Mi Tierra Supermarket

Number one upsetting thing about this supermarket is the amount of boxes piled in the aisle! Not only is this dangerous for mother with children, but you can’t get threw with you stroller of shopping cart. I kid you not this place is awful. Nothing is ever on sale and the meat section smells horrible! Got some ice cream here and expiration date was 6 months old. I brought it back and was told well you should have checked. Are you kidding? Never again rather walk to 76^th street and 37^th avenue.

I go back and forth with Mi Tierra. Key Food on 86^th and Foodtown on 37^th Ave are definitely superior.
PROS
— Close to my apartment
— Cheap produce
— Ultra-​affordable and bountiful staples of Latin American cooking
— Fair selection of fresh (if a bit pricey) seafood
CONS
— Slim, overpriced selection of my «yuppie» foods, i.e. greek yogurt
— Narrow, often crowded aisles
— Some of the produce, meat, and even dry goods are old. I once saw an entire section of olive oil so old it was solid and white. Didn’t know this could even happen.
— Customer service is meh
— As another reviewer said, it’s mysteriously cold in here all the time. I popped in here on Christmas day and it was colder in the store than it was outside!
All-​in-​all I can usually get most of my shopping done here to my satisfaction so I can’t knock Mi Tierra too much. I do shop here most of the time unless I’m in a bougie mood.

Yet another wretched New York supermarket, seemingly transported as if by magic from behind the Iron Curtain before the collapse of Communism. Cramped, indifferent, filled with mysteriously priced items and second rate produce, it’s recommended for all who suffer from low blood pressure, since a visit is guaranteed to induce hypertension. After snaking your way through the narrow aisles, count on a nice long wait to check out. That’s because there are too few cashiers, no doubt as a result of the store’s lofty standards for excruciating slowness and unfriendliness in all its hires. Sadly there are worse stores in Jackson Heights, though a recent outburst of investment at Patel’s and Food Dynasty may have pushed Mi Tierra down to the bottom of the dismal pile.

Seriously the only reason I ever shopped over here was it was so close to home and the produce was cheap. However the meat department sucks compared to other chain supermarkets. I’d rather make the trip to Waldbaums. It’s overpriced for the quality, nothing ever looked fresh. Thin cut steaks only available, low quality choices. Not a huge selection.
Thank goodness I don’t have to shop here anymore.

If I had to rate the customer service here and the cashiers, they would get half a star … very rude. The only things that saves them are the cheap produce prices and the seafood department. If this supermarket wasn’t across the street and I wasn’t so lazy to walk, I would go to KeyFood (the old Compare).

this place is not so great… they don’t have any soy protein or meat alternatives at all unlike other places in the neighborhood and the cashiers are extremely unfriendly… they don’t greet you at all and when you say bye they don’t say anything back… I understand getting paid 10 an hour sucks but c’mon.a little friendly customer service would be nice. There are better markets in the neighborhood that cost just as much and the food is better quality and caters to vegeterians or occasional meat eaters.

Eh, hate to say it, but didn’t see much of an advantage over Key Foods (formerly Compare).

This market is full of thrives. I went in today for corn for my cookout, and the advertised price was 1.99 for 7– not conditional. By the time I went to the cashier, I was charged 5 dollars. I complained to the manager, he points out that I have to buy $ 10 worth of OTHER GROCERIES so that I am get the discount. The ONLY place this was posted, and it clearly was at a cashier… Not the cashier I was shopping from, 2 lines over. I paid and told them I would never shop at their place again, clearly mentioning that they are thieves.

This supermarket has one serious problem: Its computer system is not updated to reflect price changes, so one is almost always charged the wrong price for at least one item by the bar-​code scanner. I have repeatedly complained to managers there about this, but nothing changes.

every time i waste time coming to this food store, everything is either half rotted, or still has sand on it. want proof? check the basil… i sh*t you not!
i have to go to the city, to get fresh veggies! keep it together guys, why expand?

It’s ironic that a store catering to Latin Americans is always freezing. Every time I’m there, regardless of the season, someone invariably turns to me and says «Tengo frío» and then shivers. I’m not a Spanish speaker, by the way, just an honorary Mexican. But yes! Me too! So cold in Mi Tierra.
Other than that, they have some excellent deals, like 10 limes for a $ 1. Plum tomatoes are wonderful year-​round, in contrast to the off-​putting ones you find elsewhere during the winter. The seafood selection is a pleasant surprise. If you need to stock up on spices and herbs used in Latin American cuisines, you can do that here. Meat prices are not that bad, though you’re likely to get lower prices at the many carnicerías in and around Jackson Heights. Also, various coffees are frequently on sale. If you want to make Mexican hot chocolate at home, they’ve got the Abuelita tablets! And should you need bulk quantities of jaggery and tamarind, come see the displays of them yourself.

The best produce and prices in the area. There is no place that comes close to this. C town is awful and trade fair is worse.

At first I thought the only bad thing was that they sell expired chickens at times but honestly the worst thing about this supermarket is half the staff! They act Rude, condescending and like thugs! After a cashier was very rude to me and I told her she was being so another cashier told me «if I had a problem that we can take it outside» Why did it even get to that point! I NEVER thought I would get harassed like this in a supermarket! Management should teach their staff to be more decent… It’s not like they are working for free!

I like this place. It beats the hell out of the hole in the wall that was there before it.
The produce section is nicely organized and displayed. The prices are reasonable. I think the produce is cheaper than Compare and the quality is better. The aisles are small but whatelse is new. The deli guy is nice — he will slice it thin if you ask… I rarely buy meat in a supermarket, I go to a butcher shop in Astoria. So for my purposes if I am in the area to get some Thai food or Pollo Asado, I definitely will stop in for some needed items. Overall I think it is a decent supermarket.

Compared to most supermarkets in the area, this has the best prices. I spend 50 $ and walk out with 10bags!!! Always come here for my salmon. Always fresh and staff very friendly. I will say it gets extremely packed w/​very long lines. I have no complaints up to this day. Always find what I need and more.

This place pulls you in with the array of produce gleaming in their front windows but what lies beneath is another story. The aisles are jammed packed with garbage, most of the produce is rotten, The prices are always inconsistent. The cashiers are the nastiest bitches you’d ever want to meet. The manager Pedro? could give two craps about anything. He just stands there with a nasty smirk on his face. Last time I went I bought two bottles of soda which so happen to have a coupon attached. I peel them off the bottles hand them to the cashier and she says No you cant use TWO coupons at once. I ask why not she says that’s the rules. pedro comes over and says NO you can’t use any coupons they are on sale. I tell him they are not on sale but he and the nasty cashier began getting nasty with me. I told them to go Bleep themselves and walked out. Sorry I can spend my hard earned CASH somewhere else. I hope they go out of business and we get a «REAL» supermarket.

The store is nice enough with a decent selection and prices, but every time I go there’s a ridiculously long line at the checkout and the checkout girls are often impolite. Tonight after waiting in line for 20 minutes she was so careless bagging my food that she broke the packaging on some meat and ended up bagging raw meat and fresh produce in the same bag, which is not sanitary. If they can get more registers running and better customer service I might go here more often for the large produce section, but instead I go a few blocks up to Compare (on 85^th) where the service is better.

As most supermarkets, this one is always packed. I live very close to this one, and that’s the only reason I go there.

If I checked in as much as I actually go here, I would be the duchess times a million. I love it here. Cheap excellent produce, a nice seafood counter and good prices on everything all around. The staff, particularly the guys who do the stocking, are really nice and helpful. This is the place where my mother-​in-​law was concerned that several things had been left off our order when we walked out with five bags of groceries for under $ 20. Love it :)

The staff is nice and the products that are there are decent and well organized. However, the selection is slim and the prices can be beat. The worst thing about this store is the temperature though. It is freezing year round. At least in the winter you have a coat on to cover up from it. I’m miserable in this place if I don’t have a coat on and avoided it this summer. In fact, that’s what led me to discover other grocery stores around that are better.