Seen on Saturday morning at the H Mart in Englewood, part of a chain of Korean supermarkets celebrating its 30th anniversary in the United States.
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By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Price signs continue to be a problem for food shoppers, whether they patronize a ShopRite or an H Mart.
On lower shelves, the signs are unreadable unless you get down on your hands and knees.
Often, products are misplaced on the shelf over the wrong sign, and instead of a deal, you get sticker shock at the register.
H Mart, formerly Han Ah Reum, is a chain of Korean supermarkets in New Jersey that is celebrating its 30th anniversary in America.
But the five H Marts I patronize in Englewood, Little Ferry, Fort Lee (2) and Ridgefield act as independent stores -- with different retail and sales prices, coupons, late-day discounts and sales.
Sign, label confusion
On Saturday at the Englewood H Mart, I saw Rico Garlic Paste for $2.99 each, according to the shelf sign, or a "special" of two for $6, according to a sticker on the jar.
The Englewood store also offers prepared food, and one of my favorites is spicy stewed Alaskan pollock, a cousin of the cod.
Jinga, one of the caterers that supplies H Mart, recently hiked the price for a 1-pound package of stewed pollock to $8.49 from $6.99.
Next to it on the shelf was a similar package of stewed pollock from Pinocchio, another outside company, for $7.49, but I couldn't compare the two, because the Pinocchio label listed the weight as "0 lb. 2 oz."
The label on Pinocchio Catering's Stewed Alaskan Pollock has shoppers guessing at the correct weight.
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