Papaya Fresh International Marketplace

The best dates in town

Be careful when you buy from this location a lot of items are expired

They have halal meat

I got a shawarma and I loved it. if your a saucey person like me, ask for a side of their sauce because I feel like they didn't put enough of it but the flavor is bomb. Great prices too! 😁

Always buy goat feet

Fresh bakery
Delicious arabic bread
Nice people
Low price produce

Best bread 🥯

Cannot beat the meat

Very good food in shawarma corner

Amazing selection and very courteous helpful staff. Highly recommend stopping by the bakery and the Shawarma shop in the back corner.

Best hummus in Fresno and the pita bread is baked fresh all day

Great middle eastern supermarket

My family and friends used to spend a lot of money doing most of our groceries shopping at Papaya store, but no more. We will never set foot back in this horrible place.

Papaya’s owner/manager is the rudest person I have ever encountered, he is always so loud, so sour and so angry for no reason and it seems his job is to make sure the store loses its customers and it is working because compared to two years ago they have lost a large number of their customers because of the following:

1) Low quality products instead of high quality ones they used to sell. For example, they now are selling fake rice made of plastic instead of basmati rice and when I brought it up to their attention and told them that I tested that particular rice and it burnt with a plastic smell, they just dismissed it saying it is impossible.

2) They sell expired food. I had told the staff that they shouldn’t place expired packagings and food on their shelves, but they dismissed it, referring me to their manager/owner. The angry manager said, “some people don’t mind buying expired food because it’s still good, and these expiry dates don’t mean anything.”

3) The packaged Bulgarian and Feta cheese are moldy inside and you can’t see it until you open it and the manager/owner doesn’t take it back for a refund even within a few hours of purchase and with a receipt.

4) Since they have lost so many customers, their fruits, vegetables and meat are not selling as well as before so all is moldy, dry, old, and unsafe for consumption.

5) Higher prices that are raised on a daily or weekly basis. They have a sign on their door that they cannot raise the prices legally more than 10%. I have no idea why such a sign should ever be posted when they don’t abide by it. We went to buy some goat leg meat last week and the price was $10.99 per pound. This week, we went back, and asked whether they had any in stock because they didn’t have any on their fridge display at the butcher shop area, the manager/owner who is always rude and angry said in a humiliating tone, “What is goat leg?” And after we repeated ourselves and explained to him, he said,”$11.99 per pound.” We told him we purchased it last week for $10.99 per pound. He said, “go back to where you got it!” When we said we bought it at their store, he said, “Well, today it’s $11.99 per pound, not happy? Go away!” So without saying anything we left the store and left our full cart behind and we will never set foot in that store again.

In a way, this encounter prompted my family to find a much better butcher shop nearby that has the best customer service ever and has the freshest meat in town, and best of all it’s all kosher and halal too. The blessings of a successful business depends on knowing how to treat the customers. Papaya is not a customer oriented shop and that’s why they are losing all their customers.

They have middle eastern groceries. Their food court serves fresh desserts and shawarma. I really like the food.

Place is dirty and messy