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Skriven 2008-02-09 07:35:00 av DAVE DRUM (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Wegman's
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-=> MICHAEL LOO wrote to DALE SHIPP <=-

 DS> We don't get to Whole Foods often -- I think the closest ones are
 DS> either in Baltimore or Annapolis.   None have made it into the
 DS> Columbia area yet.   Wegman's is still negotiating with the county
 DS> planning & zoning boards for their proposed site here.

 ML> There appears to be resistance to Weggie's encroachments. I
 ML> wonder if the entrenched Giant and Safeway people are putting
 ML> up barriers, or Wegman's stores are particularly environmentally
 ML> unfriendly, or Wegman management is just more forthright and
 ML> public about its trials and tribulations.

Probably they are concerned about the quality of Wegmans making them step up
their games a notch or two in order to keep market share. Georgia and I found
the Wegmans (a baby according to Burt) in Canandaigua leaps and bounds better
than anything available here in the Great American Outback (tm). Our Schnuk's
tries - but, they are, at best, a pale shadow of even the "baby" Weggies. In
selection, layout, accessibility, etc.

I sent e-mail to Wegmans inquiring as to their expansions plans vis-a-vis the
Great American Outback (tm). As I did with BJs and Costco. The answer was that
they have been looking at the middle of the country - but, it is a back burner
sort of thing with them right now.

BJs is a no-hope - according to their e-mail. Costco has a location in St.
Louis and I have sent some information on existing sites w/mega-parking and
acerages with high traffic counts to their real estate department. Meanwhile,
our second Wally World Mega Mart ... or Super Center or whatever their rip-off
express is called, nears completion. If they manage to run all the competition
out of business I will either have to move or spend a lot more on gaz-o-lina
since I refuse to do business with them in even the tiniest amount.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Picon Punch
 Categories: Booze, Beverages
      Yield: 1 Shooter
 
           Grenadine; enough to coat
           - the glass
  1 1/2 oz Amer Picon *
           Ice
           Soda water
           Brandy
           Lemon twist
 
  Coat the inside of a glass with grenadine and shake out the excess.
  Fill the glass with ice. Add the Amer Picon and fill with soda water.
  Float a small amount of brandy on top, just to give it a brandy
  taste. Garnish with a lemon twist.
  
  * Note: Your liquor cabinet may just have an old bottle of Amer Picon
  — it keeps. But if not, you may need to save this recipe until you or
  a friend can bring a bottle back from Europe. The Italian firm Torani
  makes a Picon-flavored Amer, but according to staff at Coit Liquor
  it's not exactly the same.
  
  URL: http://sfgate.com
  
  MM Format by Dave Drum - 10 January 2007
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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