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Tasting Starbucks 'New and Improved' Items
Sounds delicious. But the same taste can be bought, for less when you purchase the A&P 150th anniversary chocolate chunk cookies in their commerative tin.
These are the best tasting cookies ever. So sneak some in your pocket next time you head over to Starbucks, While waiting in line, savor their chewy chocolate heavenly taste.
Grocery Shopping?
I use self checkouts, the u scan or what I affectionately call, "Ann Page" at my local A&P/Super Fresh.
I can save real time and I bag items the way I want them, deli with meat items, frozen and other perishables together, cans and detergents separate, etc.
I can get myself out of the store quicker if I use Ann Page, and she never has a bad day.
I Cannot Believe How Much Food Costs at the Supermarket!
Since these posts, prices have come down some, especially in the Washington DC area.
SuperFresh, in recent weeks, tripled coupons, offered rib eye steaks for $3.99, family pak, had super OJ buys like Tropicana for $1.88 for the 64 ounce carton, tons of other specials. They are now honoring all competitors coupons. That's real savings.
Milk at Shoppers is $2.89 a gallon for 4 days, eggs, 89 cents a dozen.
Harris-Teeter is holding some prices, like milk at $2.99 a gallon through the end of March.
So if you use coupons, buy great private label house brands like America's Choice, and look out for specials, you can save big!!!
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Dear Whole Foods,
Once you bite into a Great A&P 150th anniversary chocolate chunk cookie, that taste will make you forever foresake Whole Paycheck.
Head on over to any A&P Fresh and rediscover the origins of foodie paradise, great food at fantastic savings.
Can't beat that A&P!!!
Tasting Starbucks 'New and Improved' Items
Sounds delicious. But the same taste can be bought, for less when you purchase the A&P 150th anniversary chocolate chunk cookies in their commerative tin.
These are the best tasting cookies ever. So sneak some in your pocket next time you head over to Starbucks, While waiting in line, savor their chewy chocolate heavenly taste.
Grocery Shopping?
I use self checkouts, the u scan or what I affectionately call, "Ann Page" at my local A&P/Super Fresh.
I can save real time and I bag items the way I want them, deli with meat items, frozen and other perishables together, cans and detergents separate, etc.
I can get myself out of the store quicker if I use Ann Page, and she never has a bad day.
I Cannot Believe How Much Food Costs at the Supermarket!
Since these posts, prices have come down some, especially in the Washington DC area.
SuperFresh, in recent weeks, tripled coupons, offered rib eye steaks for $3.99, family pak, had super OJ buys like Tropicana for $1.88 for the 64 ounce carton, tons of other specials. They are now honoring all competitors coupons. That's real savings.
Milk at Shoppers is $2.89 a gallon for 4 days, eggs, 89 cents a dozen.
Harris-Teeter is holding some prices, like milk at $2.99 a gallon through the end of March.
So if you use coupons, buy great private label house brands like America's Choice, and look out for specials, you can save big!!!
Does Your Grocery Store Have You Crying Tears of Joy?
While Wegman's is a great grocery store, I find my local Super Fresh to be No 1 for customer service, bar none.
When they were recently out of whole fryers at 69 cents, (can't beat that), the meat cutter went back to the deli counter and pull out a fryer from the refrigerator and wrapped and priced it for me. That was the best tasting fryer I have ever eaten.
It's the little things like store prepared gourmet apple pies, fresh from The Farm produce, (their potatoes are the best tasting ever), seafood, and my all time favorite tasting beef, Premium Gold Angus.
For a supermarket that has been business now for 150 years, its all about the quality, value and customer service.
Grocery Shopping?
Self-checkout here, but if there isn't an option for it, I usually go for the shortest line and look to see how the checkers are doing with their patrons. I also try to shop when most people don't, but there are unavoidable times when I run out of something, have forgotten something, or my regular store doesn't have what I need and I have to run all over to find it.
Grocery Shopping?
I'm also the shortest-line chooser.
I also avoid the creepy-casheir who gives me "the look" (shudder)
Grocery Shopping?
I know all the produce and meat people at my neighborhood Kroger's...as well as when to (and not to!) shop. I find that early in the morning when the school zones are packed I get the best service. I have also learned that Thursday is produce shipment day, and $4 salad from 12 hours before gets marked down to 75 cents. For a rabbit like me it makes a difference! And, I use the self-checkout whenever possible - some of the people at my store can be slow, and when I see them, I divert...
Grocery Shopping?
At certain stores I definitely know whose line to get on and whose to avoid. I know this is going to sound stereotypically pro-NY but in FL the best checkers are garishly made up former NYers - From Brooklyn.
Grocery Shopping?
@ Cass: The items you listed are all refrigerated. Some people appreciate having them all together - and I know this first-hand from working at a Trader Joe's. The meat should be bagged in plastic before going in to prevent leaks, but I can't stand it when I have to dig through every bag to find what goes into my fridge when I get home. When I shop, I prefer self-checkout or lines w/out baggers as I can pack food more quickly, efficiently (space-wise) and correctly than the people working there.
Grocery Shopping?
I go for the shortest line myself. I used to be a cashier, people told me they come and look for me because of my bagging skills and speed.
Grocery Shopping?
Shortest line is usually how I roll. None of the cashiers are particularly chatty. That's good. I will use self-check out if it is an option. Frankly, I wish it was more widely available.
Grocery Shopping?
I don't understand why self-check aisles are built large enough to accommodate a shopping cart. I'll never understand the people who attempt to self-check a fully-loaded cart. If I can't carry everything I want to buy in a single basket, I won't use the self-check. And if you can't, get the hell out of my way.
Grocery Shopping?
My mom has favorite cashiers all over town. At Costco she always heads for one particular guy because he is the fastest and no matter how long the line she is convinced she'll be out faster with him at the register.
Grocery Shopping?
I avoid the grocery store at all costs. Farmer's Market for me as often as possible. And yes, I do have my favorites there. I choose the lady who offeres me samples over the surly man who doesn't customers examining what they buy. Or the woman who will recycle my egg cartons over the one who won't.
When I do have to go to the grocery store, I avoid self-checkout (this is not the time to be elimination jobs. Besides - part of the price of the groceries goes toward paying people to help me shop. If you want me to use self-checkout, lower your prices. Otherwise, if I have to pay for employees, I'm sure as hell going to use them). I don't know any of the cashiers, so I choose using a "speed/fullness of basket/liklihood of people in front of me to write a check" formula.
Grocery Shopping?
I like to bag my own groceries. I think I always have, but ever since studying in Germany (where everyone has to bag their own), I feel especially competent at self-bagging. Even if there's a bagger at the end of the checkout, I ask to bag my own. I have a system, and my own bags, and I just...am a little too compulsive, okay?
If there's no line to wait, I'll do self check-out, but often I find the people ahead of me in those lines are incompetent and take a million years. Safer to go with the shortest-wait line. I often wind up picking the "wrong" one. Alas.
Grocery Shopping?
I shop at Aldi almost exclusively, so by definition I bag (well, box) my own groceries. And the lines are always long there on Saturday, so I pick by shortest line.
I generally bring my grocery assistant (AKA my 17 yo son), so I don't have to do a lot anyway, but when I go by myself it's still easier than trying to get the bag persons to separate the stuff the way I like it. And yeah, big things with handles like gallons of milk -- why would someone EVER put that in a bag???
Grocery Shopping?
At the local store I frequent, I will not pick Susan's checkout because she is rude and annoying. Nor will I pick the arrogant young punk whose name I do not know that is just there for a paycheque and does not care how he packs the groceries. Sanela, my favorite cashier, now works at McDonald's.
Perhaps I frequent the grocery store too much?
Grocery Shopping?
Having worked as a cashier in my capricious youth, I try very hard to be nice to all cashiers. Some are just too crabby for my uber niceness to penetrate their carapace of crankiness.
My husband actively hates the self checkout. He calls them HAL. I think it is the fact that they talk that gives him the willies.
Grocery Shopping?
I used to be a checker. It is hard work. Harder than it looks.
Definitely have fave lines and must-avoid lines.
As for gas, you should move to Oregon. All gas is pumped for you. State law.
Grocery Shopping?
I usually shop at the same 2 stores so I'm pretty familiar with who's speedy and who's a slacker on the register. There is one cashier at our local Kroger who has been permanently assigned to U-Scan. She's so manic that she scared the crap out of everyone with the way she grabbed at the groceries coming down the conveyor. I never use U-Scan (hate it with a passion) so fortunately I don't have to deal with her. You can still hear her througout the store though-She's got a thing for telling people she'll 'be right with them, thanks for waiting' about a hundred times in a row at a pitch only dogs should be able to hear.
Grocery Shopping?
I usually shop at the same 2 stores so I'm pretty familiar with who's speedy and who's a slacker on the register. There is one cashier at our local Kroger who has been permanently assigned to U-Scan. She's so manic that she scared the crap out of everyone with the way she grabbed at the groceries coming down the conveyor. I never use U-Scan (hate it with a passion) so fortunately I don't have to deal with her. You can still hear her througout the store though-She's got a thing for telling people she'll 'be right with them, thanks for waiting' about a hundred times in a row at a pitch only dogs should be able to hear.
Grocery Shopping?
I just pick the shortest line and that's about it.
Grocery Shopping?
i know my mom avoids a certain cashier at the econofoods because she makes snarky little comments such as, when my mom was buying chocolate and cheetos, "must be that time of the month." she also comments on how expensive things are and how my parents must be wealthy to afford such things. i keept telling my mom to complain.
as for myself, i shop in the middle of the night and use the self check out, as i am reaaaaaally shy. i also used to work in grocery and i like things scanned in a certain order and bagged a certain way.
Grocery Shopping?
There's one checker I'll avoid--she's known in the 'hood as a nutcase.
She worked for my wife at one point and got herself fired for being rude to the customers--she won't acknowledge that she recognizes us at all, which, I suppose is a good thing.
Otherwise I >do
The baggers all seem to be handicapped, mentally and/or physically. It's good of the co. to give them the work.
Grocery Shopping?
i like bagging my own groceries, so if the lines are the same i choose the one without a bagger. im very organized with setting them on the line and know exactly what bags with what in which geometric formation.
Grocery Shopping?
I stand in the line of female checkers! Tend to be more gentle with my groceries. Also if I can find a line with a female checker and a female bagger that's even better. Not sure why I'm biased but its' just my observation.
Grocery Shopping?
the only thing i can add to this discussion is to say that when i shop at the upper west side fairway, braving the checkout lines on the first floor is so anxiety provoking that i often just go upstairs and pay there.
Grocery Shopping?
I get in the line that looks like it will get me out the fastest. I hate self check out lines. I prefer human interaction. To decide the fastest way out, I factor in several things.
How many carts are in the line.
How many woman vs. men, as men tend to get less and get out faster.
How many elderly people are in line, and how much they have. Sometimes their just as fast as men
Grocery Shopping?
I know each and every one of them, and if there is a newbie, I relish the chance to see what theyve got! Just TRY and ask me how my day is and not even look at me, i dare ya!
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Once you bite into a Great A&P 150th anniversary chocolate chunk cookie, that taste will make you forever foresake Whole Paycheck.
Head on over to any A&P Fresh and rediscover the origins of foodie paradise, great food at fantastic savings.
Can't beat that A&P!!!