I went around 3pm today and picked up 3 packs of beef short ribs to cook for my family for dinner. After cooking the meat, I serve it to my family, and here I am with a mouth full of tiny bone fragment specks about to break my teeth. I inspected all of the meat and every single piece was absolutely FULL of bone fragments. IN THE MEAT. How am I supposed to serve this to my father and the kids?!? If I received this quality of food in a restaurant, it would be sent back in a heartbeat. I return to the store at about 7:30pm, with my specimen in a ziploc bag and my receipt in hand. The man at the meat counter tells me he does not speak English. I find a manager and explain my issue.
We walk to the meat department, I show him which meat I purchased, he opens a fresh pack and tells me it is grease/fat. I show him the bone fragments in the fresh pack and also open my ziploc bag and show him the bone fragments in the meat. He cannot believe it, but offers to refund me anyway. I will also add that the man at the meat counter is now helping a woman who is speaking English.
We go to the customer service counter and as he refunds me, I tell him to check the rest of the meat to prevent future lawsuits and he tells me next time I should bring all of the meat back so he can inspect the packages, though I've already told him that I cooked all 3 packages. I'm sorry honey, but there will not be a next time.
***FORGOT TO MENTION THIS ALSO HAPPENED LAST SATURDAY…*** Only a few bone fragments, same cut of meat, but life happens so I let it go. But again a week later?? Unacceptable!!! When I posted on my personal Facebook earlier this evening, another local mom told me that she has recently bought chicken here WITH THE SAME BONE FRAGMENT ISSUE.
I will not purchase meat from this shop again and I advise anyone who shops there to be extremely cautious. Not only is this a huge hazard, but Manuel, the manager, apparently does not give a shit. I will attach photos with this review.
Please be extremely careful if you buy meat from this Less-Than-Ideal Market.
Sincerely, Thoroughly Disappointed and Very Pissed Because My Dinner Was Ruined.
Oye. I hate to write this update, especially since it's so nice to have some new businesses in the Baldwin area. I've bought milk here that curdled in two days and a bottle of Coke (which had an expiry date of March 2016- soda is supposed to have an expiration date a lot longer than that!) which had almost no carbonation to it upon opening it the same day. I hope they get their act together. Be sure to check the dates on everything!!
This market is most certainly NOT ideal.
I went around 3pm today and picked up 3 packs of beef short ribs to cook for my family for dinner. After cooking the meat, I serve it to my family, and here I am with a mouth full of tiny bone fragment specks about to break my teeth. I inspected all of the meat and every single piece was absolutely FULL of bone fragments. IN THE MEAT. How am I supposed to serve this to my father and the kids?!? If I received this quality of food in a restaurant, it would be sent back in a heartbeat.
I return to the store at about 7:30pm, with my specimen in a ziploc bag and my receipt in hand. The man at the meat counter tells me he does not speak English. I find a manager and explain my issue.
We walk to the meat department, I show him which meat I purchased, he opens a fresh pack and tells me it is grease/fat. I show him the bone fragments in the fresh pack and also open my ziploc bag and show him the bone fragments in the meat. He cannot believe it, but offers to refund me anyway. I will also add that the man at the meat counter is now helping a woman who is speaking English.
We go to the customer service counter and as he refunds me, I tell him to check the rest of the meat to prevent future lawsuits and he tells me next time I should bring all of the meat back so he can inspect the packages, though I've already told him that I cooked all 3 packages. I'm sorry honey, but there will not be a next time.
***FORGOT TO MENTION THIS ALSO HAPPENED LAST SATURDAY…*** Only a few bone fragments, same cut of meat, but life happens so I let it go. But again a week later?? Unacceptable!!! When I posted on my personal Facebook earlier this evening, another local mom told me that she has recently bought chicken here WITH THE SAME BONE FRAGMENT ISSUE.
I will not purchase meat from this shop again and I advise anyone who shops there to be extremely cautious. Not only is this a huge hazard, but Manuel, the manager, apparently does not give a shit. I will attach photos with this review.
Please be extremely careful if you buy meat from this Less-Than-Ideal Market.
Sincerely,
Thoroughly Disappointed and Very Pissed Because My Dinner Was Ruined.
Oye. I hate to write this update, especially since it's so nice to have some new businesses in the Baldwin area. I've bought milk here that curdled in two days and a bottle of Coke (which had an expiry date of March 2016- soda is supposed to have an expiration date a lot longer than that!) which had almost no carbonation to it upon opening it the same day. I hope they get their act together. Be sure to check the dates on everything!!
Very friendly,clean and we'll stocked local supermarket.Good selection of ethnic foods. Prices are around average. Nice selection of fruits.