These sorts of stores are a relatively new phenomenon in China and are still only found in cities where higher prices are paid for the time saving convenience. The diversity of offering was actually really impressive, far surpassing the average American grocery store...
After hitting the 1st floor for your clothing, shoes, home care supplies, etc... this escalator takes you and your cart to food offerings on the 2nd floor.
Most meat is not prepacked, though in contrast to open air-markets it is refrigerated.
Customers dig through to find a piece to their liking.
Cured meats
Dried Fish
Oodles of Noodles
Most fruit doesn't say where it's from.
New Zealand Apples
Tea--it's not frowned upon to pick it up with your hands and smell it, glasses by each display the hue it will stain water.
More Tea
Self-serve shrimp and I don't know what...
Pick a fish off the ice...
Or a live one from the tanks. Besides fish they also have eels, frogs and crayfish in live-wells.
The scene is not so different than a American grocer--though in China Bud is only 3.6 ABV and it proudly states rice as an ingredient on the front label.
The wine section was expansive.
All sorts of pre-made tea.
