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Posts tagged “Supermarkets”

Boston Store Review: C-Mart

It's a bit crazy. It's a bit dirty. It can get a bit crowded. But C-Mart definitely delivers. Just a hop and skip down the street from the Boylston T Stop, Boston Common, and Emerson College, this C...

How To Choose Good Cheap Wine from the Big Brands: Cabernet Sauvignon

We’ve all been there. It is 6:30pm and you get a call from a friend inviting you over for a casual dinner. Your only option is the supermarket or local grocery store. The shelves are lined with the ...

Good Reminder: Buy Spices from Bulk Bins

We were shopping at Whole Foods recently and discovered that they have a whole wall of bulk spices. We always buy our grains from their bulk section, but we were really happy to see this additional ar...

Is Fairway the Best Grocery Store in Manhattan?

We know we may rankle a few readers with this one, but when it comes to all-purpose, get-everything-on-your-list grocery stores, we think Fairway has little competition. But the crowds......

Weeknight Meal Tip: Quick Grocery Shopping Tricks

We love shopping for food - it can be an adventure into something new, or it can be an experience for the senses....

Grocery Store News: New Piggly Wiggly Organized by How Shoppers "Think"

A new Piggly Wiggly store opened in Myrtle Beach, SC, last month, and it is laid out in an unconventional way. Instead of the traditional model — produce on one side, dairy in the back — the sto...

Supermarket Closings Make Fresh Food Less Accessible

We're often seen here hooting and hollering and get all excited every time a snazzy new grocery store opens. We've brought you new Whole Foods (ostrich eggs, anyone?), Trader Joe's, Fairway and Fresh ...

Good Food with Evan Kleiman: Grocery Shopping at 99-Cent Stores

Attention, bargain hunters! With all this talk of high food costs and budget crunching, have you ever thought of grocery shopping at $.99 stores? Like Evan Kleiman in her interview with Julie Makinen...

Look! Local Ostrich and Emu Eggs at Whole Foods

We don't visit the local Whole Foods very often, and we hadn't inspected their loose selection of local eggs very closely. So we were in for a shock when we wandered over last night and realized that ...

More Grocery Gloom and Doom: Organic Sticker Shock in the New York Times

Another article today on rising food prices, this time in the New York Times Business section. Sticker Shock in the Organic Aisles tells us that organic prices are rising rapidly, and the premium that...

Grocery Store News: Harris Teeter to Finally Open in DC?

Harris Teeter has signed on to open a 50,000 square foot store at Constitution Square in the NoMa (North of Massachusetts Ave.) neighborhood in DC. But despite some reports that claim it will be the f...

Publix Recalls Empañadas Due to Undeclared Milk Ingredient

Via the FDA's website: Publix Super Markets is issuing a voluntary recall on all codes of prepackaged 2 and 4-pack Apple, Pineapple and Pumpkin Empanadas sold in retail bakeries due to the undeclared...

Store Review: The Park Slope Food Coop

When it comes to the Park Slope Food Coop, unbelievers are everywhere. They say that there are too many rules, which are too stridently enforced. They complain about crowded aisles and long lines. The...

Sunflower Markets to Close

A sad piece of news for our Midwestern readers: Sunflower Market is closing their doors. Sunflower Market is a natural and organic grocery with locations in the Midwest, including Chicago's Lincoln Pa...

Whole Foods Market: Grocery Store

Whole Foods - where do we even begin? In our ongoing review of regional and national grocery stores, Whole Foods is an obvious choice to review, and there is a lot to say about this juggernaut of heal...

Where to Buy Local Foods In Chicago During the Winter

Locally grown foods can make great gifts, especially since they're 100% usable. Here is a guide from AT: Chicago to buying locally in Chicago. In winter, we don't have the luxury of open-air farmers...

Trader Joe's To Open In Brooklyn in 2008

Like Fairway, Whole Foods, and Ikea before them Trader Joe's is coming to Brooklyn. Trader Joe's will set up shop on corner of Court Street and Atlantic Avenue, according to an article in Brooklyn's ...

Whole Foods CEO Mackey Caught Sock-Puppeting

Ouch. News yesterday that Whole Foods Markets founder and CEO John Mackey used a fake identity on Yahoo message boards for years to bash his competition and flaunt his own company's stock has left us ...

Survey: What Do We Need in a 21st Century Grocery Store?

Giant British grocer Tesco is preparing to launch a new chain of stores in California, Arizona, and Nevada this fall. Terry Leahy, Tesco's CEO, said in yesterday's Wall Street Journal that his goal i...

Sweet Stone Fruit With Wegman's BRIX

Stone fruit season is here. We're serving up plums, apricots, nectarines, and local cherries here. This first week of summer our stone fruit salads have been especially sweet thanks in part to the sel...

Search For Our Favorite Frozen Peas

Easy peas-y Frozen peas will be a staple of our shopping cart for a few more weeks, until the fresh local vegetables hit the markets. This week we tested six different kinds of frozen peas from fo...

Foodie at Large: Whole Foods, Union Square

Whole Foods is a mixed blessing in my mind. While it helps solidify the suburbanization of New York, Ill admit that its aisles of attractive packaging and beautiful pieces of fish are hard to resi...

Buying Meat for a Braise

Buying meat for long braises can be difficult. Many smaller stores do not stock these less-popular cuts and many cooks aren't sure what to look for when buying short ribs, pork shoulder, and other mea...

New Delivery Deal from Fresh Direct

New York City online grocer Fresh Direct launched their Delivery Pass earlier this month. Purchasing a $99 Delivery Pass gets Fresh Direct shoppers unlimited free delivery for six months. This offe...

A Tan Spaghetti Taste Test

Whole wheat and multigrain pasta made a big splash in the grocery stores a while back. I admit that before last night's taste test, I'd made multi-grain macaroni just once. My dinner tasted like I'd p...