Yes. That’s more a like a boutique place with nice stuff, especially their fruits, as is Breeze Super. These are places for rich people.
Guy
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Used to do 1 weekly trip to RT-mart, then Costco the following week, repeat.. wifey would also randomly go to the local PX-mart for essentials..
Sad to see the RT-mart go, whilst pretty much everything stocked seems the same, it feels prices are somewhat higher..
In Nantou we have 關於全方位 全方位食品五金百貨連鎖大賣場
They are great to get a few things for a good price. They do not sell fresh produce, for that one should go to farmers markets anyway.
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Over the weeks of the transition it has become usually px mart lower quality. I see rotting veggies, old meat, moldy mushrooms and so on. The prices have jumped insanely high as well.
Sad day for supermarket goers in Taiwan 
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This really pissed me off. With AI and translation software so ubiquitous how hard is it to include English options now? They’ve had English on self check-out for years, why dump it? This place is now the most English unfriendly of them all now.
I had been going to RT Mart for many years and now this. I go to the new one now maybe twice a month but only because they have the best selection of chicken cuts (breasts both whole bone-in and fillet, thighs, wings) I have found anywhere. But lately that seems to be changing with less selection available. Beyond that I don’t notice a whole lot of difference tbh. Their “bakery” and “prepared food” sections were always a joke and still are.
But now I have to wait on line for check-out which is annoying so now I go to Carrefour much more often than in the past. Problem with them is you need to go to their big stores for decent selection and there’s none close to where I live. I use PX Mart for convenient pick up of necessities in a pinch because there are three near me but I’m not crazy about their selection either. Costco is the only place I would buy pork tenderloins or steaks (rare these days as beef has gone sky high in price).
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RT-Mart used to have a great selection of imported food items all at very reasonable prices. Rummo pasta, olive paste, sun dried tomatoes, Jacob’s biscuits and Southeast Asian products were some of the best deals as well as their wide variety of wines. Too bad it is no more.
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That may have been during the interlude when they were owned by Auchan, a French company?
I think it is fair to say that the current PX Mart owners may bring a different approach.
Guy
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This whole thread is the most unified I think I’ve seen the forum. Almost everyone seems to agree the situation is not great and getting worse.
As for this quote, I do the same. Lucky to have a big C4 in 淡水. PX mart is a joke as is C4s bakery. Mentioned it in another post that the best bread I can find is at FamilyMart
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全聯 is a KMT off-shoot. It was originally a military, government employee, and teachers only market (軍公教福利中心). The current CEO 林敏雄 was able to buy several KMT party assets when the KMT learned they might be asked to return them and began selling them preemptively. For example, a piece of private land about 8393 ping belonging to the Yeh family in Tuā-tiū-tiânn (大稻埕) was occupied by the KMT, and the KMT eventually forced the Yeh family to “sell” them the land for 5 NTD per ping in 1961, and then when the Yeh family refused to accept the payment, the KMT forcefully deposited just 40,000 NTD in their bank account. The KMT, namely Ma Yingjiu, sold the land to 林敏雄’s development company for 4.250 billion NTD.
So yeah, as much as it pains me, as both A-mart and Carrefour closed down in Hsinchu, I am staying away from PX Mart, mega or otherwise.
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Ah…so that’s why it’s called PX Mart. I always wondered.
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Looking now, Hsinchu has 3 Carrefours?
Those were the old 頂好 (Wellcome, I think?) markets that Carrefour purchased before the French Carrefour sold the Taiwan stores to Uni President.
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People caring nothing about peoples jobs whilst complaining about which way automation machines are making the company more money makes other people go crazy as well. It’s really bonkers how short sighted the modern day customer is. Just as an FYI.
Edit. Deleted the supporting argument as too much context and info tends to piss people off. We can take this nice and slow, or just agree that we as the consumer still have some weight in influencing companies. The real question is what do we, as the customers, support? 100% being taken advantage of under the guise of convenience, or supporting our community?
Px/rt mart is pretty horrible. Great for investors, but terrible for suppliers, customers and workers alike.
My 2 cents anyway.
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We’re not the only ones complaining! Note they don’t address the fact that no one answers the phone.
Nah, Taiwanese love pxmart. Because it has a hit song. You can even sing it in KTV.
These machines have been installed in RT-Marts for more than 5 years, they are not replacing anybody. Quite the contrary, in RT-Mart Bitan, normally there are only 2 or 3 “human cashiers” open, probably due to lack of personnel. We all know that Taiwan’s problem is not a lack of job posts (in the service area), but a lack of “unskilled” workers who can do these jobs. So I think having the machines is a fair solution in this case, and not leading people to be unemployed.
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Sure, if ine think so. There is a pretty clear effort to cut labor costs. Not just there, mcdonalds and basically anywhere that can get away with it. They have been there for years yeas, and staff have slowly been cut as well for those years. And it will continue. I know it isn’t obvious to everyone yet, but wait another 10 and see how the job availability goes after the transitions. Writing is very much on the wall, as it was 5, even 10 years ago.
Doesn’t what what ones views on that is, my only question is when lots of retail style jobs are gone, what social nets exist for the unemployment? Old people in Taiwan are dieing off, they historically enable family members that are unemployed or suffering. There are lots of issues happening at once to not be at least slightly concerned for people.
Went to one last weekend, and it was tiny, but it has about 70% of what I normally went to the big Carrefour for. Most importantly 3 bunddles of organic veggies that only cost 99 dollar.
I went to a Funcom last week, and was shocked how much more everything costs there. So despite this tiny Carrefour has barely any room to push a shopping cart around, I’LLC just have to made do. There was one Welcomm near the THSR that’s pretty big, I wonder if that’s the biggest Carrefour in town.
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Maybe the other stores will have the remaining 30%.
A Carrefour treasure hunt!