Western Beef

This location is a nightmare. The prices are ridiculous and the employees are rude. They make NO ALLOWANCES for the handicapped. As a matter of fact I witnessed an employee actually extort a blind customer. Instead of trying to help them stretch what little they had he put the most expensive if each item in his cart. Their meats go bad in record time. They probably add carbon-dioxide to the meats to make them look fresh. When underneath they're brown. Unfortunately this happens to be the ONLY supermarket within walking distance of a NYCHA development so these people have no choice. This Western Beef has joined the neighborhood in gentrification. So Noone really cares. What a shame there was a time when the local supermarket was part if a neighborhood not there to extort from those that have no choice.

There prices are outages to expensive,this is a low income & average neiborhood,I hated that western beef raised there prices ever since they been putting up the new buildings in the neiborhood. so now everybody in the neiborhood have been complaining about there prices do now everyone has been going to new jersey because no body seems to care about the people in the neiborhood.its crazy western beef need to go back and lower there prices

Very disorganized. Manager does nothing but walk around acting like she/ he is doing something to look busy. Especially when the lines to pay are long. Useless management. Store could be a goldmine. But you are people dropping their items and walking out.

This store is one of the few remnants of the old West Village and Chelsea. It was located on 14th Street, but was moved to 16th Street to not be an "eyesore" to the new residents and the *chic* meatpacking district. It has the only semi-reasonable prices in the area for groceries and the meat is outstanding. Their staff is largely Hispanic and have always been very nice to me. Of course they are not going to be super happy as a Trader Joe's employee is about their jobs; they aren't well paid and work in busy, difficult conditions -- including an upscale bar next door whose drunk patrons often drop in. The store largely exists to serve the nearby housing project residents and the older population in the area. Their products are fine; don't go there expecting upscale products. If you have money by all means go to the more expensive stores which admittedly probably do have higher quality products and better service. For people who need to save money and eat safe, good food, this is the place to go.

I just moved here from the Southwest, so their logo caught my eye. I thought I might find some good familiar food here and stopped in. To this day, I regret it!

Gross! Their meat section is like a salmonella factory. Leaky packaging, so there's bloody juices on the shelves. Thanks Western Beef, for helping me get one step closer to being a vegetarian.

The isles of the rest of the store were so narrow, you can barely get a cart in. If there's one cart in the aisle, you can't walk around it. And I only weigh 100lbs!

All I ended up buying was a bag of cane sugar. And I had to wait in line forever, as people bought huge cartloads of junk. That's not so bad (although were I come from, every grocery store has express self-checkout) except that when it was *finally* my turn, the cashier just stood there, because the lady in front of me had forgotten her credit card or something? Anyway, I waited there at least 15 minutes for it to get sorted out, and he never even apologized for the inconvenience or whatever. I know, it was only 15 minutes, but it was stupid and rude. I wish I had just walked out instead of bothering to get anything.

With the Manhattan Fruit Exchange right around the corner, I'm amazed anyone shops here at all.