Open Thread Wednesday

Glad someone’s here.

They redid the sidewalk on Clark Street near the subway station with a strip of black asphalt. To my eye, it doesn’t look as good.

Have a great time there!!!

I would suspect that this has just as much to do with the demand of shoppers as anything else. And yes, that demand also results in more costly goods being sold. I think it’s a response to the appetite of the shoppers as opposed to them trying price gouge anyone.

They’ve upgraded the cheese selections in the deli area, and have a lot more bread choices there. I’m sure that everything now is highly computerized; if something being sold doesn’t move, it’s discontinued. The floors and display cases have also been upgraded. All this takes money. A lot of the foods I eat are still there.

You’re welcome to shop at the many other food stores in the area. The numerous CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid so-called pharmacies also offer a lot of food choices, too.

Yeah some of the upgrades are nice, but even the most automatic defenders of the status quo admit that the changes are not buyer driven but management’s desire to kick the basic price index reference points as upward as possible. A LOT of budget and reasonably priced item which WERE selling well have now been replaced by “gourmet” or “organic” items at like 2-3 times the original item cost and there’s at attitude of “don’t like it? Shop elsewhere….

Joe’s statement may be true but his assumption about management’s motivation still wrong. The Key Food on Montague Street, like many New York “supermarkets” (What makes them so super?), is relatively small. Lower priced items that sell well might be being displaced because there is limited shelf space and the “gourmet” items more profitable, not to mention appreciated by a segment of the Brooklyn Heights community.

But let us jump to the most dire aspect of Key Food shopping: that mannequin near the front door.

Not amusing, not welcoming–rather scary, in fact. And lifelike enough so that I sometimes find myself taking it for a person I must…well, take account of.

Otherwise, I think Key Food is awesome. Totes.

You can still get those awful Table Talk individual pies at Gristede’s. LOL

The bottom line is Key has decided that they can squeeze more money out of their shoppers by no longer offering lower priced items and telling their shoppers if they don’t like it trek over to Atlantic or find a C Town….real nice guys…..

I wish they’d install a couple of self checkout lanes while they’re upgrading. I wouldn’t want them added at the expense of someone’s job, but it would make the experience of shopping there more enjoyable and potentially more efficient.

This is temporary. If you look down the block to Hicks Street, you’ll see the street and sidewalk on the south side next to Hicks have all been torn up, have temporary asphalt covering the holes.

You’re not being forced to shop there, you know. I buy the stuff there that I can’t get at Trader Joe’s or Sahadi’s.

target has great deals on amy’s organic and other “quality” frozen meals

Hey, key food just eliminated more of their house brand budget items like their breakfast items. Anything to jack the prices up….you can make any obfuscations/excuses you want but this is total squeeze the BH buyers for as much cash as they.can….