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April 30, 2011 at 6:53 am #723223
Rod ClarkMemberWSMom, just to clear up something when you mentioned Draper, Draper’s pull dates seem to be somewhere in the range of a week or maybe a little less after packing. It’s hard to pin down because sometimes they show the pack date as a normal readable month/day, and sometimes they don’t show it at all. The 11xxx two week date codes are Foster’s.
Draper’s is local but it doesn’t taste much better than Foster’s, to me.
If I were running a supermarket, I’d forget about the normal Draper chicken and go with Ranger, Draper’s free range chicken that does taste better, as the main mass market item. With the greater volume, and value packs, the price difference might be small enough that it would be workable for a place like QFC. (QFC is even putting sorbate preservatives in its cottage cheese now, to lower the labor costs of putting fresh cottage cheese on the shelf every week or two.)
Right now they’re selling Ranger drumsticks at 2.99 a pound in small packs, and Draper’s normal chicken at 2.49. Dropping the lower grade stuff completely and getting the volume up and if possible the price down a bit on Ranger is worth consideration, as far as I’m concerned.
April 30, 2011 at 8:45 am #723224
GinaParticipantMet Market is not immune to having past pull date items. Have spotted some doozies!
April 30, 2011 at 1:18 pm #723225
anonymeParticipantAgreed on Met Market. I once purchased some dip from them that was two days ahead of the expiration date. When I returned it because it was spoiled, I was told the fault was mine for purchasing anything “close” to the expiration date.
April 30, 2011 at 2:45 pm #723226
TrisketParticipantMetro market is by far miles ahead of any other west seattle grocery store –in service and quality. They just need to increase their prices to keep out the riff-raff.
April 30, 2011 at 3:03 pm #723227
redblackParticipantyep. only politboro members and the bourgeoisie can shop at metropolitan market. the proletariat gets safeway, QFC, and albertson’s.
rod clark: good info.
i’m sorry, though: this thread has proven that the egg came before the chicken.
April 30, 2011 at 4:21 pm #723228
Rod ClarkMemberYou’re right, you know. The egg did come before the chicken. It couldn’t be the other way around.
Back in some prehistoric time when chickens did not walk the earth, a bird of some precursor species laid an egg that contained more than the usual slight genetic variations. Something, maybe a random cosmic ray or an unusually strong outbreak of some other process of genetic disruption, caused enough of a mutation
in the DNA of that egg that it grew into a different enough bird that we’d call it something else than its mom was. And from that one bird, all chickens descended.
So there’s your creation myth if you’re a feathery reptile.
April 30, 2011 at 4:53 pm #723229
happywalkerParticipanttrisket…what does riff raff mean??
April 30, 2011 at 5:10 pm #723230
TrisketParticipantLooking it up in the urban dictionary would have use less key strokes than typing your question.
April 30, 2011 at 6:05 pm #723231
metrognomeParticipantTrisket — answering HW’s question would probably have taken about as many keystrokes as your snark. Unless you had specific riff raff in mind.
April 30, 2011 at 6:09 pm #723232
chrismaParticipantApril 30, 2011 at 6:15 pm #723233
metrognomeParticipantactually, Riff Raff may refer to the AC/DC song that was in the Muzak rotation when Trisket was shopping at the Met … altho if it was after midnight, you may be right …
April 30, 2011 at 6:31 pm #723234
ws4everMemberTrolling triskets. Silly, silly Trisket. Reminds me of the song Narcissisma. Pride of Pomona. Da-da-da-da-da-duh!
April 30, 2011 at 6:33 pm #723235
chrismaParticipanttrisket, I feel you.
I wish Morgan Thriftway would raise their prices too. It’s so annoying to have to share my local grocery store with members of the middle class, what with their mediocre clothes and mediocre cars and their broods running amok? I mean haven’t these people heard of nannies?
If I’d wanted this kind of diversity I’d have moved to Queen Anne.
May 1, 2011 at 4:41 pm #723236
happywalkerParticipantTrisket…I meant what do YOU mean by riff raff. I’m asking because I want my own visual as who or what it/they might be. Don’t usually get over to Met Market, but I may be the riff raff you mentioned. just wonderin
May 3, 2011 at 5:54 am #723237
AlkiRagdollParticipantA week holding strong – Met Market is now my best friend. No response from safeway corp.
May 3, 2011 at 2:00 pm #723238
herongrrrlParticipantSurely it’s easy enough to avoid Metro Market when Riff Raff is likely to be there, since the Admiral Theater only runs Rocky Horror once a month…
May 3, 2011 at 2:07 pm #723239
GenHillOneParticipantA whole week away from one of many grocery stores, AlkiRagdoll? lol How often do you go shopping? Should be organizing an intervention? ;)
May 3, 2011 at 2:59 pm #723240
JoBParticipantis it possible that trisket was expressing irony?
May 3, 2011 at 6:10 pm #723241
dhgParticipantMy own definition of riff raff: one who leaves the shopping cart in the parking lot rather than returning it to a designated spot. In my experience, Metro people put away the carts.
May 9, 2011 at 4:32 pm #723242
AlkiRagdollParticipantUpdate – 2 weeks holding strong to not visit Safeway. Did recieve a call from their corporate office wanting to know if they should forward my commments to I think she said legal team. I think they fear that I was going to sue since I got sick. In a 2 minute call, I received the canned “we are sorry” comment. At this point I am not sure what I was expecting… but what I got did not change my opinion about this company. This telephone experience tells me that not only should the Jeff Square store be buldozed, but the company should be shut down. Should people handling your/my/our food have no sense of customer service?
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