Lion Supermarket — Attraction in San Jose

There are several Lions City Supermarket chain stores around the Bay Area, my closest and most comfortable one is the one on Saratoga Ave near HWY-280. I found myself in South San Jose this week, and accidentally ran into this store.

Inevitably, I began to unknowingly compare & contrast the two store locations. After all, if it's not better, there'll be no points for me to ever come here again.

Upon entering the store, it had a very different feel than my regular Lion City store. I think because of its location, ie, South San Jose, the demographics here is largely Vietnamese & Latinos, so the store stocks items catering to this; unlike Ranch 99 or Marina Market which tend to cater to Chinese, Korean & Japanese demographics.

As a result, I didn't find the items I was looking for in this store. And I don't think I'll be back ever, since the aforementioned one is so...

Most of the time, there is no shopping cart available outside. They have small red carts inside the market that they don’t allow customers to wheel them to our cars. I have wrist pain, tendinitis. I cannot carry many bags to my cars. I talked to the lady, who was standing at customer service area. She said why I complain about shopping carts, she told me to to go out side and wait for the carts tobe returned from somebody. Oh, oh. I thought I was going to get a reward or trophy. Why I have to wait to receive a favor from someone. If you want to shop at Asian market, I recommend you to go to Đại Thành supermarket. They have people who always outside to collect the shopping carts and put them in place for customers. Moreover, the employees are very...

I love to cook. Most of the stuff sold here is either expensive or unobtainable in Santa Cruz. So this place, despite it's slightly... unpolished east Asian vibe (ie products sold out of the box they came in, cramped lines, and very little help in the store,) I still love it. It kind of reminds me of living in Thailand. Used to come here with my ex. My dad brought me back and he was slightly disappointed. He said it wasn't as good as it used to be. I am think he built it up in his head. Though I can see liking it less than I do. I can even see it's crazy selection being a bit...