Giant Eagle Market District

Giant Eagle's rolling out a new type of store: Market District. It's going to offer upscale goods to compete with specialty stores like Trader Joe's. Alas, I hate to spend money, so the thing I'm most likely to buy is one of the apartments built on top of the Giant Eagle in Shadyside.

In both cases, existing stores were expanded and remodeled. The Centre Avenue store in Shadyside is very urban, with apartments on top and a garage with an elevator big enough for shopping carts below. The Village Square store on Oxford Drive is a sprawling suburban location.

Elevators big enough for shopping carts! What a great place for a homeless person to start a home.

Even Worse Grocery Stores

Thanks to a tip from the avid reader, I noticed this post in Gothamist about disgusting grocery stores. The problem with the report of the Dirty Dozen supermarkets is it doesn't tell me about the stores I go to!

Well, here's a short version.

Key Food and C-town are pretty clean.
Cat Pee smells like cat pee.
The other Cat Pee also smells like Cat Pee.

I think the first Cat Pee is a Compare Food and the second is an Associated.

I never noticed anything wrong with the Jesus vegetable store where I buy limes for dimes.

A Bad Grocery Store

There's a bad grocery store on East 14th St between 1st Ave and Ave A. I think it's an Associated. They don't have a good beer selection and the cashier was quite curt.

Some co-workers visited a grocery store in Astoria (A store ia!) and gave it rave reviews and said I should go in it. I didn't go in it though, so you'll have to take their word. It's between the Astoria Blvd stop of the N and the stop right before it.

I'm still buying limes for dimes. It's the best deal.

What kind of deal is that?

At my most recent visit to the Giant Eagle that used to be Festival Foods (I have no access to a Festival Foods anymore), I saw a weekly special sign for lobster tails. Then I looked at the lobster tails.

Too Busy to Post

I've been too busy at work to savor my grocery shopping lately, and without grocery shopping, I don't have things to post about. Last week seasoned fries were on sale for $2 and Axelrod sour cream was on sale for $1 at C-Town, but I never got around to buying some. Don't even ask me what's on sale this week. You're on your own.