Pete’s Shur Save

I have visited this grocery store a few times. They have good prices; I usually go every so often to stock up on products I need. The clerks are usually friendly and helpful.

This place is nastyyyyyy! Stay away. I used to live in the neighborhood and, on an off chance when I didn’t feel like going to the nearby Aldi’s and Save a Lot, I stopped in here to see what they have to offer.
The first thing you’ll notice when you come to this place is the jail-​like cage in front of the store that is designed to keep people from stealing shopping carts. How classy.
At any rate, here’s my gripe with this place: EVERYTHING IS EXPIRED! Everything. I mean EVERYTHING!!! Barbecue sauce. Tomatoes. Cream of Mushroom Soup. Cheese. Meat. Mark my words, EVERYTHING is expired. The only things I could find that weren’t expired (that I was looking for that day) were frozen fish, fresh produce, and a 20 oz soda.
The only positive thing I can really say is that I found frozen swai for $ 1 a pound, a pretty good deal. And, according to the label, it wouldn’t expire for a year yet. As for the produce, it wasn’t fresh by any means, but at least it didn’t look like you’d keel over and die if you ate it.
They even had a super-​discount section where canned goods were 2+ years expired. Eventually I abandoned my original shopping needs and just wandered around the place, looking randomly to see *just* how expired their stuff was. As I recall, the record I found in my 20 minute shopping trip was spaghetti sauce that expired in 2008. To add context: my visit was in the fall of 2012.
This place is nasty. I suggest you avoid it. Aldi’s isn’t that far away. To add insult to injury, read this tidbit from a KSDK News Article about this specific store:
«Specifically, during inspections beginning in 1999 and continuing into 2003, USDA and St. Louis City Health Department inspectors found rodent droppings in the meat cutting room, cooler, deli case, and meat display cases; rodent-​gnawed meat; adulterated ground chuck offered for sale in the meat display case; cooked deli meat, smoked pigtails and Farmland riblets that were covered with mold; smoked pork products, with mold, being offered for sale in the self service meat case; packages of fresh beef and pork in various shades of dark red and grey, offered for sale in a meat display case with an elevated temperature; a heavy black build-​up of dried and sour meat, blood, and bone meal on the meat cutting saw, grinding and blending equipment; and other conditions that may have caused meat products to become adulterated.»
«Local Market, Managers Admit to Adulterating Meats»
KSDK
Jordan Palmer
12÷9÷03
Needless to say, I discovered all this after I shopped here. Ain’t nothing changed.