Kief wrote:I have not been to one for sometime, as a Cityshop opened up across the street from me. I happened to be by the Gubei Carrefour today and thought I'd stop in for a gander. What a dump! First of all it was never really nice, I know; but now it is just like those waidi supermarkets which are just wetmarts with a roof.
The smell was awful, lumps of bare meat displayed without any packaging. The floor was literally a river flowing. Dead fish in the fishtanks belly up, they be selling sh1t like turtles, pig intestines, and the bakery section carried some of the ugliest bread I have ever seen.
Listen to your friend Kief and avoid going there ever again.
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Have you been drinking? Or worse...? I have been a customer at Carrefour Gubei since it opened.
I have seen it go through something like 3 maybe 4 floorplan redesigns/ re-arrangements; what you have seen is another one.
I was there some weeks ago, and what you have described is not entirely the full story. Unless it has changed dramatically within this period of time, the bare meat section had been there from the earliest days, this next to the now-added sealed meat room for kosher/halaal meats (I believe). They have added a meat section for the Japanese community. They have an open section of fresh chicken of a variety of parts of the bird, along with frozen chickens whole and pieces.They appear to have expanded their fruit and vegetable sections, and their seafood section has been expanded also. Yes, this is a bit like a local wetmarket, but they had something like this earlier.
On the positive, they now have available filleted fish. Back home, I mostly bought and cooked fish, which the fishmonger would fillet at request. I gave up trying to get the fishmongers at the local wet markets to do this for me--the best I could get were fish steaks. It is the first supermarket in this town that I have seen that sells already filleted fish. Unfortunately, the varieties of fish tend to be the more expensive kind. Turtles had been available earlier as well, IIRC; I am unsure about pig intestines, as I don't eat them. And it's bakery section has gone right off, that's true enough.
As for the food court, what you have there is from the last redesign some 3-4 years ago, I would guess. An improvement from the street-style stalls that were there before--with the corresponding increase in pricing, of course. The Japanese Sumo Sushi does a good business, Fridays & Saturdays, as does the rest of the food court appear to do.
Are we talking about the same supermarket I wonder...?
