Sunday, February 13, 2005

I met my mother at 7:30am and she drove her mini-SUV to the Wegmans - more space for the haul than my little trunk. We got there a little before 8am and sailed into a parking space not too far from the doors. They had parking attendants directing traffic for the masses. We each got a cart and headed in.

Produce: this is where Wegmens excels - fantastic and fresh produce. It’s a huge section and we each stocked up on various fruits and veggies.

The Marketplace: this is where they have the old school butcher, fish monger, bakery, deli, etc. Again, excellent stuff. And the prices are very reasonable - very competitive with the other grocery stores. It was this section that was mobbed and no one was observing cart etiquette. Fortunately, we had pretty much reached the end of that section when I was starting to feel slightly claustrophobic, so we moved on to the regular grocery store section.

I spent about double what I had planned, but it was mostly stuff I needed, so that’s OK. I did buy a lovely bouquet of flowers for our kitchen table and that ended up costing more that I thought - I went by the sign in the section rather than actually looking at the tag on the bouquet.

The coolest item I was able to buy was spelt bread made by the Vermont Bread Company. I found this brand at a health food store when I lived in New Hampshire and was trying to watch my wheat intake. VBC’s spelt bread is the best out there, imho. I also bought a loaf of their oat bread.

My only complaint was that there were too many helpful employees roaming the store. They hosed cart traffic and just got in the way.

We were back at the house by 10am, so two hours wasn’t that bad. When we were driving out of the lot, we could see a long line of cars waiting to get into the parking lot. We were happy to have avoided the larger crowds of slackers. All in all, it was a good grocery shopping event.

LATER: The link for Vermont Bread Company has been hijacked by some animation company. Weird.