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HMart has the most fresh produce and it’s prices are low because it’s not organic. I was trying to eat a lot of greens and found that most stores have “tourist
by prepend 6y ago
HMart has the most fresh produce and it’s prices are low because it’s not organic. I was trying to eat a lot of greens and found that most stores have “tourist greens” with small servings in big plastic tubs.
Even Whole Foods was hard to buy large amounts of spinach. Their green produce is mostly processed and wrapped in plastic and $5 for what’s $.75 per bunch at HMart.
- clairity 6y agoi end up going too often to the large chain groceries for convenience, which contradicts my own principle of supporting small-/mid-sized businesses foremost (bad me). but ethnic groceries (plus trader joes) are slowly becoming more and more of my grocery pie, from korean places like h mart, to jons (hispanic/latino), mitsuwa (japanese), india sweets & spices, 99 ranch (chinese), bangkok market, and seafood city (filipino). i love the great array of ethnic, especially asian, groceries available in LA. it's wonderful!
- llsf 6y agoTalking about plastic... I just ventured for the first time 2 weeks ago, in an H Mart. The first impression was "what a lot of plastic!". The packaging is innovative, bright and smart. But that is a lot of packaging and plastic in general, sometimes for little product. We just ate last night one of their ramen, and beside the outer plastic wrapping, it had a styrofoam plate inside for which the only purpose was to hold two other internal plastic bags of noodles, and multiple plastic bags of sauce, all individually wrapped. While the fresh products section was impressive and definitely a plus for me. All the other aisles were overwhelmingly full of individually wrapped in plastic products, from top to bottom. Hopefully we could do better here.