stars because there is always room for improvement.

I was discriminated when I checked out using 10 dollars coupon, the girl said: “I hate this!” In front of my face, at the end because some of her mistake operation, I can only get 7.6 dollars off. She even didn’t explain anything to me until I came back to found it!Is there any fault to use coupons there??!!I got so disappointed and anger with her attitude, it’s so terrible! Hope someone can see this, be careful. You may be despised too if you are trying to save money or using coupons there!

The Downtown Ames Fareway is my favorite grocery store.

This is the best place to get meat by far. Prices better than other grocery store.

Great place, will be even better as they build the new store.

Great prices. Helpful people. Best meat counter in Ames!

Fresh meat and vegetables. The staff are always helpful and usually help customers move groceries to their cars. Thumb up

Great neighborhood grocery store. Excellent meat counter. Excellent service.

Fareway has the best meat of any grocery in town, hands down. They match prices on competitor ads. They arent huge, but have all the essentials.

The staff is always friendly and polite. Low prices, and an excellent meat counter!

Very friendly. I like shopping Fareway, the meat is amazing, the people are nice and its a brand I trust. Plus, bigger stores are overwhelming, and not well staffed.

Brand new store is beautiful!

The Best

The old Fareway is my store! Staff are friendly and helpful. Many know me by name. My only wish is that there was a FW closer to my home.

Fareway has the best overall food prices in Ames. They also have the highest quality meat cuts.

Awesome store awesome manager

New store is very nice!

I love the meat counter at Fareway. Their produce is also fabulous.

Clean friendly good prices nice grocery store

An older Fareway store but with great meat department and a pretty good variety of items.

Fast and efficient and friendly

Great old fashion service with good prices !

Smaller Iowa-based grocery chain. Its the closest grocery store to any place in downtown or old Ames. Not a bad place to get food, especially if you go with the weekly ad sales.

As always 5 stars and a extremely nice manager Gary!!

I love the Fareway Meat Department!!! Always fresh amazing choices.

I love this store easy to find things and very polite and helpful employees.

Great meat and produce! Friendly, knowledgeable staff.

This is the best store for friendly customer service.

Great place to get groceries at an affordable price

This is a great place to shop. The workers are friendly and willing to help!

Love the meat. Love the service. Love the staff.

Staff very very friendly and helpful not just one but all will go back just for the friendly environment

Great store ! not as cheep as Aldies

Have been shopping at this Fareway location for over 30 years. It is a great place to shop.

Great prices and best meats counter.

Great prices... occasionally have to go to hyvee for one or two items

Real customer service, very helpful.

Always great service at the downtown store

A real meat counter, small store with great prices. A grocery you can run in and get milk and be out in minutes.

Excellent!!

Pleased everytime I go...

It was good

Its been our go-to place for 23+ years. Especially the meat Dept!

Compare other store, this is a mid level, cheaper than Hyvee but little bit higher than ALDY.

Well stocked and employees are helpful and friendly

I really wish they wouldnt put my milk and bread in the same bag.

Best place in town for groceries

Great service all over.

Excellent.