C-Town Supermarket

I hate this super market. I just bought half a chicken to make chicken soup, and with the sell by date still two days away, it stunk up my whole fridge. Apparently the return policy is same day only so I’m not going to bother getting my 4.50 back. I can say I will be spending the extra money at Modern from now on instead.

C-​Town in my neighborhood just got a facelift and it looks great! Very clean and organized. The deli line takes forever. Also, they didn’t have any Thai food here. I was looking for a Pad Thai seasonings/​box and they didn’t have anything. Hook it up with more international foods C-​Town! Other than that — fast check out, small but easy to navigate and clean grocery store.

I’ve heard tell that C-​Town may be cheaper than nearby Modern Food, but I couldn’t really tell you myself, because I only patronize C-​Town when I have no other choice. Compared to the smaller, recently renovated Modern, C-​Town is downright dingy inside, and feels totally outdated, like it hasn’t changed since the early nineties. Mainly, though, I hate C-​Town because of one bad experience I had there two years ago.
I bought a package of chicken wings, taking them straight home and putting them in the fridge. The expiration date was still four or five days off when I opened them up two nights later to make dinner, but the wings gave off the foulest most rancid odor. I was pretty annoyed, but I still had the receipt so I made the long walk back to the store to exchange them. There I was informed that the return policy for meats is same day only, something that I have never seen at any supermarket I’ve ever been in. I’ve seen my mother bring back unexpired spoiled meats, where it’s been exchanged without a word, so this was a big shock to me.
Call me a cynic, but to me, this policy indicates that they know that their meat products are suspect and go bad quickly, and instead of improving their refrigeration system (both in transit and in the store), they’ve instituted a one day return policy that makes spoiled meat the customer’s problem, not theirs. This is blatantly taking advantage of a low income, under educated consumer base, who don’t know better than to take such crap from one of the only supermarkets around. Frankly, I think its despicable, and I told them so. I told them they could keep their rancid chicken and that I was going to get a new package from the back of the store. I did just that, walking out with my new chicken wings despite the security guard’s objections, voiced entirely in Spanish. A nice bilingual couple backed me up, and he eventually gave up, but I was still seeing red. It was an absolutely enraging experience.
If I were you, I’d stay away from C-​Town. They don’t take care of their customers, and who knows what kind of swill they are selling you!