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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: moving 388
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-04-14  08:00 <=-

 ML>> Chinese-Japanese is a pretty unusual combination.
 NB>> True.  He might well be full Chinese.
 ML> I was thinking something like that. Or one of the
 ML> commoner mixes, Chinese with Thai or Filipino or
 ML> Indonesian or stuff like that.

Someday, if I feel rude enough, or acceptable enough, I might ask... We
have gotten into conversations that get close to that sort of thing...
 
 ML>> Japanese custards until recently were broth- or sake-based.
 NB>> Never knew that...  knew about using what you've styled mylks for
 NB>> making custards...
 ML> Not being a traditionally dairycentric cuisine, green tea
 ML> and red bean ice cream notwithstanding.

Would they have made those with other than milk, too...?
 
 ML>> and the kids beyond. Will we end up with Asians who eat dairy?
 NB>> Good question... I've known some hybrids that don't have difficulty
 NB>> with dairy...  but not sure about the next generation of "purebred"
 NB>> asian.. 
 ML> I'm not superclear on the roles of genetics and environment
 ML> on this issue.
 
I would have weighed in on the side of genetics, but I'm not sure either
any more... maybe it's getting bred out...?  Not every Asian has
problems with dairy, though most I've known have had...  :)

 NB>> It depended on the particular location... There was quite a hue and
 NB>> cry about one neighborhood Wegmans that many local neighbors were
 NB>> walking to, that didn't have transportation elsewhere, including some
 NB>> elderly, also some refugees, etc... I think in that case, Wegmans
 NB>> worked with the city to make sure there was a new grocery tenant,
 NB>> there's a Price-Rite in there now, and it wasn't empty for very long
 NB>> after Wegmans moved out.
 ML> That kind of confuses me - how some player decides that an
 ML> enterprise isn't worth its while but still manages to convince
 ML> a competitor that it is worth its. I guess Price-Rite might
 ML> operate on a lower margin or at a more predatory price point
 ML> than Wegmans? Or what.

Price-Rite prides itself on no-frills... I'm not sure what the quality
of their produce, dairy, meat and other fresh items is, not having
shopped them at all.  The neighborhood fit their model better than it
fit the "new" Wegmans model of up-scale... Probably that sort of thing
in the Wegmans that was there didn't move very quickly, and it was a
smaller store, so couldn't do some of the fancier things anyway...

 NB>> When they closed our regular Wegmans, the outcry
 NB>> was more muted, and what finally was put there was some sort of
 NB>> Wegmans education and training center, with Wegmans obviously still
 NB>> owning the building.  Staff at the various stores were transfered to
 NB>> other Wegmans stores, usually according to their desires... some of
 NB>> them ended up at stores closer to home for them, some at stores not
 NB>> that far from the closed one, sometimes both...  Customers had some

 ML> Seems semi-fair if a tiny bit inconvenient for customers.

It was... semi-fair, anyway...  Mostly we were just all disgruntled to
be forced to move from what was comfortable for us, whether staff or
customers... 
 
 NB>> choice as to which pharmacy to transfer their records to, and of
 NB>> course, which Wegmans to substitute as long as one had transportation
 NB>> to get there.  Many of the employees we knew from Brooks-Chili went
 NB>> over to Lyell Ave, which was probably the next closest to our house. 
 NB>> So it wasn't a complete loss of the familiar, just a partial one.
 ML> Familiar isn't so important to me as viable. Sounds
 ML> viable anyhow.
 
Yeah... it was viable.  Pretty much...  ;)

 ML>> Absent some sort of conciliatory gesture on Wegmans' part,
 ML>> I'd have been inclined to publicize the issue loud and long.
 NB>> There was quite a stink for a while locally, especially for the first
 NB>> one I mentioned... I think it pushed them to be more conciliatory than
 NB>> they already were
 ML> Which I find both ominous and heartening at the same time, in
 ML> that the next generation, no doubt business-school grads,
 ML> ignored the human factor but were also encouraged (compelled?)
 ML> to correct their viewpoint.

At least to some extent.  While it left a sour taste for a while, I
suppose they didn't lose a lot of customers in the long run... and they
otherwise do still manage to be a very good store...  Those of us not
being at all enticed by Walmart Superstores didn't transfer our
allegience to them or to other similar stores...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... "Pieces of Nine".."Pieces of Nine"...sorry...Parroty error!

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