Shopping for Carrots

My mother and I went out today to shop for carrots for her raw carrot juice regimen. Since there is a newly opened SM supermarket near our area (Marikina), we decided to do our grocery there.

SM supermarket and it's malls is known in the Philippines as a one-stop shop. The owner, Henry Sy has introduced the concept of supermalls to our Filipino culture. I have always shopped or done my grocery shopping at SM, until I moved to my house here in Rizal. I started grocery shopping at Shopwise Cubao for the last four years because it was more convenient for us to get a ride going home.

Now since there is an SM mall in Marikina, we decided to shop for carrots there today. SM has always kept their quality standards with their fresh produce and I have never complained about their products until now.

But all this changed because of SM Markina. I was so disappointed with their produce section, particularly the carrots. Unlike with Shopwise where the carrots are laid out in trays and I can choose them, at SM they were all prepacked. The carrots came in threes or twos and whats more disappointing is that they try to hide the rotten ones with the good ones. Or they hide the flaws under the price tags.

For the first time, SM and Henry Sy has failed me. There are three produce brands or farms in every produce section of SM and all of the carrots they had were bad. It made me wish that we just travelled the extra thirty minutes going to shopwise Cubao. At least there, I could pick the all the good carrots. It seems that it will take time before I will go back to SM Marikina to do my grocery shopping again.