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Madam X
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On the brighter side, every time I've been in the Eastern Parkway Price Chopper recently, I get treated like a VIP! Everybody who works there is so polite, asking if I need any help, did I find everything okay, and they hurry to open up a register if there are too many people waiting in line. The store is always spotless, as well. I could get used to this.
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same theory as Hannaford......PC stores are known for not being nice......but COMPETITION FORCES IT.
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PRICES ARE GOING UP.....AND PEOPLE WILL BE ANGRY....best way to 'fake it' is to have staff kiss a$$....so it becomes the
at leasts:

"the prices of everything went up, at least they brought my groceries out to my car."
"the cost of milk is ridiculous, at least they packed everything nicely."
"the cost fresh fruits and vegetables are crazy but at least they offered to wash it all."
"the cost of everything is almost unbearable but I got $0.10 off a gallon of gas and that kid went and exchanged a bag a frozen
vegetables that had a hole in it for a new one."

the list is endless....subsidies turn people resentful....

those who control the food supply control the masses
those who control the fiat control the masses
those who control trade control the masses
those who control food stamps control the masses
those who control the subsidies control the masses......

feel cared for and respected?????


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

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I take what I can get. I don't know how families can absorb higher costs for their growing kids food. I should probably go on a diet anyhow.
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Price on many things are going up, but I must say that Price Chopper has really been having some things on sale with prices that match Shop Rites sales and many of Hannaford's regular prices.


Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent.  
Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and
speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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comparing store to store prices for individual items does nothing but waste my time....they all keep status quo.....

traveling from store to store using my gas and time to save $0.10 and spending time clipping coupons is just as bad....

coupons are subsidies....much like food stamps...only not from the government.....

waiting in line to sign up for food stamps vs taking time to clip/hunt down coupons.....

TIME IS $$$$


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


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Senders maybe on your planet.....is there anything you are positive about???....and so far as Price Chop goes.....yeah right...

buy 2 get one free......just a ruse.....not saving money.....price goes up on items you can't catch....and coupons on not like Food stamps

and you don't have to wait in line anymore...you can apply on line...and don't even have to go to Broadway....phone call away...

heard in the donut shop....so buyer beware....it sounds too good to be ture????   IT ISN'T

and...why do you need a card to shop???....you don't think that has something to do with pricing  do you???????????.....then you don't know the

food business.....
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that was positive pragmatism....as for the food industry...it has little to do with supply and demand as much as it does with
control....

pavlovs dog....

if coupon clipping is someone's hobby, fine....but if coupon clipping is for survival--that's just degrading


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

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The Co-Op in Niskayuna, Gabriel's (both in Scotia and Rotterdam) and Greulich's (Guilderland) are by far the best markets in the area.   Between those three and several farms (within 50 to 75 miles), I am able to purchase the very best healthy, locally grown or produced food for my family.  There is no need to fight the traffic to find parking by a mega-supermarket and wander through miles or poorly laid out aisles to buy the "Franken-Food" that the mega-supermarkets purvey.
Enjoy life -- shop at the small LOCAL, family run markets that TRULY care about their community.


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Quoted from Madam X
On the brighter side, every time I've been in the Eastern Parkway Price Chopper recently, I get treated like a VIP! Everybody who works there is so polite, asking if I need any help, did I find everything okay, and they hurry to open up a register if there are too many people waiting in line. The store is always spotless, as well. I could get used to this.


you \can get the same service in the Rotterdam PC - just pick up a bag of lettuce as you enter,go checkout and claim you forgot stuff and watch your bagger fill your cart  - it is a wonderful service and fun to watch those behind you in line
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comparing store to store prices for individual items does nothing but waste my time....they all keep status quo.....

traveling from store to store using my gas and time to save $0.10 and spending time clipping coupons is just as bad....

coupons are subsidies....much like food stamps...only not from the government.....

waiting in line to sign up for food stamps vs taking time to clip/hunt down coupons.....

TIME IS $$$$


yep like saving pennies on a gallon of gas  

1 penny = 1/350 of a gallon

time is $$$$$

lost time cannot be replaced pennies can
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The Co-Op in Niskayuna, Gabriel's (both in Scotia and Rotterdam) and Greulich's (Guilderland) are by far the best markets in the area.   Between those three and several farms (within 50 to 75 miles), I am able to purchase the very best healthy, locally grown or produced food for my family.  There is no need to fight the traffic to find parking by a mega-supermarket and wander through miles or poorly laid out aisles to buy the "Franken-Food" that the mega-supermarkets purvey.
Enjoy life -- shop at the small LOCAL, family run markets that TRULY care about their community.



Does anyone  believe this?   He claims to buy for "his family"  He has no loving wife (or husband) nor children to support.  

Nice when two mommies (one known to be on government pension and combined with incomes so high they are disqualified from STAR) give him their big bucks to go to an expensive store.

Sorry their cheerleader, but most families do not have two mommies to support them, or not even one.  Most people have no choice but do buy at the chains because after paying for downtown and trying to keep up their home, raising children, there is no money left.  Most two income working families have total income less than half of the combined income of your two mommies.

Most people have to shop around.  And it's not going to many stores just to save 10 cents.  We would not go to a store just for one item.  Most of the time there may be a 25 to 75 cent difference, sometimes even more depending on the combine that with coupons (clipping can be piggy backed on top of other things, I find it easiest when the news is on only because there's not the need for the looking at the TV as perhaps with other shows, hubby finds that true, believe it or not, with sports--they always show about 5 replays of a crash in NASCAR).  We already got some great buys on baking supplies last week.  Sometimes it's easiest to make all the shopping at the three stores in one trip, other times it works out best combining with another need to drive somewhere.  If there's a game against Nisky for example, stop at Shop Rite on the way home.  Going to Fo' Castle, stop at Walmart on the way back, etc.    

Careful planning of trips, clipping coupons, and shopping all the stores can be a big savings which most people need.  And don't forget too, many couples who a raising children are also supporting an elderly parent who lives with them, had no government pension, or any pension, and might be getting only $500 a month in SS.  I know many people like that.







Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent.  
Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and
speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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I shop at the different markets. I don't go out of my way to do so, I do like MC and plan things. One market can't please everyone, although they try, and the vast selection available to us is one of the benefits of living in this area, so I take advantage of it. PC is a local business, BTW.

exit3, I did have that experience you speak of, in the Eastern Parkway store, only I was the person behind in the line. Thank goodness it was only one item.
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The Co-Op in Niskayuna, Gabriel's (both in Scotia and Rotterdam) and Greulich's (Guilderland) are by far the best markets in the area.   Between those three and several farms (within 50 to 75 miles), I am able to purchase the very best healthy, locally grown or produced food for my family.  There is no need to fight the traffic to find parking by a mega-supermarket and wander through miles or poorly laid out aisles to buy the "Franken-Food" that the mega-supermarkets purvey.
Enjoy life -- shop at the small LOCAL, family run markets that TRULY care about their community.



"very best healthy..."   Yeah, you look it  


And more lies/contradictions.



You should go to Shop Rite or the Co-Op or Gabriel's or Sal's or Greulich's -- those are the only places to shop at it in this area.


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Hannaford's is a great store ... me and my family do all our grocery shopping there and at Gabriel's.



Open mouth, insert foot.   Oh wait, can't do that, LOL






Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent.  
Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and
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Quoted from Madam X
I shop at the different markets. I don't go out of my way to do so, I do like MC and plan things. One market can't please everyone, although they try, and the vast selection available to us is one of the benefits of living in this area, so I take advantage of it. PC is a local business, BTW.

exit3, I did have that experience you speak of, in the Eastern Parkway store, only I was the person behind in the line. Thank goodness it was only one item.


Co-Op, Gabriel's, Greulich's and Sal's are the ONLY locally owned markets worth shopping at.  Shop-Rite is the only larger chain supermarkets worth shopping at.  


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