"Sierra fisher" wrote in message
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Wegmans and Tops must be fantastic stores. In our area, Wal-Mart is 5 to
40% cheaper than all three of our local supermarkets.

Like any other business, the quality of WM's groceries depends on the
management. Here, nobody seems to give a damn. The produce appears to have
been driven over. They charge .69 per pound for romaine lettuce. Wegman's
gets .79. But with the WM lettuce, you have to throw away the outer half of
the leaves. Now it costs 1.40 per pound in order to get the same number of
servings. The meat at WM is awful. Most of the time, they're out of
Tropicana OJ. The moment you have to shop at two stores, your savings is
gone as far as I'm concerned. I head over to Wegman's and everything's
perfect, even in the middle of a blizzard when much of the staff couldn't
get to work.

Another interesting story: Went into WM at 11:00 one night to pick up some
Rapalas. There were two registers open. One had a long line, so I picked the
other. I was #3 in line. #1 in line was a group of 4 women with a huge load
of groceries. When it came time to pay, one of them reached into her purse
and pulled out an envelope containing a 2" stack of credit cards. The first
few failed to get approval. Then, she found one that had 10 bucks available,
which clearly wasn't enough to cover the amount of stuff she'd bought. She
slowly continued trying cards. Then, one of her friends took over the
routine. Twenty minutes went by, when some pimple-faced dweeb strolled over
and asked what was going on. The cashier explained. The dweeb went and
leaned against the wall outside the registers. I motioned him over and he
came around to the back of the line. He told me he was the manager, and I
asked him if he knew how to operate a register. He said yes, so I asked why
he didn't open another register and handle the line of customers which had
now grown to about a dozen. He told me managers aren't supposed to run
registers.

Wegman's would've hustled the credit card scammers to the customer service
desk PRONTO, and let them play slot machine there, rather than make other
customers stand around forever. No more Wal Mart for me.