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Skriven 2015-07-18 20:58:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: sticky situations 889
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 07-03-15  20:11 <=-

 NB>> I'd guess that the Brockport Wegmans and the Williamsport Wegmans
 NB>> would be quite similar (and, I think, about the same size), so
 NB>> the only reason to stop at W'port would be if you wanted to get
 NB>> something from Wegmans (any Wegmans), and weren't heading to
 NB>> Brockport area already...  ;)

 RH> Pretty fair guess there, and if we're in the W'port area, it means
 RH> we're most likely heading to or from western NY. If so, we will be
 RH> going to or have been to the Brockport store.

And usually I'm just passing through on my way to or from Rochester. 
Now, if Michael got Annie to let him host a picnic at her house, there
might be a reason to actually shop at that Wegmans...  ;)
 
 NB>> Shipps got one of the fancy-dancy new bigger Wegmans... in fact there
 NB>> are some items that, according to the Wegmans Menu magazine, are only
 NB>> available at Pittsford (the flagship store on Monroe Ave in Rochester)
 NB>> and Columbia MD... nowhere else...

 RH> I've been in the Columbia one a couple of times--you can get lost in
 RH> that store! It would be interesting to get a listing of what is
 RH> available only there or in Pittsford.
 
I'll have to grab a Menu magazine and look... I'm sure that it isn't a
complete listing by any means, just what is being featured in that
issue... My usual Wegmans is small enough that it usually is on the list
of stores that don't carry certain featured items...  ;)

 NB>> I hadn't realized how much I'd just been taking Wegmans for granted,
 NB>> until our son went away to college, and I was shopping at the stores
 NB>> available there... and realized that they weren't bad stores, but that
 NB>> they just didn't measure up to what I was by then used to at Wegmans.

 RH> We've seen some things spread thru out the country, others that stay
 RH> very regional. When we lived in NC before Steve went into the Army, we
 RH> couldn't get kasha down here. We'd have family from NY bring it down,
 RH> now we can find it here (and most all of the other places we've lived
 RH> in). British blend tea (from Tetly) was only available in certain
 RH> stores (only Harris Teeter when we first moved to Wake Forest), now it
 RH> is in almost evey store in the area.

That wasn't quite what I was thinking about... more the level of quality
of produce and of meats and baked items...  But also, to some extent,
there was some of that aspect of the sorts of things that were available
at a Wegmans...  Upstate NY is, as we found out, one of the better
places to buy pastas, with all the companies here that produce it... I
was mailing 1 lb boxes of Wegmans spaghetti to my son in the Flat Rate
Priority Mail envelopes along with the piles of mail I was sending down
to him, as he couldn't find any spaghetti that he thought was decent in
the stores in the Philly area...  ;)

 RH> OTOH, the Freshtown store that replaced the A&P in M'ville has quite
 RH> a different selection of most things than the A&P used to. The former
 RH> has a larger selection of ethnic products, the latter was more basic.
 RH> It's interesting to see the diversity in the stores.

Well, A&P started out as a tea company, after all... ;)  And it evolved
into a good basic grocery chain that was reasonably consistent no matter
where you were...  :)

ttyl       neb

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