"notbob" wrote in message
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On 2008-05-05, TammyM wrote:

Say it ain't so, nb! OK, this clinches it, I'm making the trek to
Berkeley.

I'd go anyway, Tammy. Maybe they just had an off week, but I'm not so
enamored with TCB as I once was. OTOH, compared to where I'm at now,
everyything looks good. BTW, what don't you like about BB? I don't think
much of the rest of the store, but their produce is simply astonishing.
As
for Andronico's, well, let's put it this way: their store closure in
Danville is no great loss, IMO.


Anyone visited the new Draeger's in the Blackhawk shopping center? The
original Blackhawk Supermarket was the first super-premium gourmet
supermarket I ever experienced and I was alway dumbfounded as to why it
failed, although that shopping center has never been entirely successful.
In
light of its notorious lack of tenents and the failure of the 1st gourmet
market and the closing of Andronico's in Danville, I was again dumbfounded
as to why Draeger's would take the chance of building at that particularly
unlucky spot. Time will tell.

nb

Our favorite market in Contra Costa County by a wide margin is Lunardi's.
They took over the Andronico site in Danville. They have an excellent old
fashion meat counter. Their sale prices for meat are excellent. Our life
revolves around "what's on sale at Lunardi's". http://lunardis.com/. Their
prices aren't outrageous, at least competitive with Safeway, which isn't
saying a lot.

Kent