Archives for the 'groceries' tag
Screwed Leonard’s
Stew Leonard’s, a Connecticut-based grocery chain, is selling a parcel of property they bought with the intent to develop into a store — 13 years ago:
“I just put it on the market,” [Stew Leonard, Jr.] said Wednesday. “Why not see what happens? We want to leave all our options open. We’re not looking at opening anything in Connecticut.”
Instead, Leonard said, his focus is on opening new stores in New York and New Jersey, where the real estate market is booming.
Since 1996, the town of Orange, CT has been fighting Stew’s from opening the store, complaining it will bring increased crime, traffic, and infrastructure stress to the suburb. This despite the parcel being a cornfield adjacent to I-95, where customers could zoom off and on the highway without looting or flushing too many toilets while visiting, and despite Orange being full of such mom-and-pop stores like Lowe’s, Target, and Home Depot (I love Home Depot. They have everything — except the item you’re looking for). And also despite Stew Leonard’s being one of Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For eight years in a row or simply a great place to buy milk from local farms or coffee roasted right in the store.
So congratulations, town of Orange, CT. Your short-sightedness and buggering of local businesses and farms during an economic downturn is an inspiration to government everywhere. Hey! Want to be in charge of my health care?
Surviving University One Value Product at a Time
The eminent Times of London enlisted a college student in an experiment to see if he could live for a week only buying Tesco Value products. The results proved hilarious:
If I have breakfast at all it tends to be soggy cereal shovelled down my throat from a mug as I walk to a lecture, or possibly an under-toasted slice of bread with some cut-price jam slapped on it. Having said that, Tesco Value cornflakes taste disgusting with or without milk. I do not encourage anyone to eat them, although I’m sure they’d make very cheap confetti. Their version of Coco Pops is to be recommended however, as it has two crucial points in its favour: it contains sugar, and is packaged in a plastic bag, allowing for easy access as you place fistfuls of the stuff in your mouth.
Tesco Value offers two varieties of soup. Both are bad in my opinion. The soup in sachet form results in a slightly chalky concoction that leaves an unpleasant scum on the bottom of your bowl. This particular scum is oh-so-difficult to remove when it comes to washing up – using Tesco Value washing liquid.
Read on to learn exactly just how unfortunate the tomato soup tastes here. Tesco site here.
