Grant-Stone Supermarket — Attraction in Tucson

This market has been around a long time, at least longer than I have been in Tucson, (since 2004) The fish smell that would overwhelm you upon entering, has greatly been reduced, they do offer a large selection of exotic fish found only in the waters of the far east, as well as whole live blue crab, and other shellfish such as crawfish, mussels, etc. can be found in their modest deli section. They also have a great produce department, 50lbs bags of rice, a decent frozen foods section, also a huge selection of every Ramen and dry noodle instant soup you can imagine. Chilled beverages include a standard selection of mostly domestic beers, soft drinks, and a few cheap wines. A plethora of canned and bottled Asian sauces and spices. A large assortment of Asian candies, ice cream, and pastries. An impressive housewares section with cookware, dishes, eating utensils, ceramic plates, tea cups, etc. Last but not least they also have a small Asian cosmetics and clothing section near the front of the store, they also cash checks and money orders, for a very...

I never imagined that I'd find myself writing a review for something. I will start off by saying my girlfriend makes me come to this store. Since "Lee Lee Oriental Supermarket" is not close by, we come here around 70% of the time to buy Asian goods.

The first thing you'll notice when entering in the smell. It's like I entered some third-world country. The smell has consumed the entire store. If you didn't understand, the smell is absolutely horrid.

Secondly, I always recommend my girlfriend to buy vegetables from Fry's. You will notice all the dirty and old furnishings which are apparent throughout the entire store.

Thirdly, we've got freezers which have frozen over all the goods.

I can't forget about the poor lobsters inside the tank. The tank is hardly big enough to fit a baby, and yet around 8 lobster sit inside, sometimes being stacked on top of each other.

Alright, everything is dirty.

And to the owner, I am sure you don't care, but look...

Greeted by odor that told me something sour this way came . It was so bad to me I forced myself to continue just in case of a bad first impression. I went directly to the meat Department where there were large selection of products w/o any butcher in sight?!? But now I had hoped the smell would have dissipated but it was as strong as ever. That was enough for me. I had hoped since this is only a short distance from where I reside I could have relied upon this as one of my regular shopping spots. No way no how no time.

After a couple of weeks I tried again and was pleased, very pleased that I was mistaken. The smell was gone there were plenty of workers there to assist in my selection for Oriental food. The selections were plentiful. Talk about a turn around from a very bad first impression to an second and...