that Gelson’s Markets offer free supermarket tours for kindergarten through sixth grade students? These interactive tours allow students to experience firsthand a full-service supermarket at various levels; from stocking shelves to bagging groceries to understanding how Gelson’s operates on a daily basis.

Tour information

• Produce: Gelson’s produce department is full of fresh produce from all over the world. Manager will discuss fruits, vegetables, variety and quality.

• Meat and Seafood: Students will get to see different cuts of meat and fish and learn how various machines are used to weigh and wrap product. Manager will discuss Gelson’s high standards for meat and seafood.

• Service Deli: Manager will discuss variety and quality, special meals just for kids, food safety and handling.

• Floral: Floral manager will design a floral arrangement. Students will learn how flowers are hand-selected for freshness, quality and uniqueness.

• Bakery: Students will see how a cake is decorated or how a pastry is made and experience the sweetness of a supermarket bakery.

• Front End: Discuss customer service, checkout, registers and scanners.

• Receiving: Discuss loading and unloading product, storage, the compactor and the importance of recycling.

A few things to keep in mind when planning your visit: Please limit your group to 25 children and plan on one adult chaperone per five children. Please give a minimum of two weeks’ notice and please have at least one alternate date. We do not offer tours on Thursdays, and there are no tours in November and December.

Thank you, we look forward to meeting you and your students at Gelson’s!