[Magdalen] a question you should never ask at Walmart

[Jay Weigel]

TJ's is not "very high end"! Their prices are no worse than the
supermarkets here if you stick to their store brands, and are way lower
than Whole Paycheck. I don't generally buy meat there, though.

I really do NOT like Food Lion, ugh; haven't trusted them since back in the
90s when that whole exposé about their meat came out. I do go by the one in
Timberville now and then for occasional items I might be out of, but I
resent having to do it. We shop regularly at Costco, with our general
supermarket shopping being done at Martin's (which took over Ukrop's in the
Richmond area) and Kroger. I would kill for a Trader Joe's here.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> But Trader Joe's is also very high-end! I went to the new one here a
> couple of weeks ago just to see what all the buzz was about and decided I
> probably won't go back. I did buy some peanut butter made with nothing but
> peanuts and told my daughter about it.
> I guess Harris-Teeter is about as high-end as I'm willing to go. For every
> day, I'm a regular Food Lion customer. Ours has very good produce and a
> small, but good, natural and organic section.
>
> > On Feb 4, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It is always a Good Thing to drive past Whole Paycheck. I used to do that
> > every week on my way to Trader Joe's when I lived in Richmond ;->
> >
> >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:27 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Haven't found one. Maybe up near Jacksonville (but that would
> >> mean driving past Whole Foods).
> >>
> >> Several small farms on the Massachusetts/New Hampshire line
> >> have been saved by Asian immigration. Instead of struggling to
> >> compete with onions and corn brought in from Pennsylvania
> >> and Florida, they now thrive growing bok choy and daikon and
> >> gorgeous crisp fresh green vegetable.
> >> -M
> >>
> >>> On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> No Asian grocery? Seems like there was an influx of Asian
> >>> fisherman/shrimpers in the 1979s, but maybe they didn't make it past
> >> Texas
> >>> and Louisiana. We have a very strange grocery here, run by some Thai
> >> folks,
> >>
>