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Beach's Market
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
13 reviews for Beach's Market
13 reviews in English
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Review from Anna C.
Rosemead, CA
12/14/2011 1 Check-in Here
After all these years, Beach's is still the same - even the workers. The only difference is that it's obviously A LOT less busy with big bad Wal-mart now in town. If you want me to paint a picture, well... there's usually only one register open. I'm surprised that it still manages to stay afloat with such little business. Walking into this place brings back a lot of memories, but it's also kind of depressing. I could totally imagine some tumbleweed rolling on by.
Wal-mart doesn't TOTALLY have this place beat. Like... take ground beef for example. 3 LBS will run you about $9 over at Wal-mart, but it's only $6 here. Huge difference and I'm pretty sure it's less processed.
Everything here is also in stock and quite neat, but then again, I guess it's just cos there's no customers to terrorize the place.
I don't know if anyone cares, but they don't sell greeting cards anymore or any of those little cheapo, stocking-stuffer-worthy toys anymore that use use to be displayed next to the cards. -
Review from christy m.
San Gabriel, CA
10/23/2011 42 Check-ins Here
Ghetto does not even begin to describe this place. You know them papi chulos that kick it inside AND outside and just stare down your shirt... and hope to cop a feel? No? Well maybe it's just me then.
No, really. there's hellllllla pervs kickin' it around the store, and it does make me feel uncomfortable.... buuuuut this is one bomb ass market that sells everything I need for hella cheap! One of my favorite shampoos to use is Sunsilk just because it smells so good, and this is the ONLY place I know that sells it still! Granted, it is a bit overpriced for what they sell it for ($4.49), but since it's the only distributer that still has it in stock, oh well. I'll make the trip here.
Prices on produce and canned goods are awesome! I've been coming here since I was a little girl, and still do! Just not often. -
Review from Mimi D.
El Monte, CA
1/10/2012 1 Check-in Here
Grew up with this market so I mean it feels like home . It doesn't always have EVERYTHING I need but it's decent . Never has bad customer service here so I mean it's dead majority of the time . It's never over crowded which I like . It's too mush of a hassle with the world pushing each other & getting in each other's faces so I like calmness .
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Review from Michael W.
La Verne, CA
12/23/2010 2 Check-ins Here
Man Beaches has memories.
My Grandmother loves this place and is fiercely loyal to it. We hear Beaches is cheaper all the time from her whenever we see her.
Place is old and a bit run down but is still pushing along....
Selection is a bit limited but as my Grandmother would say the prices are good! -
Review from Tim Z.
Arcadia, CA
5/1/2011
5 stars for memories
and the water machine (bring jugs)
and Donald Duck orange juice.
-1 for the dirty run-down environment :/ -
Review from Moshe R.
Rosemead, CA
3/3/2011 37 Check-ins Here
The meat selection is good but the produce gets handled alot by different customers and when I wana buy it it's all soft ewww good place for meat bad for fruit
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Review from Stacy B.
Montebello, CA
7/7/2011
Creepy
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Review from Wayne K.
Los Angeles, CA
11/12/2010
Decently priced produce. For everything else, you can probably find better deals elsewhere.
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Review from George G.
Los Angeles, CA
1/27/2009
"Let's go to Bitches" I love my adorable mexican gramma and how she'd say "Beaches". Five stars because my gramma used to take us here when we were kids in her canary yellow trans-am (with painful burning vinyl seating) to get groceries. This was her go to spot for picking up chicken for the always excellent Friday night fried chicken dinners she'd make so well. She'd shopped here for like, a trillion years, and she'd buy me a whirigig for going with her. I love it.
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Review from Eli M.
Downey, CA
6/25/2008 1 photo
I grew up coming to this location for my early years. My grandmother lived on the street behind Beach's. we would walk with grandma to the store for groceries. This brings back memories...I feel that this location has better produce than the one in Downey.
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Review from FRANKIE D.
Rosemead, CA
3/9/2009
Beach's Market has terrible service. The cashiers are always mad, and the express lane is never open. The store always looks dirty.
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Review from Robyn R.
Monterey Park, CA
7/3/2011
Very creepy atmosphere, but I come here for the produce prices. They are remarkably inconsistent. Some items may be twice as much as the big boy chains, others are one-fourth. You will usually have to pick through a bunch of crap to find the few gems, but when you find them, you can walk out of that place laughing, and laugh harder when you pass the big boy stores on your way home. Beyond the prices, their buyer picks up some of the most unusual produce. Some of the things I've found that I haven't seen elsewhere: red cherry chilies, purple cauliflower, and fresh figs. I half live inside cookbooks and scouring the Web for even more recipes, and had to do some searching for how to do justice to this stuff. No way to make purple cauliflower the same way as white! I found some chef online that gave it a Spanish twist. Came out great and would have served it at my next dinner party, but they didn't have any more. Similar for the figs, but in that case I had the confidence to follow the recipe in my cookbook translating into English the top selling cookbook for years in Italy. Wow! My guests and I were not disappointed! The figs, cooked in their own syrup and served over ice cream were spectacular! So - a BIG THANK YOU to Beaches for bringing me this item which I don't think I've ever seen being sold anywhere else. And just like the cauliflower, they were a one time shot, not there in two or three times I've been there since. Anyway, it's just a cook's adventure over there. You never know what you'll find but I always walk out with something or other.
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Review from belinda n.
Los Angeles, CA
8/28/2008
i grew up coming to this grocery store & my parents & my sister still stock their kitchen w/beach's dusty canned goods..
as a child i remember the canned goods being so dusty..
when i was visiting my parents a year or 2 ago i stopped by beach's for a thing or 2 and guess what..........
their canned goods are still dusty..
my mom now complains how every 6 or 8 months or so, my dad picks up a package of chicken (in their old retired state, my dad is now in charge of the groceries while my mom still rules the kitchen) & once it comes home, it stinks to high heaven.. although my dad isnt stupid to choose the expired chicken, for some reason, their butcher seems to think stinky chicken is good till 3 days from day of purchase..
and when i stopped by that one time, several of the cashiers were the same ones when i was a kid.. (and this was the late 80's, early 90's im talking about)
why would someone want to work at beach's market for 20 years?
i guess the benefits are awesome or a 20 yr veteran cashier must make the yearly 6 digits......
one of the manager, Bob, (he was a manager when i was a kid) is in luv w/my older sis..this creepazoid literally saw us grow up (unfortunately, he was only able to witness my sis blossom into a well endowed woman & not me. ahem)
well the groceries here are nothing to obsess thanksgiving dinner over.
they dont carry those luxurious items such as goat cheese, endive, dried blueberries, fresh monkfish, and the coloring books that are by the register i remember always being outdated..
but if you live in the neighborhood (Good Ole Rosemead i miss you)
well beach's will do..
if you see a giant round faced lightskinned manager, thats bob..
