King Liquor and Deli

I’ve gone in several times for rando items and previous encounters have never been pleasant, but this deserved a Unilocal
To give you an idea of what you are dealing w/​
— Nothing is priced, you go to buy it & the wife YELLS to her husband «how much?» He looks you over and barks «8 dollars» In my case, for a bottle of OJ mind you.
— Check your id (I mean hold it up to your face) for cigarettes, give it back, take your credit card, ask for your id BACK, only to hold it up to your face again and proceed to compare signatures… COME ON
Tonight was an actual brawl, I bought a diet coke w/​o checking the date. Take a sip; its syrup water NOT a bubble in it, completely flat, ancient undrinkable. I just wanted them to know that the bottle was clearly leaking or something NBD.
I turn around and go back in, I shake it up and show the woman that there is not a bubble to be found expecting a somewhat reasonable response.
Instead she says «I don’t know where you got it, wasn’t here»
Really? Bc I just walked out the door and back in. Debate ensues, her best offer: «throw it away then»
Then the real gem of an owner gets in my face, insisting that I «did something to it to make it this way» snatches the bottle out of my hand and dramatically pours the bottle into the sink.
I stumped him with «what could I have possibly done, I JUST opened it?»
He motions to his wife to give me my money. What does she do? Yells «give back the quarter I gave you» (my change) «here you want your $ 2, take your $ 2» waiving the money in my face
I obvi refuse the money on principle and tell them its about the fact that they are pushing bogus products & that bc they are so rude I am never coming back.
Owner yells at me out the door «good I hope you don’t!»
Miserable people, don’t give them your business

Amazed to find *SO* many people in agreement with my one-​star rating — I went here tonight and left my purchase on the counter and walked out because the guy was *SO* *HIDEOUSLY* *RUDE*.
The completely abrasive fellow behind the counter can’t exhibit the slightest bit of cheer or appreciation for the fact that he has a customer. «Late,» he said in his poor English after we walked in cheerfully at 12:30 a.m. «Too much talk.»
Yeah?
Not too late to leave the Häagen-​Dazs® I was just about to buy on your counter and walk out. EFF you.
Total jackass. Don’t bother going here. EVER.

I’ve been living around that area for 4 years now and I feel the owner is so cool and funny, I love talking to him! And the two daughters are so sweet, and recently I’ve gotten to meet his son and daughter, they are very nice. Sometimes when I’m a liitle short on cash, they let pass or just let me pay another time. The store and customer service are great. 5 out of 5.

I wish I could give this place no stars. The owner is a dick and treats his wife and daughter like shit. The piece of shit needs to realize this is America and we don’t treat people the way he does. Fucking asshole. I went in the other day because they were the only store open and the owner tried to charge me for using my card even though my purchase was over $ 10 by about two bucks. I had given him a decent amount of business since he usually stayed open right until 2am and other stores were closed but I’ll never go back here again. I told the owner to fuck off. I checked afterwords and it is illegal for liquor stores to charge fees for using your card. I normally would just say screw the store and not give them my business but this guy was suck a dick that I’m going to turn him into the Better Business Bureau.
This guy deserves to get shut down. Out of all the neighborhood liquor stores this is this location and Bush Market are the only ones that I don’t approve of and will never give business to again. Bush Market sold me moldy food and then didn’t want to refund me for it.
States that have outlawed surcharges for using a credit card:
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
New York
Oklahoma
Texas

if i could give no stars i would.
what can i say besides: This place does bad business!
the international phone cards they sell are from a company that went out of business. they know this, and yet they still sell them. i work less than a block away at a hostel, and have sent them tons of business. as soon as i caught on to their racket, i told them point blank that they could refund my guest that they ripped off, or i would tell everyone how shady they are. after yelling at ME for ten minutes while i maintained my calm, no resolution came about.
also, any time i have been in to buy a drink, the woman gives me dirty looks and sighs huffily if i don’t have exact change.
i highly recommend taking your money elsewhere.
unless, of course, you like being ripped off and treated like crap.

Just rude

Ive been here a couple times and the owner is RUDE! He is pretty diligent about sweeping the sidewalk around his store, since I see him do this every morning and night, but DAMN this guy is mean.
This place deserve 1 star because they sold EXPIRED goldfish crackers. It is 4÷21÷09, and I just bought a bag of goldfish crackers that expired on 3÷22÷09. Do you know how long that bag must have been sitting there?!? I bought bags of crackers last week from Safeway, and those expire on 7÷26÷09. At least it was a sealed bag.

The owner of this store just backhanded my wife across the face. A six foot 50 year old man just screamed, struck and pushed my 5 – 5 wife out of the store.
I went in to get a 12-​pack which was labeled as $ 12. The daughter rang it up as $ 13. I asked «what was the price on that?» And the daughter told me the price was incorrect on the cooler and that all the regular customers knew it. I was kind of offended by the obvious sham and said «OK, I don’t want it» and started to put the beer back. My wife said «that is price fixing, bait and switch. If the price is posted as $ 12, then you have to sell it at twelve.» My wife walked back and started to use her iPhone to take a picture of the cooler with the incorrect signage (to post to her Unilocal account)… and the owner flipped out. He started yelling about the camera «no pictures!» and blocked my wife, then he backhanded her.
I was still at the counter and my eyes were popping out of my head. I’ve never really seen a business owner (or any adult) do something like that. He pushed my wife out of the store and we called the SFPD.
The officers took down all the info, reviewed the video and didn’t find anything in the camera’s field of view. The officers advised us that since my wife wasn’t bleeding, it would be a misdemeanor charge that would be thrown out at the court appearance «in the interest of justice.»
So basically the owner, described by other Unilocalers as «a complete idiot» and «a fucking asshole,» also is OK with hitting women to get his way.

To hell with this liquor store! So on Saturday night, I dropped off a couple friends here to get some alcohol to pre-​party before going to The Cellar, while I drove around a bit to look for parking. I come back 5 minutes later, and they left with nothing.
According to my friend, the worker/​owner was a complete idiot. My friend was debating on buying a pack of gum. At first, she grabbed one, but changed her mind and wanted a sugarless flavor. The owner snapped at her, saying how she messed up the arrangement of the gum display or some shit like that. So my friends fired back saying ‘Do you want our business or not?’. Keep in mind they need to get the alcohol behind the counter. Instead, the owner continued to give my friends crap over messing up his precious gum display, causing my friends to storm out.
Well, that guy just lost roughly 25 dollars worth of profit. Avoid this place and take your money elsewhere. In the words of Jonah Takalua from Summer Heights High: «Fuck you, sir!».

One of the few places I’ve seen in this city that has carpet. King liquors gets one star because the guy that owns the shop has two very bitchy daughters that have no customer skills. The few times that I’ve been in here have all been terrible experiences. First of all… if you own your own store in the Unites States, learn how to speak English.
My latest adventure was a simple hunt for quarters (laundry day!) and I needed my $ 10 bill broken into 2 fives for the change machine. Somehow the older daughter couldn’t grasp this concept and just gave me a weird look then said «Don’t know fives.» I couldn’t figure out if she just didn’t know what a $ 5 bill was or if she didn’t have any fives. Either way, she just walked away from the counter and goes to fight with her other bitchy sister about something stupid. (They were just at the back of the store in plain sight!) The dad comes out and breaks them apart, while I’m still standing there a little dumbfounded by what just happened in 2 minutes. Stupidity and a cat fight over what looked like a torn cardboard box.
The dad sees me and comes to the counter to see what I need. I say what I need and he says the same thing! «Don’t know fives» WTF! I ask him this time what he doesn’t know about fives. After a few minutes of playing Lost in Translation, I figure out that I just need to buy something for him to open the register. SIMPLE! I would gladly buy this $ 1.15 pack of gum to get some smaller bills. Oiy.