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Skriven 2015-07-19 21:23:32 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 29148 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> the only reason to stop at W'port would be if you wanted to get
 NB>  NB>> something from Wegmans (any Wegmans), and weren't heading to
 NB>  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.

 NB> And usually I'm just passing through on my way to or from Rochester.
 NB> Now, if Michael got Annie to let him host a picnic at her house, there
 NB> might be a reason to actually shop at that Wegmans...  ;)

That might be a thought to consider. but not during Little League World
Series time frame.


 NB>  NB>> Shipps got one of the fancy-dancy new bigger Wegmans... in fact

 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.

 NB> I'll have to grab a Menu magazine and look... I'm sure that it isn't a
 NB> complete listing by any means, just what is being featured in that
 NB> issue... My usual Wegmans is small enough that it usually is on the
 NB> list of stores that don't carry certain featured items...  ;)

We had PXs like that in several assignments. (G) If the commissary
didn't have what I wanted tho, I always had the option of going on the
economy to get it. I did that often, even in Germany, to get whole wheat
pasta, among other things.

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

 NB> That wasn't quite what I was thinking about... more the level of
 NB> quality of produce and of meats and baked items...  But also, to some

That too. I definately prefer not to shop at some stores for certain
things. I usually don't buy baked goods tho, with few exceptions
(farmer's market being one of them).  Snagged some spelt cinnamon rolls,
empanadas, a pistachio shortbread cookie and a strawberry pop tart
yesterday.


 NB> extent,
 NB> there was some of that aspect of the sorts of things that were
 NB> available at a Wegmans...  Upstate NY is, as we found out, one of the
 NB> better
 NB> places to buy pastas, with all the companies here that produce it... I

Interesting, never thought of the state as a pasta producer.


 NB> was mailing 1 lb boxes of Wegmans spaghetti to my son in the Flat Rate
 NB> Priority Mail envelopes along with the piles of mail I was sending
 NB> down to him, as he couldn't find any spaghetti that he thought was
 NB> decent in the stores in the Philly area...  ;)

And students live off of pasta. (G)


 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.

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

We shopped the Jacksonville (NC) one for several years before Steve went
into the Army.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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... Get shopping while the gettin' is good!!!

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