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areyououtthere

Grocery Anthropology Part 1

Jun 22, 2009 01:36

Apparently most of the world hates my friendly neighborhood grocery store, and I'm still not entirely sure why. (Yes, I'm aware of the bias where people only post reviews on places like yelp if they only have extremely positive or negative experiences, but I've heard this opinion expressed by friends in person too ( Read more... )

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singer88 June 22 2009, 07:18:18 UTC

Unrelated: I miss you.

fiddledragon June 22 2009, 11:13:06 UTC

Sure it's not one of the aforementioned spacious suburban monstrosities, but have these people ever seen a grocery store in Manhattan?

Even if they have, they can probably be excused for expecting most places in the US to be less crowded than anything in Manhattan.

maladaptive June 22 2009, 12:14:47 UTC

Maybe I'm just not picky, but my only qualms about BMC's Acme was that it didn't have what I was looking for half the time.

And the only time I have complaints about grocery staff are... let's see, the time the cashier stopped scanning to chit-chat with the bag boy (who also stopped bagging) and turned into a sourpuss when my mom said "excuse me!", and the time the bag boy put my bread at the bottom of the bag of heavy things. Sullen? Whatever.

In response to your eta: the demographic that uses yelp, of course. I'm looking at the Miami reviews and they're all the hipster, indie places that no one goes to save... hipsters and occasionally New Yorkers who think they're authentic Miami experiences. I haven't even heard of most of these places and I was born and raised in this city.

wayman June 22 2009, 12:38:48 UTC

Having lived in West Philly for three years, I can say without reservation that Fresh Grocer is an awful, awful, terrible supermarket and Supreme, while better, is still pretty awful too ( ... )

wayman June 22 2009, 12:48:40 UTC

Oh, and Fu Wah, 47th & Baltimore, for any general Japanese groceries of course.

areyououtthere June 22 2009, 22:56:28 UTC

I already get most or all of my produce and sometimes eggs and bread from the Clark Park market. Whichever grocery store I go to is primarily for dry goods ( ... )

fiddledragon June 22 2009, 23:20:33 UTC

At least in the grocery stores here, I find that Trader Joe's is a better value for similar products. It's still organic/gourmet, and I could definitely get lower-quality/more boring similar things cheaper elsewhere, but if you want the kinds of things Trader Joe's does well, it's usually less expensive to buy them there. And no, it's not a good place to get staples, unless you do a lot of cooking with unusual ingredients and don't have a health food/co-op/ethnic grocery or something like that close by.