The E-Mart is similar to a K-mart.  It has food on one floor, housewares on another floor, and clothing on a third floor.  We’ve been able to find most everything we need so far.  The prices aren’t expensive and you have to carry your own grocery bags… like Aldi back home.

Weird things I’ve seen in the E-mart grocery store

They like to give away the oddest things with groceries.  Some make sense, others do not.  For instance:

1.  to random boxes of cereal they had taped ear muffs on the outside (this might have been the strangest)

2.  to random bags (now when I say random, it means that not every one had a free gift) of pasta, they had taped a tiny cup of tomato sauce

3.  to giant 32oz plastic beer bottles (“Cass” beer) they had peanuts covered in some malt coating that were tied to the top of the bottle

4.  to random bags of rice they had taped cleaning products to the outside

5.  some wine had free bottle stoppers/ openers

6.  to random boxes of instant coffee they tape a smaller box of a different brand of instant coffee to the outside

7.  some bags of coffee had 1 or 2 coffee filter packages taped to them

8.  other boxes of coffee had pasta sauce taped to the front

9.  a 6 pack of drinkable yogurt will have 2 random yogurt containers taped to the top

10.  random bags of all sorts of products will be taped in pairs… I’m guessing a buy one get one free deal, but again, not all bags have a pair and dates seem to be the same.

11.  various bottles of soda had ramen noodle packages taped to the top

I haven’t figured out if this is clearance stuff they tape to various products just to get rid of them, or if it’s
wanting people to try different products…. who knows.  It’s really humorous and fun to see what strange items will be taped to our groceries next visit.

Thank goodness I enjoy spending time in grocery stores.  It takes forever just to figure out what we need when we can’t read the packaging.

Tags: e-mart, shopping, weirdness