Cindy Y.
Yelp
The Charlotte K&S World Market, aka the "nicer" K&S location. It's bigger (or so it seems to me) and slightly cleaner/less run down and skinky than the Nolansville location. There's also less foot traffic here than the other store (at least every time I've been there), and a much bigger parking lot (not that I've ever had a parking problem at either location). For the most part, you'll find just about everything you need here but I think the Charlotte store has less variety of goods to choose from. It's still the cheapest place to buy groceries compared to the regular American supermarkets and you'll have better luck finding the ingredients needed to make Asian, Latin American/Caribbean, and Middle Eastern dishes.
It's a pretty good one stop shop stated cuisines. There's many different meat cuts and a variety of seafood that you won't find elsewhere, a very good selection of produce (usually pretty fresh), plenty of frozen items (baos, buns, dumplings, fish balls, etc.) that meet your needs and lots of snack items, sauces and dry goods as well. I'm not sure how fresh their seafood or meat are (I've only ever bought frozen hot pot meat and that was good) but I don't know if I'd ever buy fresh highly perishable items like meats or seafood there.
I really wish that their refrigerated section was bigger, and I wish it was impeccable and well kept of a store to offer hot and cold ready-to-eat items from an on-site kitchen (ex: char siu, roasted duck, dim sum to-go, Chinese cold appetizers, sushi, etc. like at other Asian grocery chains), even if it was just weekends only. I guess I'm just asking too much because I really wish we had a market here that's on the caliber of 99 Ranch/H-Mart/T&T Supermarket/Mitsuwa/etc. but I suppose the population here isn't big enough for something like that (yet...?). :( If you're going on a road trip to somewhere like Cincy or Atlanta, I'd just hold off on shopping on some of the items and just wait until you get to a larger Asian populated city and go on a grocery haul there. Until then, I'll just keep dreaming. (If anyone's thinking of opening a market like that, PLEASE DO IT! You'd fill the gap of the lack of good Asian markets within the vicinity of a good number of neighboring states.)
TL;DR: It's a pretty good market for a state like TN and its neighboring states (sans GA and maybe NC) but it's got a lot to improve compared to your Asian chains out in the West and Northeast).