El Super

Good to great prices. BUT HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU HAVE TO STAND IN LONG LINES AND TRYING TO FIND PARKING?
Often hard to get a parking spot!
Not enough check out clerks — esp Wed. El Super seriously needs another store in South Salinas with a big parking lot and a good manager who’ll ensure there’s enough clerks.
On Wed, they need 2 – 3 lanes for less than 10 item check out.

I actually came to buy Pan Dulce. Their Panderia is excellent and prices were surprisingly great.
But what caught my attention was the Produce Dept.
They had Asian pears and a very fully stocked section. The prices were very good. For under $ 3, I was able to buy 3 Asian Pears, 3 Manila Mangos & 5 Kiwi. You can’t get that any at any other store !!
I did not feel out of place at all as El Super is a Latino themed store. I noticed that I was not the only Asian customer shopping at that time.
The downfall was the checkout lines were long. But, no problem, Daisy (cashier) ran up my order and got me out quick. THANK YOU DAISY

Hot food staff extremely rude and incompetent. They couldn’t even get a taco right and it was gross.

Good deals but they close the lanes even though the lines are super long. Give me a break!

not so cheap. over crowded lines ALL the time !
messy groceries. was going to buy a burrito for my dad until I saw a fly on the meat, super grossed out NEVER will I buy made food from here ! so unsanitary ! it’s a Mexican supermarket & doesn’t carry Chamoy like what ?! the fast lanes should be open at all times for people that just want to buy something & get out right away. not wait about an hour more or less last Wednesday that I accompanied my parents grocery shopping.

The food is good! The bad thing it is always too salty and hot. I have heard friends and family said that too. The roasted chickens looks like pigeons, they are way too small. The check out lines are always way too long. You have to be careful with when buying cheese sometimes it smells like it has been in the refrigerator for a while. Other than I like to shop here. It is clean and affordable!

Way better than Mi Pubelo. Great deals on the TASTY cooked food or the groceries. You can buy DVDs or Tamales in the parking lot. 3 tacos with beans, rice and a soda cost me $ 4.99. Meanwhile, Taqueria Los Gallos charges $ 11.99 for 2 tacos, beans, rice, and a water.

Well I guess white people can’t shop here. I was in line for quite a while (patiently waiting) in the food court area, and the lady totally ignored me on purpose and tried to help another woman who arrived way after me. My boyfriend pointed out to her that I had been there first and she got angry, but reluctantly helped us. I felt totally discriminated against. Horrible experience.

I casually shop for groceries here when I do I usually find a good deal or so. Most of my visits are mainly for the restaurant they have inside. They have a wide selection of Hispanic food for a great price. They also cater and have some family package’s. The one warning I will give you do not come here on a weekend. You have been warned it’s El Super packed on Sundays you probably won’t find a parking spot close to the store.

They have a full-​fledged Mexican restaurant inside and the food is wonderful! Better than the local restaurants and they let you taste before you order. Love it!

I’ve been here two times, both times they didn’t have what i was looking for. tomatoes or onions, how can they not have tomatoes or onions? and they seem that they were running low on other vegetables, the shelf’s look empty, avoid if you don’t want to go to two different stores, just go to the other grocery store close by (FOOD MAXX), they always seem to be perfectly stock, and have good deals on fruits and vegetables too.

Best to go on wednesdays or the weekend for incredible deals on vegetables & fruits. 4lbs of clementines for 99 cents?! can’t beat that!
i don’t know what some of the fruits and vegetables they sell are but for 99 cents… i’m quick to try them! :)

It was my first time at this location and I was so disappointed with the meat that I bought, I had to return it back right away. It was a packaged steak, looked really fresh and red from the outside, however, when I got home getting ready to marinate it, it was dark gray on the inside.
I took it back and decided maybe I got a bad package so I looked at the rest of them and they were all about to expire the next day. I had to talk to the manager as the cashiers won’t let me return the opened package, the manager said «It’s not spoiled, it’s supposed to be like that!»
No hun, a meat is not fresh if it’s dark gray on the inside. Duh.

Wonderful value on produce. Mom who is from Hawaii gets a kick out of the 6lbs for $ 1.00 veggies and fruits. Can’t get that in Hawaii.

This place has some incredible deals on produce every week… So good, in fact, that my mom will insist that I take her here all the way from Gilroy just to take advantage of them. Sometimes, the 30-​min drive for veggies doesn’t particularly appeal to my pragmatic ego… But then I remember the times I’ve gone to SF/​Santa Cruz more or less just for their markets. OH GOD, I’M TURNING INTO MY MOM!!!
But I digress. The produce at El Super is most frequently incredibly fresh and tasty, especially the ones advertised, which is almost counterintuitive in our society because the bad stuff is usually what is sold at discounted prices. Not here! Wed/​Thurs are their produce special days, but there are also week-​long deals. Not sure where else you can find cucumber (7lb/​$ 1), pineapple and cantaloupe (3lb/​$ 1), carrots (5lb/​$ 1), tomatoes (3lb/​$ 1), cilantro (7bunches/​$ 1), tomatillos (3lbs/​$ 1), avocado (2/​$ 1), jicama (3lbs/​$ 1)… Pretty dang cheap! They’re well-​staffed so there’s always people out with their carts restocking everything.
The shittiest thing about it is that they sometimes do run out of produce, especially if you don’t get a chance to shop until later in the evening. Rain checks are offered ONLY if it’s they’re out and it’s the LAST day of the sale.
They also offer the usual other items you’d find at a Latino supermarket, including a deli, bakery, and a large carnicería/​pescadería. On busy days, you have to grab a number and wait. The meat seems fine, although the deals aren’t nearly as mind-​blowing as the produce, and the fish area kinda reeks of Air Wick-​masked fishiness, but the guys working behind the counter are friendly.
It’s a huge, huge, clean store… Not sure about the lack of variety as mentioned by another reviewer since they seem to have every possible thing you’d need to whip up a nice Mexican/​Latin American meal. Don’t come expecting any organic produce or local olive oil… Come on, now!
Five stars for the produce alone. See you there, Unilocalers! (I might be a little grumpy after the drive, but I usually lighten up when I see the 3/​$ 1 pastries!)

Has Great deals, great prices, kinda limited on variety, the only thing is must of the time is very crowded; Just be patient