Been oing to this store for 6 years. The food safety has fallen dramatically in last 9 months.
July 10- bought 10 pounds of ribs- Bad/botulism ridden
12/23/10- Bought a fresh 23 pound turkey that I had ordered and picked up on 12/23/10- opened up on 12/24 to cook for 10 people. Bad again-botulism ridden.
This store has serious food safety issues. In 30 plus years I have never had so much bad product from 1 store as this one.
Another embarassing issue, and no food to serve guests on a holiday AGAIN.

I frequent Fresh Market several times a week. One of my favorite deli dishes is the sun-dried tomato pasta. After eating a dish of this pasta for lunch one day, I discovered a gray curly hair in the bottom of the container. I do not have gray curly hair. I saved the container to show to management. A week later I purhased the same dish for lunch and upon eating it, I began choking. I extracted a 9" long plastic cord from my mouth! So I took both containers into Fresh Market and asked for management. A new famale manager was on duty, Glenda, I think was her name. When I told her my story and showed her the evidence, she raised her eyebrows. No apology of any sort was offered. Then I told her that I would not be buying from her deli in the future. I mentioned that I had witnessed an employee stuffing his mouth with chicken while working in the deli area. She asked for a description and told me that he had been fired. Then I brought to her attention that I had surveyed the store and had witnessed an employee bagging unwrapped candy with her bare hands. The manager said, "No, our employees always use gloves." I suggested that we walk to the candy counter. There was the employee dishing up unwrapped candy with her bare hands! No remark from the manager. Then I asked if Fresh Market did not require deli employees to cover their hair. This was her reply: "Our home office does not allow our employees to wear hair covers." This market is suppose to be upscale, i.e. overpriced food, so I suppose a hair net is not in keeping with the upscale image. This I will report to my local health department. Had the manager shown any concern or voiced an intent to remedy the situation, I would have been satisfied. But she did not, so to the health department I will go with a complaint. This is the 2nd "hair" in food incident I have had in a month in the Mobile, Al area. Perhaps I should take the time to cook my own food!!!