May 12, 2025 If you have been to our market recently, you probably noticed that we have been getting a lot of flowers from Trader Joe’s, including bouquets of flowers and potted flowers. One of our young market shoppers used these for a competition.

May 6, 2025 One of our partner organizations asked us if we were interested in a foam playhouse for kids. It was still in the box and had never been put together. Our answer to these questions is always yes.

April 27, 2025 Did you ever wonder how all that food gets to the market? Well, it is a combination of art and organization. It’s a bit like playing Tetris in some cases and in others, well it’s more like the art of creating a clown car of food.

April 21, 2025 Grocery Outlet has been doing inventory rotations again. We talked to the management and we arranged to get ALL of it.

April 13, 2025 This week we have some new additions to our market. First, we have multiple cases of hot sauce. The hot sauce bottles are small, but they all have a bit of a kick.

April 6, 2025 It’s going to be another good week for our markets. We have a special offer to a family or families that could use these. As always, everything here is free.

April 3, 2025 Grocery Outlet in El Cajon gave us more Lucky Charms than we ever thought we would get. You all stepped up and helped us find a home for almost 200 pounds of Lucky Charms.

March 30, 2025 As most of you know from shopping our market, we have grown significantly in the past six months. We have more veterans and even more families coming to our markets. With this growth, we continue to work to make Serving Good markets a place that everyone wants to visit.

March 24, 2025 This week we have a lot of shelf-stable products for our Pantry section. As always, we also have our complete range of food available. Remember to use our bag concierge service if your bag gets too heavy. We will store your bag while you finish shopping.

March 20, 2025 “What is THAT?”…That is the question we heard the most at this week’s market when people pointed at this tag attached to some produce. The answer is obvious by the tag that reads “Kohlrabi”. But what is it?

March 17, 2025 Hello and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! We are excited to see you this week. We will have a lot of food this week, including a lot of eggs. There is also no rain in the forecast. That means…it’s time for another raffle.

March 9, 2025: Welcome back and thank you for checking the messages page. Please know we are expecting rain again on Tuesday. We’ve got you covered though, literally. The enclosed patio will be available to wait for the market.

March 4, 2025:  Thank you for checking the messages page. Welcome back! We will have a really good market on Tuesday and Wednesday. We are making more pick ups and have even more food.

February 24, 2025 Grocery Outlet in El Cajon has been a great supporter of our market. The store has been very supportive of our markets and is running promotions that benefit our market shoppers.

February 11, 2025 Thank you for checking the messages page. We have more large pieces of meat for our raffle this week. We also expect rain on Wednesday and the enclosed patio is available for shoppers.

February 4, 2025: We are back this week with even more food, including lots of eggs, produce, and meat. Our raffles last week were so much fun, we decided to do it again. Come join us Tuesday and Wednesday for some fun, shopping, and camaraderie.

January 28, 2025 We will have two great markets this week from the food we have to our raffles. This week we have two raffles. To participate in the raffles, continue reading.

January 14, 2025 We have A LOT of chocolate this week. We had a partner give us so much chocolate along with all of our other food. We will give all of it away at our markets this week.

January 7, 2025 We have a wonderful surprise. We have a great variety of food with lots of produce and prepared food. The surprise is that we have more flowers than you can imagine.

December 30, 2024 Our markets are open year-round, including Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. This year we have a special market with plenty of food for everyone. We made special efforts to pick up food for everyone.