Zion Market — Attraction in Los Angeles

This review is for their meat department. Not sure who runs the meat department, but they seem to use classically deceptive tactics here. I shop here almost every week and would definitely recommend shopping for everything besides their meat. I repeat, do not purchase their meat unless you enjoy throwing your money in the trash.

Pretty in the front, garbage in the back: Do not buy the pre-packaged thinly sliced brisket (차돌). The meat may look amazing, but beneath the first row of meat, all you'll find is fat. I threw away half of what I paid for because it was basically sliced fat.

Packaged on vs sell by: Be extremely cautious when you buy pre-packaged marinated meat. I bought some marinated short rib that had they claimed had been packaged on the same day, but when I opened it the next day, I instantly smelled something sour. It was hard to tell due to the color of the marinade, but most of the meat looked very oxidized (turned brown/grey) when I was able to take a closer look. I was very confused, but I didn't want to risk getting food poisoning so I threw away the entire $20 package of meat. I'm guessing that the meat had been sitting out on display until it's "sell by" date before they decided to package it with a new "made on" date. That's just my guess, but I'm not sure what else could've spoiled this meat.

If you want meat that is higher quality and won't give you food poisoning, I would recommend shopping at H Mart. Their prices are higher, but at least you won't be...

I like their price and quality for vegetable to make variety of Korean kimchi. And the workers are almost Mexicans and they always talk about Korean people of characters and behavior with critical way which means they love to judge people on their own way of thoughts those are not always right and the proper way to say and express while they work. And I even can hear right behind me with loud voice with English and even Spanish. And I always like the fish count man who is kind and he even speaks little Korean words that looks more considerable to work at Korean markets. The only cons are the expensive price of some items but I understand why and hopefully they have sale for these items not just for little kinds of items. And I dislike some people don’t know how to respect each other when they shop with basic manner in USA even if they are Korean or not. Specially I don’t want people of different nations see Korean as an uneducated people. They should consider other customer when they shop without mean or out of manner specially older people. This is not Korea and they’d better live in Americans way since they live in here. Also I think the resister area is not very convenient to check out. I wish they develop the display at least for check out for customers. But I alway like their kind packing helpers but not for cashiers...

Retraining the staffs, Zion Market!

I lined up where cashier name Susana is. This happened 20mins ago. This old guy in front of us having some kind of issue with the Zion market's application. We've been just standing there and waiting to pay, people starting to form a long line behind us. So I told that cashier, Hold his transaction, help us first (Because the guy in the front was being un-mannered, making everybody wait due to his own problem)

She proceed ours but she just threw 2 plastic bags, expressing some kind of wrong attitude on me assuming just because I said that, And didn't even fully bagged our grocery items. Wow, Kidding me? Where is the manager when you need it, huh? You think you can do whatever you want? Missy, you got no customer service mindset.

You (Cashier) think my action was unfair? No. I believe I did the right thing because customers in the line was starting to looking at us where we are and making faces 'what the hell is going on the front?' We don't want to be like that customer just because of your untrained staff. Come on.

Please be thoughtful, and bring your damn critical thinking skills when the issue comes up! Cashier ain't easy job. If something happens, act quickly and resolve it. Don't want to work? Do you think you can get some easy money with it?...