In a story you'll only see on NY1, a grocery store worker in the Bronx says he was fired because he does not speak Spanish.

Anthony Hyman says he has worked at in the deli department at the supermarket on Pelham Parkway South and White Plains Road for the last four years — until about two weeks ago when it was taken over by new management.

It was a Green Apple Supermarket, but it became a C Town.

The manager says he was fired because he was not doing a good job.

But Hyman says he was told his department was being restructured and he was let go because he does not speak Spanish.

"The customers are complaining that when they come back here, 'You're taking too long to try to understand what they're trying to tell you,'" Hyman said outside the store. "But, sir, this is America, and in this country the number one basic language is English."

"I realized that he wasn't capable of doing his job, just a lot of the things that he was doing. During my time managing him, I saw the way he was working and I didn't like it," Gregory Gonzalez, the supermarket's manager, said through a translator. "I didn't feel like he was properly qualified for the business."

Hyman is working with the National Action Network, and he said has had filed a complaint with the Department of Consumer Affairs.