Leominster: Grocery Shopping Fun 2011, Market Basket ("The Zoo"), Mall at Whitney Field

[TheElevatorPlanet]

About $120 at my Dominicks for all that....

[georgef551]

@TheElevatorPlanet

That's worse than Cantafford (Hannaford).

[TheElevatorPlanet]

@georgef551- Welcome to Illnois!

[NWRGeek]

Market Basket (this chain, here in MA) TOTALLY beats Hannaford. I know someone who works at my Market Basket, and they give me FREE COOKIES!! (Beware, don't say that in front of an employee please).

[georgef551]

@NWRGeek

Like that matters. I hear about friends giving friends employee or "special" discounts at many a store, any kind of store. Nothing new there.

[TheElevatorPlanet]

Do they have self- checkouts there?

[georgef551]

@TheElevatorPlanet

I wish.

(In other words, no.)

[TheElevatorPlanet]

@georgef551- It would probably make the store a bit un-zooish like. Example Jewel-Osco on Roosevelt road and Wabash street in Chicago put in NCR's and let me just say it was a bit less crazy. If only they improved the freaken parking lot.

[georgef551]

@TheElevatorPlanet

I'm sure it'll help a lot, but apperently, not installed.

They did invest in new Tomra recycling machines, though.

[TheElevatorPlanet]

@georgef551- Oh goody! And Im sure it realllyyy helped the store alot. (im sure the Tomra team including Ih8escalators isnt going to be happy about this comment.) :)

[empierwokfan101]

yea but again ther the lowest priced store around we got most of our thanks given food at mb in oxford ma just got to go back for pies wed ours has a great shusi section

[georgef551]

@empierwokfan101 This one, I'm not sure about it's strengths, outside of massive crowds. It's too crowded to see anything. It's a nice store, but they need more help on the registers, not the aisles.

[empierwokfan101]

@georgef551  how manny check outs do they got ours has 20 to 22 and they got the lanes open once they get busy last time we had one of the mangers baging our groceys and they do get very busy

[georgef551]

@empierwokfan101

I never counted. I know it's about the same as yours. At least Market Basket tries when it does get busy.

[empierwokfan101]

50 dollars gets a lot at market basket



[georgef551]

@empierwokfan101

The total bill wound up being over $65. Still, you are right. This would be about a $80 purchace elsewhere.

[gta4life55]

I swear you had shorter hair in a recent video

[georgef551]

@gta4life55

It's either tied up, or badly messed up, most of the time. That'll make it look shorter.

[QuietSundayLibrary]

This is far more than a "zoo"; this is a cesspit of humanity. An orchard of like-minded soccer moms, zombified children numbed by Ritalin and HFCS and legally blind grandmothers scouring the aisle for something to add to their daughter's prized green bean casserole. In other words, sheer hell.

[georgef551]

@QuietSundayLibrary

You're very close.

I DREAD coming here, but this chain is big where most people where I work live, and that's what it's for. I'm willing for a day, especially if I actually can get more for the money.