How bad are “ethnic” supermarkets?
>>21974536They're great, you can find a bunch of useful ingredients
>>21974536You can find some good unusual snacks, cheap spices and sauces you can't buy at a normal grocer but from my experience 90% of the store is just the same shit as a normal grocery store only everything is either about to expire or already expire. Ethnic people also have a really low tolerance for food quality when it comes to meat. Most of it is butchered like a high 16 year old did it and also if you don't use it within a day it'll start to smell because again it's all about to expire. They also mark up normal household items like detergent and toiletries by a ton. The hispanic grocery store near my house sells shit like whole frozen guinea pigs and pigs heads, for example.
>>21974551>whole frozen guinea pigs
Not bad at all. In California the Mexican themed supermarkets are similar to the regular ones, but have full service bakeries (with pan dulce) and produce departments. That's about it aside from the noticeable smell of cinnamon everywhere. Maybe it's different in other states.
>>21974536Better the Walmart you probably shop at, pussy boy.
>>21974536I exclusively shop at ethnic supermarkets when I've lived near them.Prices aren't jewed to fuck, significantly more selection, and very often higher quality produce.The food courts are always risky (not including franchise ethnic stores like T&T), it's no secret they're so affordable because they're cooking with whatever was going too bad to sell. Once you realize that though you can just pick and choose what's gonna be reliable as long as its not a rundown store. Always check your local health boards public registry for violations at these places - if they're plastered with them just skip the fresh food entirely. No significant violations? Have at it. And before any retards who have never been close to retail management - EVERY grocery store in North America gets tipped off on health inspections ahead of time and/or bribes their regular inspector. The places that can't get away with this nearly as easily are the ethnic stores. You seriously think the Food Lion staffing their deli with 16 year olds has never had a health code violation? They just know when the inspector is coming and rotates a manager over to deli/produce the night before to get it up to code lmao (use to be my job!). Not saying this never happens at ethnic stores, but the average retard thinks the conventional retail stores are enchanted by western ideology and therefore the stoned teenaged worker would never ever ever not take food safety seriously - after all, they spend 2 hours every 1-2 years skipping through the food safety cert slides and googling the answers to the quiz while they take it, they definitely know what they're doing!
>>21974536not as good as they used to be when whites didnt know what any of the ingredients are and you could get them really cheap.
>>21974601>white people don’t like my food and call it stinky :(>white people like my food and want to cook and eat it :(It never ends with you fucking crybabies does it
>>21974642Seems the only one crying rn is you, white faggot.
Usually not badThere's one Asian market that always reeks of old fish, and got shut down for awhileBut I have 2 Asian, 2 middle eastern, 1 eastern European (Russian desu), 1 Indian, and a big international that are all perfectly fineGreat for cheap spices and sometimes cheap meat, the international one also sells Amish goods! The milk is spectacular, has a cream top and everything
>>21974642Tbf crying over prices going up due to demand is valid regardless of raceI'm my humble, cheap ass, opinion
>>21974536You ever just needed to go somewhere and get seasoning? The supermarket doesn't have it, the Indian food store has all the individual ingredients and a mix for $8 that saves you $44
>>21974536The one near me has tamales all the time. I go in and buy like 20 of them for $16 and that's dinner and breakfast and lunch the next day.
>>21974536Three's nothing bad about them.
>>21974828I only said they were different not cheaper. In terms of cheap Winco has them all beat. Some how even the other customers at the ghetto one I used to shop at wasn't as bad as Food4Less.>Plus pan dulce is trash.No argument there.
>>21974536If the fish section smell extends far out into the rest of the store I never go there again
I'm in NYC so we have tons of ethnic stores from all continents, and I go to them all the time. You're only cheating yourself if you don't.
>>21974828>For some reason the beaner stores are 3x more than even Vons or Ralph’sThat's pretty common. Tons of ethnic markets do it but I see it more at Latino markets because those people are OBSESSED with not integrating which makes them prime price gouging material. The upside is that you can get certain staples there at good prices, for instance Latinos won't pay white people prices for avocados.
>>21974552>pigs :)>guinea pigs :O
>>21974536>How bad are “ethnic” supermarkets?It's not the market itself, so much as the customers that go in and grope all the produce with their filthy hands. I frankly have the same hatred for Costco because of how awful the average customer is there.
>>21974828afaik that's really only true of the bougie ones for Americanized diaspora Mexicans like Vallarta. If you go to the ghetto ones in new immigrant neighborhoods they're supposedly cheap, at least that's what I've been told by latino friends.
>>21974536usually better quality than like the grocery sectionsat walmart or target
We have a problem in my community where immigrants all set up their own supermarkets and boycott each other's, splitting the normal retail trade of bread and milk along ethnic lines. No matter how bad the shrilankan supermarket is, they will still go there. There's no commercial competition because they aren't really consumers, they're relatives, business partners. So we end up with 20 shitty supermarkets with very high prices all virtually next to one another. And then none pay tax, they illegaly import food which doesn't meet the national food standards, is counterfeit, they sell out of date or contaminated food. Then we get an unsolvable gastro outbreak where 400 people all get violent diorheah at the same time but can't work out from where and nobody will cooperate with the investigation. Today, case in point. Supplier dispute. Wholesaler couldn't fill basic deceleration, where product came from, when it was produced, mystery slop. Rejected by restaurant, dispute. Also had rocks in the dry goods, a few torn packages, entire shipment of non white origin. Then we're trying to deal with an ethnic Mafia who are all inbred cousins trying to share a single warehouse
>>21975279Is that a French bakery? I like the croque monsieurs displayed there, ready to go right in the oven for made to order. French pastries and anything bread related are very based
>>21974658I know there you live.
>>21975393Yep this is the issue right here. It could be the nicest grocery store ever, with the most variety and the cleanest space. But if the customers are all a bunch of touchy feely fingerers, it ruins it. I always throw on some hand sanitizer if I have it or if the store does before I browse produce.
>>21974658Is there a buffet next to the old fish smelling one?
>>21975430Link a newspaper article. >>21974536I fail to see what's so horrifying about ethnic stores.
Yesterday's dispute: consumer refunds. Factory makes shelf stable milk. Key word, stable. You can't freeze and unfreeze it a hundred times in storage, or leave it in the sun on the warehouse floor, or leave the palate in the rain.Non whites had been trying to order a palate, break it down into smaller orders for their cousin shops, so 20 different shops. Very common a shop will just be sent a mystery palate of broken down wholesale goods with no idea what's in it. Consumer complaints to the factory explode, hundreds of complaints, factory tries to explain that the consumer MUST seek a refund from the retailer and that they are only responsible for business sales. Consumers don't care, start threatening and blackmailing factory. Factory sends me to investigate which of their buyers is fucking up all their milk generating this tsunami of brand damage. Half the people complaining were Philippino so working out who wasn't hard, but then we had to prove the damage wasn't done by us, which was expensive. And all because these ethnic idiots had been trying to cut palates of milk into quarters with random garden tools and sending them unpackaged to 20 ethnic shops who didn't know the mixed palates contained something that has to be stored in xyz.Last week? That was wevil week. A whole week of dealing with unrelated wevil issues. Sar if there are moths all in the shop you must make clean. Not leaving whatever kind of flour that is all over the floor. If you can't clean under your shelves, maybe now understanding why commercial shelving is of exist and not using the second hand book cases from goodwill.Week before? People trying to cook things inside the store. Hopeless mix of goods opened, unopened, for sale, not for sale, for own use, unfit for sale.I'm the eternally buthurt food safety anon, every week a different shit.
At least post the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGgq5DJ3LBs
>>21975448It's not news, it's like that in every city, every day. Third world businesses run by extended families in violation of labor laws, who's customers are only from the same ethnic group, competing over who's ethnic community is bigger and pays the least tax instead of who actually knows how to run a shop. It's totally natural that this happens, expected, the intended outcome of all concerned. The Chinese like Chinese food, set up a Chinese shop, only Chinese people go there, then instead of one ALDI we have 50 ethnic corner stores and the bread is out of date in all of them. One of our biggest issues is unauthorised reselling, where the Chinese shop owner will just try to go to Aldi every morning to buy hundreds of the same item at retail price and resell it at a higher price, instead of placing his own wholesale order. In the west we call this scalping, but there's no Chinese word for that.
>>21975456So your whole argument is "just trust me, bro"?Yeah, okay. lol
>>21975344>those people are OBSESSED with not integrating which makes them prime price gouging material.Not so here, to the extent where the chain grocery stores around here all have store brand versions of Latino products (especially Walmart as they're the most popular with Latino shoppers). Weirdly though the price gouging ethnic markets still exist, often getting their entire inventories from Walmart or Costco including the imported stuff.
>sorry but due to unexpected supply chain issues sale of eggs will be limited to 12 per customer, per transactionEg. Ethnic scalpers are trying to buy up all the eggs, add a dollar to the price of a carton that week. Real human beings are paid at supermarkets to watch for scalpers, people filling up whole trolleys with hundreds of eggs. Conga lines of family members all trying to buy 8 gallons of oil each. They could place a normal wholesale order, but don't, because they profit as much from the ALDI running out of oil as they do the 1$ they make marking it up.Pretty standard corporate intelligence job, work out who's scalping our eggs and where they're being sold, shut them down.
Another classic, racketeering factory recall products. Typical, singularly associated with east Asian mafias.Send someone into a factory to sabotage the actual food. Throw glass into it. Rocks. Penuts, some other allergen. Trigger a factory recall. Then buy up all the defective products for half their value and sell them on the black market. Nobody actually sends the products back they just all claim they were damaged and can't be shipped. Then the Africans eat nothing but peanuty rice flour that month, the Chinese shop sells unpackaged rice flour half price, the Chinese Mafia is under federal investigation for factory sabotage. This is all your plastic rice shit. It's not fake food, it's Mafia related sabotage and racketeering. Throw plastic in the rice to get it dumped, buy/steal the foul rice, sell it in unlicensed stores. Also happens with olive oil, don't ask me why. It's all been written off, repackaged, resold.
>>21975472>also happens with olive oilThis is why I exclusively buy American olive oil now, the imported stuff is all fake. Low grade olive oil and canola mixed with bittering agents. Only CA oil is the real deal around here.
Import vegetables as animal fodder, sell them to people, trigger a massive biosecurity clean up operation. Bribe the port authority to forget to test your canned foot for mercury, lead, often because some north korean trawler is using 1850's mass canning technology, just sealing all the fish in reusable lead lined canisters, sending it across the border where the Chinese repack it. Go to your local ethnic store, any seafood paste type product, test it for lead. I dare you. Anywhere in America, any ethnic store, any county of origin. Lead. To be fair domestic seafood often doesn't pass testing either, but that's because of primary contamination so it's self limiting.
>>21975459>Not so hereIf the price gouging ethnic markets are still present then there have to be people who frequent them.
>>21975475It's just onion layers of fake.So there are primary contamination of olives with synthetic nicotine insecticide, farmers who's crops are attacked so spray right before the olives are picked. Olives rejected by factory, don't pass testing, or do and contaminate all the oil. Then there's the secondary contamination, your rejected olives are bought by the mob and mixed with some hydrolysed gutter oil and exported. Adulteration.Then counterfeiting where the black market oil isn't tracable, so is just straight up label swapped and it's just canola oil in a bottle with colouring, bittering agent, smoke point reducer. Domestic knock offs for the most part. Honey is probably the worst. It's so bad now that producers are putting sections of wax beehive into jars of sugar syrup to try to convince people it's honey. Australian honey tastes like gum trees, so is always targeted, too easy to fake. Then there's butter, fake leurpack.
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>>21974536The Asian ones are always going to have some salted fish, and a dumpster full of fish guts, so... the smell won't always be pleasant, but I've found they usually have a lot of things at reasonable prices, especially veggies and meats/cuts that white people don't know about or avoid. Their dairy section, however, will be 99% eggs with one thing each of butter, cheese and cream marked up 300%.
>>21975541>now
>>21975541Sir, you must do the needful.
>>21975541>suddenly
>>21975541i'm white and i've been visiting ethnic grocery stores for longer than you've been on 4chan
>>21974642fpbp
>>21975541It's been doubling each year since 2018 or so, yeah.
>>21975593that's not the first post
>>21975459ShopRite sell their own brand of mango pickle, chili pickle, and mixed pickle, somehow all made with mustard oil. It's cheaper than the "name brand" stuff at the Indian store, tastes better and my wife and I trust a Western company like ShopRite to have better quality control than Pran and the like so we buy that now.
>>21975279>ethnic>french
>>21976107>French people don't belong to ethnic groupsThis is the same kind of retardation that causes people to say shit like "white people have no food/culture".
>>21974536Mixed bag.if they're the only game in town they're regularly shit except for 3-4 ingredients the ethnicity they serve would riot if they were bad. If it's a decent sized city they'll have good stuff for similar prices + imported stuff you'd otherwise not use or be able to source except off some sketchy amazon seller.
>>21974659>>21974601So basically it's fair to say "america was better before nonwhites started coming here"? Good.
Old white guys who run Asian grocery shops are always based and sell everything for insanely cheap
I started this thread optimistic and positivenow that I'm at the bottom to reply i'm blackpilledit's so tiresome to source decent food... I l ike ethnic stores though, good for what they're good for
>>21976157Who do you think is raising the prices anon? The invisible hand of the market?
>>21975447HAHYes>>21975440Is there really only one area with that split of ethnic stores?
>>21974536they're good for certain spices and ingredients you can't get at regular supermarkets, one thing I hate is that they're usually very cramped since they shove as many shelves into the space as possible and will often stack items on the floor next to them making busy periods become twice as annoying
>>21976309literally those questions and scenarios exist in at least dozens if not hundreds of cities in america
>>21976314No fucking way. That guy said I know where you live so I was sure he was correct I definitely asked the question in a genuine way, I had no idea. None!
>>21975492Thanks for sharing your experiences food safety anon>>21976300There’s definitely some good ones though, especially older places where the owner takes pride in their quality, seems like it’s mostly ethnic delis and bakeries that also have a small grocery section that keep high standards (although probably not the best prices)
>>21974536Just don't buy the cinnamon sticks and you won't get lead poisoning. Or the tea.
>>21975344>which makes them prime price gouging material.My brother in latino Christ, they're laundering moneys.
>>21975450There are many non-AIDS immune suppressed people out there that don't need getting 1-shotted by unsafe food handling with otherwise good prognoses. You're doing God's work. Fuck'm.
>>21975472>Also happens with olive oil, don't ask me why. It's all been written off, repackaged, resold.Corruption's contagious, and their philosophy of war wants this to - at the most inconvenient time, everywhere all at once - taint shit on an industrial scale. This bullshit has to be prosecuted aggressively.
>>21974536I am white man who live in the mexican side of town and there is a mexican grocery store near me. I've been in there a few times, and notably the hot deli items are amazing, they sell freshly made birria, carnitas, chicharrones, etc. in bulk and the quality is top tier. They also have really good cilantro. That's about all that is notable, though. The only problem is that I don't speak spanish so it's hard to communicate and also literally everyone else in the store is mexican and won't stop staring at me, the only 6'2" gringo in the place.
>>21976478>staring at meYou're projecting. I'm IN Mexico and see white Americans and Canadians in grocery stores shopping undisturbed all of the time.
>>21976478Huh. I'm a 6'1 gringo who speaks Italian natively and can fake ethpanyol pretty decently because of that. I live in the US and never have that problem at the Mexican supermarket. I go there to buy their cooking cream because it's identical to Italian cooking cream and American supermarkets don't carry anything similar : />>21976309>Is there really only one area with that split of ethnic stores?In that specific number?>>21976311The South Asian supermarkets I go to don't do that but by golly, the Mexican, Asian and ESPECIALLY Arab ones do. Worst thing is: one of the Arab ones is split level so you have to go upstairs to get to some of the products and the stairs, yes, have stuff on them, too.
