Bharat Bazar - Union City, California

Rickey M.

I love this grocery store. Every day at 1pm, fresh/hot Samosas are delivered to this store. They are sssooo tasty, and I couldn't believe how inexpensive they were. They also have a great selection of produce, frozen meals and snacks.

Rini J.

Bad policies, they don't care about long-term customers, they refuse to give full service to customers, and they don't care about the environment.

As per their policy, they will not pack groceries in reusable bags!! Reusable bags are good for the environment but if you take them to this Bharat Bazar, they will not give you the full service of packing groceries. They will only pack it if you buy their disposable bags.

I have been their customer for 12 years, I have politely tried to explain to them that people mainly avoid buying store bags for the environment, to reduce trash in the world and not to save that 10 cents! The customers who bring their bags should get the same service you provide to the ones who buy the bag for 10 cents. Even after trying multiple times, they fail to understand and I still do not see any change.

They give a lot of new excuses not to pack/work.

Until last year they said they won't pack it because of COVID-19.

Then they said we don't pack groceries in customers' reusable bags because they are DIRTY!! If this is what the business thinks about the customers then they are not right for this market, where customers are treated with much more respect at other places.

They say we don't pack groceries because no other grocery store packs groceries in reusable bags.

All Indian stores and all the stores around Union City Bharat Bazar pack the groceries. The staff gives the example of Food Max, that they don't pack the grocery bag. Food Max has a different checkout process with longer belts, they never packaged groceries but this Bharat Bazar used to pack them in reusalbe bags before the pandemic now they throw new excuses every day.

The bottom line is that they don't care about providing full service to customers and especially refuse it to the customers who bring their bags to help with the environment.
Or they want to make money with 10 cents for a new bag, which is too tiny to make sense.

Due to this attitude, I have decided to stop going there and will do my best to share the word in my community so we all choose to support good stores and businesses that truly care!

Jagadeesh R.

Heaven for indians in the states. Even the ambience looks like an typical Indian market. The only con is that it expensive for me. As a newbie I was tempted to buy all I see but, on the contrasting side my pocket was punched a bigger hole for each and every product I chose. I hope to see some price reduction or atleast some student discounts. More over you can get Indian vegetables too which was a big bonus for me.

Akhil K.

Bread got moldy way before the expiry date. I still had almost a week to expiry as shown on the sticker. And they reduced to refund.

Gayatri P.

Crowded, not.organized. overall, okay place for ethnic groceries. Good variety of frozen items though.

Ronak G.

They've improved a lot since COVID hit. The vegetables are now fresh and the items are not expired anymore. Would definitely help of they improve their variety though.

Edit: the quality has remained good long after the pandemic got over. They're my go to Indian grocery store now.

Arwinder S.

I’ve noticed over the past few years that there’s often a price difference between the actual product price and what is scanned at checkout. Sometimes, they even charge for the same item twice. I’ve mentioned this to them many times, but it seems like they’re overcharging people by adding extra costs.

Manjinger T.

Prices are high than other stores , if they want people to buy their products have reliable pricing options