Peoria Packing Butcher Shop — Attraction in West Chicago Township

I'll call this review "Living Low on the hog" Date: 08/16/24

I go to the store on Lake street to buy the pork spare ribs advertised at $2.29 per lb. That seems like a really decent price for the season. Once inside the store I find the ribs sprawled out on the table ,naked as the day they were born. The butcher was either in a rush or didn't know what he was doing because the ribs had a butchers cut running down the center of all the ribs on that table. The worst part of the butcher job is that they did the minimum on the trimming . Every last rib had at least 40 % of inedible and unusable meet on it. These ribs were 60% to 70% all fat . After you take them home and finish the job that the butch purposely half done you'd be left with way less than what you paid for. This Peoria Packaging/Meats store knows exactly how they are cheating the customer. I almost forgot to mention that the scales they have at various location in the store are totally inaccurate . I weighed my meat several times and they came out to be half the weight that the scale built in to the cash register had. When I weighed my meat on the manual scales on the meat floor they came out to be 7 pound but at the register they had doubled to more than 14 + pounds . This was the exact case for all three slabs that I took to the register for purchase. After the girl at the counter rung this meat up I found myself doing a double take when she explained in detail what I was being charged for in weight. As I said previously, I weighed my rib at the manual scales on the store floor(Measure twice, cut once). I was like WHAT THE FRICK is going on here. I asked the cashier again what the total price was and she again repeated this outrageous number. I did NOT argue with her I just told her politely I did not want the ribs. She looked at me almost shocked with her mouth wide open and a look of REALLY. I walked out the door promptly , got in my car and drove to THE WALMART Super Store in Hammond Indiana where I purchased 3 fully trimmed full spare rib slabs with the tips attached(not St. Louis styled) for less than $12.50 per slab. The quality of these Walmart ribs are also more than 100 % better than the ones at Peoria. Also, ALL the meat on the Walmart ribs are usable and edible . I only had to trim off a little flab, a small amount of fat(less than a ounce per slab) All I can suggest to you as a customer /shopper at any store is not to pay by pound for meats or other products sold by weight is fat and unusable and inedible parts. IT IS A WASTE OF MONEY.

I was born yesterday but not last night. I am NO...

Supervisor and manager are rude and dishonest.They will overcharge you on your card and won't give you your money back.Cashiers are purly trained and don't know how to do a simple refund.The supervisor who works in this store,is extremely rude and Unprofessional and simply don't care.Cashiers at the registers will overcharge you,so be careful and watch out what you are paying for. A store supervisor,this short old Caucasian guy with gray hair and gray beard,is very rude,dishonest and Unhelpful. When I pointed out that I was overcharged and that I want to return the meat,this supervisor NEVER apologized to me,and he did NOT give me the right amounth of refund.This bad and dishonest supervisor was cheating the whole time and he gave me the wrong amounth of refund.This rude and sneaky supervisor was acting like he is doing me a big favor by giving me my money back.I was OVERCHARGED on the meat I wanted to buy, and, I was badly mistreated as a customer! This place is awful with terrible customer service,very dishonest employees and old/spoiled meat.I understand now why they sell their meat so chep.While shopping there,one of the butcher try to sell me a piece of old dark red meat that did NOT look fresh.The meat looked dark and old, so I told him that I am NOT going to buy it because it looks OLD!!!This piece of meat was NOT fresh.The customer service is terrible.African American butcher,who works in this place,was rude and racist.I asked that jantleman very politely if he could bring more meat from the back, but he refused to bring more meat from the back and he was saying some bad words about me too.Wow?Really?And by the way,talking about being a "racist"...Who is the one who is a "racist" now?Haaaah????Bad customer service is the first sign of the bad place.If the customer service is bad then something is NOT right with this place.I never saw so many criminals working at one place all at ones.I think Chicago Police should visit this Peoria Packing Butcher Shop ASAP.This Peoria Packing Butcher Shop is located in a very dangerous area.If you are a Caucasion,then do NOT go there because it is NOT safe.Dishonest and sniky people are working in this butcher shop.This is a very cold,very dirty,and very Unsanitary place with BAD vibe,evil people,BAD customer service and VERY BAD AND DISHONEST MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORS.this place stinks and so as their spoiled...

Today I felt discriminated against and I can't even put my finger on why I was called out. I went into the market, as usual, to get fish and to have it cut. I was told by the butcher that I needed to pay for the meat before getting it cut and was given the reason "the manager said so." When I got to the register I asked the lady why I needed to pay before getting it cut, because the price depends on the weight. The lady at the register said "I don't know," laughed and asked a man who seemed like the manager. There was somewhat of a language barrier, but once he figured out my question his response was on the lines of I'm being penalized for what other people have done in the past. I'm already pissed because I literally see people in line with their meat cut and paying. I pay for my fish and go back to the butcher, and he has the nerve to ask me "Did you pay?" like I just walked to the other section, stood there for 5 minutes and just came back. I should've just walked out right then and there, but I started talking to other people and found out no one else had to pay before getting their meat cut. The butcher didn't even give me all of the meat when he cut it! SO basically, I paid for meat that was previously weighed and didn't get what I paid for. Won't be visiting ever again. Has anyone else had to pay first and then get...