Went to the closest supermarket today, one of the national chains. I
don't usually buy meat there but time constraints were persuasive. The
first 'specials' sign I saw was for New York strip steak, bone-in, at a
decent price -- $6.99/lb. Trouble was, it was the store brand beef,
which does not display a USDA grade. I could tell by looking that it
was not the equivalent of Choice--very little marbling, and it wasn't
well trimmed, either. Clearly it would be a chewy steak. Pass. So I
looked for pork chops. Only boneless available. Pass. Lamb? Some
previously frozen antipodal chops, not on sale. Pass. I bought a
Foster Farms chicken and went on to the produce section. Oh look, a
big display of some really good looking asparagus. But no price
marked. Looked all around for it. Looked for an employee to ask.
Nothing, nobody. Took my chicken and went home. Next several times I
go to the market I'll pass them by. Why don't they realize that? It
would take so little effort for them not to turn me off. -aem

aem wrote:
> Why don't they realize that? It
> would take so little effort for them not to turn me off. -aem

It's times like these, the freezer dept is consistent between markets.

Stouffers Lasagna is excellent, they put plenty of cheese on it
you know...they have the family size too.

We have two market nearby. One stocks every pig product you can imagine
buckets of it..mmmm (rubbing my belly)

:

the other is Food Lion.

This is not Wayne. Check the headers.

**** off, Barry. Go get your jollies in another NG.

On 24 Jan 2006 17:08:48 -0800, aem wrote:

> I looked for pork chops. Only boneless available. Pass.

I'm one of the prople who are the reason you only had one choice. If
I see pork chops with bones, I pass.

--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On 24 Jan 2006 17:08:48 -0800, aem wrote:
>
>> I looked for pork chops. Only boneless available. Pass.
>
> I'm one of the prople who are the reason you only had one choice. If
> I see pork chops with bones, I pass.

Why?

"aem" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Went to the closest supermarket today, one of the national chains. I
> don't usually buy meat there but time constraints were persuasive. The
> first 'specials' sign I saw was for New York strip steak, bone-in, at a
> decent price -- $6.99/lb. Trouble was, it was the store brand beef,
> which does not display a USDA grade. I could tell by looking that it
> was not the equivalent of Choice--very little marbling, and it wasn't
> well trimmed, either. Clearly it would be a chewy steak. Pass. So I
> looked for pork chops. Only boneless available. Pass. Lamb? Some
> previously frozen antipodal chops, not on sale. Pass. I bought a
> Foster Farms chicken and went on to the produce section. Oh look, a
> big display of some really good looking asparagus. But no price
> marked. Looked all around for it. Looked for an employee to ask.
> Nothing, nobody. Took my chicken and went home. Next several times I
> go to the market I'll pass them by. Why don't they realize that? It
> would take so little effort for them not to turn me off. -aem
>

Was this Wal Mart?

I am lucky enough to live in Chicago with a large number of ethnic markets.
I do not speak Italian, Polish, or Spanish but ALWAYS get better service
than I do at the large chains. If I smile and use enough hand signals, I
can almost always get what I want.

I am very pro labor and would prefer to buy from organized US shops, but I
have NEVER had to go into a Hispanic market and "ring the bell" for
service.

"Doug Kanter" > wrote

> "sf" > wrote

>> On 24 Jan 2006 17:08:48 -0800, aem wrote:
>>
>>> I looked for pork chops. Only boneless available. Pass.
>>
>> I'm one of the prople who are the reason you only had one choice. If
>> I see pork chops with bones, I pass.
>
> Why?

Gawd, I'll only buy pork chops with the bone, it's getting
harder to find ... even pork roast, no way would I want a
boneless one. Most times it's all that's available.

nancy

Doug Kanter wrote:
>
> Was this Wal Mart?

No, it's a Pavilions -- formerly Safeway, now owned by Vons. I don't
have a major problem with the corporations per se, but my local version
of this one seems to have inattentive management. Little things like
not marking prices, and bigger things like sometimes having real chops
and sometimes not. It would take so little effort to make me a happy
shopper, but they won't/don't make the effort. If they choose to sell
Select grade meat and try to hype it, well, that's their business
decision. I don't have to buy it, and I don't.

Like another poster, I go to ethnic markets too. Chinese for ground
pork that has adequate fat in it, and spareribs sawn to stirfry
lengths, fresh noodles, and Asian veggies for low prices. Mexican for
oxtails and shanks (because they always have them, not because they are
the top grade -- I don't need USDA Choice for long-cooking dishes), and
tortillas and fresh and dried chiles. -aem

Nancy Young wrote on 25 Jan 2006 in rec.food.cooking

> Gawd, I'll only buy pork chops with the bone, it's getting
> harder to find ... even pork roast, no way would I want a
> boneless one. Most times it's all that's available.
>
> nancy
>

Change over to pork butt steaks...easier to find, at least around here.
Plus a better meat to fat ratio.


--
The eyes are the mirrors....
But the ears...Ah the ears.
The ears keep the hat up.

In article >,
"Doug Kanter" > wrote:

> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On 24 Jan 2006 17:08:48 -0800, aem wrote:
> >
> >> I looked for pork chops. Only boneless available. Pass.
> >
> > I'm one of the prople who are the reason you only had one choice. If
> > I see pork chops with bones, I pass.
>
> Why?

Speaking for myself, I could lie and say that I don't want to pay bone
prices for meat, but I actually just don't like meat with bones in it.
If the price without bones isn't much higher, then that's what I buy.

--
Dan Abel

Petaluma, California, USA

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:04:49 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:

> In article >,
> "Doug Kanter" > wrote:
>
> > "sf" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > On 24 Jan 2006 17:08:48 -0800, aem wrote:
> > >
> > >> I looked for pork chops. Only boneless available. Pass.
> > >
> > > I'm one of the prople who are the reason you only had one choice. If
> > > I see pork chops with bones, I pass.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Speaking for myself, I could lie and say that I don't want to pay bone
> prices for meat, but I actually just don't like meat with bones in it.
> If the price without bones isn't much higher, then that's what I buy.

Ditto. I just plain DON'T like bones in my meat - so when I'm buying,
I buy it boneless.
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

aem wrote:
<snip>

>
> No, it's a Pavilions -- formerly Safeway, now owned by Vons. I don't
> have a major problem with the corporations per se, but my local version
> of this one seems to have inattentive management. Little things like
> not marking prices, and bigger things like sometimes having real chops
> and sometimes not. It would take so little effort to make me a happy
> shopper, but they won't/don't make the effort. If they choose to sell
> Select grade meat and try to hype it, well, that's their business
> decision. I don't have to buy it, and I don't.

FWIW, every Safeway I have ever shopped at has the problem of no prices
on things. We simply don't buy it if the price isn't marked. The Fred
Meyer here is notorious for having the *wrong* price on stuff. Drives
me batty.

>
> Like another poster, I go to ethnic markets too. Chinese for ground
> pork that has adequate fat in it, and spareribs sawn to stirfry
> lengths, fresh noodles, and Asian veggies for low prices. Mexican for
> oxtails and shanks (because they always have them, not because they are
> the top grade -- I don't need USDA Choice for long-cooking dishes), and
> tortillas and fresh and dried chiles. -aem

I dunno. Anything that is brand-named or ungraded is probably standard
or commercial grade, and since the deregulation of the meat industry in
the 80's that isn't something I'd risk eating.

-L.

-L. wrote:
<snip>
> FWIW, every Safeway I have ever shopped at has the problem of no prices
> on things. We simply don't buy it if the price isn't marked. The Fred
> Meyer here is notorious for having the *wrong* price on stuff. Drives
> me batty.
>

Here, in MI, if an item is marked a lower price that it rings up, if the
transaction is completed, the retailer must reimburse for the difference
in price and also pay out a "scan error reward" of ten times the
difference, at least a dollar, but no more than five.


--

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sarah bennett wrote:
>
> Here, in MI, if an item is marked a lower price that it rings up, if the
> transaction is completed, the retailer must reimburse for the difference
> in price and also pay out a "scan error reward" of ten times the
> difference, at least a dollar, but no more than five.

Is that a state law? If so, awesome! It should be federal....
-L.

-L. wrote:
> sarah bennett wrote:
>
>>Here, in MI, if an item is marked a lower price that it rings up, if the
>>transaction is completed, the retailer must reimburse for the difference
>>in price and also pay out a "scan error reward" of ten times the
>>difference, at least a dollar, but no more than five.
>
>
> Is that a state law?

yes. also, you only get the "reward" on the first item- if you bought
more than one you only get the difference back on the rest. The law does
not apply to signs, just tags or stickers on individual items that have
barcodes as well.

If so, awesome! It should be federal....
> -L.
>


--

saerah

http://anisaerah.blogspot.com/

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a
disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
-Baruch Spinoza

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There
is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-Douglas Adams

-L. wrote:

>
> sarah bennett wrote:
> >
> > Here, in MI, if an item is marked a lower price that it rings up,
> > if the transaction is completed, the retailer must reimburse for
> > the difference in price and also pay out a "scan error reward" of
> > ten times the difference, at least a dollar, but no more than five.
>
> Is that a state law? If so, awesome! It should be federal....
> -L.

I don't we have any laws like that, but at the major groceries chains
if the item scans wrong, it's free. Best score for me, a bottle of
vanilla that was marked at $8.29, rang $8.49.



Brian

--
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won't shut up.
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:28:52 GMT, sarah bennett wrote:

> -L. wrote:
> > sarah bennett wrote:
> >
> >>Here, in MI, if an item is marked a lower price that it rings up, if the
> >>transaction is completed, the retailer must reimburse for the difference
> >>in price and also pay out a "scan error reward" of ten times the
> >>difference, at least a dollar, but no more than five.
> >
> >
> > Is that a state law?
>
> yes. also, you only get the "reward" on the first item- if you bought
> more than one you only get the difference back on the rest. The law does
> not apply to signs, just tags or stickers on individual items that have
> barcodes as well.

If I could have gotten that bounty on the number of times I've caught
a grocery store in a mistake - I'd be rich.
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.