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Skriven 2011-10-19 23:45:28 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 16451 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: grocery stuff 11
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to ALL on 08 Oct 11  18:33:00 <=-

 ML> So I'm staying here with my professor friend who is tearing
 ML> her hair out trying to get put the Oxford Handbook of Opera,
 ML> herding 45 self-important tenured academics through the
 ML> elements of the Oxford style before the advertised 2011
 ML> release date turns into a pumpkin.

That's worse than herding cats!!   Good luck to her, and my sympathies! 

 ML> roast chicken 
 ML>  This particular example was really, really overdone;
 ML> I had a leg, which fell apart on touching, and a wing that
 ML> was blacker than Othello, tougher than Brawny, and as dry
 ML> as Bernard Shaw's wit. 

Nice description... (G)  I could just about taste it, and was thankful I
didn't have to... ;)

 ML> Roche Brothers at least is a local chain, owned by two
 ML> brothers; Star at least is US-owned (part of Shaw's, which
 ML> is part of SuperValu, which owns Acme, Albertson's, Lucky,
 ML> Save-A-Lot, Shop 'n' Save, and Shopper's Food Warehouse).
 ML> The stores themselves are interestingly similar, apparently
 ML> modeled on the successful upscale look adopted some decades
 ML> ago by Wegmans. Used to be you could tell a store's
 ML> affiliation by its layout and look: no more. Safeway and
 ML> Harris Teeter are going the Weg-route; Giant and Stop & Shop
 ML> are growing alike, as old married folks, and the Gourmet Giant
 ML> subsidiary that looked more like the Wegmans model is said to
 ML> be defuncted or at least redesigned into bland submission.

We used to have Star Markets here, but they may not at all be related to
your lot...  The ones here got bought out by (I think, it's been a while
now) Loblaws and then turned into Apples and then all closed... 

I heard that a new Wegmans just opened in Boston this weekend... are you
in town to go check it out...?

ttyl      neb

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