(e:southernyankee) and I hit the Tops stores yesterday for our impromptu seafood party. It was the first time I got to go to the tops on Niagara St. since they redesigned it. It has really come a long way, there are even rainforest noises in the vegetable department. Unfortunately, they did not have enough clams to satisfy our craving so we had to go on to the next tops but managed to buy 3 lbs of catfish nuggets while there and found pappy's sassafrass, see below.
The Grant St. Tops is as crappy as ever. I hate that one, if you have a choice go to the Niagara St one. Everytime I am there I am so amazed at what a different world and quality level it is from Wegmans which is only a block away.
Maybe it's a local business thing. Wegman's, although they practice many unfavorable business tactics such as strawberry picker union busting, they are local, while Tops is mega-super-ultra-trans-national. Let's at least pretned that Wegman's cares more about the community and it's image even if it's just pretending.
For me, tops is just too sterile. It looks like a hospital.
(e:southernyankee) says bright white sells stuff, but I like the homey Wegmans orange - wood - brown scheme.
We also stopped at the coop and bought the necessary organics. My coop milk, eggs, 1 lb cherries and bacon cost as much as all of my other tops groceries combined(2.5 doz clams, 3 lbs of catfish, 2 sodas, collard greens, 1 block of dill havarti, .25 lb cured black olives, .25 lb greek olives, and baby portabellas.)
As for mega-store shopping what do you guys think, Tops or Wegman's?
(e:flacidness) and
(e:lilho) stopped by for Dinner. Actually,
(e:lilho) did much of the cooking along with
(e:terry) who was master chef [inlink]terry,269[/inlink]. I steamed the clams and acted as a team supervisor, hahaha.
This is
(e:flacidness) 's cousin frita. She was playing with the sidekick and I found this picture of her on it.