They Really Should...

[AppleDumpling]

Easy solution wrap each flavor separately before placing into the package. This would also be great to keep them fresher longer. Being a single person I can not (okay I could but I don’t) eat an entire package of Oreos before they go stale. Same for many packaged foods. Chips. Crackers. Etc.

Some products are available with smaller packages within a larger box. Ritz crackers and Premium saltines, for example, have a box called “Fresh Stacks”. Oreo also sells boxes of single-serving packs (2 or 4 cookies in each). If you can’t find them in your supermarket, try a warehouse club like BJ’s or Costco.

 

[mrodgers]

Maybe this is another thing that’s not done in the States, but here all the major grocery stores with in-house bakery departments have bulk-bins where you can self-select what you want and how many. Need two hotdog buns? No problem - grab two chocolate croissants and a single everything bagel while you’re at it. And one store I go to even sells bread and garlic bread by the 1/2 loaf.

Not in a big city area. We have nothing like that of any quality. Like think of Walmart being high class, that's my area. We have rich and poor with not much in between so the grocery stores are only affordable for the rich city folk who moved up from Pittsburgh. Us regular peons just have Walmart.

 

[mjkacmom]

Maybe this is another thing that’s not done in the States, but here all the major grocery stores with in-house bakery departments have bulk-bins where you can self-select what you want and how many. Need two hotdog buns? No problem - grab two chocolate croissants and a single everything bagel while you’re at it. And one store I go to even sells bread and garlic bread by the 1/2 loaf.

Yes, our grocery stores here have huge bakery departments, there are lots of different rolls and buns, but you can put a burger or hot dog on them, but they’re not the typical soft squishy buns that come packaged.

 

[mrodgers]

Yes, our grocery stores here have huge bakery departments, there are lots of different rolls and buns, but you can put a burger or hot dog on them, but they’re not the typical soft squishy buns that come packaged.

I get baked goods at Wegmans. They are FANTASTIC! Only problem is, I ate them all and my daughter didn't come home this weekend and I wasn't going to drive 3 hours for buns, LOL.

Sometimes the ex goes with me as she loves stopping at Wegmans. Daughter however hates it, understandable since she is away from home for 5 days and just wants to go home. When we take her back, well, have to go to work the next day so don't want to spend all evening there, then get home way late to prepare for the work week.

Wegmans is dangerous. It's such a cool store, next thing we know it's 10 pm and we still have an hour and a half drive home. Actually, 2 for me since I drop her off then have another half hour home.

 

[AndreaDM]

Wegman's is the only thing I miss about visiting my ex-in-laws in upstate NY lol. Used to stop on our way out and load up and subs for the 6 hour ride home of course.

 

[barkley]

I would love to see the variety packs of chips that offer more sour cream and onion chips. They always load up on things we don't like as much. I like to buy the variety packs because it's a pre-measured portion (portion control) LOL.

if you don't mind larger amounts of chips (like about 30 little bags) you might check out amazon, costco (or bjs) and staples (their online stores). we can get multi packs of 4 varieties of hawaiian chips and single varieties of other chips. we often opt for the stuff that seems to immediately go stale if we open a full size bag (doritos and chili cheese fritos in particular). yeah, 30 bags is allot esp. if you have 3 different varieties of chips but they last a long time, there's less waste and they actually price out to less than the traditional supermarket multipacks. we do the same (though smaller amounts) for some types of cookies-pink and white circus animals, lorna doons, knots cookies and nilla wafers. helps allot with portion control.

 

[mjkacmom]

I get baked goods at Wegmans. They are FANTASTIC! Only problem is, I ate them all and my daughter didn't come home this weekend and I wasn't going to drive 3 hours for buns, LOL.

Sometimes the ex goes with me as she loves stopping at Wegmans. Daughter however hates it, understandable since she is away from home for 5 days and just wants to go home. When we take her back, well, have to go to work the next day so don't want to spend all evening there, then get home way late to prepare for the work week.

Wegmans is dangerous. It's such a cool store, next thing we know it's 10 pm and we still have an hour and a half drive home. Actually, 2 for me since I drop her off then have another half hour home.

Our closest wegmans is 15 miles away, so I’ve never been.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Our closest wegmans is 15 miles away, so I’ve never been.

15 miles isn't anything to us. I suppose if someone didn't have a car it would weigh in on how far they can realistically get.

 

[DLgal]

I wish they would just make ALL bathrooms everywhere gender neutral.

It's a toilet and some sinks. Gendering these rooms is so ridiculously stupid.

Put the urinals on one side behind a wall and the toilet stalls on the other side. Done.

 

[mrodgers]

15 miles isn't anything to us. I suppose if someone didn't have a car it would weigh in on how far they can realistically get.

I found that statement funny as where I use to be, everything was 30 miles except for gas (expensive gas on an interstate exit) and a post office.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I found that statement funny as where I use to be, everything was 30 miles except for gas (expensive gas on an interstate exit) and a post office.

My metro is big enough and sprawling enough so it's NBD to me. Sure we do have often something nearby but I can't say I wouldn't have visited a store because it was 15miles away. I'd never visit many things if I did that.

 

[GAN]

15 miles isn't anything to us. I suppose if someone didn't have a car it would weigh in on how far they can realistically get.

Heck, where I live if I drove 15 miles in any direction I'd be in a different state!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Heck, where I live if I drove 15 miles in any direction I'd be in a different state!

I live on the border between two states so this is us as well. It's actually just over 15 miles from my house to the border of the state. From my mom's house it was just over 6 miles.

Now the opposite direction? That's entirely different because the state is fairly long but going east it's right there from where I live. Closer to get to the state to the north of us and farther to get to the state south of us but yeah 15miles is short enough to me that it's totally doable.

 

[Minnesota!]

Maybe this is another thing that’s not done in the States, but here all the major grocery stores with in-house bakery departments have bulk-bins where you can self-select what you want and how many. Need two hotdog buns? No problem - grab two chocolate croissants and a single everything bagel while you’re at it. And one store I go to even sells bread and garlic bread by the 1/2 loaf.

I have seen hot dog/hamburger buns by the piece in grocery stores, but it is usually the high end ones and....I am an Aldi girl

They really should not allow negative election ads on TV. Candidates should state their goals and position on issues without trashing their opponent.

(Hope this is not considered too political as it applies to all parties.)

YES! I am always yelling at the TV - don't tell me what X is doing wrong, tell me what YOU are doing right. It is disgusting. Anxiously counting down to next Wednesday when there are no more ads...for a year or so.

 

[Smugpugmug]

I get baked goods at Wegmans. They are FANTASTIC! Only problem is, I ate them all and my daughter didn't come home this weekend and I wasn't going to drive 3 hours for buns, LOL.

Sometimes the ex goes with me as she loves stopping at Wegmans. Daughter however hates it, understandable since she is away from home for 5 days and just wants to go home. When we take her back, well, have to go to work the next day so don't want to spend all evening there, then get home way late to prepare for the work week.

Wegmans is dangerous. It's such a cool store, next thing we know it's 10 pm and we still have an hour and a half drive home. Actually, 2 for me since I drop her off then have another half hour home.

I agree - Wegmans's baked goods (and the hot food bar that used to be there before Covid) are amazing. I'm actually going to Wegmans tomorrow for groceries as they carry certain items no other stores near me have and I'm going to get a pumpkin pie. Their pies are SO good. I don't go there often because the traffic in and out of the parking lot is atrocious and it's always super crowded. Forget about going on a weekend. It becomes Disney level crowded.

 

[mrodgers]

I agree - Wegmans's baked goods (and the hot food bar that used to be there before Covid) are amazing. I'm actually going to Wegmans tomorrow for groceries as they carry certain items no other stores near me have and I'm going to get a pumpkin pie. Their pies are SO good. I don't go there often because the traffic in and out of the parking lot is atrocious and it's always super crowded. Forget about going on a weekend. It becomes Disney level crowded.

That's why we love it. I certainly don't shop my week's groceries there, I don't think my 2 week paycheck would pay for 1 week of groceries, but there's a lot of specialty stuff they have that regular run of the mill grocery stores/Walmart doesn't have.

I am shocked at the amount of people I do see with a whole cart full with what looks like the regular grocery trip. If a quarter full cart at Walmart is $120, I can't imagine what a full cart at Wegmans is. I'd need loans, LOL.

 

[Christine]

That's why we love it. I certainly don't shop my week's groceries there, I don't think my 2 week paycheck would pay for 1 week of groceries, but there's a lot of specialty stuff they have that regular run of the mill grocery stores/Walmart doesn't have.

I am shocked at the amount of people I do see with a whole cart full with what looks like the regular grocery trip. If a quarter full cart at Walmart is $120, I can't imagine what a full cart at Wegmans is. I'd need loans, LOL.

I have a Wegman's less than 5 miles from my house. I shop there every Sunday morning and do my main shopping there. I also shop at the other local stores because, believe it or not, Wegman's does not carry all the things I want and I have to do that through using 2 other grocery stores.

That said, if you shop the inner aisles of Wegman's, their prices are comparable to other grocery stores and, in many cases, cheaper. In my area, Food Lion is the discount store. Wegman's matches or beats them in many items. Off the top of my head, I buy the Wegman's brand Greek Yogurt with fruit on the bottom. It is 79 cents a container. Their Fage is about $1.49 a container which is comparable to what the other stores are selling it for. I could probably name many other items, where they beat most stores in my area but I don't want to make this a page long! I can often get better prices on some things at other stores, but that is by shopping their sales. For instance, one week it might be cheaper for me to get red peppers at Food Lion than Wegman's due to a sale but for the next several weeks, they have the same price.

Their prepared foods are high though. Just almost too much for what you get. I find their cookies and stuff like that in the bakery to be outrageouly priced. I think their bakery stuff is just a bit too high for what it is. They also never really have "sales" on meat like our other stores do. Occasionally you will see something, but it's not anything. So you won't see specials on ground beef or chucks roasts, etc. that you see revolve through the other stores. The prices are just what they are. They might offer a shoppers club discount here and there.

 

[NotUrsula]

Interesting side-thread. Supermarkets here all built really nice bakery sections back in the mid-1990s, and that was wonderful. However, in the past 5 years or so, they have all been paring them back as a cost-cutting measure as their margins get thinner.

They have almost all now gone to central bakery facilities. Some might actually bake the bread on-premises, but seldom do the prep work in-house anymore. Because of that, the selections of fresh-baked bread have become much more limited. (Luckily I live right on the edge of an old city, and free-standing bakeries are still very popular here, so if I really want it, it's easy to get.)

 

[Ms.Minnie]

I would also like to see individual slices of pie and cake either in the frozen food isle or the baker or both. I know that may be a big ask but sometimes you just want a task not a whole entire cake or pie.

I really like Wegman's but it's too far for us and it's always so busy, it's like a zoo in the parking lot. Wegman's has a great bakery and produce area. I like that I can just buy a couple stalks of celery rather than the entire bunch. If they were a little closer, I would consider shopping there more often.

 

[Christine]

I would also like to see individual slices of pie and cake either in the frozen food isle or the baker or both. I know that may be a big ask but sometimes you just want a task not a whole entire cake or pie.

I really like Wegman's but it's too far for us and it's always so busy, it's like a zoo in the parking lot. Wegman's has a great bakery and produce area. I like that I can just buy a couple stalks of celery rather than the entire bunch. If they were a little closer, I would consider shopping there more often.

Several grocery store chains in my area do individual slices of cake: Safeway and Harris Teeter spring to mind. As for pies, I've not seen individual slices but I have seen smaller pies for sale. They would be enough for an individual. But I haven't seen them frozen.