TRADER JOE'S VS. WEGMANS

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EAST COAST FUCK YOU.

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

LET ME CORRECT THE SUBJECT LINE "WEGMAN'S" => "WEGMANS"

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

WEGMANS would win but they haven't opened a store in nyc yet!

― stockholm cindy is a guy with a belly button piercing (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

There is no room in NYC for the goodness of Wegmans. We should just turn Union Square into a Wegmans. Fuck high school students, vendors in booths and fucking drum circle BS. WE NEED A WEGMANS NOT A SHITTY "OPEN SPACE" (OPEN SPACE MY BUTT, WHAT GOOD IS GRASS YOU CAN'T WALK ON??)

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

oh how i miss the wegmans, and it's only been a month! we were in the "BI~LO" here the other day and ended up leaving the cart in the middle of the store and walking out becaue they had no plain yogurt, no tofu other than silken, and tomatoes that looked like they'd just escaped a domestic violence situation (yet were still mad expensive).

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

if i ever somehow end up living in rochester again, for reasons i can't actually imagine right now and hope i never discover, wegmans will be one of the few consolations.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

(i haven't been to trader joe's yet, but i'm declaring wegmans the winner on general principle)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

There's lots of other places with Wegmans, homes! Yea, FFS Wegmans store brand products are like 1000x better than the store brand products that we get here :(

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

i told my mother weg's has store brand tofu and she was like ORLY!?

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

there are some wegmans in nj but i dunno where exactly. it's on the website.

― stockholm cindy is a guy with a belly button piercing (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wegmans.com/about/storeLocator/results.asp?region=7

there's one in princeton! so when we finally make it down there for PREX-ing we can make a wegmans run too!

― stockholm cindy is a guy with a belly button piercing (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

granted, ive yet to enter a trader joes..but im going to have to side with wegmans....ive spent hours in wegman's (note: this does not include trips under the influence of the sort of grass soo plentiful in ithaca). though i didn't eat meat then, so maybe trader joes would have more appeal now.

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

i think wegmans used to have a dc area store, but apparently no more. i like that the west coast choice here is more urban than the east coast one.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

well wegmans is basically an upstate ny thing (specifically rochester, but there are stores in the finger lakes and southern tier areas too), but they've recently expanded into a couple other states. it's not like wegmans is some nationwide phenomenon yet.

― stockholm cindy is a guy with a belly button piercing (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

evidently wegmans is one of them "good corporations" too.

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

actually they have fairfax and dulles stores, but I thought there was one in NW or MontCo

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

you'd think there would be but there is only one in hunt valley

― o -- (eman), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Wegmans Cherry Hill
2100 Route 70 West
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
Camden County

June 11, 2006 (tentative)
+ JAPANTHER

― [email protected] (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

after all the bad grammar, i get a yellow card for using an apostrophe in one of three uses?!

there are atleast 2 of them in the Princeton area.

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Inconsistently wrong apostrophe use is a capital offense.

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

STEP DOWN
http://www.lebanonbluesfestival.com/images/Kroger%20Logo%20RSRP%204c.jpg

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

evidently wegmans is one of them "good corporations" too.

LOL get 1 google video search

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

lemme guess, that link is to "WegmansCruelty.com" videos? Those dudes are LAME.

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

kroger is LAME. even the gourmet suburban kroger stores are like 15 years behind wegmans.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

(oops i meant to say, "kroger is LAME too.")

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

FUCK YOU

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't really know anything about Wegmans or Wegmanscruelty, though -- just GIVING THE PEOPLE ACCESS TO THE INFO TO WHICH THEY ARE ENTITLED!

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

and tell me just how kroger is "behind" "wegmans" by "15 years," gypsy mothers temple

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

they didn't even have baked tofu until about 5 years ago! and their sushi bars suck. PLUS, no sit-down cafes.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

Kroger does not exist to to provide u with sushi, tofu, cafes, and other mutli-ethnic Eurasian crap. It's a GODDAM GROCERY STORE.

(Nevertheless, I have been in at least two (2) Krogers w/ sit-down cafes.)

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

well ok i've been in a kroger with a hot-dog stand.

but you are exhibiting pre-wegmans thinking about what a grocery store should be.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

wegmans chinese food kicks serious ass

― stockholm cindy is a guy with a belly button piercing (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Kroger bakery area gives free cookies to children under 12 (means I still get free cookies)

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Kroger deli will fix you a sandwich to your liking

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

If there is a mistake on your receipt at Kroger, you get the item free

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Kroger kept my fish in a bag overnight during a massive winter power outage so he didn't freeze

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Kroger bakery area gives free cookies to children under 12 (means I still get free cookies)

i'm a proud alumnus of the wegmans cookie club.

and the cookies are better.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

(this thread is a grocery store marketing dept's wet dream)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

also, wegmans subs are GOOD. can kroger make you a buffalo chicken fingers sub (or chicken parm sub)!? also, weg's prepared foods are good - chicken french, amazing lentil soup with just the right amount of spicy kick, etc. and their baguettes are awesome.

― tehresa (tehresa), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Do they have a pharmacy?

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

of course! my former roommate worked at the wegmans pharmacy!

― tehresa (tehresa), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

I've never been to Wegmans although I'm sure there's one near my grandparents' house in Knoxville.

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

there is no wegmans in knoxville! there is just kroger, food lion, food city, red foods, various other stores with "food" in the name, but no wegmans!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:46 (twenty years ago)

Knoxville isn't that great anyway

― m[ad(a)m]an (UL®) (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

its grocery stores srure aren't.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:59 (twenty years ago)

WEGMANS ALL THE WAY!!

I've never been to Trader Joe's.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

U RULE BRO

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

"kroger" is just a lame name....i would never want to have to say that out loud

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

it's a german name, like yours.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

well, how often do i say my name aloud?

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I love me some Trader Joe's but having just emerged from the belly of the Pittsford Wegmans mothership/theme park this is no contest.

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 25 December 2009 17:02 (sixteen years ago)

omg how did i not know there was an ilx thread about wegman's? wegman's obvs.

― horseshoe, Friday, 25 December 2009 22:12 (sixteen years ago)

wegmans duh

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Friday, 25 December 2009 22:39 (sixteen years ago)

pittsford wegmans is n/l tbh

― velko, Saturday, 26 December 2009 01:19 (sixteen years ago)

wegmans blows TJs and whole foods out of the fucking water

― max, Saturday, 26 December 2009 03:29 (sixteen years ago)

i stole a papaya from pittsford wegmans sorry

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Saturday, 26 December 2009 03:31 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

i'm going to wegmans today!

― tunnel joe (harbl), Friday, 11 November 2011 14:22 (fourteen years ago)

Jealous.

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Friday, 11 November 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

I would probably make a road trip to upstate NY just to go to Wegmans tbh.

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Friday, 11 November 2011 14:29 (fourteen years ago)

it's 17 miles away from me so i have to make sure i get everything i want this is hard

― tunnel joe (harbl), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

dear heavens. a wegmans just opened up in my hometown and i can't stop hearing about it. apparently it is literally the closest human beings have come to recreating heaven. except less expensive. it's situated right between a harris teeter and a trader joes and i actually feel bad for the harris teeter and the trader joes.

i'll have to check it out before i move. although apparently i've been 15 minutes away from one outside DC for several years now? before this month i thought it was walgreen's.

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:07 (thirteen years ago)

^^ possibly the first time i've managed to stick 'heaven' in two consecutive sentences w/o talking about heaven

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:08 (thirteen years ago)

sigh, wegmans, aka "pride of the suburbs"

― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 14:29 (thirteen years ago)

dear heavens. a wegmans just opened up in my hometown and i can't stop hearing about it.

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:07 PM

i bet i kno which one you're talking about. are they still arguing over whether it should sell alcohol or not

― am0n, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 14:59 (thirteen years ago)

wait where is this weggies?

― quincie, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:09 (thirteen years ago)

http://columbia.patch.com/articles/liquor-board-delays-decision-on-wegmans-liquor-store

― am0n, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:12 (thirteen years ago)

wegmans blows ~~TJs and whole foods out of the fucking water~~

― max, Friday, December 25, 2009 10:29 PM

at least whole foods doesn't have a phobia of being in urban areas

― am0n, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:21 (thirteen years ago)

even though the store is to be located on the second floor of the grocery superstore

wtf there are two floors? can't deal with this rn

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:12 (thirteen years ago)

i was excited about the prospect of a wegmans with a liquor store but i visited the harris teeter with a liquor store and it was the most disappointing liquor store. also i hate the name harris teeter so i'm not gonna go there anymore. wegmans is better than wf and tj combined btw but yeah do they have to put it in the farthest away place

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:39 (thirteen years ago)

i don't plan to ever enter columbia wegmans or not

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:39 (thirteen years ago)

:'(

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:45 (thirteen years ago)

sorry!!!

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:49 (thirteen years ago)

i only go to cool places like hunt valley to shop weg

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:49 (thirteen years ago)

it's ok, i grew up in columbia so it took me a while to realize how weird/creepy it is

still better than everywhere in montgomery tho

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 28 June 2012 01:54 (thirteen years ago)

canton is getting a target and a harris teater

― am0n, Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:40 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

jk i think i'm gonna go to the columbia wegmans this morning since it's like the same distance to hunt valley and i've never been to this new one. so excited!

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:56 (thirteen years ago)

God, this stupid thing has been in the works ever since I moved back to Maryland from San Diego, which corresponds roughly to the entire time I've been posting to ilx. My parents are out of town for the summer, so I have no reason to go up to Columbia and visit it, and I sort of doubt that I'll make it to Wegman's once they get back, since they live right next to the Harris Teeter.

― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:04 (thirteen years ago)

But basically, this is the grocery store that no one would shut up about.

― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:08 (thirteen years ago)

That's because Wegman's rules. Duh.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:18 (thirteen years ago)

Sorry, they've been talking about it since 2004. Fucking shit, that's a long time to talk about a grocery store that doesn't exist. Just go to Giant or Safeway. Sheesh.

― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:24 (thirteen years ago)

The Baltimore Sun

March 16, 2004 Tuesday HOWARD Edition

Huge market being sought;
N.Y. developer proposes Wegmans store on 10-acre site on the east side;
'It would have a negative effect';
Planners, Rouse fear damage to village concept;
Columbia

― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:25 (thirteen years ago)

It is kind of blowing my mind that you live in MD. I have no clue why but for some reason I thought you lived somewhere like Kansas or something. Huh.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:29 (thirteen years ago)

i like the idea of a grocery store destroying an idyllic suburb

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:35 (thirteen years ago)

Nope. Maryland, born and bred. I've never had a positive experience in a plains state either, so that's pretty weird.

― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:36 (thirteen years ago)

To be fair, everything destroyed that idyllic suburb, but I'll defend it as having once been super-idyllic.

― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:37 (thirteen years ago)

When they built condos right next to Merriweather Post Pavillion and the new residents tried to shut MPP down because of the noise, that was the end of the dream, imo.

― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:39 (thirteen years ago)

i was underwhelmed. hunt valley is better wegmans.

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:57 (thirteen years ago)

in buffalo the wegmans are not simply a suburban phenomenon fwiw. they all have distinct vibes, too.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:41 (thirteen years ago)

yeah there was a wide variety of wegmans in the rochester area. i consider myself a wegmans expert and i thought i would be broadening my horizons by visiting ~~both~~* two of maryland's wegmans but they were the same. hunt valley felt more spacious and i prefer a flat open suburban parking lot to a parking garage. also i feel resentful of the whole store when i go on a weekday and there are still too many people. additionally many of the rochester wegmans were open 24 hours. maryland wegmans sux!

*nevermind while i was fact-checking this i learned there are 5 of them and one opening in crofton on 10/28

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Friday, 24 August 2012 00:49 (thirteen years ago)

they have an FAQ on their site and one of them is a question i have been asking myself for years:

Why is there no apostrophe in Wegmans?
Answer: It's been missing in action since 1931, when the company incorporated and we simplified the logo. Believe it or not, adding an apostrophe to the sign on the front of each of our stores would cost more than a half million dollars! Not to mention changing the logo on all our products, bags, etc. Just think of it as the plural Wegmans, as in the many generations of Wegman family members that have built the company! If you are interested in Wegmans History, check out our Timeline.

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Friday, 24 August 2012 00:55 (thirteen years ago)

omg all the buffalo wegmans are open 24 hours!

i never noticed about the missing apostrophe.

― horseshoe, Friday, 24 August 2012 01:02 (thirteen years ago)

Wow, I think if I lived in Buffalo I would just hang out at Wegmans late at night.

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 August 2012 01:48 (thirteen years ago)

I think Wegmans vs. Fairway would be a more interesting poll, although it would require people who have lived both in NYC and a Wegmans-having suburb.

I love some things in Fairway but I get the sense that it's a bit in decline with all the competition from Whole Foods on the high end, and TJ's and Costco on the low end. Then again I think the company is IPOing so who knows, maybe they'll expand further.

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 August 2012 01:51 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.grubstreet.com/2016/02/collapse-of-fairway.html

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 21:05 (ten years ago)

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