Ok, fess up. Who hid a full diaper by the entrance of the Vons on 11674 Santa Monica Blvd? Someone needs to come forward, because apparently no one at this Vons can find it, and it’s been lurking there for about three months now!
I, along with my friends, refer to this Vons as the “Ghetto Vons.” I have never walked into this market and not immediately thought to myself “why didn’t I just go a half mile more to Ralph’s?” The stench of some baby or animal’s dung punches you in the face the instant you walk in. The produce is more like an apartment complex for insects, and they seem to be incapable of having more than two registers open at the same time, leading to 20 minute wait in line when the only reason you went to this Ghetto Vons in the first place is because you didn’t feel like walking or driving all the way to Ralph’s.
Let me catch my breath. Ok this place is bad, really bad, like someone alert the health board bad. However, if you’re really patient, hate fruit, and have a bad sense of smell: excellent shopping experience.
on Aug 28th, 2008
[...] like the bottle told me to do. Then I flushed it with hot tap water. No dice. I head out to Ghetto Vons and pick up some Liquid Plumr Gel for $11 and that scares the beard monster out of the drain right [...]
on May 12th, 2009
I’m sorry, but this is a ghetto ass Vons. Just look at the one on Lincoln and Broadway. That’s how a grocery store in the year 2009 should look and operate. Nobody is impressed by the “serving the community since 1952 sign” by the front entrance. The place looks like an emergency wartime hangar, and smells like a zoo. Yeah, the prices are decent, but I find myself checking corners while I shop there like some hobo is going to shank me for my cart.
on May 12th, 2009
You know what’s crazy? I think the whole block might smell like old used diapers. I went to Cafe 50′s across the street (which I love) and smelled a hint of that damp monkey diaperocity. Pretty sure I picked it up in that store in the Von’s parking lot that turns into a Christmas/Halloween store too.
on Dec 9th, 2009
[...] Vons, the monkey diaper smelling super(?)market that bothered me so much I started this here blog with a post about it, is meeting the wrecking ball in 2011. Curbed LA reports that it will be replaced by a much [...]