Common Ground Grocery

Friendly staff always helps to make recommendations that quickly become favorites.

We love getting our coffee and honey from here but we also have grabbed tea, spices, and more

I love the convenience of being downtown Bloomington meeting my needs on niche items I can’t locate at normal stores. They have great biodegradable bags and pet waste bags (I use for cat litter scooping) in the cleaning dry goods section. I love getting eggs, oat milk, and snacks here! And they are open to looking into specific items for you as well to add to their list. I tried a snack food here once call The Good Crisp (healthy version of Pringles) and they were AMAZING! it’s fun to just look around at different things you wouldn’t normally think about getting. I definitely recommend stopping by!

I am very happy this store is around. I have been trying to get more acquainted with herbs and homeopathic remedies. I also needed to help calm my cat. I got help with both! I will definitely be frequenting this shop often!

Great little store with a great selection. Staff is very friendly! A lot of healthy options. You should definitely check this place out!

Such an incredible shop with a variety of things! My husband and I love to shop here for all the vegan goodies, many that we often struggle to find elsewhere.

My family absolutely adores Common Ground. We visit every weekend to see what new vegan treats await! Some weekends there are donuts up by the front counter! I love the selection and healthy foods that common ground carries! Definitely stop in and make it a regular stop!

Very helpful staff with a good knowledge of what is sold throughout the store. Nice selection of herbs and spices with some locally sourced item like fresh Honey. They will donate to charity if you bring your own bag/don't take a bag after checkout. This is done by the staff giving you a bean to put into a charity jar of your choice. There is an area to sit by the window if you need some time to relax or wait on loved ones as they shop. Definitely worth the stop of you are in the downtown Bloomington area.

This is a wonderful local grocery store. Great selection of loose leaf teas. While some items are more expensive than big box stores, they certainly have the best prices when it comes to tofu and honey, among others. If you're a vegetarian or vegan, this locally owned store is totally worth spending sometime looking around! Highly recommend!

Love this place. High shelves & bulk bins allow them to have great selection in one of the smallest grocery stores I’ve ever visited. Don’t be deterred, you can find anything you need here and if they don’t stock it they will order for you if possible. Helpful, friendly, and knowledgeable staff. I’ve been a customer for 9 years and have always enjoyed my visits, I actually look forward to shopping here unlike stressful big box stores. It’s a true gem and one of the coolest small businesses around.

Great place to find local natural products. Offers a large selection of vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free items. Love the bulk sections! And you can get a quick wrap to eat on the go :) Located in scenic downtown Bloomington.

It's a lovely little grocery store with natural items and quite a few vegan options. Very polite staff.

Looking for a few different ingredients. Lua was so helpful over the phone. She offered to bag up what I needed having it ready for when I had someone else pick up items! Appreciate this place and all they offer.

If your reading reviews it's probably because you're from out of town and looking for a good co-op/organic style store? Well Common Ground is trying to be what you want. The best way to describe it is tiny. The staff is friendly and the selection is as large as the space allows. They have a good selection of local products and a few bulk items too.

The store could benefit from a doubling of the square footage and selection, but it's hard to do that as a small private store. Their best option might be to form a Co-Op. but that's neither here nor there, you should give them a try. And then drive out to HyVee for the usual national organic food brands.

I love the different natural drink, a lot of natural foods, natural meds, and friendly bosses and workers, plus you can recycle their too, also when you use your own bag you get a pea that is worth 5 cents and put it in one of many jars that help local services that help kids, family, animals and other great services in town. Just a great place to shop.

The store largely sources fair trade, organic, and local products. Prices for these fair trade and organic products are largely lower than what you would pay for similar Goods at a larger store. Personally, my favorite things to buy from them are spices and coffee. I like to get their coffee blend of the month, fair trade Demerara sugar, and local organic milk and then I make lattes at home with them. The staff there is very nice and extremely helpful. It's such a sweet little shop and I can't help but to go there since I live very close. It's honestly one of my favorite shops in downtown Bloomington.

Had an awesome experience getting contactless grocery carryout (so many vegan options!) from Common Ground. Small businesses are able to adapt and innovate faster than big chains, which is especially important during the current pandemic. Placed an order online, and received a call where they had a short conversation with me about options (I was not as specific as I could have been). They called again a little later to let me know my total, I was able to pay over the phone, and I set up a pickup window. Drove downtown and called to let them know I was there, popped the trunk, and the masked staff carried it right out! You're not going to get this kind of personal service from a big franchise.

Common ground is a great local grocery store. They sell all local products and they have many bulk items as well. Their workers are always polite and very helpful. It's a joy going there and they carry excellent quality!

We just happened to stop here after lunch. It has everything you can think of! They have everything bag yourself, so no extra waste! I wish we had one back home. We picked up smoked gouda and dried mango.

Super friendly helpful staff, local meats, local flour and produce. I also like that they have bulk spices and tea so I can get just a little of an obscure spice that I'm just going to use on one dish.

Love this place! They are always so friendly. They pre-make housemade items in the back daily. I go in regularly to pick up soup or tofu egg salad for lunch!