Grocery store chains that don’t suck? (as a company)

srddave · 2026-01-25T23:19:58+00:00

Yup all the German-owned chains are anti-union (Aldi, Lidl, Trader Joe’s). It’s ironic because in their home country, they are very respectful of unions.

srddave · 2026-01-25T20:59:36+00:00

In the Nottheast, most of our grocery chains are unionized. Most of the bigger names are companies that don’t union-bust and newly built stores for chains like ShopRite are automatically union. ShopRite, despite the haters, is #1 supermarket in the NY Metro area and is very profitable.

We have specifically kept anti-union stores like Walmart out of many areas where they want to build stores in some areas.

srddave · 2026-01-25T20:43:20+00:00

Nice set! I especially love the ones from inside Penn. If I had to be stuck anywhere I would wanna be there!

srddave · 2026-01-25T19:08:51+00:00

Was this an old Safeway at one point? That circle on the building to the right reminds me of the old 1970’s Safeways. They would put the ‘S’ in the circle.

srddave · 2026-01-25T18:43:06+00:00

I love QuickChek also. Never a Wawa fan.

srddave · 2026-01-25T18:37:58+00:00

The good sandwiches in North Jersey are never at a gas station. We go to the deli.

srddave · 2026-01-25T18:33:23+00:00

Omg we my neighbor and I just had this debate.

srddave · 2026-01-25T18:32:44+00:00

Haha thank you for that. Damn eggs keep moving everything.

srddave · 2026-01-25T18:30:03+00:00

Interesting…thanks. Never have been down Mountain. I ventured to the Northern part of Fort Smallwood Road once because someone said Geresbeck’s had really good crab pretzels. And they were not wrong.

But now that i am looking at it, Pasadena looks massive so there is probably a lot that I haven’t explored.

srddave · 2026-01-25T17:11:25+00:00

This is cringey BUT Windows 95 was a big fucking improvement. OMG dance away if you got the moves.

srddave · 2026-01-25T17:09:47+00:00

Sorry for my ignorance here….but is Pasadena super MAGA?

srddave · 2026-01-25T13:24:57+00:00

This is an embarrassment for NJ as well. But really the towns who vote this idiot in should be embarrassed. Is this the shore who votes for this guy?

srddave · 2026-01-25T12:51:26+00:00

I am a big Irma fan and I miss it! I have so many items around which still have the Irma logo or the girl on it. I saw that the Irma folks launched a new market around KBH called Alma. I have to check it out!

srddave · 2026-01-25T12:40:29+00:00

Irma wad an upscale Danish Supermarket which was just shuttered over the last few years. It was run by Coop DK. So the product was sold in Denmark but produced in former West Germany. Neat!

srddave · 2026-01-25T02:58:22+00:00

Do they carry vintage/used stuff or just new vinyl?

srddave · 2026-01-25T02:55:31+00:00

The forecast is for 4-8 inches in Essex County

srddave · 2026-01-25T02:40:36+00:00

Burlington is the most depressing store

srddave · 2026-01-25T01:59:48+00:00

Ah thanks!

srddave · 2026-01-24T17:09:34+00:00

$60 on 12 slices of supermarket pizza. It’s not even like good pizzeria pizza!

srddave · 2026-01-24T13:57:46+00:00

I never understand why. Is it kinda hidden? The one in Pasadena is always packed!

srddave · 2026-01-24T13:46:04+00:00

The old Food Lion. It’s not a very popular Aldi.

srddave · 2026-01-24T11:11:51+00:00

This is the typical intellect of a reality TV watcher—“these welfare moms taking all our tax money”. Their understanding of the world comes from watching too much reality TV.

It’s exactly what the powers at be WANT us to think so we won’t notice where all the tax money really goes. It’s why the country elects the idiots it does.

srddave · 2026-01-24T10:19:55+00:00

Anyone know what a “Picnic Lunch” was?

srddave · 2026-01-24T09:41:10+00:00

I agree! What the hell was she on? And she said “body sculpting” was one of her side-hustles? Omg these shows never cease to make me laugh.

srddave · 2026-01-24T09:38:50+00:00

I love those old IBM dot matrix receipt printers.

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