Quoted Text

Customers at the Latham Price Chopper store are starting to get a glimpse of the future.

Construction continues on what the Schenectady-based grocery chain says is its concept
store, which will house 16 eateries, a cooking school and a hydroponic garden where the
store will grow produce to sell. When completed by year's end, it also will carry a new name:
Market Bistro by Price Chopper.

So far, three of the new food stations are up and running: Stone-Fired Pizza, Ben and Bill's
New York-style deli and a more familiar deli section.

"We're right in the middle of it," said CEO Jerry Golub. "It's just the tip of the iceberg. We'll be
growing tomatoes in the store. There will be a lot of new and really unique innovations."

Times Union
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Price-Chopper-offers-peek-at-concept-store-4786930.php

They are borrowing this idea from large food service contractors such as Chartwell's and Sodexo, who have been using in house created retails blends like this at College dinning halls and convenience stores for a while. It will be cool for about a month then you'll realize it's just another way to re-package the same thing, with them charging you more for it.

Shop at Greulich's, Gabriel's and the CO-OP -- just the right size, wonderful customer service and they don't need the gimmicks that the "big box" chain supermarkets employ.  

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Shop at Greulich's, Gabriel's and the CO-OP -- just the right size, wonderful customer service and they don't need the gimmicks that the "big box" chain supermarkets employ.  

I went to Greulich's after you mentioned them last week. They have a larger assortment than Gabriels.

They don't scan items there so make sure your items are marked.

The girl at the register was guessing a little higher than I liked on unmarked items.

I will shop there again. It's not far from the vegetable stand on Ft Hunter Rd too.

Quoted from Libertarian4life

I went to Greulich's after you mentioned them last week. They have a larger assortment than Gabriels.

They don't scan items there so make sure your items are marked.

The girl at the register was guessing a little higher than I liked on unmarked items.

I will shop there again. It's not far from the vegetable stand on Ft Hunter Rd too.

We shop at Greulich's because of the deli/meat department/on site butcher and the produce.   We buy very little canned or prepared food from ANY store.  I never noticed the problem with unmarked items but then the items we purchase from Greulich's are either marked by the deli/meat department or the produce is weighed at the check out.  The best part about these stores (Greulich's, Gabriel's and CO-OP) is that they are just the right size to shop in, and one doesn't feel like an anonymous face in the crowd shopping at those stores.
Hannaford in Rotterdam has become a major disappointment.  So much so that I can't remember the last time that I (or any member of my family shopped there).  I haven't been in the other store down Altamont Ave in almost a year.
The Shop-Rite stores in Niskayuna and Colonie are conveniently located when I am out and about in the course of my busy days, and I spend most of my time these days between those two towns.  Shop-Rite is well laid out, has (mostly) very nice staff and is just a nice place to shop considering it is a "big box" multi-store chain.  I am looking forward to the day that they build and open a Shop-Rite in Rotterdam.  Hopefully that will be very, very soon.

When is the supermarket in downtown Schenectady coming?

here is my best impression:


Zzzzzzzzz yawn

not for me....meat and potatoes ....

Quoted from Madam X

When is the supermarket in downtown Schenectady coming?

The Gazette had am article a month or so ago saying that the cooperative market on Erie Blvd was coming sometime in 2014.   It was apparently taking longer to go through the organizational steps than they had originally thought.

Don't undervalue DVOR's opinion on this issue, his grocery bill alone keeps 2-3 grocery stores in business....

Cousins Jeff and Ray Legere of Legere Properties and Legere Restorations ... recently purchased the
former Grossman’s Bargain Outlet building at 1410 Erie Blvd., where they plan to open a local co-op
market.

They now own:

1410 Erie Blvd. (Grossman's)

1424 Erie Blvd.(car lot)

1462 Erie Blvd.(Giant building next to Ellis Nursing)

1473 Erie Blvd.(connected by overhead walkway to Ellis Nursing)

1482 Erie Blvd.(Ellis Nursing)

326 Front St. (Coyne Laundry - The rear faces Erie Blvd.)

133 South Church St(behind the Armory)

The Legere's also purchased the Armory across from SCC for $260,000.

The property is assessed at $4.2 million.

Gillen says he can't wait to work with the Legere's.

Let the massive entitlements begin for the newest welfare queens in Schenectady!

Just for the record, everything on the river side of Erie after Nott St belongs to:

You guessed it, Galesi.

Quoted from Madam X

When is the supermarket in downtown Schenectady coming?

About the same time one will open on Arbor Hill. Never.

It's not as though major chains haven't considered it.
Price Chopper opened a Mini-Chopper near the Ida Yarboro homes in Albany just to test the waters, and they were the victim of armed robberies 3 TIMES in the FIRST MONTH.

There were also a few "swarm" robberies, where 15 or 20 "aspiring young rappers" would wander into the store at the same time, and simultaneously steal something and run, because there is no way you're gonna detain that many people at one time.

Price Chopper was unwilling to subject their employees. (and their bottom line) through that level of risk.

And that, boys and girls, is only a small part of the plethora of reasons why people in the ghetto can't have nice things.

1) A Co-Op will NEVER open on Erie. Golub won't let that happen since he's front-and-center with Galesi on the ALCO condo project. Golub/Galesi are partners in opening the condo/price chopper on that riverfront.

2) Greulich's is a wonderful, family-run, decades-old establishment. Hate to say it, but DV is right on the money with the butcher and awesome meat dept. Problems with check out? Ask for the owner Bonnie...she'll set anyone straight and is always fair & polite.

3) PC has some stiff competition ...Shoprite, the Nisky Co-Op...guess all those free tax handouts to Golub from the Plex haven't stopped competition.


Government funded free-enterprise never works....just ask Gillen's empty Plex account.  

Quoted from rachel72

1) A Co-Op will NEVER open on Erie. Golub won't let that happen since he's front-and-center with Galesi on the ALCO condo project. Golub/Galesi are partners in opening the condo/price chopper on that riverfront.

  

and let's not forget that Golub is on the METROPLEX/GILLEN board!!

Heard a rumor that the Hannaford on Balltown will be closing soon after the 'walmart market' opens.